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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.
As the decade progressed, a growing trend in the music industry was to promote songs to radio without the release of a commercially available singles in an attempt by record companies to boost albums sales. Because such a release was required to chart on the Hot 100, many popular songs that were hits on top 40 radio never made it onto the chart.
The progressive rock of Rush's "Show Don't Tell", the final song to top the chart in the 1980s, had evolved into the post-grunge sound of Creed's "Higher" by the end of the 1990s. Despite the evolution, Van Halen still managed to top the chart more than any other artist during the 1990s with eight number-one songs.
When introduced by Billboard in March 1981, the Mainstream Rock chart was entitled Top Tracks and designed to measure the airplay of songs being played on album-oriented rock radio stations. The chart has undergone several name changes over the years, first to Top Rock Tracks in September 1984 and then to Album Rock Tracks in April 1986.
The Rolling Stones, known to many as “the greatest rock ‘n’ roll band in the world,” just celebrated 60 years in show business and have racked up 240 million total album sales to date.
Billboard Decade-End is a series of music charts reflecting the most popular artists, albums, and songs in the United States throughout a decade. [1] Billboard first published their first decade-end rankings in December 1970, listing the artists with the most number ones of the 1960s.
Probably the most high-profile two-man band of the grunge era, Local H started out in the late ‘80s in Illinois as a more conventional quartet.
The Dirt Band: 73 "One Fine Day" Carole King: 74 "Dim All the Lights" Donna Summer: 75 "You May Be Right" Billy Joel: 76 "Should've Never Let You Go" Neil & Dara Sedaka 77 "Pilot of the Airwaves" Charlie Dore: 78 "Hurt So Bad" Linda Ronstadt: 79 "Off the Wall" Michael Jackson: 80 "I Pledge My Love" Peaches & Herb: 81 "The Long Run" Eagles: 82 ...