80's Love

It's the decade that people don't want to stop reviving! The 1980s still looms large in popular culture and GREATEST EVER 80s takes a spin through a selection of highlights.
This collection brings together 80 tracks from the 80s across 4 CDs. The “Smash Hits” favourites of the decade are here, led by a-ha, Spandau Ballet and Duran Duran. There are huge AOR hits by Tina Turner, Diana Ross and Michael McDonald, pure pop from Kylie, Jason and Rick Astley, and synthpop by A Flock Of Seagulls, Kajagoogoo and Thomas Dolby.

NOW Music is proud to present NOW That’s What I Call USA: The 80s – 4CDs packed with 79 massive U.S. hits – Whilst some were big hits on both sides of the Atlantic, we shine a spotlight on huge hits from America at the time, that have gone on to be as legendary in the UK as they were in the US.

I (Love) 80s, also called I ❤ 80s, is a 2CD compilation of some of the biggest and brightest hit songs of the 1980's. This was put together by Sony Music.

Welcome to Magic Radio – 100% Summer: The 80s. At Magic Radio, we love summer and of course, the 80s, and whether it’s a BBQ with friends and family or just getting out in the sunshine, we are your destination for 100% summer music. This 3CD collection brings together over 60 of the very biggest and best 80s hits from our playlists for the warm summer months with hits from Wham!, Blondie, Whitney Houston, UB40, Wet Wet Wet and many, many more.

Backbeats Records is strictly a compilation company based in the U.K. and distributed throughout the European Union at budget prices. What they do is simply compile collections of dance music by well-known and obscure artists from the disco era to the late '90s. And for what it’s worth, when it comes to licensing, they do a terrific job, and this set is a case in point. Compiled by Ian Dewhirst, this collection of '70s and '80s soul walks the end of the classic soul era’s foray into funk, disco, and beyond into the '80s high-production modes associated with that era. Dewhirst is a smart cookie, however, and while the '80s produced some of the lamest records ever in the name of soul, he’s avoided all of them on Back to My Place Baby, an excellent collection of babymakers.

NOW Music are excited to present the next instalment of the ‘NOW 12” 80s’ series – NOW 12” 80s: 1982 – Part One – Out January 19th!Across 4 CDs, 48 extended, full-length or remixed versions reflecting the shift from Disco being the dominant genre in the Chart, to it being enriched with the developing Synth-Pop and New-Wave sounds of the New Romantics. Despite this sonic shift, the 12” single played an even more vital role than it had done with Funk and Disco, providing fans with more time on club dancefloors and more room for artist and producer experimentation. This edition of 12” 80s presents part one of 1982 – such massive year for Pop that we had to split this year into two parts to present all of the essential tracks.

100 pop classics from the decade of excess that includes Number 1s from Dead Or Alive, Men At Work & Adam & The Ants alongside 80s favourites from Landscape, Jo Boxers, Furniture, The Bangles and Mental As Anything.

Throughout the 80s a smooth dancefloor friendly genre developed that saw beats slowing down and basslines being cranked up. Hit after hit saw clubs up and down the country packed out as Jocelyn Brown, Mantronix, Maze, Simply Red, Mica Paris, Loose Ends, Soul II Soul, Neneh Cherry and many more produced classic after classic, many of them on this fantastic compilation. It was one of the most funky and feel-good periods of club music, supported by the rise of the music video and the birth of MTV which broadened musical styles and tastes and brought club soul to the mainstream. This soulful side to the 80s was heavily influenced by American soul artists of the time such as Luther Vandross, Alexander O’Neal, Stevie Wonder, Diana Ross and Chaka Khan as well as the new rap stars like Grandmaster Flash and Eric B and Rakim. Even Debbie Harry joined in with a rap on the acclaimed Rapture.

With roots in the Los Angeles country and folk-rock scenes, Linda Ronstadt became one of the most popular interpretive singers of the '70s, earning a string of platinum-selling albums and Top 40 singles. Throughout the '70s, her laid-back pop never lost sight of her folky roots, yet as she moved into the '80s, she began to change her sound with the times, adding new wave influences. After a brief flirtation with pre-rock pop, Ronstadt settled into a pattern of adult contemporary pop and Latin albums, sustaining her popularity in both fields. This collection features seven of Linda Ronstadt's albums from the 1980s.