Thanks for posting. lots of memories of simpler times growing up where your only worry was if it would be raining and you wouldn't be able to go out and play. :-)
The best decade for music ever, stuff I listen to every day on my playlist. When music was music and lyrics actually meant something. Somehow it seemed like a simpler time and I wish I could go back there and relive it all.
Something curious is that you think of a number 2 as "only" can you imagine having the second most listened to song in an entire country? a number 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, all of those are hits
Brings back tons of memories of the furor over *"Relax".* You bought it because it was wickedly brilliant, you bought because it was banned. *And you bought the t-shirt too!!* Thanks for posting! ꜰʀᴀɴᴋɪᴇ ꜱᴀʏ ʀᴇʟᴀx!
Julie McNamee I started high school in 1980 and graduated from university in 1989. These songs, minus the few that didn't make it to the US, bring back so many memories of a decade where I went from a kid to an adult. It's funny how hearing a song can make you remember something or feel something from the past.
Funny how songs can take you back I got to know most of these songs from my cousin who was a dj and had a mobile disco id help him load the decks up and blast these tunes out . Thanks for uploading these must have took you hours or days to compile this lot.
With the exception of We Are The World, You'll Never Walk Alone, Dancing In The Street, and The Chicken Song Part 2 was full of great songs. Wham should have been called "George Michael and the other guy". Madonna was better in the early years. Miss the great Ms. Houston. The Pet Shop Boys really made some great music. SAW was beginning their domination of the charts. Loved Mel and Kim. Yes Part 2 was great!!
Geils Sila SAW stands for Stock Aitkin and Waterman who were a trio of music producers who dominated the charts in the late 1980s. Just Google them and find out more.
I remember 1985 specifically for one reason:- three songs called the power of love. by Frankie goes to hollywood, Jennifer Rush, and Huey Lewis and the news. where was the latter?
Great to hear when new musical styles come in, for example "Jack your Body" and "Don't you want me Baby" with the techno and new romantic trends respectively.
@cockneybaserd Excellent 80's Compilation that's coming from someone from the USA and actually Lived through the 80's. It sure doesn't get much Better than this.
I'm stunned by the Michael Jackson songs that ended up being big hits in the UK. Like, I figured everyone and their mothers bought the singles for "Won't Stop 'Til You Get Enough", "Rock With You", "Thriller", "Beat It", "Bad", "The Way You Make Me Feel", and "Dirty Diana" (which made my life hell as a little girl named Diana in grade school). Also, I'm terribly sorry y'all had to endure "We Are the World"; y'all released this utter fucking masterpiece in "Do They Know it's Christmas?" and that should've been THE ONLY charity single for African famine relief. Also, GO GET THAT BREAD MY DURAN DURAN BOYS! ANOTHER #1 AND THIS ONE ALSO MADE IT TO THE TOP OVER HERE! Edit: Ok, I found a video highlighting the #1s here in the US in 1985, and I'm sorry, but the US list OWNS the UK #1 list from the same year. I mean, all those Wham! hits and y'all miss out on their most passionate song, "Everything She Wants"? And no Tears for Fears? Scotland's Simple Minds don't even get a look in on the UK charts? Y'all don't even know what you missed out on with Mr. Mister's "Broken Wings". Oh, and A VIEW TO A FUCKING KILL HIT #1 HERE YO.
Have you listened to do they know it's Christmas lately? We are the world is bad, no shocker there, but my god is dtkic is condescending as hell, the only charity song worth remembering is Sun City
I thought We Are the World was a sappy song,too. Everything She Wants was a double A side single with Last Christmas that would have been an enormous number 1 here - had it not been released the very same week as Band Aid! Tears For Fears made number 4 with Shout and number 2 with Everybody Wants to Rule the World,not to mention other Top 5 hits with Mad World,Change,Pale Shelter and later Sowing the Seeds of Love. Simple Minds were regular visitors to the hit parade too,though only getting to number 7 with both Don't You Forget About Me and Alive and Kicking does rather do trhem down a bit. Broken Wings by Mr Mister made number 4 here in the earliest weeks of 1986,and Kyrie was a hit here too straight after that.
