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"Radioactive" is a song by English rock band The Firm. It was the first single released from their eponymous debut album The Firm, where it was the fifth track. It was written by Paul Rodgers. Rodgers still performs this song during his solo sets and it appears on the 2007 Paul Rodgers: Live In Glasgow DVD.
The Firm were a British rock supergroup formed in 1984, featuring singer Paul Rodgers, guitarist Jimmy Page, drummer Chris Slade, and bassist Tony Franklin. [1] [2] [3] The band released two albums in 1985 and 1986 and eventually saw their greatest chart success with the songs "Radioactive", "All the King's Horses", and "Satisfaction Guaranteed".
"Radioactive" is a song by American pop rock band Imagine Dragons from their major-label debut EP Continued Silence and later on their debut studio album, Night Visions (2012), as the opening track. It was first sent to modern rock radio on October 29, 2012, [ 1 ] and then released to contemporary hit radio on April 9, 2013.
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.
It is the best-selling rock song on the Nielsen SoundScan running list of best-selling rock songs in digital history. [46] By the end of 2013, "Radioactive" had already sold over three million copies. [47] Rolling Stone called it "the biggest rock hit of the year". It was also the most streamed song of 2013 on Spotify in the United States. [48]
"The whole second verse of that song is ‘80s song titles strung together as sentences because I thought it would be clever." Rihanna, 36, sings on the second verse, "Take on me (a-ha), you know ...
His 1986 song "Addicted to Love" and its accompanying video came to "epitomise the glamour and excesses of the 1980s". [ 1 ] Having started in the music industry in the 1960s, including a spell with Vinegar Joe , Palmer found success in the 1980s, both in his solo career and with the Power Station , scoring Top 10 hits in the United Kingdom and ...
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.