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Many British pop bands dominated the American charts in the early 1980s. Their popularity was helped by exposure on MTV, these bands included the Human League, Culture Club, Duran Duran, Wham!, also George Michael as a solo artist, Fine Young Cannibals, Rick Astley and Terence Trent D'Arby.
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.
Gives an overview of progressive rock's history as well as histories of the major and underground bands in the genre. Macan, Edward. Rocking the Classics: English Progressive Rock and the Counterculture. Oxford: Oxford University Press (1997), 290 pages, ISBN 0-19-509887-0 (hardcover), ISBN 0-19-509888-9 (paperback). Analyzes progressive rock ...
Some charts are specific to a particular musical genre and most to a particular geographical location. The most common period of time covered by a chart is one week, with the chart being printed or broadcast at the end of this time. Summary charts for years and decades are then calculated from their component weekly charts.
Olivia Newton-John's song "Physical" was the Billboard Hot 100's longest running number one of the decade.. Reflecting on changes in the music industry during the 1980s, Robert Christgau later wrote in Christgau's Record Guide: The '80s (1990):
The 1980s were hip-hop’s first full decade as a documented musical genre on record, and from ’80 to ’89, rap grew from single to albums, from party songs to social commentary, from simple ...
The Dirt Band: 73 "One Fine Day" Carole King: 74 "Dim All the Lights" Donna Summer: 75 "You May Be Right" Billy Joel: 76 "Should've Never Let You Go" Neil & Dara Sedaka 77 "Pilot of the Airwaves" Charlie Dore: 78 "Hurt So Bad" Linda Ronstadt: 79 "Off the Wall" Michael Jackson: 80 "I Pledge My Love" Peaches & Herb: 81 "The Long Run" Eagles: 82 ...
It tops the charts across the globe including the United Kingdom where she becomes the solo artist with the most number one albums and the UK breaks the iTunes pre-order record. [4] To support the album she embarks on The MDNA Tour which grosses over $305 million and becomes the second highest grossing female tour, behind her own Sticky and ...