The 1980s are a rich text of classic songs that topped the Billboard charts and shaped culture along the way. Stacker ranked the top 25 hits of the '80s based on their overall popularity.

The 1980s pulsed with an electric energy that transformed not just music, but the entire cultural landscape of America. This was the decade when MTV revolutionized how we consumed music, when ...

Paul McCartney began the ’80s in much the same position as he’d entered the ’70s: He released a home-recorded solo album after a blockbuster band had broken up. Wings had been the portrait of pop-rock ...

Great TV in the '80s was about more than just the show itself -- it was also about the theme song. And these five hits are ...

"Torn" was an earworm stuck in the collective heads of anyone near a radio in the late '90s thanks to Australian singer and ...

These four classic rock songs all came out in the early 80s, but are so good, they still rock our world, decades later.

Albert Hammond was the kind of musician that not everyone in the 80s was tapped into, but if you did, you had good taste. “When I’m Gone” is one such song that proved how talented the soft rock artist ...

A popular duo from England recorded a song ranked as the best pop song of the 1980s. Tears for Fears' "Everybody Wants to Rule the World" ranked top 1980s pop song by Ranker. Ranker praised the song’s ...

These tracks never got the love they truly deserved! Join us as we count down our picks for the most underrated songs of the 1980s that still hold up today! From new wave bangers to alternative rock ...