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Every 80s Billboard Hot 100, Bubbling Under or Single Pick + Cash Box/Record World chart singles and picks. Playlist at https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5PC0rpT8Hh8uH4FV69tZCo
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Billboard Album Radio Action, WHFS-FM Bethesda, August 23, 1980
WHFS -FM- Bethesda (D. Bibi.) PATBENATAR- Crimes Of Passion (Chrysalis) ULTRAVOX -Vienna (Chrysalis) POLYROCK -(RCA) LARSEN- PEITEN BAND -(WB) TREMBLERS -Twice Nightly (Johnston) * ROLLING STONES-Emotional Rescue (Rolling Stones) RECORDS -Crashes (Virgin) * THE VAPORS- New Clear Days(UA) NIGHTHAWKS -(Mercury)
November 10, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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New Adventures - Come On

Billboard Recommended Pop Single Pick and Cash Box Singles Feature Pick on August 23, 1980
Did Not Chart
6/10🎧

Dutch band championed by Golden Earring doing a Chuck Berry cover
Dutch 7" picture sleeve of New Adventures - Come On US promo 7" of New Adventures - Come On on Polydor white label
November 10, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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Bob Marley & the Wailers - Could You Be Loved

Billboard Recommended Single Pick and Cash Box Single to Watch on August 23, 1980
Billboard Dance #6 / R&B #56
UK #9 / Australia #95
8/10🎧
French 7" picture sleeve of Bob Marley & the Wailers - Could You Be Loved, picture of Bob with red, yellow, and green circles around him US 7" Bob Marley & the Wailers - Could You Be Loved on the palm tree Island Records label
November 10, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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The Amazing Rhythm Aces - What Kind of Love is This?

Billboard Recommended Single Pick and Cash Box Single to Watch on August 23, 1980 / Record World Pop Single Pick on August 30, 1980
Did Not Chart
6/10🎧
US 7" of The Amazing Rhythm Aces - What Kind of Love is This? on the cream Warners label
November 10, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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Gino Soccio - Heartbreaker

Billboard Recommended Pop Single Pick and Cash Box Single to Watch on August 23, 1980
Billboard Dance #4 (w/ S-Beat)
6/10🎧

Canada's second-most-famous Gino is here to boogie. His only Hot 100 hit was 1979's Dancer (#48)
US 7" of Gino Soccio - Heartbreaker
November 8, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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Utopia - Second Nature

Billboard Recommended Pop Single Pick, Cash Box Single to Watch, and Record World Pop Single Pick on August 23, 1980
Did Not Chart
5/10🎧

Prog-frosted A/C wandering into the 80s from 1974 or so, asking where everyone went
US 7" of Utopia - Second Nature
November 6, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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America - You Could've Been the One

Billboard Recommended SIngle Pick on August 23, 1980 / Record World Pop Single Pick on August 30, 1980
Record World #114

Smooth-enough sailing
5/10🎧
US 7" of America - You Could've Been the One on the burgundy Capitol label
November 4, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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Carole King - Oh No Not My Baby

Billboard Top Single Pick on August 23, 1980 / Record World Single Pick on September 6, 1980
Did Not Chart
7/10🎧

Hit for Maxine Brown (#24 in 1965) and Rod Stewart (#59 in 1973, recorded by almost everyone else
US 7" of Carole King - Oh No Not My Baby on the burgundy Capitol label
November 3, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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This is the only biopic worth watching
poster for the movie Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story. John C. Reilly as Dewey Cox, playing a guitar
October 30, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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Every week, Billboard’s panel spun the latest slabs of promotional vinyl and predicted what would chart, and how high. Let's see how their August 23, 1980 picks fared, and shine a spotlight on the ones that never charted

