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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 albums listed here are included on at least four separate "best/greatest of the 1980s/all time" lists ...
Prince earned his first disco number one with "Controversy"/"Let's Work", a double-A-side single which topped the Disco Top 80 chart for six consecutive weeks. [9] 1982 "Glad to Know You"/"3,000,000 Synths"/"Questionnaire" by Chas Jankel was the year's biggest single on the Dance/Disco Top 80, topping the chart for seven consecutive weeks. [10 ...
Billboard magazine compiled the top-performing dance singles in the United States on the National Disco Action Top 30 chart. Premiered on the issue dated August 28, the chart ranked the popularity of singles in nightclubs across the country, based on a national survey of club disc jockeys .
Pitchfork's Top 100 Albums of the 1990s (2003): #94 [85] Sounds by Rolling Stone's Top 50 Albums from the 90s [220] Robert Dimery's 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die [51] Strange Currencies' Top 100 Albums of the 1990s: #29 [276] 31 May 1994 () Ill Communication: Beastie Boys Hip hop; NYHC; jazz; funk; Grand Royal; Capitol; Critical ...
Some of the best rock, pop, jazz and country albums were released in 1971, including classics by David Bowie, Dolly Parton, Led Zeppelin, and Miles Davis. These albums all turn 50 years old in 2021.
This is a list of Billboard magazine's Top Hot 100 songs of 1980. [1] [2] No. Title Artist(s) 1 "Call Me" Blondie: 2 "Another Brick in the Wall, Part II" Pink Floyd: 3
Michael Jackson's Thriller, estimated to have sold 70 million copies worldwide, is the best-selling album ever. [4] [5] [6] Jackson also currently has the highest number of albums on the list with five, Celine Dion has four, while the Beatles, Madonna, Whitney Houston and Pink Floyd each have three.
The Hooked on Classics series is a collection of record albums first introduced in 1981, toward the end of the disco era's peak in popularity. The series was disliked by many classical music purists, not least because of the background beat produced by a LinnDrum drum machine, but it had the positive effect of reviving interest in classical music among a new generation.