In this sidebar to our Greatest Pop Stars by Year article series, we look at how Phil Collins showed how a different sort of ...

Nonetheless, people loved it, as it peaked at No. 1 for four weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1983. Furthermore, Billboard ...

Rick Rubin became famous in the ’80s as the producer of some of the greatest hip-hop ... "With black music, it's either in the grooves or it's not in the grooves. If it is, you have hits and, if not, ...

So what could possibly rank higher on our list? 1. A-Ha ... “Take on Me” became one of the ‘80s most recognizable hits. Meanwhile, the music video remains a landmark piece of pop culture ...

While '80s sci-fi and '80s horror are distinctly beloved ... Porky's might not win over modern viewers, but its role in ...

Luther Vandross posthumously returns to the Billboard charts with his cover of The Beatles' "Michelle," which has become a ...

There was a lot of wonderful music released Down Under in the ‘80s, and it’s hard to say why some of it didn’t break through. Many of the songs that were hits, both major and minor ...

Ratt's debut album Out of the Cellar reaches Billboard's Top Album Sales chart for the first time, 40 years after it was first released.

All of the artists on our list of Rock's Greatest '70s to '80s Reinventions made changes at the dawn of a new decade. Some of them were already in the midst of an evolution, and they simply ...

Billboard counts down the best country acts of the past (almost) 100 years. Ever since Ralph Peer held his famous recording ...

In this sidebar to our Greatest Pop Stars by Year article series, we look at the greatest pop stars to never be officially ...

Occasionally, visionary pieces of work like The Shining, Amadeus, or Come and See appeared without adhering to common 80s tropes, but anomalies like those are not what this list is about.