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If a song didn’t make the Billboard Year-End Hot 100 singles chart of 1980, then I didn’t consider listing that song on my Top 20 countdown. It’s Still Rock and Roll To Me-Billy Joelįor the rest of this message, I will be counting down my Top 20 singles from 1980.Do That To Me One More Time-Captain & Tennille.Another Brick in the Wall, Part II-Pink Floyd.What were the most popular singles of 1980? Here are the Top 10 Songs on the 1980 Year-end Top 100 Songs according to Billboard: My parents gave me a Sony “Boom Box” for Christmas that year.īetween Christmas and New Year’s Eve 1980, I remember listing to Roanoke Top 40 stations K92 and WROV on my new Sony Boom Box, as they played the biggest hits during that year.
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These are the Top 40 radio signals that I could pick up on a regular basis in Harrisonburg during 1980: Cloudy days seemed to be the best opportunity hearing these signals coming in strong at my Harrisonburg home. Picking up these stations tended to be hit or miss, depending on the weather conditions. I preferred tuning in To get my fix of Top 40 radio while I was a student at JMU, I would listen to stations out of Richmond, Roanoke and the Washington DC radio markets. The local Top 40 station that most JMU students listened to was WQPO 101.7 FM in Harrisonburg, I didn’t care for that station as it was automated with no live DJs. My time in Harrisonburg gave me an opportunity to hear various Top 40 stations on any given day. Since I started my radio career at legendary Top 40 WROV 1240 AM Roanoke in 1974, I always have been drawn listening to any radio station that featured the Top 40 format. If I had been programming an AOR radio station during 1980, here are the ten albums that I would have featured on my station’s hot rotation. AOR was different from traditional Top 40 radio: These new AOR FM stations played multiple, deep cut album selections, instead of just hit singles. AOR FM radio in 1980 tended to have less talk than Top 40 stations and played mostly what is now considered, “Classic Rock.”Īs many folks gravitated towards AOR radio, the classic rock genre of music flourished. Music from “Urban Cowboy” and “Xanadu” were on the hot rotations of many Top 40 outlets.Īdult Oriented Rock (AOR) FM radio stations flourished during this year, taking away listeners from Top 40 formatted stations. Songs from films were also popular on the radio in 1980. Yacht Rock, adult contemporary power ballads, country crossovers and traditional classic rock ruled the airways. It was a diverse mixture of songs that dominated Top 40 radio during 1980. Musically, disco was dead and it was prior to the synth-pop, MTV explosion that happened the following year.