They had two UK number 1s,Is There Something I Should Know? in 1983 and The Reflex in 1984,plus a host of other very big hits,but they just missed the cut in this video somehow.
@@rjjcms1 The US lists and other countries probably lowered them. One thing I've learned watching these is how popular ABBA was in europe, they weren't that popular in the US my mom who grew up through the 70s as a teen only ever heard dancing queen, that was their one big hit in the US. But they appeared in the 70s vid and this one over 10 times I think. If it was US top ten only they probably only would've shown once.
It's clearly not only a US list, otherwise F.R. David wouldn't be on this list. Totally unknown there, but it was a big hit for months in my native Germany for example. Also the Pet Shop Boys wouldn't be on the list if it were a US only list. I think it's definitely a worldwide list, but I'm not sure about the exact metrics.
@@loveroftrueandlastingpeace It certainly could be a worldwide list. I think you're most likely right about that, although The Pet Shop Boys were extremely big here in the US during the 80's. You couldn't turn on a radio for a good while without hearing West End Girls playing.
American here: I was raised on 80s music, my FAVE genre was British Pop. Not sure how old you guys are but I have a feeling you have heard of my fave band BROS - they never made it here. They covered my walls, I had VINYL, Cassette and CD versions of the albums. This is before internet/streaming/viral global songs so I had to go to record stores and look for them in the ‘international’ section. I also bought the UK version of “Smash hits” too keep up the the “gossip” on my faves across the pond! GREAT reaction - thank for the trip down my memories
Bros burst on the scene with When Will I Be Famous? in very early 1988 and were huge that year,scoring three number 2s and a number 1 with I Owe You Nothing which they got me to sing in a pub karaoke once for a joke. One of my best friends in the 90s was a Brossette,and she even tried that stealing the badges off cars that became a craze (didn't Beastie Boys fans also do that? Which one was the Volkswagen badges?) Bros kind of imploded in the early 90s as the Goss brothers went their seperate ways pursing solo careers.
Exactly. I remember it topped the charts here in NZ. I was like WTH is this? Only because the hype of the movie and Prince performed it. But it was a really weird composition of a song? Why it was a single, have no idea? Should have stayed on the big screen in the background. Lol 🤭
I'm right in between you two lol Born in 1971 and graduated high school in 1989. Actually graduated with Snoop Dogg at Poly High School and Cameron Diaz was a year behind us. Don't let this fool you about Duran Duran and others. They were massive over here--in about mid-80s. As was Yaz with Alison Moyet. I'm shocked so many didn't make the list--Billy Idol, The Smiths, Siouxie and the Banshees, New Order, Depeche Mode.. the list goes on and on. MASSIVE over here with the second invasion of the Brits.
Early 80's discos were still going because I worked at one. The 80's were when I still had my favorite Rock and Pop artists but I was spending more time listening to Country. I've always had very diverse music tastes thanks to my mom, grandparents and great-grandparents. Growing up in the 60's and 70's when we didn't really care about genre if it was good music only helped in that area.
The Dancing in the Street with Bowie and Jagger video was filmed in early hours before the Live Aid concert on July 13, 1985. They finished filming at like 7AM the same day as the mega concert. I watching the people talking about the video and how it was finished earlier that day. I was at my dad's house visiting him in New Jersey. I was also not that far from Philadelphia, the American concert site. I loved that concert. Phil Collins played at London and then jumped on the Concord to play in Philly hours later.
I got my drivers lisense may 1988, and the song could not fit more perfectly....... That said I met the girl of my life in 1986, and she is sitting beside me now, watching English fotball 😊. My wife, best friend, soul mate, and the mother of our son. ❤ I was such a music lover in the 80's, lost it totally for a long time until covid. Started to REALLY listen to music again, and fell HARD for Auroras magic.
Great list of songs. I am still a child of the 60s and 70s and those songs will always remain my favorite. But the 80s had some great songs too. It was difficult to pick one year because there were individual songs in each one that I liked. But I think 1985 came the closest for me. Thanks for a great reaction guys.- Hawk
The first rap song to be a hit in the UK was Rappers' Delight by the Sugar Hill Gang,which crashed into the charts right at the end of 1979,reaching number 3 just before Christmas. The next big one seemed to be The Message by Grand Master Flash & the Furious Five in August/September 1982. There was also The Crown by the Gary Byrd Experience in the mid-summer of 1983,but plenty of others soon coming along. The first time I heard the term hip hop was referring to Afrika Bambaata's music in late 1981.
i've watched a load of peeps react to this particular video, and no one has recognised the show that "come on eileen" was played on! the saturday morning show "number 73" and sandy toksvig bopping so hard her headphones come off 83 had the "dark trilogy" of songs, all in a row too! the collabs with paul mccartney were just freaking epicness okay chump ... BATDANCE ... john peel gave this a rave review, calling it unique in it's sampling almost all the british hits were smashes earlier in the UK, west end girls was the christmas number 1 in december 1985 1986 is my year, although the years around it were unbelievable! oh yeah, 1989 was when house music began ...
Agreed,and 1981 and 1982 both scrub up better than this video would suggest. In early 1981 they could have put Vienna by Ultravox in for Joe Dolce,and In the Air Tonight by Phil Collins just before that. Romeo and Juliet by Dire Straits was a fine song from then,and it also had Fade to Grey by Visage,early Spandau Ballet hits and Duran Duran's debut hit Planet Earth as the New Romantic era started to take hold,as well as Once in a Lifetime by the Talking Heads. Rainbow hit big with I Surrender and Blondie were back again with Rapture. As winter gave way to spring Roxy Music scored a number 1 with their version of John Lennon's Jealous Guy,Teardrop Explodes had a big hit with Reward and Kim Wilde reached number 2 with her debut Kids in America. Stevie Wonder had a big hit with Lately. Shaky had a gigantic year,getting it going with This Ole House (originaly by Rosemary Clooney way back in the 50s) going to number 1. The Jacksons slow climbed it to an eventual number 6 with Can You Feel It? May kicked off with Stand and Deliver by Adam & the Ants crashing in at the top to displace the skirt-removing Eurovision antics of Bucks Fizz; Shaky was back again while Stars on 45 arrived and in its wake a slew of medley singles that became more and more annoying to anyone not dancing to them,or at least trying to,at the disco. As we edged into early summer the Human League started to strike it big,Toyah wanted to be free and REO Speedwagon struck number 7 with Keep on Loving You. Ossie dreamed of Wembley,his knees all a-trembly,Tenpole Tudor unsheathed the Swords of a Thousand Men and Kim Wilde (Chequered Love) and Ultravox (All Stood Still) returned. High summer brought the start of Depeche-Mode's early run of hits,Hazel O'Connor asking Will You? with the aid of some fine sax playing,Odyssey on a quest going back to their roots and Elaine Paige singing the wistful Memory from the musical Cats. But as we approached the summer holiday period violence and trouble erupted on the streets as British inner cities went up in flames in that July's notorious riots,Brixton being followed by Toxteth,Moss Side,St Paul's and others. The strife was soundtracked by the Jam's Funeral Pyre,then the Specials taking over number 1 with Ghost Town and finally UB40 following their string of double A side hits with a standalone single A side,One in Ten being a lyrically dark and powerful protest song against the soaring unemployment that was scarring the recession-hit country and its disaffected,angry youth. Margaret Thatcher's government was,in characteristic fashion,steadfastly