At first I was sad reliving the music of my youth... then I cheered considerably thinking of how, in 30 years, the poor bastards get to reminisce with Miley Cyrus and Justin Bieber.
Yeah, some flashback hits I can't understand, but that one I absolutely can. (Stand by Me, the film adaptation of the Stephen King novel, being so popular at the time.) Speaking of flashbacks, I am overjoyed to see Los Lobos's cover of "La Bamba" hit #1 in the UK! That song meant so much to me as a Chicana in the U.S. because it was my first experience with seeing a massive hit song sung in the language of mi gente, and it happened to be a cover of one of the most popular traditional songs from my family's home country of Mexico (that was first made popular by fellow Chicano Richie Valens)!
They got to number 1 in the US - and pretty much everywhere else - with Shout and Everybody Wants To Rule The World but sadly never managed top spot in UK
@@78bullseye That really fucking sucks, because TFF deserved those #1s far more than a lot of the artists on this compilation! Also, the '80s wouldn't be the '80s without "Shout" and "Everybody Wants to Rule the World", and this list feels incomplete with their omission.
@@kostajovanovic3711 They had 7 top 10 hits, they were much more popular than many of those who appear in this video, making a number 1 is not everything!
Red Red Wine Do They Know It's Christma? Karma Chameleon Take My Breath Away Careless Whisper China In Your Hand Merry Christmas Everyone Heaven Is A Place On Earth
Not sure how Michael Jackson's 'I Just Can't Stop Loving You' could have become number one on that date, I happen to know that 15/08/87 was a Saturday.
+billy porter It's because those dates are all "week ending" dates,i.e chart for the week ending 15/8/87. The date the chart was actually first aired was 11/8/87,the previous Tuesday. Up until September 1987 the new chart was revealed by Radio 1 at lunchtime on a Tuesday (Wednesday if immediately after a Bank Holiday),with repeat rundowns on Radio 1 at 6 o'clock that evening and the breakfast show the next morning,plus also on Top of the Pops on Thursday evening. The Sunday rundown was the chart first revealed the previous Tuesday,so in the case when the Michael Jackson song first got to number 1,on 16/8/87. From late September 1987 advances in technology meant that the new chart could be revealed two days earlier,i.e, in the Sunday rundown,but the official dates always shown continued to be the "week ending" date,i.e. 6 days later. If all that makes any sense!
Without a doubt you can see the 80's music going down hill once Stock Aitken and Waterman get a foothold. They totally screwed it up with their cheap maufactured crap.
In the US, absolutely. In the US their big #1s were "The Reflex" and AVTAK; in the UK it was "The Reflex" and ITSISK? ("Is There Something I Should Know?"), which was a lesser hit in America. I'm not sure if there were any Bond theme songs that hit #1 in the UK, but so far AVTAK is the only Bond theme to hit #1 in the US.
In my opinion It changed towards the end of 86. Stock Aitken & Waterman began to appear, and dominated through 87 along with all the other heavily produced stuff then followed by Acid House in 88 and other dance music in 89 - and that was that, next thing you know it was 1990! First half of the 80s was definitely musically better than the second.
@@Kagy777 The Pet Shop Boys were very innovative in the late 80's, they recaptured the early synth of the early 80's like New Order's Blue Monday. The Yuppy pop was pretty naff, although its not as bad as the shite auto tuned bands and artists today, even the SAW stuff is better than the X factor garbage. There is no diversity anymore, its all looks and no talent. Where as in the 80's there was both image diversity and music diversity, as someone pointed out on the previous video, the US charts didn't have that.
