grundle

Oh wow! Check out all these awesome songs that were on the Billboard Hot 100 during a single week in 1982.

You can use the "+" to make the image bigger, and you can scroll around.

Here's the embedded version:

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You can also see the list at page 64 on this link:

https://books.google.com/books?id=-y...982%22&f=false

Here are some of my favorites from this list:

1) Human League - Don't You Want Me

2) Toto - Rosanna

3) Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder - Ebony And Ivory

4) Asia - Heat Of The Moment

5) John Cougar - Hurts So Good

8) Juice Newton - Love's Been A Little Bit Hard On Me

9) Survivor - Eye Of The Tiger

10) .38 Special - Caught Up In You

12) Joan Jett and the Blackhearts - Crimson And Clover

13) Motels - Only The Lonely

14) Ray Parker Jr. - The Other Woman

19) Steve Miller Band - Abracadabra

22) Fleetwood Mac - Hold Me

29) Crosby Stills and Nash - Wasted On The Way

42) Melissa Manchester - You Should Hear How She Talks About You

43) Kim Wilde - Kids in America

46) Haircut 100 - Love Plus One

49) Daryl Hall and John Oates - Your Imagination

62) Bow Wow Wow - I Want Candy

65) Donna Summer - Love Is In Control

66) Eddie Money - Think I'm In Love

67) Go Go's - Vacation

69) Tommy Tutone - 867-5309/Jenny

84) Loverboy - When It's Over

85) Alan Parsons Project - Eye In the Sky

87) Missing Persons - Words

98) Daryl Hall and John Oates - Did It In A Minute

All those awesome songs were on the chart during the same week - wow!

Paff

Yet only five are represented in my record collection (which is 80s heavy):

Joan Jett and the Blackhearts - Crimson And Clover

Fleetwood Mac - Hold Me

Bow Wow Wow - I Want Candy

The Go-Go's - Vacation

Tommy Tutone - 867-5309/Jenny

rw2516

You do realize the every Billboard chart, from every week, from 1955 through late 80s will have at least 50 songs that were super big and really good.
Check out some 1964 ones when The Beatles had like 7 of the songs in the top ten including 1-5.

Alan Smithee

And then rap came along...

grundle

Good point. Here's a week where the Beatles had all 5 of the top 5:

https://www.billboard.com/charts/hot-100/1964-04-04