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Pages in category "1980s ballads" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 590 total. This list may not reflect recent changes.
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.
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" Blondie: 2
In 1980, 20 songs topped the chart based on playlists submitted by radio stations. [ 1 ] The first number one of the year was " Send One Your Love " by Stevie Wonder , which retained its position from the final chart of 1979, [ 2 ] and held the top spot for the first two weeks of 1980.
The song that had the longest run atop the chart during the 1980s was "Start Me Up" by the Rolling Stones at 13 weeks from the beginning of September through the first week of December in 1981. No other song had a run of more than 10 weeks. Tom Petty (with and without the Heartbreakers) was the act with the most number ones during the 1980s with 6.
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.
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This article includes an overview of the famous events and trends in popular music in the 1980s. The 1980s saw the emergence of electronic dance music and new wave , also known as Modern Rock. As disco fell out of fashion in the decade's early years, [ 1 ] genres such as post-disco , Italo disco , Euro disco , and dance-pop became more popular.