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This is a list of 1980s music albums that multiple music journalists, magazines, and professional music review websites have considered to be among the best of the 1980s and of all time, separated into the years of each album's release. The albums listed here are included on at least four separate "best/greatest of the 1980s/all time" lists ...
The countdown started in 1980, and ran every year until 2009. Since 2009, the list has been compiled by fans from playlist data. [1] In the late 1970s and early 1980s, KROQ's proximity to Hollywood and the Los Angeles music scene gave it a unique place in the development of the punk, new wave and alternative rock genres. [2]
The salsa music had developed in the 1960s and '70s by Puerto Rican and Cuban immigrants to the New York City area but did not enter into mainstream popularity in Latin America until the late 1980s. The salsa music became together with cumbia the two most popular dance music but did not penetrate other countries outside the Caribbean as cumbia did.
Punk rock songs against George Bush. Rodney on the ROQ: Various Posh Boy Records: Series of three. Punk and New Wave as popularized by the radio program. Something to Believe in 1984 BYO Records 17 Bands, mostlry early 80's hardcore Streets: 1977 LP Beggars Banquet Records: Early punk compilation (mostly from UK) The Thing That Ate Floyd: 1988 ...
When introduced by Billboard in March 1981, the Mainstream Rock chart was entitled Top Tracks and designed to measure the airplay of songs being played on album-oriented rock radio stations. The chart has undergone several name changes over the years, first to Top Rock Tracks in September 1984 and then to Album Rock Tracks in April 1986.
The Punk Singles Collection 1977–80 is a compilation album by Sham 69. It was originally released by Cleopatra in 1998. It features all of the singles, with their b-sides (except live tracks), released by the band from their start to their first break-up. It was re-released in 2006 by Captain Oi!, this time featuring the four missing live b ...
Bomb the Music Industry! – Goodbye Cool World! [45] The Arrogant Sons of Bitches – Three Cheers for Disappointment; Jay Reatard – Blood Visions; The Thermals – The Body, the Blood, the Machine; Defiance, Ohio – The Great Depression; Streetlight Manifesto – Keasbey Nights; Bomb the Music Industry! – President's Day Split 7"
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".