These 1980s songs failed to reach No. 1, but they ended up just as popular (if not more so) than the songs that blocked them.

The 1980s were a pivotal time in country music. Some of the biggest classics in country music were released in the 1980s. In 1980, songs like George Jones’s “He Stopped Loving Her Today” and Johnny ...

Like the album of the same name, The Clash’s “London Calling” (released in the U.S. in January 1980) was a tour de force of punk rock that took aim at social issues on a scale that no other work of ...

Maybe there was a better era for love songs. But it certainly didn't feel that way. Everything about the 1980s and its music was big. The blockbuster pop album became a regular thing. Various genres ...

The 1980s didn’t just change music — they changed how we experienced it. Before MTV launched in 1981, music videos were afterthoughts, low-budget promotional clips that occasionally appeared on ...

Every generation has a soundtrack that has helped define growing up. For the gen-x crowd, it’s the 1980s. The baby […] ...

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“Music released in the 1990s generated 60 billion streams in 2021, which translates to 6.07% of streams; music released during the 1980s accounted for 33.84 billion streams, or 3.42%. Music released ...

Tom Petty held a deep love for music. Music in the 1980s did not appeal to Tom Petty. The artist did think that Prince was producing inventive music. Petty worked as a musician for the majority of his ...

I had a hard time answering the question. Certain albums stick out--I know that the Beatles' White Album came out 1968, Who's Next was 1971, and Modest Mouse's The Moon and Antarctica was 2000. But a ...

The 1980s were a good time for 1960s music. So many groups from the 1960s had hit songs in the 1980s — including most of The Beatles. However, one member of the Fab Four was an embarrassing outlier. 1 ...

Tony Wellington’s journey through the 1980s is fast, funny, terrible and gloriously fallible - just like the decade itself.