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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.
Her eponymous debut studio album was the best-selling debut album by a solo artist at the time, and her sophomore album Whitney is the first female album to debut at No. 1 in the Billboard 200. She also became the first and only artist to earn seven consecutive number-one songs on the Billboard Hot 100, from " Saving All My Love for You " in ...
Diariocritico's 100 Best Albums of the 80s: #85 [164] May 15, 1986 Raising Hell: Run-DMC: Hip hop; rap rock; Profile: The first Platinum and multi-Platinum hip hop record, and one of the greatest and most important albums in the history of hip hop music and culture. [296] [297] Accolades: May 19, 1986 () So: Peter Gabriel Pop [298] art pop; art ...
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.
By the mid-1980s, country music audiences were beginning to tire of country-pop. Although some pop-country artists continued to record and release successful songs and albums, the genre, in general, was beginning to suffer. By 1985, a New York Times article declared country music "dead". However, by this time, several newcomers were working ...
Robert Fripp and Bill Bruford form new band Discipline, but after initial live dates Fripp decides the band constitutes a new incarnation of King Crimson.; Former Yes members Chris Squire and Alan White try to put together XYZ with Jimmy Page and Robert Plant from Led Zeppelin, but the project fails to go beyond rehearsals and the recording of several demos at Chris Squire's home studio due to ...
The Best of David Bowie 1980/1987 is a compilation album by English singer-songwriter David Bowie. The CD was originally released by EMI as part of The Platinum Collection in 2005/2006. The 2007 release is part of EMI's two-disc Sight & Sound series, each of which features a CD and DVD of material from the same artist.
"Escape (The Piña Colada Song)" Rupert Holmes: 12 "Cars" Gary Numan: 13 "Cruisin" Smokey Robinson: 14 "Working My Way Back to You/Forgive Me, Girl" The Spinners: 15 "Lost in Love" Air Supply: 16 "Little Jeannie" Elton John: 17 "Ride Like the Wind" Christopher Cross: 18 "Upside Down" Diana Ross: 19 "Please Don't Go" KC and the Sunshine Band: 20 ...