unmoved. Then Shaky returned to the top with Green Door while Bad Manners did the Can Can,Spandau Ballet's Chant Number 1 divided opinion and Kirsty MacColl and Imagination enjoyed their first hits. Randy Crawford thought You Might Need Somebody,Stevie Wonder wished Martin Luther King a Happy Birthday.the Human League loved your Love Action and Duran Duran went crazy for those Girls on Film. The summer drew to a close with Cliff Richard all Wired For Sound,the Rolling Stones wanting you to start them up and Orchestral Manoevres in the Dark parading the Souvenir they'd found as everyone was shunted back to school or college or their job if they still had one. Ottawan said Hands Up! and the Pointer Sisters were on the lookout for a Slow Hand but Alvin Stardust just wanted to Pretend. The Police burst back on the scene with the gloomy-but-good,introspective Invisble Sun while Japan sought the Quiet Life,but the chance of such a things was interupted rudely by the Tweets and their Birdie Song,complete with that dance! Madness told them to Shut Up while Bad Manners went Walking in the Sunshine instead. Godly & Creme were given a spooky Victorian-esqe fright by a woman who didn't want to be Under Your Thumb any longer and Slade warned us to Lock Up Your Daughters. One of the strangest,most unconventional pieces to ever hit the upper end of the charts flew in to confuse and intrigue in equal measure as Lori Anderson's 7 minute long O Superman soared to number 2 in October. Cue debate on what it was actually about,but I always thought it was about nuclear armageddon and the four minute warning (a red-hot topic at the time at the height of the Cold War). Open Your Heart said the Human League while Toyah heard Thunder in the Mountains,Dave Stewart and Barbara Gaskin insisted that it was their party and Depeche-Mode just couldn't get enough. The clocks went back. The Police considered everything she does to be magic. Altered Images poppet Clare Grogan from Gregory's Girl wished you a Happy Birthday. We went slightly country for a moment in a gentle fashion with Squeeze singing Labelled With Love and Elvis Costello decalring it A Good Year For the Roses. The new synth groups were having none of that as Orchestral Manoevres in the Dark brought out the first of their two songs about Joan of Arc and Soft Cell followed the enormous number 1 success of Tainted Love with a double A side from which Bedsitter got all the airplay so I don't think I ever got to hear the flip side Facility Girls. Haircut 100 burst onto the scene with Favourite Shirts (Boy Meets Girl). Olivia Newton John wanted to get Physical and Let's Groove said Earth,Wind & Fire,but the strife-torn state of the nation was summed up pretty well by the lyrics of David Bowie & Queen's number 1-hitting lament Under Pressure. Not that Julio Iglesias cared - the Spanish crooner who became a housewives' heartthrob overnight just wanted to Begin the Beguine. As the holidays approached the country was buried under a blanket of snow that stayed thick on the ground until just before Christmas. The Human League's Don't You Want Me installed itself at the top to stay while Abba came roaring back with One of Us. Daddy's Home,reassured Cliff Richard while the Police declared us to be Spirits in a Material World. In the last action before everything stopped for the Christmas and New Year holidays,Jon & Vangelis were confident they'd find their way home,Bucks Fizz showed the nation's kids the way to The Land of Make Believe,Foreigner were patiently Waiting For a Girl Like You and for Kool & the Gang the only thing for it was to Get Down On It. The snow and ice attempted to take back over as the year ended. Sorry,went further and further down the rabbit hole there. Can I muster the energy for a 1982 version at a bit shorter length? Should I? The UK's number 1s in 1981: 6th January: Imagine - John Lennon 4 weeks (following his murder on 8th/9th December 1980; previously a hit in 1975) 3rd February: Woman - John Lennon 2 weeks 17th February: Shaddup Your Face - Joe Dolce 3 weeks 10th March: Jealous Guy - Roxy Music 2 weeks 24th March: This Ole House - Shakin' Stevens 3 weeks 14th April: Making Your Mind Up - Bucks Fizz 3 weeks 6th May: Stand and Deliver - Adam & the Ants 5 weeks 9th June: Being With You - Smokey Robinson 2 weeks 23rd June: One Day in Your Life - Michael Jackson 2 weeks (old single from 1970 revived) 7th July: Ghost Town - Specials 3 weeks 28th July: Green Door - Shakin' Stevens 4 weeks 25th August: Japanese Boy - Aneka 1 week 2nd September: Tainted Love - Soft Cell 2 weeks 15th September: Prince Charming - Adam & the Ants 4 weeks 13th October: It's My Party - Dave Stewart & Barbara Gaskin 4 weeks 10th November: Every Little Thing She Does is Magic - Police 1 week 17th November: Under Pressure - David Bowie & Queen 2 weeks 1st December: Begin the Beguine (Volver A Empezar) - Julio Iglesias 1 week 8th December: Don't You Want Me - Human League 5 weeks The UK number 2s from 1981: January: Happy Xmas (War is Over) - John Lennon and Yoko Ono with the Plastic Ono Band and the Harlem Community Choir; Ant Music - Adam & the Ants (with its unique drumming intro) February: In the Air Tonight - Phil Collins; Vienna - Ultravox March: Vienna by Ultravox (still stuck at number 2 for what seemed an eternity,denied by bloody Joe Dolce,etc); Kings of the Wild Frontier - Adam & the Ants; Kids in America - Kim Wilde April: Chi Mai - Ennio Moricone May: Stars on 45 - Starsound (Judge Dredd later released his own version called Bras on 45); You Drive Me Crazy - Shakin' Stevens June: More Than in Love - Kate Robbins (she was a soap actress) July: Stars on 45 Volume 2 - Satrsound August: Happy Birthday - Stevie Wonder; Hooked on Classics - Royal Philharmonic Orchestra September: Invisible Sun - Police October: Birdie Song - Tweets; O Superman - Lori Anderson; Happy Birthday - Altered Images November: Happy Birthday - Altered Images (second and third week at number 2) December: Daddy's Home - Cliff Richard 4 weeks
Yes,a lot of these were at or close to the top of the UK charts in different months to the video: for example,Crazy Little Thing Called Love was at number 2 here for at least a couple of weeks in November 1979; they had their next single,Save Me,in the charts by February 1980. Another Brick in the Wall was the Christmas number 1 from 1979 and top for half of January 1980 as well,Don't You Want Me by the Human League was Christmas number 1 in 1981 and the Pet Shop Boys' version of Always on My Mind was top of the tree at Christmas 1987,denying Fairytale of New York by the Pogues and Kirsty McColl pride of place.
My favorite decade! I was in my 20's and having a blast. I was into punk and post-punk then, but i have great memories attached to most of these songs. Except "Abracadabra." If i never hear that song again, I'll be happy. ❤❤ So much fun back then, and fun video, guys. Thanks!! Edit - I'd like to see you do a 90's one, too.❤
@@Every_Day_islike_Sunday I thought so,I remember that one from when he'd just gone solo. I've currently been revisiting 1987,the last year that the Smiths were still together,on a slow,leisurely odyssey through the 80s from start to finish.
I agree, the 80s were the best. So many classic songs didn't make this list, but shaped the whole musical landscape, like Duran Duran, Depeche Mode, the Cure, and the Smiths. 1983, 1984 and 1985 were the best, imo. After 1986 it was like the creeping beginnings of what would later be the done better by 90s music.
The 80's will always be my fave decade for music! I agree on the 83 and 87, though 1980 is very close. Human Leage's greatest hits was listened to death at my house, as well as PSB, Madonna, Phil Collins and MJ. A-Ha were right up there, too. Can't believe there was no Duran Duran or Spandau Ballet!! That's criminal! ❤❤❤
I vote for 1984 as the strongest year,but the video doesn't quite reflect it. So many great and famous hits in that year. 1985 was very strong too for me,especially the first half,so that gets my vote for second place.
This list is compiled from American Billboard's Hot 100, which ranks the most popular songs each wk., from around the world, encompassing all genres. Now all you have to do is check out the '50's, '60's, & '90's, & you'll have heard the most popular songs of the 2nd 1/2 of the 20th century, when the the greatest music ever recorded was produced. Thanks for your reaction.
