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📻 Welcome to Wave 80 – streaming the best of 1980s Top 40, 24/7.
From synth-pop to power ballads, we’ve got your neon-soaked memories on loop.
Hit wave80hits.com and time-travel via synths, drum machines, and glorious pop hooks.
You can bring back ONE 80s radio ritual, just for a day:
a) The weekend Top 40 countdown
b) Redialing the request line until you finally got through
c) Your finger on Record, waiting for the DJ to stop talking
d) A song dedication to your crush, on the air
Which one? 👇
Happy Halloween 🎃
Rockwell's dad was Motown boss Berry Gordy. Rockwell signed to Motown without telling him.
Berry wasn't impressed by the music, until he heard who was singing the chorus: Rockwell's childhood friend Michael Jackson.
"Somebody's Watching Me" went to #2. 👀
Tonight: the Friday Night New Wave Halloween show 🦇
Bring your creepiest new wave requests. Gary will play them with a straight face (and no costume).
Spotlight: Siouxsie and the Banshees.
Live 7 PM CT / 8 PM ET. Requests: fnnw.live
What's your request? 👇
Daryl Hall says Michael Jackson came clean at the "We Are the World" session: he'd lifted the "Billie Jean" bass line from Hall & Oates' "I Can't Go for That."
Hall wasn't mad. He'd lifted it himself. "Something we all do." 🎸
Hear it on Wave 80 📻 wave80hits.com
Survivor had two flop albums and feared getting dropped.
Then Queen refused to let Sylvester Stallone use "Another One Bites the Dust" in Rocky III. He called Survivor.
Frankie Sullivan was so broke he played a guitar he'd glued together.
"Eye of the Tiger": 6 weeks at #1. 🐯
Rest in peace, Donnie Iris (1943–2026) 🖤
Pittsburgh's "King Cool" gave the 80s "Ah! Leah!" and "Love Is Like a Rock," and he kept singing to the very end, playing his final show just last month.
What's your favorite Donnie Iris song?
#OnThisDay in 1985, Whitney Houston got her first #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 with "Saving All My Love for You." Plot twist: it was a cover! Marilyn McCoo and Billy Davis Jr. recorded it first, in 1978. It also won Whitney her first Grammy. 💜
Happy Monday 😴 Prince wrote "Manic Monday" under the name "Christopher," first for Apollonia 6. The Bangles took it to #2. What kept it from #1? Prince's own "Kiss."
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"Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go" came from a note Andrew Ridgeley left for his parents. He accidentally wrote "up" twice, so he wrote "go" twice on purpose. George Michael turned it into Wham!'s first #1. ⏰
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Jon Bon Jovi didn't like the first recording of "Livin' on a Prayer." Richie Sambora talked him into keeping it. They reworked it with a new bassline and Sambora's talk box, and it spent 4 weeks at #1. 🙏
#OnThisDay in 1987, Michael Jackson's "Bad" hit #1 on the Billboard Hot 100. It was planned as a duet with Prince, who said no. His reason? The first line is "Your butt is mine," and he wondered who was singing that to who. 😂
Simple Minds turned down "Don't You (Forget About Me)." So did Bryan Ferry and Billy Idol, and the label even pitched Montreal's own Corey Hart. Simple Minds finally said yes, and it went to #1. 🎒
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11 years of free, commercial-free 80s on Wave 80! 🎉 So settle this for us: which year had the best hits? 1983, 1984, 1985 or 1987? Reply with your pick 👇 #80sMusic
#OnThisDay in 1988, Phil Collins hit #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 with "A Groovy Kind of Love" from his film Buster. The melody? Borrowed from a Clementi sonatina published in 1797! 🎹
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Happy Back to the Future Day! 🛹 Oct 21, 2015 is where Marty lands in Part II. Fun fact: in the first film, the judge who tells Marty's band they're "just too darn loud" while they play "The Power of Love"? That's Huey Lewis himself.
