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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.
The song "One Sweet Day", performed by Mariah Carey and Boyz II Men, spent 16 weeks on top of the chart and became the longest-running number-one song in history, until surpassed in 2019 by "Old Town Road". Janet Jackson earned six number-one songs on the Billboard Hot 100 chart during the 1990s.
Mainstream Top 40 is compiled from airplay on radio stations which play a wide variety of music, not just "pure pop", which Billboard defines as "melodic, often synth-driven, uptempo fare". [2] During the 1990s, mainstream top 40 went from R&B dominating the airwaves (and thus the charts) in the early 1990s to rock and alternative music ...
Other J-pop artists, such as Hokkaido two-girl band Kiroro, rarely included English lyrics in their songs. Some non-Japanese-speaking artists, such as Taiwan's Vivian Hsu, also crossed over successfully into J-pop; Hsu's band Black Biscuits had a hit single in 1999 in both Japanese [73] and Taiwanese Mandarin [74] with "Bye bye".
The Greatest Songs of the Eighties is Barry Manilow's 38th album, and follow-up to his 2007 album, The Greatest Songs of the Seventies. This album, which features 12 songs from the decade of the 1980s, was released on November 24, 2008.
On This Day: Nov. 1, 1990 The Happening. No doubt that people who weren't born in the '80s are tired of hearing how unsheltered children were back then compared to now, how we rode our bikes ...
Midler's song came from the film of the same name, in which she played a self-destructive rock star based loosely on Janis Joplin, [7] and won the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song. [8] Later in the year two other female vocalists had five-week runs at number one: Newton-John with "Magic" and Streisand with "Woman in Love".
"If It's Love" is the second single from Train's fifth studio album, Save Me, San Francisco. It debuted at No. 31 on Billboard ' s Hot Adult Top 40 Tracks chart. [1] and has since become Train's second-consecutive No. 1 hit from the album, as well as their fourth No. 1 overall.