The 1980s are a rich text of classic songs that topped the Billboard charts and shaped culture along the way. Stacker ranked the top 25 hits of the '80s based on their overall popularity.

The best 80s songs do more than trigger nostalgia, they still light up dance floors, karaoke nights, and streaming playlists. These ten tracks keep hitting because their hooks, stories, and cultural ...

The 1980s were packed with iconic films, and many of them feature songs that defined the decade. Some were previously released records that played during a particular point in the film and created an ...

Did you ever dig deep enough to find out the second best songs of certain one-hit wonder bands? Well, we did and in this feature you'll find that some of the '80s and '90s biggest one-hit wonder acts ...

Stacker scoured Billboard charts from the '80s and chose 25 of the top bands whose music became the soundtrack of the decade.

Paul McCartney began the ’80s in much the same position as he’d entered the ’70s: He released a home-recorded solo album after a blockbuster band had broken up. Wings had been the portrait of pop-rock ...

One of the cool things about R&B is hearing how the sound seems to constantly change from the previous decade. The 1980s was no different. It was an era that was moving away from the disco sound of ...

Picture this: It's December. You turn on your car radio. The first few synth-pop notes of "Last Christmas" by Wham! start playing. What do you do? Why, you turn the volume up and you sing every single ...

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