This and the other one are Definitely U.S most Popular! The British one Has Pink Floyd in 1979 with Another Brick and wouldn't have Call Me By Blondie as only spent 1 Week at No1 Compared to 6 in U.S but the British Does have The Tide is High by Blondie! guess what my favourite Group is? lol
The early 80s was literally a cross over to what was somewhat what we called modern music..although I liked what we called radio hits.. I really loved what was underground then..which was heavy metal
I must say that all of these songs are incredible, however I was much more of a "rock chick." I was very much into the 80's metal and hair bands. I listened to Metallica, Guns n Roses, Ratt, Poison, Lita Ford, Ozzy Osbourne, Warrant (and the list goes on....) Unfortunately, very few of those bands had number one radio hits. They may have had songs that made it to the top 20, but not to the number one spot. Not that it mattered to me. I always listened to what I liked, regardless of how "popular" it was or its position on the charts.
Biggest rock songs month-by-month in the UK singles chart in the 80s: 1980 January: tricky month to start with as no rock songs at all in the Top 30,so I'll have to go for Young Blood by UFO and Mama's Boy by Suzi Quatro; not technically rock London Calling by the Clash was in there February: Save Me - Queen; Jane - Jefferson Starship (absolute banger IMO); Touch Too Much - ACDC (right when Bon Scott died) March: Running Free - Iron Maiden; All Night Long - Rainbow (banging rock track with somewhat sexist lyrics); Spirit of the Radio - Rush April: Turn it on Again - Genesis (technically prog); Living After Midnight - Judas Priest; My Oh My - Sad Cafe (I guess that qualifies,sounds like they're trying to impersonate the Roling Stones); Toccata - Skyy (classic music gets the rock treatment,kind of - if you see the video,look out for the drummer); Wheels of Steel - Saxon May: Golden Years EP (lead track Leaving Here) - Motorhead; Fool For Your Loving - Whitesnake June: Sanctuary - Iron Maiden; Breaking the Law - Judas Priest July: Play the Game - Queen; Chinatown - Thin Lizzy; 747 (Strangers in the Night) - Saxon; Whole Lotta Rosie - ACDC; does Emotional Rescue by the Rolling Stones count?; Neon Knights - Black Sabbath August: does Ashes to Ashes by David Bowie count? September: United - Judas Priest; Another One Bites the Dust - Queen; You Shook Me All Night Long - ACDC October: Killer on the Loose - Thin Lizzy; Trouble - Gillan; What You're Proposing - Status Quo November: Ace of Spades - Motorhead; does Fashion by David Bowie qualify? December: Rock 'n' Roll Ain't Noise Pollution - ACDC; more a modernised rock 'n' roll/rockabilly one but Runaway Boys - Stray Cats
@@jenniferrichardson8474 Here's one for 1981 anyway (there are a lot I've left off because they are classed as New Wave or synth pop or even New Romantic,even if elements of them are close to rock): Couple that I actually missed from December 1980 (it was getting late and I was getting a little tired) but were still there in January 1981: Lies/Don't Drive My Car - Status Quo; Flash - Queen January: Scary Monsters and Super Creeps - David Bowie February: does In the Air Tonight by Phil Collins count?; or Romeo and Juliet by Dire Straits?; We'll Bring the House Down - Slade; I Surrender - Rainbow; St Valentine's Day Massacre EP (lead track Please Don't Touch) - Motorhead & Headgirl a.k.a. Girlschool March: Something About You Baby I Like - Status Quo; does Roxy Music's version of John Lennon's Jealous Guy count? could have added their 1980 hits Over You,Oh Yeah and Same Old Scene; You Better You Bet - the Who (with Kenny Jones filling in for the late Keith Moon on drums - not quite the same!); Vital Signs - Rush April: Skateaway - Dire Straits (had this single,quite liked the B side Solid Rock too); Night Games - Graham Bonnet; And the Bands Played On - Saxon; New Orleans - Gillan May: Don't Break My Heart Again - Whitesnake (nice guitar solo!); Keep on Loving You - REO Speedwagon; Killers Live EP (lead track Bad Reputation) - Thin Lizzy June: The River - Bruce Springsteen July: Motorhead (Live) - Motorhead; Can't Happen Here - Rainbow; Never Surrender - Saxon August: Take it on the Run - REO Speedwagon (at one place I worked at several guys used to cheerily sing songs they'd heard on the radio with naughtily adapted lyrics - I cannot but still hear "take it up the bum,girl" whenever I think of this song); Fire - U2 September: Hold on Tight - Electric Light Orchestra; Abacab - Genesis; Start Me Up - Rolling Stones October: Lock Up Your Daughters - Slade November: Twilight - Electric Orchestra; Keep it Dark - Genesis; Tom Sawyer - Rush; Under Pressure - Queens & David Bowie December: Rock 'n' Roll - Status Quo; should Spirits in the Material World by the Police be included? in that case their other hits from the last third of the year,Invisible Sun and Every Little Thing She Does is Magic as well?; should I'll Find My Way Home by Jon [Anderson from Yes] & Vangelis be included as well even though it's a synth track?; Waiting For a Girl Like You - Foreigner A few gems here,but I think that rock-wise 1980's list is overall much stronger.
@@jenniferrichardson8474 Three songs I left off the 1980 list by accident,if you're interested: Another Brick in the Wall by Pink Floyd,which was in this video anyway; I Hear You Now by Jon [Anderson from Yes] & Vangelis - all keyboards and drums percussion but so dreamy to just relax and drift off to (mid-January - February); Games Without Frontiers by Peter Gabriel (March)
This list is definitely not a USA exclusive chart. For instance Shaddap You Face was 53 on the US Billboard chart but it charted number 1 in a handful of other countries. There are lots of other songs on this list that are the same. My guess is that it's a UK chart listing.
It's not quite that either,because some of these were hits in completely different months in the UK,sometimes by 3,4,5 or even 6 months (Don't You Want Me by the Human League) difference. My guess is that it's an aggregation of Billboard,the UK and European charts,plus maybe Australia,New Zealand and one or two others if the data was available to them.
The 80's ...... That is about 25 years ago.... Max!! 😮 I feel so bad for the music industry..... They used up all the best music in the 80's! Heard Heaven / Brian Adams Live not long ago. So fantastic!
@@RunarNyrud Yep,that's a great one too. One of my other favourite songs of his is one that goes under the radar a bit despite being,deservedly IMO,a top 20 hit. Even he could not have expected his song from that Robin Hood movie,Everything I Do (I Do it For You) to turn into such a gargantuan success as it straddled the charts like a behemoth through the entire summer of 1991. So it was that he had his next single,Can't Stop This Thing We Started,all cued up for release at the tail end of the summer. I always enjoyed that one as a jolly,rousing upbeat rocker of a tune,but when it peaked at number 12 late that September the ubiquitous ballad from the Robin Hood was on the 13th week of its record-breaking 16-week overlordship of the number 1 spot.
Top Culture also has videos for the 2nd most popular song for each month. You should do a reaction to those videos as well. Some of the songs you expected to see in this video but didn't will no doubt be in those. Also the channel Kajillion Views has videos for all the #1 songs of each decade. I believe those are specific to the American charts, but I feel you'd get a better representation of each year watching those videos. ua-cam.com/video/0FINsuWDNGA/v-deo.html
I've seen a few of these reactions but no one has mentioned the criteria. Is it #1 hit of the month? Top sales? Played most often on radio? Assuming this is all USA related (as it always is - they are the only country on Earth)
Totally. It crashed in at number 9 on the first day of December and went straight to number 1 from there,through Christmas and on well past the end of the year. I think it was between that and Soft Cell's Tainted Love for biggest selling single of the year. If you were born in 1964 like me,you must remember all the snow we had that month (plus some more in the earliest weeks of 1982). I was at college at the time.
@@1964paulsmith Yep. For the last week of term at college I took to walking there in Wellington boots and got ridiculed by the fashion police for it. It's a bit hazy for me to remember precisely now but I think we had a few early finishes or unscheduled free periods then too.
@@1964paulsmith Andrew Ridgeley from Wham! attended the college I went to,but in the year before I started there. George used to show up there once in a while,apparently,with them being close friends.
@ That's better than my school story lol. In the first year of secondary school I sat next to Gary Glitters son, and years before, my dad was in the same class as him. Not a great one to have in the locker.
