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Merengue music would hit its golden years during the 1980s starting in the late 70s with acts such as Wilfrido Vargas, Johnny Ventura, and Fernando Villalona. Their orchestras would also churn future solo acts such as Eddy Herrera and Rubby Perez. By the end of the decade, La Coco Band would reinvent merengue with a more comedic style.
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 origins of the music are traced to the land of El Cibao, where merengue cibaeño and merengue típico are the terms most musicians use to refer to classical merengue. The word Cibao was a native name for the island, although the Spanish used it in their conquest to refer to a specific part of the island, the highest mountainous range.
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.
During the 1980s, 33 songs topped the chart. According to the Billboard electronic database, the first was " La Guirnalda " by Spanish singer Rocío Dúrcal on September 6, 1986. [ 3 ] However, in the listings included in the first printed publication of the chart on October 4, 1986, the first number-one song was " Yo No Sé Qué Me Pasó " by ...
The 1980s saw the major record labels such as RCA/Ariola, CBS, and EMI form their own Latin music divisions. [1] By 1985, Billboard noted that the Latin music industry saw increase in awareness from major corporations such as Coca-Cola promoting Julio Iglesias and Pepsi advertising Menudo.
Call Me" by Blondie was the number one song of 1980. This is a list of Billboard magazine's Top Hot 100 songs of 1980. [1] [2] No. Title Artist(s) 1 "Call Me ...
Lead singer Juan Luis Guerra and power-vocalist Maridalia Hernandez redefined 440's sound to more traditional danceable merengue boundaries and made a more commercial turn to the band's musical career. For many, Mundaza y Acarreo was the beginning of his commercial career. According to Guerra himself, "Si tu te vas" was his first merengue song ...