flashback charts - 1980

[Butterflies & Hurricanes]

I've done research on album/single release dates & chart debuts...based on this information, these are the songs that i would be spinning during the first week of 1980 (in alphabetical order) - January 5th, 1980:

999 - Homocide
20/20 - Yellow Pills
ABBA - Gimme Gimme Gimme (A Man After Midnight)
Alan Parsons Project - Damned If I Do
B-52s - Dance This Mess Around
B-52s - Planet Claire
Beat - Different Kind Of Girl
Blondie - Dreaming
Blondie - Union City Blue
Bonnie Raitt - You're Gonna Get What's Coming
Boomtown Rats - I Don't Like Mondays
Buzzcocks - I Believe
Cabaret Voltaire - Nag Nag Nag
Cars - Dangerous Type
Cars - It's All I Can Do
Cheap Trick - Dream Police
Clash - London Calling
Cruel To Be Kind - Nick Lowe
Cure - 10:15 Saturday Night
Damned - I Just Can't Be Happy Today
Dan Hartman - Relight My Fire
Dave Edmunds - Girls Talk
David Bowie - Look Back In Anger
Delta 5 - Mind Your Own Business
Dexy's Midnight Runners - Dance Stance
Distractions - Time Goes By So Slow
Eagles - Long Run
Electric Light Orchestra - Last Train To London
Elton John - Victim Of Love
English Beat - Tears Of A Clown
Fad Gadget - Back To Nature
Fall - Rowche Rumble
Festival - Don't Cry For Me Argentina
Fleetwood Mac - Sara
Fleetwood Mac - Tusk
Flying Lizards - Money (That's What I Want)
Frank Zappa - Joe's Garage
Gang Of Four - At Home He's A Tourist
Giorgio Moroder - E=MC2
Grace Jones - On Your Knees
Hall & Oates - Portable Radio
Herb Alpert - Rotation
Human League - Empire State Human
Ian Dury - Reasons To Be Cheerful
Inmates - Dirty Water
Jam - Eton Rifles
James Chance - Contort Yourself
Japan - Quiet Life
Jefferson Starship - Jane
Joe Jackson - It's Different For Girls
Joe Jackson - On Your Radio
John Cougar - I Need A Lover
Kenny Loggins - This Is It
Kinks - Catch Me Now, I'm Falling
Knack - Good Girls Don't
Led Zeppelin - Fool In The Rain
Lori & Chameleons - Touch
M - Pop Muzik
Madness - My Girl
Madness - One Step Beyond
Marianne Faithful - Ballad Of Lucy Jordan
Michael Jackson - Rock With You
Mi-Sex - Computer Games
Mo-Dettes - White Mice
Moon Martin - Rolene
Motels - Total Control
Neil Young - My My Hey Hey (Out Of The Blue)
New Muzik - Living By Numbers
Pat Benatar - Heartbreaker
Pink Floyd - Another Brick In The Wall
Police - Message In A Bottle
Police - Walking On The Moon
Prince - I Wanna Be Your Lover
Public Image Limited - Memories
Queen - Crazy Little Thing Called Love
Records - Starry Eyes
Rolling Stones - Shattered
Roxy Music - Angel Eyes
Selecter - On My Radio
Shoes - Too Late
Silicon Teens - Memphis, TN
Slits - I Heard It Through The Grapevine
Specials - Message To You Rudy
Spizzenergi - Where's Captain Kirk?
Squeeze - Slap & Tickle
Stevie Wonder - Send One Your Love
Stranglers - Nuclear Device (Wizard Of Aus)
Sugarhill Gang - Rapper's Delight
Suicide - Dream Baby Dream
Supertramp - Take The Long Way Home
Talking Heads - Heaven
Talking Heads - Life During Wartime
Telex - Moskow Diskow
Tom Petty - Don't Do Me Like That
Tubes - We Don't Talk Anymore
Undertones - You've Got My Number (Why Don't You Use It?)
Units - High Pressure Days
Village People - Ready For The 80s
Wire - Map Ref 41N 93W
XTC - Making Plans For Nigel

[Doc Indie Party Rock]

I was about to say where are The Cars? Then I took another look and recalled you like to drop the Thes and A's etc...
I'd love to know what sights you used to do that research. I usually use Cash Box weekly top 100. They actually have a site now where you can view every issue cover to cover.

[Butterflies & Hurricanes]

Sept 16, 2023 0:04:47 GMT -5 Doc Indie Party Rock said:

I was about to say where are The Cars? Then I took another look and recalled you like to drop the Thes and A's etc...
I'd love to know what sights you used to do that research. I usually use Cash Box weekly top 100. They actually have a site now where you can view every issue cover to cover.

My research comes from Billboard Hot 100, Billboard Dance/Disco, Billboard Mainstream Rock, Billboard Modern Rock for song debut dates.  I also use Wikipedia, Allmusic, Discogs & various miscellaneous sources for album, EP & single release dates.  I can't debut a song until it is released (of course), unless it charts before it is released (? i know it sounds weird but i have come across that on a few occasions ?)