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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.
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.
"Escape (The Piña Colada Song)" Rupert Holmes: 12 "Cars" Gary Numan: 13 "Cruisin" Smokey Robinson: 14 "Working My Way Back to You/Forgive Me, Girl" The Spinners: 15 "Lost in Love" Air Supply: 16 "Little Jeannie" Elton John: 17 "Ride Like the Wind" Christopher Cross: 18 "Upside Down" Diana Ross: 19 "Please Don't Go" KC and the Sunshine Band: 20 ...
The 1980s produced chart-topping hits in pop, hip-hop, rock, and R&B. Here's a list of the best songs from the time, ranging from Toto to Michael Jackson.
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".
"Total Eclipse of the Heart" by Bonnie Tyler. Welsh singer Bonnie Tyler topped the Billboard Hot 100 for four weeks in 1983 with "Total Eclipse of the Heart," which still generates buzz today.More ...
Olivia Newton-John's song "Physical" was the Billboard Hot 100's longest running number one of the decade.. Reflecting on changes in the music industry during the 1980s, Robert Christgau later wrote in Christgau's Record Guide: The '80s (1990):
In an Oct. 11 interview on Daniel Wall's Behind the Wall podcast, hit songwriter Evan "Kidd" Bogart spoke about writing the lyrics of RiRi's 2006 single and first No. 1 hit on the Billboard Hot ...