They were pilloried for the amount of cover versions they put out starting with their version of Neil Diamond's Red Red Wine,but they were about much more than that. All their hits before that were their own compositions,with often political protest lyrics covering a range of subjects: King,Food For Thought,The Earth Dies Screaming,Don't Let it Pass You By,One in Ten and Burden of Shame to name but a few from 1980-82. If it Happens Again,I'm Not Scared,Don't Break My Heart,Sing Our Own Song and Rat in the Kitchen were later examples from 1984-87.
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Thanks for posting. lots of memories of simpler times growing up where your only worry was if it would be raining and you wouldn't be able to go out and play. :-)
The best decade for music ever, stuff I listen to every day on my playlist. When music was music and lyrics actually meant something. Somehow it seemed like a simpler time and I wish I could go back there and relive it all.
I am with you
thank you for pulling this together, great memories. Cheers 😯
Wow...Great what you have done here...lots of memories :)
Brilliant music then, the 80s you will never beat. 💯.
i shouldve been born in the 80's never mind the 90's, there are so many songs that were number 1 in this decade that are awesome!
I can't believe these songs are this old.....
Interesting that Let It Be for Ferry Aid came in at #1, but the original only made it to #2 in the UK. They sure do love their charity singles!
Something curious is that you think of a number 2 as "only" can you imagine having the second most listened to song in an entire country? a number 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, all of those are hits
Charity singles were seen as a bit of a joke and never hits at all until Band Aid came along,and then the age of the hit single for charity was born!
This time had so many good songs, wish I could have enjoyed it then in this generation
+May Morgan No matter when you were born, you can still enjoy it. Just be grateful it's here for us.
hisbean i can but not in concert like times back then
May Morgan
I fully understand that feeling. I was a teen during the 80's, but was never able to go to any concerts. I wish I had.
Brings back tons of memories of the furor over *"Relax".*
You bought it because it was wickedly brilliant, you bought
because it was banned. *And you bought the t-shirt too!!*
Thanks for posting! ꜰʀᴀɴᴋɪᴇ ꜱᴀʏ ʀᴇʟᴀx!
The 80,s what a decade!!!
oh yes
Julie McNamee I started high school in 1980 and graduated from university in 1989. These songs, minus the few that didn't make it to the US, bring back so many memories of a decade where I went from a kid to an adult. It's funny how hearing a song can make you remember something or feel something from the past.
Funny how songs can take you back I got to know most of these songs from my cousin who was a dj and had a mobile disco id help him load the decks up and blast these tunes out . Thanks for uploading these must have took you hours or days to compile this lot.
With the exception of We Are The World, You'll Never Walk Alone, Dancing In The Street, and The Chicken Song Part 2 was full of great songs. Wham should have been called "George Michael and the other guy". Madonna was better in the early years. Miss the great Ms. Houston. The Pet Shop Boys really made some great music. SAW was beginning their domination of the charts. Loved Mel and Kim. Yes Part 2 was great!!
SAW?
Geils Sila SAW stands for Stock Aitkin and Waterman who were a trio of music producers who dominated the charts in the late 1980s. Just Google them and find out more.
Great compilation bro!
MARRS was number one with Pump Up The Volume.
This is fantastic lot of songs thank you
You're sort of my hero for collecting all these together, just saying.
just pure quality
Again, brilliant. Thanks
Brilliant! A fantastic trip down memory lane when music was class....what happened to Part 3 though? Please post it as soon as you can.
I was wondering that too! Was really enjoying them up until then.
You didn't miss it out it was 3/10/1987 and you've listed the B side of Pump up the Volume - Anitina
Good fun. Thanks.
A pity, that part 3 is down. But thx for all other parts!
A genuine Rick Roll at 11:25 :D
Thank you so much for part 1 & 2! Love them!
OMG just relived my wild days I remember all but two crap ones, thanks for the memories they were great x
There needs to be a playlist for this
I remember 1985 specifically for one reason:- three songs called the power of love. by Frankie goes to hollywood, Jennifer Rush, and Huey Lewis and the news. where was the latter?
