HITS OF THE 80’S
This List is obviously not all the songs from this decade and comprises only a small
percentage of our total music database, however based on internet research these are
generally regarded as the most popular songs of the era. Feel free to compile a
personal playlist across all the decades or add your own selections. (Hint: the
highlighter tool comes in real handy to mark your selections)
SONG TITLE
ARTIST
Abracadabra
Ace Of Spades
Addicted to Love
Africa
Against All Odds
Ain’t Nobody
Ain’t Nothin’ Goin’ On But The Rent
Alive And Kicking
All Night Long
All She Wants To Do Is Dance
All You Zombies
Allentown
Always On My Mind
Always Something There To Remind Me
And We Danced
Angel
Angel Of Harlem
Another One Bites the Dust
Ant Music
Any Way You Want It
Armageddon It
Ashes To Ashes
Automatic
Back In Black
Back On The Chain Gang
Back To Life
Bad
Bad Medicine
Bad To The Bone
Beat It
Beds Are Burning
Bette Davis Eyes
Big Love
Big Time
Billie Jean
The Bitterest Pill
Blister In The Sun
Steve Miller Band
Motorhead
Robert Palmer
Toto
Phil Collins
Chaka Khan
Gwen Guthrie
Simple Minds
Lionel Ritchie
Don Henley
Hooters
Billy Joel
Pet Shop Boys
Naked Eyes
Hooters
Madonna
U2
Queen
Adam & The Ants
Journey
Def Leppard
David Bowie
Pointer Sisters
ACDC
Pretenders
Soul II Soul
Michael Jackson
Bon Jovi
George Thorogood
Michael Jackson
Midnight Oil
Kim Carnes
Fleetwood Mac
Peter Gabriel
Michael Jackson
Jam
Violent Femmes
Blue Monday
Borderline
Born in the USA
Born To Be My Baby
The Boys of Summer
Brass Monkey
Break Out
Bring Tha Noise
Broken Wings
Buffalo Gals
Buffalo Stance
Burning Down The House
Bust a Move
Call Me
Can’t Fight This Feeling
Candle In The Wind
Careless Whisper
Caribbean Queen
Celebration
Centrefold
Chariots of Fire
Cherish
Cherish
Cherry Bomb
China Girl
Church Of The Poison Mind
Circle In The Sand
Come On Eileen
Conga
Could You Be Loved
Cover Me
Crazy For You
Cruel Summer
Crumblin’ down
Cum On Feel The Noise
Cuts Like A Knife
Dance Hall Days
Dancing in the Dark
Dancing On The Ceiling
Dancing With Myself
De Do Do Do De Da Da Da
Desire
Devil Inside
Dirty Diana
Do You Really Want to Hurt Me
Don’t Be Cruel
Don’t Dream It’s Over
Don’t Get Me Wrong
Don’t Give Up
Don’t Go
New Order
Madonna
Bruce Springsteen
Bon Jovi
Don Henley
Beastie Boys
Swing Out Sister
Public Enemy
Mr Mister
Malcolm McLaren
Neneh Cherry
Talking Heads
Young MC
Blondie
REO Speedwagon
Elton John
George Michael
Billy Ocean
Kool & the Gang
J Geils Band
Vangelis
Kool & The Gang
Madonna
John Cougar Mellencamp
David Bowie
Culture Club
Belinda Carlisle
Dexys Midnight Runners
Miami Sound Machine
Bob Marley & The Wailers
Bruce Springsteen
Madonna
Bananarama
John Cougar Mellencamp
Quiet Riot
Bryan Adams
Wang Chung
Bruce Springsteen
Lionel Ritchie
Billy Idol
Police
U2
INXS
Michael Jackson
Culture Club
Cheap Trick
Crowded House
Pretenders
Peter Gabriel/Kate Bush
Yazoo
Don’t Leave Me This Way
Don’t Stand So Close To Me
Don’t Stop Believin’
Don’t Worry, Be Happy
