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The song "Waterloo" by Swedish pop group ABBA, which won the 1974 Eurovision song contest, is a typical example of a 1970s European pop song . [2] The success was huge and European producers instantly produced pop hits, and a whole new commercial music industry in Europe was met in the demand for social dancing music.
Disco declined as a major trend in popular music in the United States following the infamous Disco Demolition Night on July 12, 1979, and it continued to sharply decline in popularity in the U.S. during the early 1980s; however, it remained popular in Italy and some European countries throughout the 1980s, and during this time also started ...
Year Artist Origin Song 1990: Snap! Germany "The Power" [4] 1990: C+C Music Factory: United States "Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now)" 1991: 2 Unlimited: The Netherlands "Get Ready for This" [5]
This is a list of singles that reached number one on the Spanish Music Charts during the 1980s. Number-one singles. Week Song Artist 1980-01-05 ... Europe: 1987-02-07 ...
Italo disco (variously capitalized, and sometimes hyphenated as Italo-disco) [1] is a music genre which originated in Italy in the late 1970s and was mainly produced in the 1980s. Italo disco evolved from the then-current underground dance, pop, and electronic music, both domestic and foreign (hi-NRG, Euro disco) and developed into a diverse ...
This is a list of the European Music & Media magazine's European Hot 100 Singles and European Top 100 Albums number-ones of 1990. Date Song Artist Album Artist 6 January
In the late 1970s, Eurodisco musicians such as Silver Convention and Donna Summer were popular in America. [7]In the 1980s, a highly polished production with "musical simplicity" at its core — from Bubblegum Pop-like lyrics, catchy (in some cases Italian, in other Eurodisco-like) melodies, to "elementary" song structures — an average British Eurobeat song took very little time to complete. [8]
In the 2000s, one of the most popular representatives of Europop music was Swedish pop group Alcazar. In central Europe, Italo disco (also known as 1980s Euro disco) and Euro house were the predominant attempts by young musicians to have a hit record in and beyond the borders of their own country.