It was No.1 in the U.S Charts but only got to No.9 in the UK Charts.
@thesourceenforcer Sorry I must have missed that one out, thanks for watching.
i remember the 80s very well, musically, from pink' floyd's the wall thru lionel richie, to 1989. name that tune? bring it on!
Spot on....
Great to hear when new musical styles come in, for example "Jack your Body" and "Don't you want me Baby" with the techno and new romantic trends respectively.
Jack Your Body was house not techno.
@cockneybaserd Excellent 80's Compilation that's coming from someone from the USA and actually Lived through the 80's. It sure doesn't get much Better than this.
Ironic that Chicago House was #1 in UK, but totally ignored in the American mainstream charts at the time.
Wow, my heart skipped a beat at that picture of Kylie Minogue
Maybe it's the wine, but God almighty, this music is streets ahead of Justin Bieber, One Direction, and Lady Gaga.
I'm stunned by the Michael Jackson songs that ended up being big hits in the UK. Like, I figured everyone and their mothers bought the singles for "Won't Stop 'Til You Get Enough", "Rock With You", "Thriller", "Beat It", "Bad", "The Way You Make Me Feel", and "Dirty Diana" (which made my life hell as a little girl named Diana in grade school). Also, I'm terribly sorry y'all had to endure "We Are the World"; y'all released this utter fucking masterpiece in "Do They Know it's Christmas?" and that should've been THE ONLY charity single for African famine relief. Also, GO GET THAT BREAD MY DURAN DURAN BOYS! ANOTHER #1 AND THIS ONE ALSO MADE IT TO THE TOP OVER HERE! Edit: Ok, I found a video highlighting the #1s here in the US in 1985, and I'm sorry, but the US list OWNS the UK #1 list from the same year. I mean, all those Wham! hits and y'all miss out on their most passionate song, "Everything She Wants"? And no Tears for Fears? Scotland's Simple Minds don't even get a look in on the UK charts? Y'all don't even know what you missed out on with Mr. Mister's "Broken Wings". Oh, and A VIEW TO A FUCKING KILL HIT #1 HERE YO.
Have you listened to do they know it's Christmas lately? We are the world is bad, no shocker there, but my god is dtkic is condescending as hell, the only charity song worth remembering is Sun City
I thought We Are the World was a sappy song,too. Everything She Wants was a double A side single with Last Christmas that would have been an enormous number 1 here - had it not been released the very same week as Band Aid! Tears For Fears made number 4 with Shout and number 2 with Everybody Wants to Rule the World,not to mention other Top 5 hits with Mad World,Change,Pale Shelter and later Sowing the Seeds of Love. Simple Minds were regular visitors to the hit parade too,though only getting to number 7 with both Don't You Forget About Me and Alive and Kicking does rather do trhem down a bit. Broken Wings by Mr Mister made number 4 here in the earliest weeks of 1986,and Kyrie was a hit here too straight after that.
At first I was sad reliving the music of my youth... then I cheered considerably thinking of how, in 30 years, the poor bastards get to reminisce with Miley Cyrus and Justin Bieber.
Was part 3 taken down? I can't find it. Great compilations btw, I've enjoyed them all. thanks :)
Great set of videos (60's, 70's & 80's).... but just wondering where 80's Part 3 one is to complete the set?
Belinda carlisle, tiffany and kylie...it was a' hard' life being a teenager in 1988 :p
How can you leave out Kim wilde
Living Doll & Chain Reaction = the best of the batch.
it is the B-side "Anitina (The First Time I See She Dance)"
Simply people knew then, how to write, and perform decent music ! Today is a lost cause, with very rare exceptions!
Exellent. cheers pal.
