Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Billboard Year-End Hot 100 singles of 1981. " Bette Davis Eyes " by Kim Carnes was the number one song of 1981. Three songs by John Lennon appear on the Year-End Hot 100, charting posthumously after his murder in late 1980. This is a list of Billboard magazine's Top Hot 100 songs of 1981. [ 1 ][ 2 ] The Top 100, as revealed in the year-end ...
Hot 100 top-ten singles in 1981. This is a list of singles that have peaked in the Top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100 during 1981. Overall, a total of 87 songs hit the top 10, including 17 number-one songs and 10 songs that peaked at number-two. Hall & Oates scored four top ten hits during the year with "Kiss on My List", "You Make My Dreams ...
from the album Escape. " Don't Stop Believin' " is a song by American rock band Journey. It was released in October 1981 as the second single from the group's seventh studio album, Escape (1981), released through Columbia Records. "Don't Stop Believin ' " shares writing credits between the band's vocalist Steve Perry, guitarist Neal Schon, and ...
These are the Billboard Hot 100 number-one hits of 1981. The longest running number-one single of 1981 is " Physical " by Olivia Newton-John which stayed at the top of the chart for six weeks in 1981 and then for four additional weeks in 1982, with a total of 10 weeks at number-one. This also makes "Physical" the longest running number-one ...
The two songs were among just four country songs to top the Hot 100 during the 1980s, and the only two to do so consecutively. [3] Soon after Parton's song exited the number one position on the AC listing, Scottish singer Sheena Easton topped the chart with "Morning Train (9 to 5)". In her native United Kingdom, the song had been a top ten hit ...
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.
Genius of Love. " Genius of Love " is a 1981 hit song by American new wave band Tom Tom Club from their 1981 eponymous debut studio album. The song reached number one on the Billboard Disco Top 80 chart, and was performed by Talking Heads (the group from which Tom Tom Club originated) in the 1984 concert film Stop Making Sense.
A one-hit wonder is a musical artist who is successful with one hit song, but without a comparable subsequent hit. [1] The term may also be applied to an artist who is remembered for only one hit despite other successes (such as "Take On Me" by a-ha in the United States, [2] [3] [4] which topped a Rolling Stone magazine poll to find the top one-hit wonder).