Here they are, the absolutely greatest top
hits from the history of popular music.
The very best music.
The
Year is 1980.
These are the year's Favo(u)rites in the UK, the top 20 single
records.
Abba - The Winner
Takes It All - 08-1980 (Epic)
Abba - Super Trouper -
11-1980 (Epic)
AC/DC - Rock 'n' Roll
Ain't Noise Pollution - 12-1980 (Atlantic)
Adam & The Ants -
Dog Eat Dog - 11-1980 (CBS)
Adam & The Ants -
Antmusic - 12-1980 - (CBS)
Air Supply - All Out
Of Love - 11-1980 (Arista)
The Average White Band -
Let's Go Round Again Pt. 1 - 06-1980 (RCA)
Bad Manners - Lip Up
Fatty - 08-1980 (Magnet)
Bad Manners - Special
Brew - 11-1980 (Magnet)
Beat - Tears Of A
Clown/Ranking Full Stop - 01-1980 (2 Tone)
Beat - Hands Off -
She's Mine - 03-1980 (Go Feet)
Beat - Mirror In The
Bathroom - 05-1980 (Go Feet)
George Benson - Give Me The
Night - 08-1980 (Warner)
Mike Berry - Sunshine Of
Your Smile - 08-1980 (Polydor)
Black Slate - Amigo -
10-1980 (Ensign)
Blondie - Atomic -
02-1980 (Chrysalis)
Blondie - Call Me -
04-1980 (Chrysalis)
Blondie - The Tide Is
High - 11-1980 (Chrysalis)
Booker T. & The M.G.'s
- Green Onions - 01-1980 (Atlantic)
The Boomtown Rats -
Someone's Looking At You - 02-1980 (Ensign)
The Boomtown Rats - Banana
Republic - 12-1980 (Ensign)
David Bowie - John I'm Only
Dancing (Again) - 01-1980 (RCA)
David Bowie - Ashes To Ashes
- 08-1980 (RCA)
David Bowie - Fashion -
11-1980 (RCA)
The Brothers Johnson -
Stomp! - 0-1980 (A&M)
Tom Browne - Funkin' For
Jamaica (N.Y.) - 08-1980 (Arista)
Kate Bush - Babooshka -
07-1980 (EMI)
Captain & Tennille
- Do That To Me One More Time - 03-1980 (Casablanca)
Change - Searching -
10-1980 (WEA)
The Clash - London Calling
- 01-1980 (CBS)
The Clash - Bank Robber -
09-1980 (CBS)
Coffee - Casanova -
10-1980 (De-Lite)
Elvis Costello - I Can't
Stand Up For Falling Down - 02-1980 (F. Beat)
Randy Crawford - One Day
I'll Fly Away - 09-1980 (Warner)
Crown Heights Affair -
You Gave Me Love - 06-1980 (De-Lite)
The Darts - Let's Hang On
- 07-1980 (Magnet)
The Detroit Spinners -
Working My Way Back To You-Forgive Me, Girl (Medley) -
03-1980 (Atlantic)
The Detroit Spinners -
Cupid-I've Loved You For A Long Time (Medley) - 07-1980
(Atlantic)
Dexy's Midnight Runners
- Geno - 04-1980 (Late Night Feelings)
Dexy's Midnight Runners
- There There My Dear - 08-1980 (Late Night Feelings)
Barbara Dickson - January
February - 04-1980 (Epic)
Dr. Hook - Better
Love Next Time - 01-1980 (Capitol)
Dr. Hook - Sexy Eyes -
04-1980 (Capitol)
Sheena Easton - 9 to 5
(Morning Train) - 08-1980 (EMI)
Sheena Easton - Modern Girl -
09-1980 (EMI)
David Essex - Silver Dream
Machine (Pt. 1) - 04-1980 (Mercury)
Roberta Flack/Donny Hathaway -
Back Together Again - 06-1980 (Atlantic)
Rodney Franklin - The Groove
- 05-1980 (CBS)
Peter Gabriel - Games
Without Frontiers - 03-1980 (Charisma)
The Gap Band - Oops Upside
Your Head - 08-1980 (Mercury)
Genesis - Turn It On
Again - 03-1980 (Charisma)
The Gibson Brothers -
Cuba/Better Do It Salsa - 03-1980 (Island)
The Gibson Brothers -