This week, Eddie Money and Bob Marley miss and Devo overperforms
Banner for Billboard Single Picks. Explains that Picks are predicted to chart 1-30, and Recommends are expected to chart 31-100.
October 30, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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The bottom 20 of the 1989 Hot 100 is actually MUCH more banger-packed than the top 20
"Roni" Bobby Brown 81 "Love in an Elevator" Aerosmith 82 "Lay Your Hands on Me" Bon Jovi 83 "The Promise" When in Rome 84 "What I Am" Edie Brickell & New Bohemians 85 "I Remember Holding You" Boys Club 86 "Paradise City" Guns N' Roses 87 "I Wanna Have Some Fun" Samantha Fox 88 "She Wants to Dance with Me" Rick Astley 89 "Dreamin'" Vanessa Williams 90 "It's No Crime" Babyface 91 "Poison" Alice Cooper 92 "This Time I Know It's for Real" Donna Summer 93 "Smooth Criminal" Michael Jackson 94 "Heaven Help Me" Deon Estus 95 "Rock Wit'cha" Bobby Brown 96 "Thinking of You" Sa-Fire 97 "What You Don't Know" Exposé 98 "Surrender to Me" Ann Wilson and Robin Zander 99 "The End of the Innocence" Don Henley 100 "Keep on Movin'" Soul II Soul
October 30, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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A quick look at the Village Voice Pazz and Jop top singles from 83 and 89 says you're probably right
1. Michael Jackson: "Billie Jean" (Epic) 75 * 2. The Police: "Every Breath You Take" (A&M) 66 3. The Pretenders: "Back on the Chain Gang" (Sire) 65 * 4. Afrika Bambaataa & the Soul Sonic Force: "Looking for the Perfect Beat" (Tommy Boy) 45 * Prince: "Little Red Corvette" (Warner Bros.) 45 6. Eddy Grant: "Electric Avenue" (Epic) 43 7. Michael Jackson: "Beat It" (Epic) 42 8. Grandmaster Flash & Melle Mel: "White Lines (Don't Don't Do It)" (Sugarhill) 35 9. Run-D.M.C.: "It's Like That"/"Sucker MCs" (Profile) 31 10. Talking Heads: "Burning Down the House" (Sire) 29 11. Elvis Costello: "Everyday I Write the Book" (Columbia) 27 12. Big Country: "In A Big Country" (Mercury) 26 13. George Clinton: "Atomic Dog" (Capitol) 25 14. David Bowie: "Let's Dance" (EMI America) 22 Lionel Richie: "All Night Long" (Motown) 22 Donna Summer: "She Works Hard for the Money" (Mercury) 22 17. Eurythmics: "Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)" (RCA Victor) 21 Herbie Hancock: "Rockit" (Columbia) 21 19. Indeep: "Last Night A DJ Saved My Life" (Sound of New York) 19 * 20. Culture Club: "Church of the Poison Mind" (Epic) 18 Culture Club: "Karma Chameleon" (Epic) 18 S.O.S. Band: "Just Be Good To Me" (Tabu) 18 23. Culture Club: "Do You Really Want To Hurt Me?" (Epic) 17 * 24. David Bowie: "Modern Love" (EMI America) 16 Lyres: "I Want To Help You Ann"/"I Really Want You Right Now" (Ace of Hearts) Singles 1. Public Enemy: "Fight the Power" (Motown) 75 2. Neneh Cherry: "Buffalo Stance" (Virgin) 74 3. Soul II Soul: "Keep on Movin'" (Virgin) 51 4. Fine Young Cannibals: "She Drives Me Crazy" (I.R.S.) 48 5. Tone-Loc: "Wild Thing" (Delicious Vinyl) 41 * 6. Young M.C.: "Bust a Move" (Delicious Vinyl) 38 7. Madonna: "Like a Prayer" (Sire) 37 8. The B-52s: "Love Shack" (Warner Bros.) 36 9. Tom Petty: "Free Fallin'" (MCA) 30 10. Rolling Stones: "Mixed Emotions" (Rolling Stones) 28 11. Aerosmith: "Janie's Got a Gun" (Geffen) 27 Neil Young: "Rockin' in the Free World" (Reprise) 27 13. XTC: "The Mayor of Simpleton" (Geffen) 26 14. Prince: "Batdance" (Warner Bros.) 23 Tone-Loc: "Funky Cold Medina" (Delicious Vinyl) 25 16. Elvis Costello: "Veronica" (Warner Bros.) 23 17. Soul II Soul: "Back To Life" (Virgin) 22 18. Digital Underground: "Doowutchyalike" (Tommy Boy) 20 The Replacements: "I'll Be You" (Sire) 20 20. De La Soul: "Me Myself and I" (Tommy Boy) 18 Living Colour: "Cult of Personality" (Epic) 18 * The Stop the Violence Movement: "Self-Destruction" (Jive) 18 * 23. Paula Abdul: "Straight Up" (Virgin) 15 24. Inner City: "Good Life" (Virgin) 14 * Pixies: "Monkey Gone To Heaven" (4AD/Elektra)
October 30, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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Take in 1983. Frida's solo hit sneaking into the top 20 is the chef's kiss on an all time banger list
1 "Every Breath You Take" The Police 2 "Billie Jean" Michael Jackson 3 "Flashdance... What a Feeling" Irene Cara 4 "Down Under" Men at Work 5 "Beat It" Michael Jackson 6 "Total Eclipse of the Heart" Bonnie Tyler 7 "Maneater" Daryl Hall & John Oates 8 "Baby, Come to Me" Patti Austin and James Ingram 9 "Maniac" Michael Sembello 10 "Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)" Eurythmics 11 "Do You Really Want to Hurt Me" Culture Club 12 "You and I" Eddie Rabbitt and Crystal Gayle 13 "Come On Eileen" Dexys Midnight Runners 14 "Shame on the Moon" Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band 15 "She Works Hard for the Money" Donna Summer 16 "Never Gonna Let You Go" Sérgio Mendes 17 "Hungry Like the Wolf" Duran Duran 18 "Let's Dance" David Bowie 19 "Twilight Zone" Golden Earring 20 "I Know There's Something Going On" Frida
October 30, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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Isaac Hayes - It's All In The Game

