Thanks largely to the clip's popularity, “Take on Me” became one of the ‘80s most recognizable hits. Meanwhile, the music video remains a landmark piece of pop culture history, copied in ...
For 41 years, “Girls Just Want to Have Fun” has endured as an anthem of empowerment. Singer Cyndi Lauper’s 1983 breakthrough was originally written by Robert Hazard from a male perspective. Lauper ...
Listen to the best of Queen on Apple Music and Spotify. Mercury’s sad death did, of course, give Greatest Hits new momentum, with a nine-week sequence in the Top 10 from late 1991 alongside ...
“A lot of greatest hits on the physical side are signed off by the band,” BMG’s Kachko said. “A lot of streaming playlists are made by algorithms.” “In the ’80s and ’90s, [we were] trying to reach ...