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This is a list of 1980s music albums that multiple music journalists, magazines, and professional music review websites have considered to be among the best of the 1980s and of all time, separated into the years of each album's release.
The Clash's release Capital Radio, which was released 9 April 1977, could only be obtained by sending away a coupon featured in one issue of the NME, and the red sticker from the cover of the band's debut album. The NME also released the much regarded compilation album C86, documenting the birth of jangling indie pop, in 1986.
Bob Dylan was the first artist to top NME 's albums list more than once, in 1975 and 1976. NME named Punch the Clock by Elvis Costello as the greatest album of 1983. Hip-hop group Public Enemy topped NME 's albums lists in consecutive years, 1987 and 1988. Spiritualized's album Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space was named the best ...
In 1961, 19-year-old Robert Allen Zimmerman dropped out of college in his native Minnesota, made a pilgrimage to New York City to meet his folk music idol Woody Guthrie, and decided to become, in ...
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.
Madonna Louise Ciccone, like Prince and Michael Jackson, was born in 1958, and in the mid-’80s fulfilled her destiny as part of the holy triumvirate of MTV-era pop stars. Of those three legends ...
[2] [3] [4] Nevertheless, in the 1960s, NME had the biggest circulation of charts in the decade and was most widely followed. [2] [3] Although not regarded as the primary source for UK charts, NME continued to compile an independent chart until 11 June 1988 (Melody Maker ended its own independently compiled chart the preceding week on 4 June). [5]
Coldplay’s 10th album, the full title of which is Music of the Spheres Vol. II: Moon Music, is a little sleepier and less adventurous than its 2021 predecessor.It’s full of utopian good vibes ...