Billboard debut at #108 on August 23, 1980
Peaked at #107 / R&B #86
Record World #115

6/10🎧
Belgian 7" picture sleeve of Isaac Hayes - It's All In The Game US 7" of Isaac Hayes - It's All In The Game on the red Polydor label
October 28, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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The Kings - Switchin' To Glide

Billboard debut at #90 on August 23, 1980
Peaked at #43
Cash Box #64 / Record World #54
Canada #59

9/10🎧

This song's relative overperformance on Billboard versus Cash Box/Record World is a strong argument for the superiority of Billboard chart methodology
US 7" of The Kings - Switchin' To Glide on the red Elektra label
October 27, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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Michael Johnson - You Can Call Me Blue

Billboard debut at #89 on August 23, 1980
Peaked at #86 / AC #34
Cash Box #87 / Record World #76

4/10🎧

The lesser blue song in Johnson's catalog
US 7" of Michael Johnson - You Can Call Me Blue
October 22, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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Split Enz - I Got You

Billboard debut at #88 on August 23, 1980
Peaked at #53
Cash Box #50 / Record World #61
Australia #1 / Canada #5 / UK #12

8/10🎧
US 7" picture sleeve of Split Enz - I Got You US 7" of Split Enz - I Got You on the A&M label
October 21, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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Journey - Good Morning Girl/Stay Awhile

Billboard debut at #87 on August 23, 1980
Peaked at #55
Cash Box #68 / Record World #59

6/10🎧
US 7" of Journey - Good Morning Girl/Stay Awhile on the orange Columbia label
October 21, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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The O'Jays - Girl, Don't Let It Get You Down

Billboard debut at #84 on August 23, 1980
Peaked at #55 / R&B #3
Cash Box #54 / Record World #43

7/10🎧

Their last Hot 100 hit (I Just Want to Satisfy would reach #101 in '82)
US 7" of The O'Jays - Girl, Don't Let It Get You Down on the purple TSOP label
October 20, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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Ray, Goodman & Brown - My Prayer

Billboard debut at #83 on August 23, 1980
Peaked at #47 / R&B #31
Cash Box #55 / Record World #54

5/10🎧

One of more aggressive anachronisms to hit the Hot 100 in the 80s. The Platters took it to #1 in 1956
US 7" picture sleeve of Ray, Goodman & Brown - My Prayer US 7" of Ray, Goodman & Brown - My Prayer
October 20, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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Pure Prairie League - I'm Almost Ready

Billboard debut at #79 on August 16, 1980
Peaked at #34
Cash Box #40 / Record World #36
Canada #30

5/10🎧

Smooth sailing through waters they already charted
German 7" picture sleeve of Pure Prairie League - I'm Almost Ready. Says "TOP HIT USA" twice in the top corners. US 7" of Pure Prairie League - I'm Almost Ready on Casablanca
October 13, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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Boz Scaggs - Look What You've Done To Me

Billboard debut at #69 on August 23, 1980
Peaked at #14 / AC #3
Cash Box #13 / Record World #13
7/10🎧

Urban Cowboy soundtrack tune is peak ballad-mode Boz
US 7" of Boz Scaggs - Look What You've Done To Me on the red/orange Columbia label
October 12, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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WHFS reporting to Billboard Album Radio Action, August 23, 1980
WHFS -FM- Bethesda (D. Bibi.) PATBENATAR- Crimes Of Passion (Chrysalis) ULTRAVOX -Vienna (Chrysalis) POLYROCK -(RCA) LARSEN- PEITEN BAND -(WB) TREMBLERS -Twice Nightly (Johnston) * ROLLING STONES-Emotional Rescue (Rolling Stones) RECORDS -Crashes (Virgin) * THE VAPORS- New Clear Days(UA) NIGHTHAWKS -(Mercury)
October 12, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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Jonathan Mars - Don't Pretend

Record World Pop Single Pick on August 16, 1980
Did not chart*
7/10🎧

AOR from Canada, a blend of MOR and prog that recalls Alan Parsons. Not bad!

This was a single-only affair, though the act did issue an LP, Heart Gallery, in 1984 on Montreal's Yul Records label
German 7" picture sleeve of Jonathan Mars - Don't Pretend US 7" of Jonathan Mars - Don't Pretend on the Atlantic red and black label
October 12, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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Clarence Carter - Jimmy's Disco

Record World Front Page Sleeper pick on August 16, 1980
Did Not Chart
6/10🎧
US 7" of Clarence Carter - Jimmy's Disco on the Venture Records yellow label
October 12, 2025 at 2:29 PM