Founded in 1990, Razor & Tie established The '70s Preservation Society and began issuing some of the first '70s music compilation CDs to hit the market. You can read about those discs here. And HERE.
In 1993, the company extended their catalog focus onto the decade that followed the '70s and issued the first in a series of mainstream '80s music collections, Totally '80s.
Totally '80s
[2:32:55]
[2:32:55]
release date: 1993
Mastering: Steve Hoffman
Billboard Hot 100
|
songs
|
% of total
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#1’s
|
18
|
45%
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Top 10s
|
38
|
95%
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Top 40s
|
38
|
95%
|
The song not on Spotify:
"Electric Avenue" - Eddy Grant
NOTES: This first compilation features the most Number One songs of the albums in today's post as well as the most Top 10 songs. In fact, all but two tracks were Top 10: only "Hot Hot Hot" by Buster Poindexter and "What I Like About You" by the Romantics peaked at #45 and #49, respectively.
Awesome '80s
[2:34:24]
[2:34:24]
release date: 1994
Mastering: Steve Hoffman
Billboard Hot 100
|
songs
|
% of total
|
#1’s
|
17
|
43%
|
Top 10s
|
37
|
93%
|
Top 40s
|
40
|
100%
|
The song not on Spotify:
"I Feel For You" - Cha-Cha-Cha-Cha-Chaka Khan
NOTES: Like Totally '80s before it, Awesome '80s was manufactured by the fine folks at Warner Special Products. Unlike Totally '80s or Forever '80s, all of the songs from Awesome '80s are available in Spotify.
Forever '80s
[2:33:18]
release date: 1994
Mastering: Steve Hoffman
Billboard Hot 100
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songs
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% of total
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#1’s
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13
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36%
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Top 10s
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32
|
89%
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Top 40s
|
36
|
100%
|
The song not on Spotify:
"All I Need" - Jack Wagner [1985]
NOTES: Yep, that's the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center on the cover. This time out, the manufacturing was farmed out to Sony Music Special Products. Forever '80s is the "slow jams" album of the bunch with just a couple of upbeat love songs.
Eighties Chart Facts:
Between January 1, 1980, and December 31, 1989,
4,172 singles charted on the Hot 100
with an additional 648 merely Bubbling Under from 1980-1985.
231 songs from the Eighties made it to #1
48 of those #1 songs are on the three albums featured on today's post
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