On This Day: '80s Icon Tops Charts With This Scandalous Hit About Forbidden Love originally appeared on Parade. On August 1, 1981, an '80s icon soared to the top of the Billboard charts with a ...

The 1980s gave us some of the world's favorite songs of all time, including many from bands and solo artists who were basically never heard of since. Keep reading for our top picks of the '80s ...

Rick Astley released “Never Gonna Give You Up” in 1987. Almost 40 years later, it’s now hit 1 billion streams on Spotify.The song topped charts around the world when it came out, and it saw a ...

More than four decades after its original release, “Should I Stay or Should I Go” by The Clash has returned to the Billboard charts. Originally released in 1982 as part of The Clash’s album Combat ...

A lot of one-hit wonders throughout the 1980s made it big with one major hit before slowly fading away from the charts. Some obscure musicians from the 80s, however, disappeared from mainstream charts ...

Ah, the ‘80s. Those of us who lived through it can regale you with tales of artists and bands coming out of nowhere with massive hits, and then just as quickly disappearing into relative anonymity.