Mariana - 08-1980 (Island)
Eddy Grant - Do You Feel My
Love - 12-1980 (Ensign)
Leon Haywood - Don't Push
It, Don't Force It - 04-1980 (20th Century)
Hot Chocolate - No
Doubt About It - 05-1980 (RAK)
Jermaine Jackson - Let's Get
Serious - 06-1980 (Motown)
Michael Jackson - Rock With
You - 02-1980 (Epic)
Michael Jackson - She's Out Of
My Life - 05-1980 (Epic)
Jam - Going
Underground/Dreams Of Children 03-1980 (Polydor)
Jam - Start - 08-1980
(Polydor)
Billy Joel - It's Still Rock
And Roll To Me - 09-1980 (CBS)
John & Yoko & The
Plastic Ono Band - Happy Xmas (War Is Over) -
12-1980 (Apple)
Jon & Vangelis - I
Hear You Now - 02-1980 (Polydor)
Joy Division - Love
Will Tear Us Apart - 07-1980 (Factory)
Judas Priest - Living
After Midnight - 04-1980 (CBS)
Judas Priest -
Breaking The Law - 06-1980 (CBS)
KC & The Sunshine Band
- Please Don't Go - 01-1980 (TK)
Kelly Marie - Feels
Like I'm In Love - 08-1980 (Calbre)
Fern Kinney - Together We
Are Beautiful - 03-1980 (WEA)
Kool & The Gang -
Celebration - 11-1980 (De-Lite)
Korgis - Everybody's
Got To Learn Sometime - 06-1980 (Rialto)
The Lambrettas - Posion
Ivy - 04-1980 (Rocket)
The Lambrettas -
D-a-a-ance - 06-1980 (Rocket)
Stacy Lattisaw - Jump To The
Beat - 07-1980 (Atlantic)
John Lennon - (Just Like)
Starting Over - 11-1980 (Geffen)
Jona Lewie - Stop The
Cavalry - 12-1980 (Stiff)
Lipps Inc. - Funky
Town - 06-1980 (Casablanca)
Liquid Gold - Dance
Yourself Dizzy - 03-1980 (Polo)
Liquid Gold -
Substitute - 06-1980 (Polo)
Johnny Logan - What's Another
Year - 05-1980 (Epic)
Madness - My Girl -
01-1980 (Stiff)
Madness - Work Rest
& Play (E.P.) - 04-1980 (Stiff)
Madness - Baggy
Trousers - 09-1980 (Stiff)
Madness -
Embarrassment - 12-1980 (Stiff)
Bob Marley & The
Wailers - Could You Be Loved - 07-1980 (Island)
Martha & The Muffins
- Echo Beach - 04-1980 (Dindisc)
Mash - Theme From
M*A*S*H* (Suicide Is Painless) - 05-1980 (CBS)
Matchbox - Midnite
Dynamos - 06-1980 (Magnet)
Matchbox - When You
Ask About Love - 10-1980 (Magnet)
Paul McCartney - Coming Up
- 04-1980 (Parlophone)
Paul McCartney - Waterfalls
- 06-1980 (Parlophone)
Don McLean - Crying -
06-1980 (EMI)
Keith Michel - Captain
Beaky/Wilfred The Weasel - 02-1980 (Polydor)
Stephanie
Mills - Never Knew
Love Like This Before - 11-1980 (20th Century)
Motorhead - The Golden
Years (E.P.) - 05-1980 (Bronze)
New Muzik - Living By
Numbers - 02-1980 (GTO)
Olivia Newton-John/The
Electric Light Orchestra - Xanadu - 07-1980 (Jet)
The Nolans - I'm In The
Mood For Dancing - 01-2009 (Epic)
The Nolans - Don't Make
Waves - 05-1980 (Epic)
The Nolans - Gotta Pull
Myself Together - 10-1980 (Epic)
Gary Numan - We Are Glass -
05-1980 (Beggars Banquet)
Gary Numan - I DIe: You Die
- 09-1980 (Beggars Banquet)
Hazel O'Connor - Eighth Day
- 09-1980 (A&M)
Odyssey - Use It Up
And Wear It Out - 07-1980 (RCA)
Odyssey - If You're
Lookin' For A Way Out - 10-1980 (RCA)
Orchestral Manoeuvres In The
Dark - Messages - 06-1980 (Dindisc)
Orchestral Manoeuvres In The
Dark - Enola Gay - 11-1980 (Dindisc)
