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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.
The song "One Sweet Day", performed by Mariah Carey and Boyz II Men, spent 16 weeks on top of the chart and became the longest-running number-one song in history, until surpassed in 2019 by "Old Town Road". Janet Jackson earned six number-one songs on the Billboard Hot 100 chart during the 1990s.
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.
90 "September Morn" Neil Diamond: 91 "Give Me the Night" George Benson: 92 "Broken Hearted Me" Anne Murray: 93 "You Decorated My Life" Kenny Rogers: 94 "Tusk" Fleetwood Mac: 95 "I Wanna Be Your Lover" Prince: 96 "In America" Charlie Daniels Band: 97 "Breakdown Dead Ahead" Boz Scaggs: 98 "Ships" Barry Manilow: 99 "All Night Long" Joe Walsh: 100 ...
This is a list of songs that have peaked at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 and the magazine's national singles charts that preceded it. Introduced in 1958, the Hot 100 is the pre-eminent singles chart in the United States, currently monitoring the most popular singles in terms of popular radio play, single purchases and online streaming.
When an established rock artist released a new album, for example, it was not uncommon for multiple songs from the album to become popular simultaneously. [1] The song that had the longest run atop the chart during the 1980s was "Start Me Up" by the Rolling Stones at 13 weeks from the beginning of September through the first week of December in ...
It has been covered by Serge Gainsbourg, under the title "Marabout" and with no credit given to Olatunji, on his Gainsbourg Percussions LP (1964). The song was also covered by James Last on his album Voodoo-Party (1971), by Pierre Moerlen's Gong on their Downwind album (1979), Candido Camero (aka Candido) on his Dancin' & Prancin' album (1979), by Steve Lee on his album FKW – Jingo (1994 ...
During the 1980s, 33 songs topped the chart. According to the Billboard electronic database, the first was " La Guirnalda " by Spanish singer Rocío Dúrcal on September 6, 1986. [ 3 ] However, in the listings included in the first printed publication of the chart on October 4, 1986, the first number-one song was " Yo No Sé Qué Me Pasó " by ...