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The Hot 100 Airplay chart ranks the most frequently played songs on United States radio stations, published by Billboard magazine. The chart was introduced in the magazine's issue dated October 20, 1984. During the 1980s, 132 songs topped the chart.
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.
As the decade progressed, a growing trend in the music industry was to promote songs to radio without the release of a commercially available singles in an attempt by record companies to boost albums sales. Because such a release was required to chart on the Hot 100, many popular songs that were hits on top 40 radio never made it onto the chart.
When introduced by Billboard in March 1981, the Mainstream Rock chart was entitled Top Tracks and designed to measure the airplay of songs being played on album-oriented rock radio stations. The chart has undergone several name changes over the years, first to Top Rock Tracks in September 1984 and then to Album Rock Tracks in April 1986.
"The Greatest Love of All" Whitney Houston May 16 May 23 "Live to Tell" Madonna May 30 June 6 June 13 "On My Own" Patti LaBelle & Michael McDonald June 20 "No One Is to Blame" Howard Jones: June 27 "There'll Be Sad Songs (To Make You Cry)" Billy Ocean July 4 "Invisible Touch" Genesis: July 11 July 18 "Sledgehammer" Peter Gabriel: July 25 "Glory ...
BBC Radio 1: Current-based music (pop, rock, dance, urban, alternative) 7.330 Greatest Hits Radio: Classic hits and specialist music 6.753 BBC Radio 5 Live: Rolling news, discussion and sport 5.245 Classic FM: Classical music: 4.689 Magic: Adult contemporary: 4.157 talkSPORT: Sports radio: 3.081 BBC Radio 6 Music
Greatest Hits Radio targets a different audience from Radio 1, concentrating on music from the 1970s, 1980s and 1990, as opposed to contemporary pop and dance. (Greatest Hits Radio)
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). By 1996, rock radio stations had become more song-driven rather than album ...