Our "April of Awesome Eras" continues with the '80s all week long! Come back next week for our deep dive into the '90s.
Power through your workday with your favorite ‘80s music. Flash back with the ‘80s radio hits you love!
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1980s Hits
Top chart hits of the eighties
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Binge This: Set in the '80s
'80s hits that set the scenes for "Stranger Things," "Everybody Hates Chris," "The Goldbergs" and...
Classic Alternative 1984
Core alt acts like the Replacements and the Smiths, and early days heavy hitters like R.E.M. and ...
Classic Alternative 1985
Before grunge, THIS was Alternative Rock: R.E.M., the Smiths, New Order, and Kate Bush
Classic Alternative 1986
A year for classic albums like XTC's 'Skylarking,' Smiths' 'The Queen Is Dead,' Depeche Mode's 'B...
College Rock Radio: 1985
A sweet journey into those dorm driven turntables that were delivered to your headphones closed c...
Country Music 1984
Throwin' it back to '84 with George Strait, Alabama, Oak Ridge Boys, and the Judds
Country Music's Class of 1989
With Garth Brooks, Alan Jackson, Clint Black, and Travis Tritt, the "Class of '89" propelled Coun...
Country Yearbook 1983
Celebrating a great year of country music with Ricky Skaggs, Reba, Mickey Gilley, Sylvia and more!
Critics' Picks: Top Songs of the '80s
Derived from hundreds of critics' lists of the best music of the decade
Jazz Sampler: 1983
Compiled from our various Jazz channels, enjoy some of the our favorite jazz releases
R&B Hits of '84
This was the year it rained 'purple', but the year was filled songs from other royalty like Chaka...
R&B Jams: 1985
There were few smoother than Luther and Sade at the mid point of the decade. Hot tracks from Mor...
Radio-X
Programmed by Morris Knight. '80s-based alternative and new wave that goes beyond the pop and flu...
Rock of '86
A great year for Bon Jovi, Steve Winwood, Peter Gabriel, plus both "Van Hagar" and solo DLR
The New Wave: 1983
Our prime collection of modern rock from a year of great releases from New Order, Aztec Camera, T...
This Is Country: 1985
What a year for Earl Thomas Conley, Exile, the Judds, the Oak Ridge Boys, and Alabama!
This Is Hard Rock: 1983
Tracks that blew out the speakers in Camaro Z28s! We took out the t-tops so your hair would fit ...
This Is Music: 1984
Your favorites from the year of 'Born in the U.S.A.,' 'Purple Rain,' 'Like a Virgin,' and 'Footlo...
This Is Music: 1985
2020 is the 35th anniversary of Live Aid and New Coke! Here's the music of 1985.
This Is Music: 1986
Career classics from Peter Gabriel, Lionel Richie and Bon Jovi plus the "Top Gun" soundtrack... w...
Top 100 Songs: 1983
The singles rated highest by AccuRadio listeners for the year that saw the debut of Fraggle Rock ...
Top 40: April 19, 1987
It was the night the world met The Simpsons for the first time ever! The animated short "Good Ni...
Top 40: January 29, 1980
These are the songs that topped the charts that mind-blowing day when the Rubik's cube made its i...
Top 40: March 11, 1985
These are the songs that topped the charts & rattled boomboxes the week Mikhail Gorbachev became ...
Top Rock Albums: 1984
Hard to deny the album that bears the name of the year, and yet the list goes on and on. From Th...