Ottawan - D.I.S.C.O. -
10-1980 (Carrere)
The Piranhas - Tom Hark -
08-1980 (Sire)
Police - So Lonely -
03-1980 (A&M)
Police - Don' Stand So
Close To Me - 09-1980 (A&M)
Police - De Do Do Do,
De Da Da Da - 12-1980 (A&M)
Elvis Presley - It's Only
Love/Beyond The Reef - 09-1980 (RCA)
Billy Preston & Syreeta
- With You I'm Born Again - 01-1980 (Motown)
The Pretenders - Talk Of
The Town - 04-1980 (Real)
Queen - Another One
Bites The Dust - 09-1980 (EMI)
Queen - Flash -
12-1980 (EMI)
Rainbow - All Night
Long - 03-1980 (Polydor)
The Regents - 7 Teen -
02-1980 (Rialto)
Cliff Richard - Carrie -
02-1980 (EMI)
Cliff Richard - Dreaming -
09-980 (EMI)
B.A. Robertson - To Be Or
Not To Be - 07-1980 (Asylum)
Kenny Rogers - Coward Of The
County - 02-1980 (UA)
Kenny Rogers - Lady -
12-1980 (UA)
The Rolling Stones -
Emotional Rescue - 07-1980 (Rolling Stone)
Diana Ross - Upside Down -
08-1980 (Motown)
Diana Ross - My Old Piano -
10-1980 (Motown)
Roxy Music - Over You
- 05-1980 (Polydor)
Roxy Music - Oh Yeah
(On The Radio) - 08-1980 (Polydor)
Roxy Music - The Same
Old Scene - 11-1980 (Polydor)
Rose Royce - Is It Love
You're After - 01-2009 (Whitfield)
Jimmy Ruffin - Hold On To My
Love - 05-1980 (RSO)
Saxon - 747
(Strangers In The Night) - 07-1980 (Carrere)
Leo Sayer - More Than I
Can Say - 07-1980 (Chrysalis)
The Shadows - Riders In
The Sky - 03-1980 (EMI)
Sky - Toccata -
05-1980 (Ariola)
Spandau Ballet - To
Cut A Long Story Short - 12-1980 (Reformation)
The Specials - Rat
Race/Rude Buoys Outa Jail - 06-1980 (2 Tone)
The Specials -
Stereotype/International Jet Set - 10-1980 (2 Tone)
Splodgenessabounds -
Simon Templar/Two Pints Of Lager And A Packet Of Crisps
Please - 06-1980 (Deram)
Status Quo - What
You're Proposing - 10-1980 (Vertigo)
Status Quo -
Lies/Don't Drive My Car - 12-1980 (Vertigo)
The Stray Cats - Runaway
Boys - 12-1980 (Arista)
Barbra Streisand - Woman In
Love - 10-1980 (CBS)
St. Winifred's School Choir
- There's No One Quite Like Grandma - 12-1980 (MFP)
Styx - Babe - 01-1980
(A&M)
Sweet People - Et Les
Oiseaux Chantaient (And The Birds Were Singing) - 10-1980
(Polydor)
Teena Marie - Behind
The Groove - 06-1980 (Motown)
Thin Lizzy - Killer On
The Loose - 10-1980 (Vertigo)
Bobby Thurston - Check Out
The Groove - 05-1980 (Epic)
The Tourists - So Good To
Be Back Home Again - 03-1980 (Logo)
UB40 - King/Food For
Thought - 04-1980 (Graduate)
UB40 - My Way Of
Thinking/I Think It's going To Rain - 07-1980 (Graduate)
UB40 - The Earth Dies
Screaming/Dream A Lie - 11-1980 (Graduate)
The Undertones - My
Perfect Cousin - 05-1980 (Sire)
Vapors - Turning
Japanese - 03-1980 (UA)
Village People - Can't
Stop The Music - 09-1980 (Mercury)
Narada
Michael Walden -
I Shoulda Loved Ya - 5-1980 (Atlantic)
Dennis Waterman - I Could Be
So Good For You - 11-1980 (EMI)
Marti Webb - Take That Look
Off Your Face - 03-1980 (Polydor)
Whispers - And The
Beat Goes On - 02-1980 (Solar)
Stevie Wonder - Master
Blaster (Jammin') - 09-1980 (Motown)
1980 in the
US
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