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By Trevor Anderson QUEEN CHANNELED ELVIS PRESLEY to earn its first No. 1 Billboard Hot 100 single, “Crazy Little Thing Called Love,” which crowned the chart on Feb. 23, 1980. The British ...
Its familiarity to the bass in Chic’s “Good Times,” which had topped the Billboard Hot 100 in August ... hit No. 1 on the Hot 100 dated Oct. 4, 1980, for the first of three weeks.
In 1980, the Australian band Air Supply released ... That album peaked on the Billboard 200 album chart and spawned three top ...
Released on Sept. 16, 1979, "Rapper's Delight" initially peaked at No. 4 on the Billboard Hot Soul Singles chart, dated Dec. 8, 1979. The following year, on Jan. 5, 1980, the song cracked the ...
As a solo musician, Paul McCartney has topped the Billboard 200 eight more times, while John Lennon managed the feat thrice before he died in 1980. Read next ...