It's one of MJ's signature songs now but back then it wasn't a big charting hit probably because by the time it was released as single every man and his dog had already heard the song 1000 times.
@@veddyveddygood It went top 10 in the winter of 1983-84 and stuck around for a long time,but surprisngly for such a famous song it didn't trouble the highest reaches of the chart.
70s wee US songs and there were Brits singes and groups. But they were big in the 70s in the US. And Abba is Swedish and were huge in US. So they were right in Video. The video was not biggest acts in the 70s but, biggest songs. There is a difference.
I don’t know how we competed against the British back then? They just had too much talent. Beatles , Stones, Zep, Sabbath , Police, Floyd. Tap out, you guys won
Loved the 80s songs. Too bad some of ZZ Tops was not on her like Legs. But, loved seeing Tears for Fears and Pet Shop Boys. wished they had Bananarama's Cruel Summer. But, there were alot of good ones.
This is nonsense dates are all wrong for instance careless whisper was July 84 and where was Frankie goes to Hollywood,Duran Duran etc its well know that 1984 was an unbelievable year in music, probably the best ever
Number of good song months per year 80 -7/12 81 - 5/12 82 - 8/12 83 - 11/12 84 - 12/12 * 85 - 11/12 86 - 11/12 87 - 11/12 88 - 8/12 89 - 9/12 The strongest year was 1984
The 1980's are so overrated just compare the start of the 1980's to the 1970's for instance there is no comparison at all. Just a lot of lightweight pop music in the 80's but terrible for rock with those poser hair metal bands.
Okay list. But it's clearly not based on facts. ABBA super trooper was never a number 1 anywhere,big pile of crap. Also no Duran Duran, give me a break. Or U2? . It's so funny ACDC biggest selling band of the 80s had no hit singles 😮
Super Trouper was number 1 in the UK for three weeks in late November to mid-December 1980. Duran Duran's biggest UK hits: 1981: Planet Earth #12; Girls on Film #5; My Own Way #14 1982: Hungry Like the Wolf #5; Save a Prayer For the Morning After #2; Rio #9 1983: Is There Something I Should Know? #1; Union of the Snake #3 1984: New Moon on Monday #9; The Reflex #1; Wild Boys #2 1985: A View to a Kill #2 1986: Notorious #7 1987: Skin Trade #22 1988: I Don't Want Your Love #14 1989: All She Wants Is #9 1990: Violence of Summer (Love's Taking Over) #20 1993: Ordinary World #6; Come Undone #13 U2's biggest UK Hits (up to and including 2004): 1983: New Year's Day #10; Two Hearts Beat as One #18 1984: Pride (In the Name of Love) #3 1985: The Unforgettable Fire #6 1987: With or Without You #4; I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For #6; Where the Streets Have No Name #4 1988: Desire #1; Angel of Harlem #9 1989: When Love Comes to Town [with BB King] #6; All I Want is You #4 1991: The Fly #1; Mysterious Ways #13 1992: One #6; Even Better Than the Real Thing #12 original version,#8 dance remix; Who's Going to Ride Your Wild Horses? #14 1993: Stay (Faraway So Close) #4 1995: Hold Me,Thrill Me,Kiss Me,Kill Me #2 1997: Discotheque #1; Staring at the Sun #3; Last Night on Earth #10; Please #7; If God Will Send His Angels #12 1998: The Sweetest Thing #3 2000: Beautiful Day #1 2001: Stuck in a Moment You Can't Get Out Of #2; Elevation #3; Walk On #5 2002: Electrical Storm #5 2004: Vertigo #1 ACDC had tons of hits in the UK,but incredibly not one broke into the top 10 (a few came near).
ABBA’s "Super Trouper" song was a #1 song in 7 countries including the UK. It was also a #1 song in the US Billboard Dance Club Songs. The "Super Trouper" album was the best-selling album of 1980 in the UK. AC/DC NEVER had a #1 song in both the UK and the US. The best they ever did was one TOP 10 (#4) song in the UK in 2012.
Yes you got me there, I hate that song so much. However this is meant to be U S number ones . It was not the best selling song there. On the top 40 pop charts. That's the chart that matters. @@lo_souza
@@rjjcms1 yeh I know ACDC never had top 20 hits. But this is meant to be based on U.S charts as I understand. That's the title. So both U2 and Duran Duran had number ones. Also the biggest per month doesn't make much sense. The chart is weekly after all.
@@matthewashman1406 From the description of their videos: "The tunes selected for this video are the ones that reached #1 or at least ranked higher in more countries than other hits in the same month" "It's not about the US or the UK. It's a mix of many countries and none in particular."
This list is so wrong West end boys for a start was number one in January 1986 And the fact there's no duran duran,simple minds,u2,Adam and the ants go to show who ever made this shit list Are clueless
If you watch the companion video to this, The Second Most Popular Song Each Month in the 80's, you'll see a lot of Duran Duran.
They had two UK number 1s,Is There Something I Should Know? in 1983 and The Reflex in 1984,plus a host of other very big hits,but they just missed the cut in this video somehow.
@@rjjcms1 The US lists and other countries probably lowered them. One thing I've learned watching these is how popular ABBA was in europe, they weren't that popular in the US my mom who grew up through the 70s as a teen only ever heard dancing queen, that was their one big hit in the US. But they appeared in the 70s vid and this one over 10 times I think. If it was US top ten only they probably only would've shown once.
It's clearly not only a US list, otherwise F.R. David wouldn't be on this list. Totally unknown there, but it was a big hit for months in my native Germany for example. Also the Pet Shop Boys wouldn't be on the list if it were a US only list. I think it's definitely a worldwide list, but I'm not sure about the exact metrics.
@@loveroftrueandlastingpeace It certainly could be a worldwide list. I think you're most likely right about that, although The Pet Shop Boys were extremely big here in the US during the 80's. You couldn't turn on a radio for a good while without hearing West End Girls playing.
@stephaniebedworth2470 Thank you for the information!
For me, it's between 83 and 87. But the whole decade was absolutely amazing! I miss those times. Great video 😊
American here: I was raised on 80s music, my FAVE genre was British Pop. Not sure how old you guys are but I have a feeling you have heard of my fave band BROS - they never made it here. They covered my walls, I had VINYL, Cassette and CD versions of the albums. This is before internet/streaming/viral global songs so I had to go to record stores and look for them in the ‘international’ section. I also bought the UK version of “Smash hits” too keep up the the “gossip” on my faves across the pond! GREAT reaction - thank for the trip down my memories
The younger of the two said he’s born in 1982 and the other one said he’s 18 years older I believe.
Ah yes smash hits!!! Great info and thanks for the comment :) x
Bros burst on the scene with When Will I Be Famous? in very early 1988 and were huge that year,scoring three number 2s and a number 1 with I Owe You Nothing which they got me to sing in a pub karaoke once for a joke. One of my best friends in the 90s was a Brossette,and she even tried that stealing the badges off cars that became a craze (didn't Beastie Boys fans also do that? Which one was the Volkswagen badges?) Bros kind of imploded in the early 90s as the Goss brothers went their seperate ways pursing solo careers.
That makes me roughly the same age as the older one!
Neil Tennant of Pet Shop Boys was an editor of Smash Hits, before PSB.
Wow thx for the trip down memory lane thoroughly enjoyed this!
What a decade for music! I enjoyed that cheers all!
I'm behind the times but congrats on 100k!
Some of this was still playing in the 90's. I grew up on them. But the 90's is still just as good. I forgot the 2000's had some good ones too.
The 90's was the last decade of good music, IMO.
@@Every_Day_islike_SundayWell if one can call it real music, then yes it was the 90's.
@AC-ni4gt agreed. "Real" is kinda what i meant. But it was really good, too. I loved the 90's. It was a special time.
What the heck happened?
