The year in music
Best Songs of 1980
AC/DC’s “Back in Black”, Queen’s “Another One Bites the Dust”, Joy Division’s “Love Will Tear Us Apart”, Blondie’s “Call Me”. John Lennon is killed in New York.
Play 1980
58 songs
Another One Bites the Dust
Queen
Save Me
Queen
Ashes to Ashes
David Bowie
9 to 5
Dolly Parton
Magic
Olivia Newton-John
Suddenly
Olivia Newton-John
Xanadu
Olivia Newton-John
Back in Black
AC/DC
Super Trouper
ABBA
The Winner Takes It All
ABBA
You Shook Me All Night Long
AC/DC
Give Me the Night
George Benson
Moody's Mood
George Benson
Off Broadway
George Benson
Could You Be Loved
Bob Marley & The Wailers
Redemption Song
Bob Marley & The Wailers
Any Way You Want It
Journey
Breaking the Law
Judas Priest
Don't Stand So Close to Me
The Police
It's Still Rock and Roll to Me
Billy Joel
Living After Midnight
Judas Priest
Once in a Lifetime
Talking Heads
Romeo and Juliet
Dire Straits
Spirit of Radio
Rush
A Forest
The Cure
Ace of Spades
Motörhead
Call Me
Blondie
Crazy Train
Ozzy Osbourne
Freedom
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five
Holiday in Cambodia
Dead Kennedys
I Die: You Die
Gary Numan
My Perfect Cousin
The Undertones
Police Truck
Dead Kennedys
Rapture
Blondie
We Are Glass
Gary Numan
When You Were Mine
Prince
Fade to Grey
Visage
I’m Coming Out
Diana Ross
Mind of a Toy
Visage
Upside Down
Diana Ross
Visage
Visage
Atmosphere
Joy Division
Love Will Tear Us Apart
Joy Division
Down Under
Men at Work
Enola Gay
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark
Going Underground
The Jam
That’s Entertainment
The Jam
The Breaks
Kurtis Blow
Winelight
Grover Washington Jr.
Bad Reputation
Joan Jett
He Stopped Loving Her Today
George Jones
I’m Ready
Kano
Jessie's Girl
Rick Springfield
Just the Two of Us
Bill Withers & Grover Washington Jr.
Keep On Loving You
REO Speedwagon
Underpass
John Foxx
Vienna
Ultravox
We Got the Beat
The Go-Go's
1980 on Music By Decade
The catalogue holds 58 songs first released in 1980. Rock, New Wave and Pop lead the year. George Benson, Olivia Newton-John and Visage are among the voices of 1980.
Artists of 1980
- George Benson3
- Olivia Newton-John3
- Visage3
- ABBA2
- AC/DC2
- Blondie2
- Bob Marley & The Wailers2
- Dead Kennedys2
- Diana Ross2
- Gary Numan2
- Joy Division2
- Judas Priest2
- Queen2
- The Jam2
- Bill Withers & Grover Washington Jr.
- Billy Joel
- David Bowie
- Dire Straits
- Dolly Parton
- George Jones
- Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five
- Grover Washington Jr.
- Joan Jett
- John Foxx
The sound of 1980
- Rock80s
- New Wave80s
- Pop80s
- Synth-Pop80s
- Hard Rock80s
- Jazz80s
- Punk Rock80s
- Soft Rock80s
- Classic Rock80s
- Post-Punk80s