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(pictured) had four songs on the Year-End Hot 100, including the year's biggest hit, Careless Whisper. Madonna (pictured) had five songs on the Year-End Hot 100, the most of any artist in 1985. This is a list of Billboard magazine's Top Hot 100 singles of 1985. [1]
April 1 – After months of squabbling, David Lee Roth leaves Van Halen to begin a solo career. [6]April 7 – Wham! becomes the first Western pop group to perform in China when they play a concert in Beijing's Workers Stadium during an historic 10-day visit.
This is a list of singles that have peaked in the Top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100 during 1985. Overall, a total of 113 singles hit the top-ten, a big rise from 99 top-ten singles from the previous year, including 27 number-one singles and 10 number-two singles.
These are the Billboard Hot 100 number-one hits of 1985. The two longest running number-one singles of 1985 are "We Are the World" by USA for Africa and "Say You, Say Me" by Lionel Richie which each logged four weeks at number-one. "Say You, Say Me" logged two weeks at number-one in 1985 and two more additional weeks in 1986, reaching a total ...
The Bags (Massachusetts band) Banana (band) Banana Slug String Band; The Bathers (band) The Bears (band) Bel Canto (band) Bellzlleb; Benny Profane; The Bevis Frond; The Bible (band) Big Dipper (band) Big Pig; Big Trouble (band) Biquini; Bitter Grace; The Bitter Springs; Black Rock Coalition; Blood Feast (band) The Bloody Hawaiians; Blue Berets ...
The following is a list of artists and bands associated with the new wave music genre during the late 1970s and early-to-mid 1980s. The list does not include acts associated with the resurgences and revivals of the genre that have occurred from the 1990s onward.
Michael Jackson had the highest number of top hits at the Billboard Hot 100 chart during the 1980s (9 songs). In addition, Jackson remained the longest at the top of the Billboard Hot 100 chart during the 1980s (27 weeks). Madonna ranked as the most successful female artist of the 1980s, with 7 songs and 15 weeks atop the chart.
Supported by the groundbreaking computer-animated video of "Money for Nothing", [24] the album spent nine weeks at the top, and sold over three million copies by the end of the year. [12] Rock band Heart released a self-titled album that sold more than two million copies in 1985, and contained four top ten songs, including the number-one single ...