Don’t You (Forget About Me)
Don’t You Want Me Baby
Down Under
Dr. Feelgood
Dressed For Success
Drive
Electric Avenue
Emotional Rescue
End Of The Innocence
Endless Love
Epic
Eternal Flame
Every Breath You Take
Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic
Every Rose Has It’s Thorn
Everybody’s Working For The Weekend
Everybody Have fun Tonight
Everbody wants To Rule the World
Everything She Wants
Everywhere
Express Yourself
Eye Of The Tiger
Fade To Grey
Faith
Fame
Fashion
Fast Car
Father Figure
Feeling Hot Hot Hot
Fight For Your Right
Fight the Power
Final Countdown
The Flame
Flashdance.. What a Feeling
Footloose
For Those About To Rock (We Salute You)
Forget Me Nots
Free Falling
Freeway of Love
F*** Tha Police
Funkin For Jamaica
Funky Cold Medina
Funkytown
Geno
Get Down On It
Get Outa My Dreams, Get Into My Car
Communards
Police
Journey
Bobby McFerrin
Simple Minds
Human League
Men At Work
Motley Crue
Roxette
Cars
Eddy Grant
Rolling Stones
Don Henley
Lionel Ritchie/Diana Ross
Faith No More
Bangles
Police
Police
Poison
Loverboy
Wang Chung
Tears for Fears
Wham
Fleetwood Mac
Madonna
Survivor
Visage
George Michael
Irene Cara
David Bowie
Tracy Chapman
George Michael
Buster Poindexter
NYCC
Public Enemy
Europe
Cheap Trick
Irene Cara
Kenny Loggins
ACDC
Patrice Rushen
Tom Petty
Aretha Franklin
NWA
Tom Browne
Tone Loc
Lipps Inc.
Dexy’s Midnight Runners
Kool & the Gang
Billy Ocean
Ghostbusters
Gimme All Your Lovin
Girls Girls Girls
Girls Just Wanna Have Fun
Girls On Film
Gloria
Glory Days
Glory Of Love
Going Underground
Good Thing
Goody Two Shoes
Greatest Love of All
Groovy Kind Of Love
Happy To Be Stuck With You
Hard To Say I’m Sorry
Harden My Heart
Hazy Shade Of Winter
He’s So Shy
Head Over Heels
Head To Toe
The Heat Is On
Heaven
Heaven Is A Place On Earth
Hello
Hells Bells
Here Comes The Rain Again
Here I Go Again
Hey Mickey
Highway To The Danger Zone
Hit Me With Your Best Shot
Hold Me Now
Holiday
Holiday In Cambodia
House Of Fun
How Will I Know
Human Nature
Hungry Eyes
Hungry Like the Wolf
Hurts So Good
Hysteria
I’ll Be Loving You
I’m Looking For A New Love
I’m On Fire
I’m Only Human
I’m So Excited
I’ve Got My Mind Set On You
I’ve Had the Time of My Life
I Can’t Wait
I Feel For You
I Get So Emotional
Ray Parker Jr
ZZ Top
Motley Crue
Cyndi Lauper
Duran Duran
Laura Branigan
Bruce Springsteen
Peter Cetera
Jam
Fine Young Cannibals
Adam Ant
Whitney Houston
Phil Collins
Huey Lewis & The News
Chicago
Quarterflash
Bangles
Bananarama & Pointer Sisters
Tears For Fears
Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam
Glen Frey
Bryan Adams
Belinda Carlisle
Lionel Ritchie
ACDC
Eurythmics
Whitesnake
Toni Basil
Kenny Loggins
Pat Benatar
Thompson Twins
Madonna
Dead Kennedys
Madness
Whitney Houston
Michael Jackson
Eric Carmen
Duran Duran
John Cougar
Def Leppard
New Kids On The Block
Jody Watley
Bruce Springsteen
Human League
Pointer Sisters
George Harrison
Bill Medley/Jennifer Warnes
Nu Shooz
Chaka Khan
Whitney Houston
I Got You
