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40 "Pop Muzik" M: 41 ... "In America" Charlie Daniels Band: 97 "Breakdown Dead Ahead" ... List of Billboard Hot 100 top-ten singles in 1980; References
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.
Queen scored two #1 hits with "Crazy Little Thing Called Love" and "Another One Bites the Dust" in 1980. Kenny Rogers scored his first #1 hit with "Lady" in 1980. John Lennon (pictured in 1969) became the fourth solo act to have a number-one hit posthumously after he was murdered in December 1980 with "(Just Like) Starting Over", reaching #1 in 1980 and 1981.
American Top 40 (abbreviated to AT40) is an internationally syndicated, independent song countdown radio program created by Casey Kasem, Don Bustany, Tom Rounds, and Ron Jacobs.
This is a list of songs that have peaked at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 and the magazine's national singles charts that preceded it. Introduced in 1958, the Hot 100 is the pre-eminent singles chart in the United States, currently monitoring the most popular singles in terms of popular radio play, single purchases and online streaming.
This is a list of singles that have peaked in the Top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100 during 1980. The longest running top-ten single of the year was "Another One Bites the Dust" by Queen with 15 weeks. Kenny Rogers, Air Supply, and Michael Jackson each had three top-ten hits in 1980, tying them for the most top-ten hits during the year.
May 4 – America's Top 10, the television version of radio's American Top 40 and hosted by Casey Kasem, debuts this week in syndication. May 18 – Ian Curtis, vocalist of pioneering post-punk group Joy Division, hangs himself, one day before Joy Division are scheduled to begin their first U.S. tour. June 25
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.