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The following list of glam metal albums and songs is a list containing albums and songs described by at least one professional source as glam metal or its interchangeable terms, hair metal, [1] [2] lite metal, [2] pop metal, [2] and metal pop. [3]
The Top 500 Heavy Metal Songs of All Time. ECW Press. ISBN 978-1-55022-530-3. Popoff, Martin (2014). The Big Book of Hair Metal: The Illustrated Oral History of Heavy Metal's Debauched Decade. Voyageur Press. ISBN 978-0-76034-546-7. Powell, Mark Allan (2002). Encyclopedia of Contemporary Christian Music (First printing ed.). Hendrickson Publisher.
The 1980s produced chart-topping hits in pop, hip-hop, rock, and R&B. Here's a list of the best songs from the time, ranging from Toto to Michael Jackson.
The Darkness's Permission to Land (2003), described as an "eerily realistic simulation of '80s metal and '70s glam", [79] topped the UK charts, going quintuple platinum. One Way Ticket to Hell... and Back (2005) reached number 11. The band broke up in 2006, but reunited in 2011, releasing the album Hot Cakes the following year.
Poison frontman Bret Michaels is a prime ambassador for the era of '80s hair metail in "Nöthin' But a Good Time: The Uncensored Story of '80s Hair Metal," which takes its name from a Poison song ...
"All My Life" by K-Ci & JoJo (1997) "Close to me you're like my father, Close to me you're like my sister, Close to me you're like my brother" Well, OK—that seems weird, but I'm still down with it.
Songs stayed on the chart for a long time and fewer songs made it on the chart. Ten songs had runs at number one of ten weeks or longer during the 1990s, with the longest coming from "Touch, Peel and Stand" by Days of the New at 16 weeks. ("Higher" by Creed spent 17 weeks at the top of the chart but its last couple of weeks ran into the year 2000).
In the 1990s, following the release of the band's first live album, Swallow This Live, the band experienced some line up changes and the fall of glam metal with the grunge movement, but the band's fourth studio album, Native Tongue, still achieved Gold status and the band's first compilation album, Poison's Greatest Hits: 1986–1996, went ...