11:27 ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh :D
very very nice video ;)
Magic years of my life, 16-25 😍💟
R.I.P. Ben E King
Yeah, some flashback hits I can't understand, but that one I absolutely can. (Stand by Me, the film adaptation of the Stephen King novel, being so popular at the time.) Speaking of flashbacks, I am overjoyed to see Los Lobos's cover of "La Bamba" hit #1 in the UK! That song meant so much to me as a Chicana in the U.S. because it was my first experience with seeing a massive hit song sung in the language of mi gente, and it happened to be a cover of one of the most popular traditional songs from my family's home country of Mexico (that was first made popular by fellow Chicano Richie Valens)!
Great Job;-)
Thanks;-)
wow, great job :)!!
" I Feel For You " by Chaka Khan was # 1 in U.K. and # 3 in U.S.A.!
Try your first hit of LSD and watching spirit in the sky by Dr and the medics. Crazy.
You Spin Me Round was so revolutionary at the time.
11:26...dammit, RickRoll'd again.
Many thanks great bring's back some good and not so good memories
Looks like the B side was put on by mistake.
I had no idea that Never Gonna Give You Up was number one when I was born.
You got Rickrolled at birth! :D Anyway, thanks for making me feel old, LOL; the UK #1 when I was born was Blondie's "Heart of Glass".
You feel old? Number 1 when I was born was O Pretty Woman by Roy Orbison!
Man I'm such a tool.the wedding singer was based on these songs.
I'm guessing 11:38 was the b-side to pump up the volume
Bhodisatvas I guess so too as they only released one record!
Great...
2:32 Jim Diamond's photo has scared the hell outta me!
Yes Sir Paul McCartney in 1984 Pipes Of Peace
mostly good, a few duds
You missed Aha Take on me too,,,, a few holes, check online there are lists.
Take On Me peaked at number 2 in UK Singles Chart.
As an a-ha fan i can say take on me was a no.2 and the sun always shines on TV was a no.1 a great song actually
@@sylvelinho In the US, no one even remembers The Sun Always Shines on TV. They keep putting A-ha on their One Hit Wonder lists.
Jennifer Rush kept Take On Me off the number 1 spot here.
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interesting how many of the songs are remakes
I know what you mean. You feel good hearing them and feeling what you did then. Then you realise it's Now and you feel shit again.
Where is Tears for Fears? They were huge.
They got to number 1 in the US - and pretty much everywhere else - with Shout and Everybody Wants To Rule The World but sadly never managed top spot in UK
@@78bullseye That really fucking sucks, because TFF deserved those #1s far more than a lot of the artists on this compilation! Also, the '80s wouldn't be the '80s without "Shout" and "Everybody Wants to Rule the World", and this list feels incomplete with their omission.
Only number 2 with everybody wants to rule the world
@@kostajovanovic3711 They had 7 top 10 hits, they were much more popular than many of those who appear in this video, making a number 1 is not everything!
@@jesuslopez1682 cool, but this is a video of number one hits
Red Red Wine
Do They Know It's Christma?
Karma Chameleon
Take My Breath Away
Careless Whisper
China In Your Hand
Merry Christmas Everyone
Heaven Is A Place On Earth
OMFG @2:52 the one thats second from the left look ike eddie garero
richie is a happy boy lol
Not sure how Michael Jackson's 'I Just Can't Stop Loving You' could have become number one on that date, I happen to know that 15/08/87 was a Saturday.
+billy porter It's because those dates are all "week ending" dates,i.e chart for the week ending 15/8/87. The date the chart was actually first aired was 11/8/87,the previous Tuesday. Up until September 1987 the new chart was revealed by Radio 1 at lunchtime on a Tuesday (Wednesday if immediately after a Bank Holiday),with repeat rundowns on Radio 1 at 6 o'clock that evening and the breakfast show the next morning,plus also on Top of the Pops on Thursday evening. The Sunday rundown was the chart first revealed the previous Tuesday,so in the case when the Michael Jackson song first got to number 1,on 16/8/87. From late September 1987 advances in technology meant that the new chart could be revealed two days earlier,i.e, in the Sunday rundown,but the official dates always shown continued to be the "week ending" date,i.e. 6 days later. If all that makes any sense!