I Guess That’s Why They Call It The Blues
I Hate Myself For Loving You
I Just Called To say I Love You
I Just Can’t Stop loving You
I Knew You were Waiting For Me
I Know What Boys Like
I Love Rock and Roll
I Ran
I Should Be So Lucky
I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For
I Wanna Dance With Somebody
I Want a New Drug
I Want Candy
I Want Her
I Want To Break Free
I Want To Know What Love Is
I Want Your Sex
I Wear My Sunglasses at Night
I Will Follow
I Would Die 4 U
If I Could Turn Back Time
If You Don’t Know Me By Now
If You Leave
If You Love Somebody
In A Big Country
In And Out Of Love
In The Air Tonight
In Your Eyes
Into The Groove
Islands In The Stream
It’s A Sin
It’s Like That
It’s Raining Men
It’s Still Rock And Roll To Me
It’s Tricky
It Must Be Love
It Takes Two
Jack And Diane
Jeopardy
Jessie’s Girl
Juicy Fruit
Jump
Jump
Just An Illusion
Just Be Good To Me
Just Can’t Get Enough
Just Like Heaven
Karma Chameleon
Keep On Loving You
Split Enz
Elton John
Joan Jett & Blackhearts
Stevie Wonder
Michael Jackson
George Michael
Waitresses
Joan Jett & Blackhearts
Flock Of Seagulls
Kylie Minogue
U2
Whitney Houston
Huey Lewis & The News
Bow Wow Wow
Keith Sweat
Queen
Foreigner
George Michael
Corey Heart
U2
Prince
Cher
Simply Red
OMD
Sting
Big Country
Bon Jovi
Phil Collins
Peter Gabriel
Madonna
Kenny Rogers/Dolly Parton
Pet Shop Boys
Run DMC
Weather Girls
Billy Joel
Run DMC
Madness
Rob Base
John Cougar Mellencamp
Greg Kihn Band
Rick Springfield
James Mtume
Pointer Sisters
Van Halen
Imagination
SOS Band
Depeche Mode
Cure
Culture Club
REO Speedwagon
Kids In America
King Of Pain
Kiss
Kokomo
La Bamba
La Isla Bonita
Lady
Last Night a DJ Saved my Life
Lay Your Hands On Me
Leave A Light On
Legs
Let’s Go Crazy
Let’s Go To Bed
Let’s Hear it for the Boy
Let’s Wait A While
Let The Music Play
Let’s Dance
Let’s Go all the Way
Let’s Groove Tonight
Life In A Northern Town
Like a Prayer
Like a Virgin
Listen To Your Heart
Little Lies
Little Red Corvette
A Little Respect
Live To Tell
Livin’ On a Prayer
The Living Years
The Locomotion
The Look
The Look Of Love
Love Action
Love Bites
Love Is A Battlefield
Love My Way
Love Shack
Love Song
Loverboy
Lucky Star
Mad World
Maneater
Man In The Mirror
Maniac
Manic Monday
Master And Servant
Master Blaster
Material Girl
The Message
Mexican Radio
Kim Wilde
Sting
Prince
Beach Boys
Los Lobos
Madonna
Kenny Rogers
Indeep
Bon Jovi
Belinda Carlisle
ZZ Top
Prince and the Revolution
Cure
Deniece Williams
Janet Jackson
Shannon
David Bowie
Sly Fox
Earth, Wind & Fire
Dream Academy
Madonna
Madonna
Roxette
Fleetwood Mac
Prince
Erasure
Madonna
Bon Jovi
Mike & Mechanics
Kylie Minogue
Roxette
ABC
Human League
Def leppard
Pat Benatar
Pyschadelic Furs
B52’s
Cure
Billy Ocean
Madonna
Tears For Fears
Hall & Oates
Michael Jackson
Michael Sambello
Bangles
Depeche Mode
Stevie Wonder
Madonna
Grandmaster Flash
Wall Of Voodoo
Mirror In The Bathroom
Missing You
Modern Love
Money For Nothing
Mony Mony
Mr. Roboto
My Prerogative
Need You Tonight