"Batdance? I don't remember that"
Good! For the love of Prince, let's all forget it
Exactly. I remember it topped the charts here in NZ. I was like WTH is this? Only because the hype of the movie and Prince performed it. But it was a really weird composition of a song? Why it was a single, have no idea? Should have stayed on the big screen in the background. Lol 🤭
Ah, high school and college - awesome music, good times.
This was such fun. I love nastalgia. You guys do such awesome stuff. Thank you and greetings from new york.u.s.
I'm right in between you two lol Born in 1971 and graduated high school in 1989. Actually graduated with Snoop Dogg at Poly High School and Cameron Diaz was a year behind us. Don't let this fool you about Duran Duran and others. They were massive over here--in about mid-80s. As was Yaz with Alison Moyet. I'm shocked so many didn't make the list--Billy Idol, The Smiths, Siouxie and the Banshees, New Order, Depeche Mode.. the list goes on and on. MASSIVE over here with the second invasion of the Brits.
80s is on a different level
thanks guys...everybody tells me i loved the 80's...
Lived during this decade remember every song loved nearly all of them The only competition the 80s has are the 60s and 70s but 80s win imo
Early 80's discos were still going because I worked at one.
The 80's were when I still had my favorite Rock and Pop artists but I was spending more time listening to Country. I've always had very diverse music tastes thanks to my mom, grandparents and great-grandparents. Growing up in the 60's and 70's when we didn't really care about genre if it was good music only helped in that area.
The Dancing in the Street with Bowie and Jagger video was filmed in early hours before the Live Aid concert on July 13, 1985. They finished filming at like 7AM the same day as the mega concert. I watching the people talking about the video and how it was finished earlier that day.
I was at my dad's house visiting him in New Jersey. I was also not that far from Philadelphia, the American concert site. I loved that concert. Phil Collins played at London and then jumped on the Concord to play in Philly hours later.
Love you all
Thank you 😊
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3 of them I did not know. 😮
The entire decade was epic
I got my drivers lisense may 1988, and the song could not fit more perfectly....... That said I met the girl of my life in 1986, and she is sitting beside me now, watching English fotball 😊. My wife, best friend, soul mate, and the mother of our son. ❤
I was such a music lover in the 80's, lost it totally for a long time until covid. Started to REALLY listen to music again, and fell HARD for Auroras magic.
1983 is unbeatable, banger after banger.
Great list of songs. I am still a child of the 60s and 70s and those songs will always remain my favorite. But the 80s had some great songs too. It was difficult to pick one year because there were individual songs in each one that I liked. But I think 1985 came the closest for me. Thanks for a great reaction guys.- Hawk
Duran Duran are in "The second most popular songs in the '80s" video.
I remember all of these, but I am Gen X 😂😂
Glad I'm an 80s kid! The 80s were a great time to grow up! Being teenager in the 80s was the best!
I was a teenager from October 1979 until October 1984. Lucky me.
Some of these songs came off the end of the disco era.Rap/hip hop was finding its footing.
The first rap song to be a hit in the UK was Rappers' Delight by the Sugar Hill Gang,which crashed into the charts right at the end of 1979,reaching number 3 just before Christmas. The next big one seemed to be The Message by Grand Master Flash & the Furious Five in August/September 1982. There was also The Crown by the Gary Byrd Experience in the mid-summer of 1983,but plenty of others soon coming along. The first time I heard the term hip hop was referring to Afrika Bambaata's music in late 1981.
Joe Dolce`s claim to fame is the he kept Ultravox with Vienna off the No1 spot.
Love the system you have. Stop every year to compare
i've watched a load of peeps react to this particular video, and no one has recognised the show that "come on eileen" was played on! the saturday morning show "number 73" and sandy toksvig bopping so hard her headphones come off
83 had the "dark trilogy" of songs, all in a row too!
the collabs with paul mccartney were just freaking epicness
okay chump ... BATDANCE ... john peel gave this a rave review, calling it unique in it's sampling
almost all the british hits were smashes earlier in the UK, west end girls was the christmas number 1 in december 1985
1986 is my year, although the years around it were unbelievable!
oh yeah, 1989 was when house music began ...
If Tiffany swung your choice for 87, then there really is no hope for you. Lol
lol.... come on bob!.. we saw you dancing! lol
@@BritPopsReact Sussed Rofl.
The 60s were great too!
The prince Batdance was from Tim Burtons Batman movie soundtrack
I loved it you guys! React to the 90's also and 00's please 😊❤
Who can choose? Everything between 1983-1987 is outstanding. You could make a case for any of those years along with 1980.
Agreed,and 1981 and 1982 both scrub up better than this video would suggest.
In early 1981 they could have put Vienna by Ultravox in for Joe Dolce,and In the Air Tonight by Phil Collins just before that. Romeo and Juliet by Dire Straits was a fine song from then,and it also had Fade to Grey by Visage,early Spandau Ballet hits and Duran Duran's debut hit Planet Earth as the New Romantic era started to take hold,as well as Once in a Lifetime by the Talking Heads. Rainbow hit big with I Surrender and Blondie were back again with Rapture.
As winter gave way to spring Roxy Music scored a number 1 with their version of John Lennon's Jealous Guy,Teardrop Explodes had a big hit with Reward and Kim Wilde reached number 2 with her debut Kids in America. Stevie Wonder had a big hit with Lately. Shaky had a gigantic year,getting it going with This Ole House (originaly by Rosemary Clooney way back in the 50s) going to number 1. The Jacksons slow climbed it to an eventual number 6 with Can You Feel It? May kicked off with Stand and Deliver by Adam & the Ants crashing in at the top to displace the skirt-removing Eurovision antics of Bucks Fizz; Shaky was back again while Stars on 45 arrived and in its wake a slew of medley singles that became more and more annoying to anyone not dancing to them,or at least trying to,at the disco.
As we edged into early summer the Human League started to strike it big,Toyah wanted to be free and REO Speedwagon struck number 7 with Keep on Loving You. Ossie dreamed of Wembley,his knees all a-trembly,Tenpole Tudor unsheathed the Swords of a Thousand Men and Kim Wilde (Chequered Love) and Ultravox (All Stood Still) returned. High summer brought the start of Depeche-Mode's early run of hits,Hazel O'Connor asking Will You? with the aid of some fine sax playing,Odyssey on a quest going back to their roots and Elaine Paige singing the wistful Memory from the musical Cats. But as we approached the summer holiday period violence and trouble erupted on the streets as British inner cities went up in flames in that July's notorious riots,Brixton being followed by Toxteth,Moss Side,St Paul's and others. The strife was soundtracked by the Jam's Funeral Pyre,then the Specials taking over number 1 with Ghost Town and finally UB40 following their string of double A side hits with a standalone single A side,One in Ten being a lyrically dark and powerful protest song against the soaring unemployment that was scarring the recession-hit country and its disaffected,angry youth. Margaret Thatcher's government was,in characteristic fashion,steadfastly unmoved.
Then Shaky returned to the top with Green Door while Bad Manners did the Can Can,Spandau Ballet's Chant Number 1 divided opinion and Kirsty MacColl and Imagination enjoyed their first hits. Randy Crawford thought You Might Need Somebody,Stevie Wonder wished Martin Luther King a Happy Birthday.the Human League loved your Love Action and Duran Duran went crazy for those Girls on Film.
The summer drew to a close with Cliff Richard all Wired For Sound,the Rolling Stones wanting you to start them up and Orchestral Manoevres in the Dark parading the Souvenir they'd found as everyone was shunted back to school or college or their job if they still had one. Ottawan said Hands Up! and the Pointer Sisters were on the lookout for a Slow Hand but Alvin Stardust just wanted to Pretend.