+Ralph Jackson Ah, I see. Keep up the good work, you must enjoy doing it as it must take ages to do.
Rick rolled again.
What happened to Pump Up The Volume by M/A/R/R/S?
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hey do you mean the song Fade to grey?
Fade to Grey by Visage got to number 8 in February 1981.
Hey you missed one song out Ultravox Vienna not the best song, but it was a number 2 in 1980
February/March 1981,actually,stuck at number 2 for weeks!
Where is Kids in America from Kim Wilde???
#2
@@Kieop Yes,in March 1981.
The early to mid 80s music was really good. The late 1980s musics was terrible!
Where's part one?
Without a doubt you can see the 80's music going down hill once Stock Aitken and Waterman get a foothold. They totally screwed it up with their cheap maufactured crap.
But it was fun to listen to.
'Take On Me' was #1 in America, not Britain, my friend.
redhairkid wanker !
Number 2 for several weeks here in autumn 1985.
ahh yes the slow songs of the 80s
and rightly so
11:45. That is all.
Okay, so I had the wrong decade!
11:25
The Power of Love it's from '83...or not:-) ?
1985.
80s started with new wave and postpunk domination and ended up with horribly cheesy electronic disco crap.
I thought View To A Kill by Duran Duran was a number 1.
In the US, absolutely. In the US their big #1s were "The Reflex" and AVTAK; in the UK it was "The Reflex" and ITSISK? ("Is There Something I Should Know?"), which was a lesser hit in America. I'm not sure if there were any Bond theme songs that hit #1 in the UK, but so far AVTAK is the only Bond theme to hit #1 in the US.
View to a Kill got to number 2 in the UK,in May 1985. I think it was 19 by Paul Hardcastle that kept it off the top.
Where is the part 1 of Every Number 1 Of The 80's UK?
christinedorotheo0 Agreed. I’ve been looking and can only find part 2 and 3 🤷🏻♀️
BensLists Thank you it seems part 1 is blocked for me, on copyright grounds :(
Okay, so where is Kate Bush? If I may ask please?
She didn't have number 1 hit in UK Singles Chart at 1980's. Her only number 1 hit in UK Singles Chart was Wuthering Heights (released 1978).
After 1984 sounds turned really corny.
I would not say the sun always shines on TV corny that song is a masterpiece
In my opinion It changed towards the end of 86. Stock Aitken & Waterman began to appear, and dominated through 87 along with all the other heavily produced stuff then followed by Acid House in 88 and other dance music in 89 - and that was that, next thing you know it was 1990! First half of the 80s was definitely musically better than the second.
@@Kagy777 The Pet Shop Boys were very innovative in the late 80's, they recaptured the early synth of the early 80's like New Order's Blue Monday. The Yuppy pop was pretty naff, although its not as bad as the shite auto tuned bands and artists today, even the SAW stuff is better than the X factor garbage. There is no diversity anymore, its all looks and no talent. Where as in the 80's there was both image diversity and music diversity, as someone pointed out on the previous video, the US charts didn't have that.
anglický rebríček 80tych rokov a ani jeden hit DM? Mr.Romero hate Depeche Mode?
Such cheesy music, the worst decade for pop music!
I used to think the 80s was brilliant, but compared to the 70s it's not
I'd say they were about the same. Late '80s was a bit hit and miss but so were the mid '70s.
UB40 really is the very worst ever.
They were pilloried for the amount of cover versions they put out starting with their version of Neil Diamond's Red Red Wine,but they were about much more than that. All their hits before that were their own compositions,with often political protest lyrics covering a range of subjects: King,Food For Thought,The Earth Dies Screaming,Don't Let it Pass You By,One in Ten and Burden of Shame to name but a few from 1980-82. If it Happens Again,I'm Not Scared,Don't Break My Heart,Sing Our Own Song and Rat in the Kitchen were later examples from 1984-87.