Never Gonna Give You Up
Never Tear Us Apart
New Sensation
New Years Day
Nineteen
Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us Now
Nothing But A Good Time
Notorious
The Humber of The Beast
Oh Father
On The Turning Away
One
One More Night
One Night In Bangkok
One Thing Leads To Another
One Vision
Only In My Dreams
Only You
Open Your Heart
Orange Crush
Our House
Our Lips are Sealed
Overkill
Owner Of A Lonely Heart
P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing)
Panama
Papa Don’t Preach
Paper In Fire
Paradise City
Pass The Dutchie
Patience
People Are People
Pink Cadillac
Planet Rock
Poison
Poison Arrow
Pour Some Sugar on Me
Power of Love
Pride (In the Name of Love)
Pride And Joy
Private Idaho
Pull Up To The Bumper
Beat
JohnWaite
David Bowie
Dire Straits
Billy Idol
Styx
Bobby Brown
INXS
Rick Astley
INXS
INXS
U2
Paul Hardcastle
Starship
Poison
Duran Duran
Iron Maiden
Madonna
Pink Floyd
Metallica
Phil Collins
Murray Head
Fixx
Queen
Debbie Gibson
Yazoo
Madonna
REM
Madness
Go Go’s
Men At Work
Yes
Michael Jackson
Van Halen
Madonna
John Cougar Mellencamp
Guns N Roses
Musical Youth
Guns N Roses
Depeche Mode
Bruce Springsteen
Afrika Bambaata & SSF
Alice Cooper
ABC
Def Leopard
Huey Lewis & the News
U2
Stevie Ray Vaughan
B52’s
Grace Jones
Pump Up the Jam
Pump Up the Volume
Purple Rain
Push It
Putting On The Ritz
Radio Free Europe
Radio Ga Ga
Rapture
Rapture Riders
Raspberry Beret
Rebel Yell
Red Red Wine
Relax
Rhythm Nation
Ride on Time
Right Here Waiting For You
Rio
Road To Nowhere
Rock It
Rock the Casbah
Rock You Like A Hurricane
Rocket
Roll With It
Romeo and Juliet
Rosanna
Run To The Hills
Run To You
Runaway Boys
Sad Songs (Say So Much)
The Safety Dance
Save A Prayer
Self Control
Senses Working Overtime
Sexual Healing
Shake It Up
Sharp Dressed Man
She Blinded me with Science
She Drives me Crazy
She Works Hard for the Money
Shock The Monkey
Should I Stay Or Should I Go
Shout
Simply Irresistable
Simply The Best
Slave To The Rhythm
Sledge Hammer
Slow Hand
Small Town
SmallTown Boy
Smokin In The Boys Room
Technotronic
Marrs
Prince
Salt N Pepa
Taco
REM
Queen
Blondie
Blondie/Doors
Prince
Billy Idol
UB40
Frankie Goes to Hollywood
Janet Jackson
Black Box
Richard Marx
Duran Duran
Talking Heads
Herbie Hancock
Clash
Scorpions
Def Leppard
Steve Winwood
Dire Straits
Toto
Iron Maiden
Bryan Adams
Stray Cats
Elton John
Men Without Hats
Duran Duran
Laura Branigan
XTC
Marvin Gaye
Cars
ZZ Top
Thomas Dolby
Fine Young Cannibals
Donna Summer
Peter Gabriel
Clash
Tears For Fears
Robert Palmer
Tina Turner
Grace Jones
Peter Gabriel
Pointer Sisters
John Cougar Mellencamp
Bronski Beat
Motley Crue
Smooth Criminal
Smooth Operator
Solid
Somebody
Somebody’s Watching Me
Something So Strong
Sowing The Seeds Of Love
Spirits In The Material
Stand
Stand & Deliver
Stand Back
Start
Start Me Up
Steppin’ Out
Stomp
Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around
The Stroke
Suddenly
Summer Of 69
Sunday Bloody Sunday
Superfreak
Sweet Child of Mine