The Police burst back on the scene with the gloomy-but-good,introspective Invisble Sun while Japan sought the Quiet Life,but the chance of such a things was interupted rudely by the Tweets and their Birdie Song,complete with that dance! Madness told them to Shut Up while Bad Manners went Walking in the Sunshine instead. Godly & Creme were given a spooky Victorian-esqe fright by a woman who didn't want to be Under Your Thumb any longer and Slade warned us to Lock Up Your Daughters. One of the strangest,most unconventional pieces to ever hit the upper end of the charts flew in to confuse and intrigue in equal measure as Lori Anderson's 7 minute long O Superman soared to number 2 in October. Cue debate on what it was actually about,but I always thought it was about nuclear armageddon and the four minute warning (a red-hot topic at the time at the height of the Cold War). Open Your Heart said the Human League while Toyah heard Thunder in the Mountains,Dave Stewart and Barbara Gaskin insisted that it was their party and Depeche-Mode just couldn't get enough.
The clocks went back. The Police considered everything she does to be magic. Altered Images poppet Clare Grogan from Gregory's Girl wished you a Happy Birthday. We went slightly country for a moment in a gentle fashion with Squeeze singing Labelled With Love and Elvis Costello decalring it A Good Year For the Roses. The new synth groups were having none of that as Orchestral Manoevres in the Dark brought out the first of their two songs about Joan of Arc and Soft Cell followed the enormous number 1 success of Tainted Love with a double A side from which Bedsitter got all the airplay so I don't think I ever got to hear the flip side Facility Girls. Haircut 100 burst onto the scene with Favourite Shirts (Boy Meets Girl). Olivia Newton John wanted to get Physical and Let's Groove said Earth,Wind & Fire,but the strife-torn state of the nation was summed up pretty well by the lyrics of David Bowie & Queen's number 1-hitting lament Under Pressure. Not that Julio Iglesias cared - the Spanish crooner who became a housewives' heartthrob overnight just wanted to Begin the Beguine.
As the holidays approached the country was buried under a blanket of snow that stayed thick on the ground until just before Christmas. The Human League's Don't You Want Me installed itself at the top to stay while Abba came roaring back with One of Us. Daddy's Home,reassured Cliff Richard while the Police declared us to be Spirits in a Material World. In the last action before everything stopped for the Christmas and New Year holidays,Jon & Vangelis were confident they'd find their way home,Bucks Fizz showed the nation's kids the way to The Land of Make Believe,Foreigner were patiently Waiting For a Girl Like You and for Kool & the Gang the only thing for it was to Get Down On It. The snow and ice attempted to take back over as the year ended.
Sorry,went further and further down the rabbit hole there. Can I muster the energy for a 1982 version at a bit shorter length? Should I?
The UK's number 1s in 1981:
6th January: Imagine - John Lennon 4 weeks (following his murder on 8th/9th December 1980; previously a hit in 1975)
3rd February: Woman - John Lennon 2 weeks
17th February: Shaddup Your Face - Joe Dolce 3 weeks
10th March: Jealous Guy - Roxy Music 2 weeks
24th March: This Ole House - Shakin' Stevens 3 weeks
14th April: Making Your Mind Up - Bucks Fizz 3 weeks
6th May: Stand and Deliver - Adam & the Ants 5 weeks
9th June: Being With You - Smokey Robinson 2 weeks
23rd June: One Day in Your Life - Michael Jackson 2 weeks (old single from 1970 revived)
7th July: Ghost Town - Specials 3 weeks
28th July: Green Door - Shakin' Stevens 4 weeks
25th August: Japanese Boy - Aneka 1 week
2nd September: Tainted Love - Soft Cell 2 weeks
15th September: Prince Charming - Adam & the Ants 4 weeks
13th October: It's My Party - Dave Stewart & Barbara Gaskin 4 weeks
10th November: Every Little Thing She Does is Magic - Police 1 week
17th November: Under Pressure - David Bowie & Queen 2 weeks
1st December: Begin the Beguine (Volver A Empezar) - Julio Iglesias 1 week
8th December: Don't You Want Me - Human League 5 weeks
The UK number 2s from 1981:
January: Happy Xmas (War is Over) - John Lennon and Yoko Ono with the Plastic Ono Band and the Harlem Community Choir; Ant Music - Adam & the Ants (with its unique drumming intro)
February: In the Air Tonight - Phil Collins; Vienna - Ultravox
March: Vienna by Ultravox (still stuck at number 2 for what seemed an eternity,denied by bloody Joe Dolce,etc); Kings of the Wild Frontier - Adam & the Ants; Kids in America - Kim Wilde
April: Chi Mai - Ennio Moricone
May: Stars on 45 - Starsound (Judge Dredd later released his own version called Bras on 45); You Drive Me Crazy - Shakin' Stevens
June: More Than in Love - Kate Robbins (she was a soap actress)
July: Stars on 45 Volume 2 - Satrsound
August: Happy Birthday - Stevie Wonder; Hooked on Classics - Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
September: Invisible Sun - Police
October: Birdie Song - Tweets; O Superman - Lori Anderson; Happy Birthday - Altered Images
November: Happy Birthday - Altered Images (second and third week at number 2)
December: Daddy's Home - Cliff Richard 4 weeks
Mixture of what was big on the US charts & a little bit from the UK charts (ie. Bucks Fizz, Shakin' Stevens) in the 80s.
Yes,a lot of these were at or close to the top of the UK charts in different months to the video: for example,Crazy Little Thing Called Love was at number 2 here for at least a couple of weeks in November 1979; they had their next single,Save Me,in the charts by February 1980.
Another Brick in the Wall was the Christmas number 1 from 1979 and top for half of January 1980 as well,Don't You Want Me by the Human League was Christmas number 1 in 1981 and the Pet Shop Boys' version of Always on My Mind was top of the tree at Christmas 1987,denying Fairytale of New York by the Pogues and Kirsty McColl pride of place.
My favorite decade! I was in my 20's and having a blast. I was into punk and post-punk then, but i have great memories attached to most of these songs. Except "Abracadabra." If i never hear that song again, I'll be happy. ❤❤ So much fun back then, and fun video, guys. Thanks!!
Edit - I'd like to see you do a 90's one, too.❤
Yes for sure!!
Name is a Morrissey song?
@rjjcms1 yes
@@Every_Day_islike_Sunday I thought so,I remember that one from when he'd just gone solo. I've currently been revisiting 1987,the last year that the Smiths were still together,on a slow,leisurely odyssey through the 80s from start to finish.
@rjjcms1 ahhh nice! Enjoy! Bigmouth Strikes Again is another fav of mine (Smiths). ❤️
I agree, the 80s were the best. So many classic songs didn't make this list, but shaped the whole musical landscape, like Duran Duran, Depeche Mode, the Cure, and the Smiths. 1983, 1984 and 1985 were the best, imo. After 1986 it was like the creeping beginnings of what would later be the done better by 90s music.
The 80's will always be my fave decade for music! I agree on the 83 and 87, though 1980 is very close. Human Leage's greatest hits was listened to death at my house, as well as PSB, Madonna, Phil Collins and MJ. A-Ha were right up there, too. Can't believe there was no Duran Duran or Spandau Ballet!! That's criminal!
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I know right! Criminal!
@@BritPopsReact Considering they had three UK number 1s between them in 1983-84 plus a stack of other huge hits each.
I wish we could see some proof of BP2 dancing to these.
Yep 😝
Love them all
To me the 80s had the best music and movies.
The 80's were by far the best music for so called "camp" music.
But still, the best decade indeed
83 is the best one
I vote for 1984 as the strongest year,but the video doesn't quite reflect it. So many great and famous hits in that year. 1985 was very strong too for me,especially the first half,so that gets my vote for second place.
Do the 2nd!!! The songs are even better
This list is compiled from American Billboard's Hot 100, which ranks the most popular songs each wk., from around the world, encompassing all genres. Now all you have to do is check out the '50's, '60's, & '90's, & you'll have heard the most popular songs of the 2nd 1/2 of the 20th century, when the the greatest music ever recorded was produced. Thanks for your reaction.
