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During the 1980s the chart was based collectively on each single's weekly physical sales figures and airplay on American radio stations. George Michael was the only artist to achieve two year-end Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles in the 1980s. He achieved this with his songs "Faith" and "Careless Whisper".
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.
Artist(s) 1 "Call Me" Blondie: 2 "Another Brick in the Wall, Part II" Pink Floyd: 3 "Magic" Olivia Newton-John: 4 "Rock with You" Michael Jackson: 5 "Do That to Me One More Time" Captain & Tennille: 6 "Crazy Little Thing Called Love" Queen: 7 "Coming Up" Paul McCartney: 8 "Funkytown" Lipps Inc. 9 "It's Still Rock and Roll to Me" Billy Joel: 10 ...
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 1981. No other song had a run of more than 10 weeks. Tom Petty (with and without the Heartbreakers) was the act with the most number ones during the 1980s with 6.
List of Billboard Hot 100 top ten singles in 1980 which peaked in 1979 Top ten entry date Single Artist(s) Peak Peak date Weeks in top ten October 20 "Still" Commodores: 1 November 17 13 November 3 "Babe" Styx: 1 December 8 11 November 24 "Send One Your Love" Stevie Wonder: 4 December 22 10 December 1 "Escape (The Piña Colada Song)" Rupert ...
"Peek-a-Boo" by English rock band Siouxsie and the Banshees was the first song to top the Modern Rock Tracks chart. Alternative Airplay is a record chart that ranks the most-played songs on American modern rock radio stations. Published by the music industry magazine Billboard, it was created in the midst of the growing popularity of alternative music on rock radio in the late 1980s. As less ...
All About You (Rolling Stones song) All for Leyna; All I Am (Lynsey de Paul and Susan Sheridan song) All I Wanna Do (Jo Jo Zep & the Falcons song) All Night Long (Joe Walsh song) All Night Thing; All Over the World (Electric Light Orchestra song) All Stood Still; Alone with You (Sunnyboys song) Am I Evil? Amanda (Boston song) America (Neil ...
The single's 18-week reign at the top spot extended into the next decade, and until 2019 it held the record for the most weeks at number one in the chart's history. [8] LL Cool J and Puff Daddy each attained nine number-one hits on the Hot Rap Singles chart during its first 11 years, the most for any artist during this period.