Sweet Dreams
Swing The Mood
Synchronicity II
Tainted Love
Take My Breath Away
Take On Me
Talking In Your Sleep
Tell It To My Heart
Tempted
That’s Entertainment
That’s What Friends are For
Theme From S-Express
There Must Be An Angel
Things Can Only Get Better
Thriller
Throwing It All Away
The Tide Is High
Time (Clock of The Heart)
Time After Time
To Cut A Long Story Short
To The One I Love
Together Forever
Tonight I Celebrate My Love
Too Shy
Town Called Malice
True
True Blue
True Colours
Michael Jackson
Sade
Ashford & Simpson
Bryan Adams
Rockwell
Crowded House
Tears For Fears
Police
REM
Adam & The Ants
Fleetwood Mac
Jam
Rolling Stones
Joe Jackson
Brother Johnson
Tom Petty/Stevie Nicks
Billy Squier
Billy Ocean
Bryan Adams
U2
Rick James
Guns N Roses
Eurythmics
Jive Bunny & Mastermixers
Police
Soft Cell
Berlin
Aha
Romantics
Taylor Dayne
Squeeze
Jam
Dionne Warwick
S-Express
Eurythmics
Howard Jones
Michael Jackson
Genesis
Blondie
Culture Club
Cyndi Lauper
Spandau Ballet
REM
Rick Astley
Roberta Flack/Peabo Bryson
Kajagoogoo
Jam
Spandau Ballet
Madonna
Cyndi Lauper
True Faith
Truly
Turning Japanese
Two of Hearts
Under Pressure
Undercover Of The Night
Up Where we Belong
Upside Down
Uptown Girl
Urgent
Venus
View To A Kill
Waiting For A Girl Like You
Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go
Walk Like an Egyptian
Walk This Way
Walking On Sunshine
Wanna Be Startin’ Somethin’
The Way You Make Me Feel
We’ll Be Together
We’re Not Gonna Take It
We Are the World
We Belong
We Built This City
We Didn’t Start The Fire
We Don’t Need Another Hero
We Got the Beat
Welcome To The Jungle
West End Girls
What’s love Got to Do With It
What A Wonderful World
What Have I Done To Deserve This
What have You Done For Me Lately
When Doves Cry
When I See You Smile
Where The Streets Have No Name
Whip It
White Lines
White Wedding
Who Can It Be Now
Who Wants To Live Forever
Wild Thing
Wild Wild West
Wind Beneath My Wings
Wishing Well
With or Without You
Word Up
Would I Lie To You
Wrapped Around Your Finger
You’re The Inspiration
New Order
Lionel Ritchie
Vapors
Stacey Q
David Bowie/Queen
Rolling Stones
Joe Cocker/Jennifer Warnes
Diana Ross
Billy Joel
Foreigner
Bananarama
Duran Duran
Foreigner
Wham
Bangles
Run DMC
Katrina & the Waves
Michael Jackson
Michael Jackson
Sting
Twisted Sister
USA for Africa
Pat Benatar
Starship
Billy Joel
Tina Turner
Go Gos
Guns N Roses
Pet Shop Boys
Tina Turner
Louis Armstrong
Pet Shop Boys
Janet Jackson
Prince
Bad English
U2
Devo
Grandmaster Flash
Billy Idol
Men at Work
Queen
Tone Loc
Escape Club
Bette Midler
Terence Trent Darby
U2
Cameo
Eurythmics
Sting
Chicago
You Better You Bet
You Can Call Me Al
You Give Love A Bad Name
You Got It
You Got It (The Right Stuff)
You Keep Me Hanging On
You May Be Right
You Might Think I’m Crazy
You Shook me All Night Long
You Spin Me Round
1999
9 To 5
99 Red Balloons
Who
Paul Simon
Bon Jovi
Roy Orbison
New Kids On The Block
Kim Wilde
Billy Joel
Cars
ACDC
Dead or Alive
Prince
Dolly Parton
Nena