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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 edition of Billboard dated December 26, 1981, is based on Hot 100 charts from the issue dates of November 1, 1980 ...
List of Billboard Hot 100 top ten singles which peaked in 1981 Top ten entry date Single Artist(s) Peak Peak date Weeks in top ten Singles from 1980; November 29 "Love on the Rocks" Neil Diamond: 2 January 10 10 December 13 "Guilty" Barbra Streisand and Barry Gibb: 3 January 10 7 December 20 "Every Woman in the World" Air Supply: 5 January 31 8 ...
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 single ...
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 Billboard Year-End chart is a chart published by Billboard which denotes the top song of each year as determined by the publication's charts. Since 1946, Year-End charts have existed for the top songs in pop, R&B, and country, with additional album charts for each genre debuting in 1956, 1966, and 1965, respectively.
"Physical" is a song recorded by British-Australian singer Olivia Newton-John for her 1981 eleventh studio album of the same name. It was released as the album's lead single in 1981. The song was produced by John Farrar and written by Steve Kipner and Terry Shaddick, who had originally intended to offer it to Rod Stewart. [3]
"Never Too Much" is the debut song written, composed, produced, and performed by Luther Vandross. The R&B song was released in 1981, as the lead single from Vandross's debut album of the same name. The title track hit number one on the US Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart and number four on the US Billboard Dance Club Songs chart.
The group disbanded in 1986, having achieved three top 40 U.S. singles and two top 50 albums. [3] Several years before the breakup, the group also wrote and recorded the original versions of Eric Carmen's 1987 hit single "Hungry Eyes" and the song "(I've Had) The Time of My Life" (both of which were featured in the 1987 film Dirty Dancing). [3]