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Whitburn, Joel (2004), Joel Whitburn's Hot Dance/Disco 1974-2003, Menomonee Falls, WI: Record Research, ISBN 0-89820-156-X, archived from the original on 2010-03-16; Some weeks may also be found at Billboard magazine courtesy of Google Books: 1980—1984
The Billboard Hot 100 is the main song chart of the American music industry and is updated every week by the Billboard magazine. During the 1980s the chart was based collectively on each single's weekly physical sales figures and airplay on American radio stations.
Michael Jackson's Thriller (LP cuts) remained atop the Dance/Disco Top 80 chart for 11 weeks, the longest in history. Madonna achieved her first number-one single on the chart with "Holiday"/"Lucky Star". [11] 1984: Prince's "When Doves Cry" topped the Dance/Disco Top 80 chart for six consecutive weeks, longer than any other singles that year ...
Before he was the lead singer of English supergroup Bad Company, English-Canadian singer Paul Rodgers was in the English band Free who scored a single US hit in 1970 with the song "All Right Now". In 1985, while Bad Company was on hiatus, Rodgers was the lead singer of the British band The Firm who achieved one-off success with " Radioactive ".
The following is a list of Italo disco artists and songs, divided in two sections. The first section includes notable Italo disco groups and solo artists. The second ...
This is a list of artists primarily associated with the disco era of the 1970s and some of their most noteworthy disco hits. Numerous artists, not usually considered disco artists, implemented some of the styles and sounds of disco music, and are also included.
It was the New York-based disco group's only UK No. 1 single, spending two weeks at the top of the charts from July 26 to August 8, 1980, [1] and was their most successful single on the UK Singles Chart. In their native United States, it failed to get into the Hot 100. [3]
Now That's What I Call 80s Dance or Now 80s Dance is a triple-disc compilation album which was released in the United Kingdom on 14 October 2013. It includes nearly 60 of the biggest dance anthems of the 1980s era.