Oldies Song List 70S 80S (2024)

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What is the best 70s or 80s songs? ›

60s 70s 80s is a triple A-side single by Japanese singer Namie Amuro from her third greatest hits album, Best Fiction (2008). It was released on March 12, 2008, through Avex Trax and consists of the songs "New Look", "Rock Steady", and "What a Feeling", each sampling from a specific decade in music, hence the title.

It was never a hit single and got almost no play on Top 40 radio. There's even a dispute over the exact title. Yet “It's a Small World,” also known as “It's a Small, Small World” and “It's a Small World (After All),” is very likely the most played song in music history — nearly 50 million times.

As of June 2024, "Blinding Lights" (2019) by Canadian singer the Weeknd is the most-streamed song to date.

Aretha Franklin's “Respect” topped the list as the No. 1 song, according to the entertainment magazine and website. The outlet said the 1967 hit “catalyzed rock & roll, gospel, and blues to create the model for soul music that artists still look to today.”

new wave, category of popular music spanning the late 1970s and the early 1980s.

Is 80s music oldies? ›

Oldies is a term for musical genres such as pop music, rock and roll, doo-wop, surf music (broadly characterized as classic rock and pop rock) from the second half of the 20th century, specifically from around the mid-1950s to the 1980s, as well as for a radio format playing this music.

hippie, member, during the 1960s and 1970s, of a countercultural movement that rejected the mores of mainstream American life. The movement originated on college campuses in the United States, although it spread to other countries, including Canada and Britain.

During the 1980s, George Michael scored four number-one singles as a solo artist, three with Wham! and one as a duet with Aretha Franklin. Olivia Newton-John's "Physical" remained the longest at the top of the Billboard Hot 100 chart during the 1980s (10 weeks).

Just what is it that made the quintessential 80s sound enjoyable to so many people? Maybe it's that nothing quite like it had ever been done before. The blend of drum machines, keyboard bass lines, synthesizers and vocals pioneered a brand new form of music production that took pop culture by storm.

American singer Michael Jackson's 1982 Thriller became the best-selling record in the country for two consecutive years in the 1980s.