I'm from 1986 ❤
This and the other one are Definitely U.S most Popular! The British one Has Pink Floyd in 1979 with Another Brick and wouldn't have Call Me By Blondie as only spent 1 Week at No1 Compared to 6 in U.S but the British Does have The Tide is High by Blondie! guess what my favourite Group is? lol
I think I’m alone now by Tiffany..was a remake..and we considered it Mall pop..the song was originally released in the 1960s
The early 80s was literally a cross over to what was somewhat what we called modern music..although I liked what we called radio hits.. I really loved what was underground then..which was heavy metal
I must say that all of these songs are incredible, however I was much more of a "rock chick." I was very much into the 80's metal and hair bands. I listened to Metallica, Guns n Roses, Ratt, Poison, Lita Ford, Ozzy Osbourne, Warrant (and the list goes on....) Unfortunately, very few of those bands had number one radio hits. They may have had songs that made it to the top 20, but not to the number one spot. Not that it mattered to me. I always listened to what I liked, regardless of how "popular" it was or its position on the charts.
Biggest rock songs month-by-month in the UK singles chart in the 80s:
1980
January: tricky month to start with as no rock songs at all in the Top 30,so I'll have to go for Young Blood by UFO and Mama's Boy by Suzi Quatro; not technically rock London Calling by the Clash was in there
February: Save Me - Queen; Jane - Jefferson Starship (absolute banger IMO); Touch Too Much - ACDC (right when Bon Scott died)
March: Running Free - Iron Maiden; All Night Long - Rainbow (banging rock track with somewhat sexist lyrics); Spirit of the Radio - Rush
April: Turn it on Again - Genesis (technically prog); Living After Midnight - Judas Priest; My Oh My - Sad Cafe (I guess that qualifies,sounds like they're trying to impersonate the Roling Stones); Toccata - Skyy (classic music gets the rock treatment,kind of - if you see the video,look out for the drummer); Wheels of Steel - Saxon
May: Golden Years EP (lead track Leaving Here) - Motorhead; Fool For Your Loving - Whitesnake
June: Sanctuary - Iron Maiden; Breaking the Law - Judas Priest
July: Play the Game - Queen; Chinatown - Thin Lizzy; 747 (Strangers in the Night) - Saxon; Whole Lotta Rosie - ACDC; does Emotional Rescue by the Rolling Stones count?; Neon Knights - Black Sabbath
August: does Ashes to Ashes by David Bowie count?
September: United - Judas Priest; Another One Bites the Dust - Queen; You Shook Me All Night Long - ACDC
October: Killer on the Loose - Thin Lizzy; Trouble - Gillan; What You're Proposing - Status Quo
November: Ace of Spades - Motorhead; does Fashion by David Bowie qualify?
December: Rock 'n' Roll Ain't Noise Pollution - ACDC; more a modernised rock 'n' roll/rockabilly one but Runaway Boys - Stray Cats
@@rjjcms1 ahhh ... Thanks so much for this!! 😊
@@jenniferrichardson8474 Glad you like it. Tell me if you want any more of them from the other years.
@@jenniferrichardson8474 Here's one for 1981 anyway (there are a lot I've left off because they are classed as New Wave or synth pop or even New Romantic,even if elements of them are close to rock):
Couple that I actually missed from December 1980 (it was getting late and I was getting a little tired) but were still there in January 1981: Lies/Don't Drive My Car - Status Quo; Flash - Queen
January: Scary Monsters and Super Creeps - David Bowie
February: does In the Air Tonight by Phil Collins count?; or Romeo and Juliet by Dire Straits?; We'll Bring the House Down - Slade; I Surrender - Rainbow; St Valentine's Day Massacre EP (lead track Please Don't Touch) - Motorhead & Headgirl a.k.a. Girlschool
March: Something About You Baby I Like - Status Quo; does Roxy Music's version of John Lennon's Jealous Guy count? could have added their 1980 hits Over You,Oh Yeah and Same Old Scene; You Better You Bet - the Who (with Kenny Jones filling in for the late Keith Moon on drums - not quite the same!); Vital Signs - Rush
April: Skateaway - Dire Straits (had this single,quite liked the B side Solid Rock too); Night Games - Graham Bonnet; And the Bands Played On - Saxon; New Orleans - Gillan
May: Don't Break My Heart Again - Whitesnake (nice guitar solo!); Keep on Loving You - REO Speedwagon; Killers Live EP (lead track Bad Reputation) - Thin Lizzy
June: The River - Bruce Springsteen
July: Motorhead (Live) - Motorhead; Can't Happen Here - Rainbow; Never Surrender - Saxon
August: Take it on the Run - REO Speedwagon (at one place I worked at several guys used to cheerily sing songs they'd heard on the radio with naughtily adapted lyrics - I cannot but still hear "take it up the bum,girl" whenever I think of this song); Fire - U2
September: Hold on Tight - Electric Light Orchestra; Abacab - Genesis; Start Me Up - Rolling Stones
October: Lock Up Your Daughters - Slade
November: Twilight - Electric Orchestra; Keep it Dark - Genesis; Tom Sawyer - Rush; Under Pressure - Queens & David Bowie
December: Rock 'n' Roll - Status Quo; should Spirits in the Material World by the Police be included? in that case their other hits from the last third of the year,Invisible Sun and Every Little Thing She Does is Magic as well?; should I'll Find My Way Home by Jon [Anderson from Yes] & Vangelis be included as well even though it's a synth track?; Waiting For a Girl Like You - Foreigner
A few gems here,but I think that rock-wise 1980's list is overall much stronger.
@@jenniferrichardson8474 Three songs I left off the 1980 list by accident,if you're interested: Another Brick in the Wall by Pink Floyd,which was in this video anyway; I Hear You Now by Jon [Anderson from Yes] & Vangelis - all keyboards and drums percussion but so dreamy to just relax and drift off to (mid-January - February); Games Without Frontiers by Peter Gabriel (March)
Careless Whisper was still by Wham!, not just George Michael. Both it and the previous entry (Wake Me Up…) are from the same album (Make it Big).
This list is definitely not a USA exclusive chart. For instance Shaddap You Face was 53 on the US Billboard chart but it charted number 1 in a handful of other countries. There are lots of other songs on this list that are the same. My guess is that it's a UK chart listing.
It's not quite that either,because some of these were hits in completely different months in the UK,sometimes by 3,4,5 or even 6 months (Don't You Want Me by the Human League) difference. My guess is that it's an aggregation of Billboard,the UK and European charts,plus maybe Australia,New Zealand and one or two others if the data was available to them.
WOW! That Jan 1980 Michael Jackson song is 45 this year.
Third song to be released as a single from the Off the Wall album,after Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough and the title track.
The 80's ...... That is about 25 years ago.... Max!! 😮 I feel so bad for the music industry..... They used up all the best music in the 80's!
Heard Heaven / Brian Adams Live not long ago. So fantastic!
Run to You,which he had out as a single at the end of 1984 and earliest bit of 1985 and became his first UK hit,was ace.
@rjjcms1 yes, greate song. Summer of 69 also....
@@RunarNyrud Yep,that's a great one too. One of my other favourite songs of his is one that goes under the radar a bit despite being,deservedly IMO,a top 20 hit. Even he could not have expected his song from that Robin Hood movie,Everything I Do (I Do it For You) to turn into such a gargantuan success as it straddled the charts like a behemoth through the entire summer of 1991. So it was that he had his next single,Can't Stop This Thing We Started,all cued up for release at the tail end of the summer. I always enjoyed that one as a jolly,rousing upbeat rocker of a tune,but when it peaked at number 12 late that September the ubiquitous ballad from the Robin Hood was on the 13th week of its record-breaking 16-week overlordship of the number 1 spot.
1983 was the best year.
yes. 83 for sure.
1984 best year
Top Culture also has videos for the 2nd most popular song for each month. You should do a reaction to those videos as well. Some of the songs you expected to see in this video but didn't will no doubt be in those. Also the channel Kajillion Views has videos for all the #1 songs of each decade. I believe those are specific to the American charts, but I feel you'd get a better representation of each year watching those videos. ua-cam.com/video/0FINsuWDNGA/v-deo.html
Hi, i reckon check out the most popular songs each month of the 50's, 60's, 90's, 2000's and 2010's too.
