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On the issue dated October 20, the chart was renamed as the Hot Dance/Disco. [12] 1985: The Hot Dance/Disco chart was split into the 12-inch Singles Sales chart and the Club Play chart on the issue dated March 16. The first number one on the dance sales chart was "New Attitude"/"Axel F", a split single by Patti LaBelle and Harold Faltermeyer ...
Hi-NRG is uptempo disco or electronic dance music usually featuring synthetic bassline octaves. This list contains some examples of hi-NRG artists and songs. Hi-NRG songs by non-hi NRG artists are also included.
"Somebody Dance with Me" [9] 1992: Double You: Italy "Please Don't Go" [10] 1992: Dr. Alban: Nigeria, Sweden "It's My Life" [11] 1992: Felix: United Kingdom "Don't You Want Me" [12] 1992: Snap! Germany "Rhythm Is a Dancer" [4] [5] [13] 1993: 2 Unlimited: The Netherlands "No Limit" [14] 1993: 2 Unlimited: The Netherlands "Tribal Dance" [7] 1993 ...
Nu-disco is a 21st-century dance music genre associated with the renewed interest in 1970s and early 1980s disco, [134] mid-1980s Italo disco, and the synthesizer-heavy Euro disco aesthetics. [135] The moniker appeared in print as early as 2002, and by mid-2008 was used by record shops such as the online retailers Juno and Beatport. [ 136 ]
In the early 1970s, disco spawned a succession of dance fads including the Bump, the Hustle, and the Y.M.C.A. This continued in the 1980s with the popular song "Walk like an Egyptian" [2], [clarification needed] in the 1990s with the "Macarena", in the 2000s with "The Ketchup Song" and in the 2010s with "Gangnam Style".
Whitburn, Joel (2004), Joel Whitburn's Hot Dance/Disco 1974-2003, Menomonee Falls, WI: Record Research, ISBN 0-89820-156-X, archived from the original on 2010-03-16; Some weeks may also be found at Billboard magazine courtesy of Google Books: 1980—1984
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In the 1980s, dance music records made using only electronic instruments became increasingly popular, largely influenced by the electronic music of Kraftwerk and 1970s disco music. Such music was originally born of and popularized via regional nightclub scenes in the 1980s and became the predominant type of music played in discothèques as well ...