Musical Interests of 1980

Listed in alphabetical order by artist then track name. Numbers in [] indicate the order I ranked them for the year. The genre I use to organize music is noted in parenthesis as well as the ranking number the song is in that genre). Genre is by no means accurate and may be updated later.

19 Alternative (A) songs, 1 Dance (D), 14 Hip-Hop (H), 0 Mash-up (indicated with an underscore), 0 Metal (M), 0 Novelty (N), 3 Rap (R), 13 Soft (S), 0 Techno (T). For a total of 50 songs.

Abba-On & On & On [23] (Hip-Hop, H04)
Abba-Super Trouper [37] (Hip-Hop, H09)
Air Supply-All Out of Love [39] (Hip-Hop, H11)
Air Supply-Lost in Love [24] (Hip-Hop, H05)
B-52's-Private Idaho [36] (Alternative, A15)
Billy Joel-Don't Ask Me Why [15] (Soft, S01)
Blondie-Call Me [16] (Hip-Hop, H02)
Bow Wow Wow-C30 C60 C90 Go [28] (Hip-Hop, H06)
Bruce Springsteen-Hungry Heart [29] (Alternative, A13)
Christopher Cross-Sailing [33] (Soft, S09)
Cure-Boys Don't Cry [49] (Hip-Hop, H14)
Devo-Whip It [10] (Rap, R02)
Fleetwood Mac-Sara [22] (Hip-Hop, H03)
Gary Numan-Cars [11] (Hip-Hop, H01)
John Lennon-Give Peace a Chance [19] (Soft, S04)
Jona Lewie-Stop the Cavalry [50] (Soft, S13)
Journey-Any Way You Want It [2] (Alternative, A02)
Kate Bush-Army Dreamers [43] (Hip-Hop, H13)
Kenny Rogers-Lady [26] (Soft, S07)
Lakeside-Fantastic Voyage [27] (Rap, R03)
Leo Sayer-More Than I Can Say [32] (Hip-Hop, H07)
Madness-One Step Beyond [34] (Dance, D01)
Neil Diamond-Acapulco [18] (Soft, S03)
Neil Diamond-Amazed & Confused [20] (Alternative, A12)
Neil Diamond-America [6] (Alternative, A05)
Neil Diamond-America (Reprise) [7] (Alternative, A06)
Neil Diamond-Hello Again [25] (Soft, S06)
Neil Diamond-Hey Louise [4] (Alternative, A03)
Neil Diamond-Jerusalem [14] (Alternative, A11)
Neil Diamond-Kol Nidre-My Name Is Yussel [46] (Soft, S11)
Neil Diamond-Love on the Rocks [48] (Soft, S12)
Neil Diamond-On the Robert E. Lee [40] (Soft, S10)
Neil Diamond-You Baby [21] (Soft, S05)
Pointer Sisters-He's So Shy [42] (Hip-Hop, H12)
Police-Behind My Camel [45] (Alternative, A18)
Police-Bombs Away [31] (Soft, S08)
Police-Canary in a Coalmine [17] (Soft, S02)
Police-De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da [8] (Alternative, A07)
Police-Don't Stand So Close to Me [5] (Alternative, A04)
Queen-Another One Bites the Dust [12] (Alternative, A09)
Queen-Flash [41] (Alternative, A16)
Spinners-Working My Way Back to You [35] (Hip-Hop, H08)
Sugarhill Gang-Rapper's Delight [3] (Rap, R01)
Tom Petty-Don't Do Me Like That [9] (Alternative, A08)
Toto-Hold the Line [38] (Hip-Hop, H10)
U2-I Will Follow [1] (Alternative, A01)
U2-Into the Heart [30] (Alternative, A14)
U2-Touch (aka Trevor) [47] (Alternative, A19)
U2-Twilight [44] (Alternative, A17)
Vapors-Turning Japanese [13] (Alternative, A10)