Subject: 1980 - The Top 100 songs in Canada

Written By: whistledog on 01/12/07 at 12:40 am

Subject: Re: 1980 - The Top 100 songs in Canada

Written By: Brian06 on 01/12/07 at 12:46 am

The Canada charts seem to have been closer to the US in those days, nowadays the US chart has turned into the "Rap 100".

Subject: Re: 1980 - The Top 100 songs in Canada

Written By: malibumike65 on 01/12/07 at 1:29 am

Not that anyone ;D cares but here are the Top 100 biggest songs in Canada for the year 1980 (The list has an error, so there is no #36; further years to come) ...

1 | Another Brick in the Wall (Part II) - Pink Floyd
2 | Crazy Little Thing Called Love - Queen
3 | Call Me - Blondie
4 | Coward of the County - Kenny Rogers
5 | Cars - Gary Numan
6 | It's Still Rock and Roll to Me - Billy Joel
7 | Misunderstanding - Genesis
8 | Please Don't Go - KC and the Sunshine Band
9 | The Rose - Bette Midler
10 | Magic - Olivia Newton-John
11 | Coming Up - Paul McCartney
12 | Emotional Rescue - The Rolling Stones
13 | Ladies Night - Kool and the Gang
14 | Funkytown - Lipps Inc.
15 | Little Jeannie - Elton John
16 | Echo Beach - Martha and the Muffins
17 | Rock With You - Michael Jackson
18 | Refugee - Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
19 | Escape - Rupert Holmes
20 | Rock Lobster - The B-52s
21 | Ride Like the Wind - Christopher Cross
22 | Fire Lake - Bob Seger
23 | On the Radio - Donna Summer
24 | Sailing - Christopher Cross
25 | Do That to Me One More Time - Captain and Tennille
26 | An American Dream - The Dirt Band featuring Linda Ronstadt
27 | Rapper's Delight - The Sugarhill Gang
28 | Tired of Toein' the Line - Rocky Burnette
29 | We Don't Talk Anymore - Cliff Richard
30 | Video Killed the Radio Star - The Buggles
31 | Boulevard - Jackson Browne
32 | Don't Fall in Love With A Dreamer - Kenny Rogers with Kim Carnes
33 | Another One Bites the Dust - Queen
34 | Message in A Bottle - The Police
35 | Let My Love Open the Door - Pete Townshend
37 | Don't Do Me Like That - Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
38 | Pilot of the Airwaves - Charlie Dore
39 | Babe - Styx
40 | You May Be Right - Billy Joel
41 | Against the Wind - Bob Seger
42 | Brass in Pocket - The Pretenders
43 | I Can't Tell You Why - The Eagles
44 | Working My Way Back to You - The Spinners
45 | Don't Ask Me Why - Billy Joel
46 | Cocaine/Tulsa Time - Eric Clapton
47 | Romeo's Tune - Steve Forbert
48 | Fine State of Affairs - Burton Cummings
49 | Janine - Trooper
50 | Shining Star - The Manhattans
51 | Lost in Love - Air Supply
52 | Upside Down - Diana Ross
53 | We Live For Love - Pat Benatar
54 | This is It - Kenny Loggins
55 | I Don't Like Mondays - The Boomtown Rats
56 | Woman in Love - Barbra Streisand
57 | Games Without Frontiers - Peter Gabriel
58 | No More Tears - Barbra Streisand and Donna Summer
59 | Money (That's What I Want) - The Flying Lizards
60 | I'm Alive - Electric Light Orchestra
61 | Dreamer - Supertramp
62 | The Long Run - The Eagles
63 | The Wanderer - Donna Summer
64 | Why Me - Styx
65 | Sexy Eyes - Dr. Hook
66 | Don't Stand So Close to Me - The Police
67 | Breakdown Dead Ahead - Boz Scaggs
68 | Desire - Andy Gibb
69 | Off the Wall - Michael Jackson
70 | You'll Accomp'ny Me - Bob Seger
71 | Xanadu - Olivia Newton-John and Electric Light Orchestra
72 | With You I'm Born Again - Billy Preston and Syreeta
73 | Yes, I'm Ready - Teri DeSario with KC
74 | Send One Your Love - Stevie Wonder
75 | I'm Alright - Kenny Loggins
76 | Take the Long Way Home - Supertramp
77 | Still - Commodores
78 | Making Plans for Nigel - XTC
79 | She's So Cold - The Rolling Stones
80 | Cool Change - Little River Band
81 | Sara - Fleetwood Mac
82 | Fool in the Rain - Led Zeppelin
83 | Dreaming - Cliff Richard
84 | Real Love - The Doobie Brothers
85 | Into the Night - Beny Mardones
86 | Jane - Jefferson Starship
87 | It's Hard to Be Humble - Mac Davis
88 | All Night Long - Joe Walsh
89 | Heartache Tonight - The Eagles
90 | More Love - Kim Carnes
91 | Baby Talks Dirty - The Knack
92 | Steal Away - Robbie Dupree
93 | Turning Japanese - The Vapors
94 | Dream Police - Cheap Trick
95 | Head Games - Foreigner
96 | Peter Piper - Frank Mills
97 | Let Me Love You Tonight - Pure Prairie League
98 | He's So Shy - Pointer Sisters
99 | Jesse - Carly Simon
100 | Him - Rupert Holmes

The only difference between the US charts and Canada's were the diverse Canadian acts that weren't available south of the border. Trooper, April Wine, Toronto(the group, not the city), Chilliwack(ditto), and on and on. Some may have had a couple of US hits, but the majority of these groups songs were for Canadian release only. I remember that the song "When I'm With You" by the group Sheriff was a hit in the US in 1988, but as any Canadian out there knows, we were waltzing to that song back in 1982-83 up here. It only became a hit south of the border when a disc jockey from Las Vegas picked up the song on a vacation in Canada, and when he started playing it on the LV radio station he worked at in 1988, it spread like wildfire. The only problem was that the group had disbanded a few years earlier, and the lead singer wasn't even working as a musician in 1988. He was a delivery driver in Toronto(the city, not the group). Same thing goes for the song "Walking On Sunshine" by Katrina And The Waves. The song was released in Canada in 1983, and was mostly a synthesizer based song. They remixed it with prominent guitar riffs, in or around 1987 I believe. It sounded good to me both ways to me.

Subject: Re: 1980 - The Top 100 songs in Canada

Written By: whistledog on 01/12/07 at 1:33 am

The only difference between the US charts and Canada's were the diverse Canadian acts that weren't available south of the border.

There were also many International songs that were hits here in Canada, that never saw light of day on the Billboard Chart.


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