Great to see the entire top 100 from 40 years ago! My 10 favourite songs are 'Eye in the Sky', 'I Keep Forgettin', 'I'm So Excited', 'I Know There's Something Going On', 'You Can't Hurry Love', 'The Look of Love', 'Africa', 'Heartbreaker', 'Maneater' and 'Gloria'. Thanks for the video!
Great video! The ten “just missed” songs that dropped out of the Hot 100 that week included some huge artists! “Valarie” - Steve Winwood “New World Man” - Rush “Gypsy” - Fleetwood Mac “Athena” - The Who “State of Independence” - Donna Summer “Somebody’s Baby” - Jackson Browne “Cool Magic” - Steve Miller “Shakin’” - Eddie Money “I Ran” - Flock of Seagulls and “What’s Forever For” - Michael Murphey
Thank you Francis and brilliant to see a different approach with the Billboard Hot 100 exactly 40 years ago 👍 The guys from America could even pass as guys from today with their image. I dread to hear that Pia Zadora song live! Some Midlands influence with Musical Youth and Judas Priest. It breaks my heart now seeing Fleetwood Mac videos after Christine McVie's death last week. Great singer and songwriter. Same with Olivia Newton-John. 'Do You Really Want To Hurt Me' is my absolute favourite. Love Culture Club and my favourite song of 1982 and one of my all-time faves. 'Love Come Down' is my second favourite on this list. Great song and very danceable. Sounds fresh even today. Third is 'Gloria' by Laura Branigan. Great song and again another singer who died too soon. Fourth is close between Frida, The Pointer Sisters, Men at Work (x2), Luther Vandross, Musical Youth, Patti & James (gorgeous duet), The Clash, Toto and many more. This is a classic chart oh and a good #1 with Toni Basil. This shows how competitive the US chart was back then. Even the big names had lower ranker hits. Anna Oxa did a cover in 1983 of 'What About Me' in Italian called 'Senza di Me'. Much better than the original.
Awesome. Was hoping you would throw together some early '80s lists. This would be around the time that 9-year-old me got MTV, so this was a lot of fun to watch/listen to.
Lots of these songs (mainly American) sound like they were actually written 40 years ago. Fortunately, there are also many with an endless expiration date.....
40 ans, la vache ! Pas mal de chansons présentes dans ce Top 100 sont devenues des classiques intemporels. En tout cas, les gens qui ont vécu cette période en direct s'en souviennent encore. En ces temps-là, les chansons n'entraient pas directement à la 1ère place (ce phénomène est malheureusement devenu une constante depuis 1995) et quand elles atteignaient la 1ère place, elles n'y squattaient pas pendant 10; 15 ou 20 semaines. La compétition était plus saine, plus ouverte, plus équilibrée.
Oh yes. I’m a sucker for old Billboard chats. Please keep doing these. :)
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Great to see the entire top 100 from 40 years ago! My 10 favourite songs are 'Eye in the Sky', 'I Keep Forgettin', 'I'm So Excited', 'I Know There's Something Going On', 'You Can't Hurry Love', 'The Look of Love', 'Africa', 'Heartbreaker', 'Maneater' and 'Gloria'. Thanks for the video!
Espectacular video. Gracias por compartir recuerdos.
Great video!
The ten “just missed” songs that dropped out of the Hot 100 that week included some huge artists!
“Valarie” - Steve Winwood
“New World Man” - Rush
“Gypsy” - Fleetwood Mac
“Athena” - The Who
“State of Independence” - Donna Summer
“Somebody’s Baby” - Jackson Browne
“Cool Magic” - Steve Miller
“Shakin’” - Eddie Money
“I Ran” - Flock of Seagulls
and “What’s Forever For” - Michael Murphey
Thanks for bringing back my youth!😉💖
Thank you Francis and brilliant to see a different approach with the Billboard Hot 100 exactly 40 years ago 👍 The guys from America could even pass as guys from today with their image. I dread to hear that Pia Zadora song live! Some Midlands influence with Musical Youth and Judas Priest. It breaks my heart now seeing Fleetwood Mac videos after Christine McVie's death last week. Great singer and songwriter. Same with Olivia Newton-John. 'Do You Really Want To Hurt Me' is my absolute favourite. Love Culture Club and my favourite song of 1982 and one of my all-time faves. 'Love Come Down' is my second favourite on this list. Great song and very danceable. Sounds fresh even today. Third is 'Gloria' by Laura Branigan. Great song and again another singer who died too soon. Fourth is close between Frida, The Pointer Sisters, Men at Work (x2), Luther Vandross, Musical Youth, Patti & James (gorgeous duet), The Clash, Toto and many more. This is a classic chart oh and a good #1 with Toni Basil. This shows how competitive the US chart was back then. Even the big names had lower ranker hits.
Anna Oxa did a cover in 1983 of 'What About Me' in Italian called 'Senza di Me'. Much better than the original.
Its incredible that most of the songs from this chart from 40 years ago, are still on fashion now, was really good music!!!
#62 is the only song that matters on this list heading up, and peaking at, #13. Still my favorite song of all time! Thanks for posting.
Wow a big thnx to u sir..as always loved it here in the Philippines ..a big part of my growing up years..👍🤝💪🙏🏼💖💿😋🇵🇭
Great job Francis! And my favorite year (the year I started following Billboard). Thank you so much!
Awesome. Was hoping you would throw together some early '80s lists. This would be around the time that 9-year-old me got MTV, so this was a lot of fun to watch/listen to.
Merci beaucoup Francis, I love your job
Hello!!! Thanks for the video. God bless you. Brazil São Paulo Sergio
I had no idea that "Dynasty" theme was a charting single.
Lots of these songs (mainly American) sound like they were actually written 40 years ago. Fortunately, there are also many with an endless expiration date.....
There are a lot of artists trying to stay current with a new music channel that was getting big.
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December 4, 1982, not December 6
Do you know if "I’m so excited" video was shot in 1982 or in 1984?
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Apart from the top 10 a majority of them were pretty bland to say the least
a new style of music was breaking through
the older style was bland
40 ans, la vache ! Pas mal de chansons présentes dans ce Top 100 sont devenues des classiques intemporels. En tout cas, les gens qui ont vécu cette période en direct s'en souviennent encore. En ces temps-là, les chansons n'entraient pas directement à la 1ère place (ce phénomène est malheureusement devenu une constante depuis 1995) et quand elles atteignaient la 1ère place, elles n'y squattaient pas pendant 10; 15 ou 20 semaines. La compétition était plus saine, plus ouverte, plus équilibrée.