I've seen a few of these reactions but no one has mentioned the criteria. Is it #1 hit of the month? Top sales? Played most often on radio?
Assuming this is all USA related (as it always is - they are the only country on Earth)
This must be an American or European chart. The Human League were Number 1 in December 81, it certainly wasn't in our charts in the middle of 1982.
Totally. It crashed in at number 9 on the first day of December and went straight to number 1 from there,through Christmas and on well past the end of the year. I think it was between that and Soft Cell's Tainted Love for biggest selling single of the year. If you were born in 1964 like me,you must remember all the snow we had that month (plus some more in the earliest weeks of 1982). I was at college at the time.
@@rjjcms1 I do. I was working but we finished at lunchtime because everybody was staying home.
@@1964paulsmith Yep. For the last week of term at college I took to walking there in Wellington boots and got ridiculed by the fashion police for it. It's a bit hazy for me to remember precisely now but I think we had a few early finishes or unscheduled free periods then too.
@@1964paulsmith Andrew Ridgeley from Wham! attended the college I went to,but in the year before I started there. George used to show up there once in a while,apparently,with them being close friends.
@ That's better than my school story lol. In the first year of secondary school I sat next to Gary Glitters son, and years before, my dad was in the same class as him. Not a great one to have in the locker.
I'm surprised Thriller wasn't on the list
It's one of MJ's signature songs now but back then it wasn't a big charting hit probably because by the time it was released as single every man and his dog had already heard the song 1000 times.
@@veddyveddygood It went top 10 in the winter of 1983-84 and stuck around for a long time,but surprisngly for such a famous song it didn't trouble the highest reaches of the chart.
85 best year and queen is the best band
70s wee US songs and there were Brits singes and groups. But they were big in the 70s in the US. And Abba is Swedish and were huge in US. So they were right in Video. The video was not biggest acts in the 70s but, biggest songs. There is a difference.
My order:
1983, 1984, 1985, 1982, 1981, 1987, 1980, 1986, 1989, 1988
Nicely done Barney!.... you went the extra mile! Nice job!
I don’t know how we competed against the British back then? They just had too much talent. Beatles , Stones, Zep, Sabbath , Police, Floyd. Tap out, you guys won
1983 is the best imo
Loved the 80s songs. Too bad some of ZZ Tops was not on her like Legs. But, loved seeing Tears for Fears and Pet Shop Boys.
wished they had Bananarama's Cruel Summer.
But, there were alot of good ones.
This must have been us charts as dates are wrong
Two big songs that should definitely be on this list. Band Aid,do they know it's Christmas, and Thriller Michael Jackson .
The 2nd most popular song is better. Also as you are from the uk you should react to every uk number 1 of the 60s 70s 80s and 90s.
Not enough metal in the decade.
Helluva lot more than this video would indicate,but yes you can never have enough.
1987 for me
88 was the least impressive to me. Loved the 83-87 ones the most.
Wrong = being a teenager in 70s was much better
Is the list from the American pop charts, because I was under the impression it was American pop charts?
Don't think so. Some songs and bands were totally unfamiliar to me as an American. I was n the late 20s/early 30s in the 1980s.
A combo of US and UK charts - but alot of the songs were hits in both countries.
No True, Spandau Ballet??
Surprising,as it was number 1 for four weeks in the UK in April and May 1983.
@rjjcms1 YES it was
90's
Your whistle stop tour is insufficient at best..I lived it there is so much more
1983
This is nonsense dates are all wrong for instance careless whisper was July 84 and where was Frankie goes to Hollywood,Duran Duran etc its well know that 1984 was an unbelievable year in music, probably the best ever
Do you guys realize that the 1980s was the new British Invasion..not since atheist Beatles..most of what you are reacting to was British
Number of good song months per year
80 -7/12
81 - 5/12
82 - 8/12
83 - 11/12
84 - 12/12 *
85 - 11/12
86 - 11/12
87 - 11/12
88 - 8/12
89 - 9/12
The strongest year was 1984
Well there was me thinking that someone went by order and then you come along with a month breakdown!!!... thats legendary Timpossibleone!....
The 1980's are so overrated just compare the start of the 1980's to the 1970's for instance there is no comparison at all. Just a lot of lightweight pop music in the 80's but terrible for rock with those poser hair metal bands.
The 80s was M mostly CHICK songs..
Was crappier tyan 70s and 90s even worse
Music is gets wirse as time goes by
This is the most popular songs in England each month that year guys F.Y.I.
Forget rap total garbage
Okay list. But it's clearly not based on facts. ABBA super trooper was never a number 1 anywhere,big pile of crap. Also no Duran Duran, give me a break. Or U2? . It's so funny ACDC biggest selling band of the 80s had no hit singles 😮
Super Trouper was number 1 in the UK for three weeks in late November to mid-December 1980.
Duran Duran's biggest UK hits:
1981: Planet Earth #12; Girls on Film #5; My Own Way #14
1982: Hungry Like the Wolf #5; Save a Prayer For the Morning After #2; Rio #9
1983: Is There Something I Should Know? #1; Union of the Snake #3
1984: New Moon on Monday #9; The Reflex #1; Wild Boys #2
1985: A View to a Kill #2
1986: Notorious #7
1987: Skin Trade #22
1988: I Don't Want Your Love #14
1989: All She Wants Is #9
1990: Violence of Summer (Love's Taking Over) #20
1993: Ordinary World #6; Come Undone #13
U2's biggest UK Hits (up to and including 2004):
1983: New Year's Day #10; Two Hearts Beat as One #18
1984: Pride (In the Name of Love) #3
1985: The Unforgettable Fire #6
1987: With or Without You #4; I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For #6; Where the Streets Have No Name #4
1988: Desire #1; Angel of Harlem #9
1989: When Love Comes to Town [with BB King] #6; All I Want is You #4
1991: The Fly #1; Mysterious Ways #13
1992: One #6; Even Better Than the Real Thing #12 original version,#8 dance remix; Who's Going to Ride Your Wild Horses? #14
1993: Stay (Faraway So Close) #4
1995: Hold Me,Thrill Me,Kiss Me,Kill Me #2
1997: Discotheque #1; Staring at the Sun #3; Last Night on Earth #10; Please #7; If God Will Send His Angels #12
1998: The Sweetest Thing #3
2000: Beautiful Day #1
2001: Stuck in a Moment You Can't Get Out Of #2; Elevation #3; Walk On #5
2002: Electrical Storm #5
2004: Vertigo #1
ACDC had tons of hits in the UK,but incredibly not one broke into the top 10 (a few came near).
ABBA’s "Super Trouper" song was a #1 song in 7 countries including the UK. It was also a #1 song in the US Billboard Dance Club Songs. The "Super Trouper" album was the best-selling album of 1980 in the UK.
AC/DC NEVER had a #1 song in both the UK and the US. The best they ever did was one TOP 10 (#4) song in the UK in 2012.
Yes you got me there, I hate that song so much. However this is meant to be U S number ones . It was not the best selling song there. On the top 40 pop charts. That's the chart that matters. @@lo_souza
@@rjjcms1 yeh I know ACDC never had top 20 hits. But this is meant to be based on U.S charts as I understand. That's the title. So both U2 and Duran Duran had number ones. Also the biggest per month doesn't make much sense. The chart is weekly after all.
@@matthewashman1406 From the description of their videos:
"The tunes selected for this video are the ones that reached #1 or at least ranked higher in more countries than other hits in the same month"
"It's not about the US or the UK. It's a mix of many countries and none in particular."
Well for a start toto rosana wasn't even a top ten in the uk
So this must be American charts
This list is so wrong
West end boys for a start was number one in January 1986
And the fact there's no duran duran,simple minds,u2,Adam and the ants go to show who ever made this shit list Are clueless
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