Joy Womack

Love the 80s? Then this album is especially for you – 5CDs of pure 80s Groove greatness!
Having brought you the electronic and pop side of the 80s with 80s Anthems, Union Square Music now presents the more soulful side of the decade with 80s Groove.
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.

Warner Music Group - X5 Music Group Presents Soul Town: Best Classic Soul album 50 original hits and the original artists genre Soul, RnB. Includes tracks by Donny Hathaway, Roberta Flack, Aretha Franklin, The Spinners and more.

Hit 80s Classics The Collection with lots of interesting tracks. The band personally selected the song for release following the failure of its predecessor, Careless Memories, which had been chosen by their record company, EMI. Johnny Come Home was the debut single release by British band Fine Young Cannibals, taken from their debut album Fine Young Cannibals. Some Like It Hot is a song recorded by The Power Station.

Last year, Universal Music scored a No.1 Hit with ‘Move On Up’, introducing Northern Soul music to a new generation with the help of 18-year-old Northern Soul YouTube star Levanna McLean.100k sales and one gold disc later, it’s time for Volume 2. ‘Move On Up Volume 2’ is released 18th March. This follow-up album is packed full of Northern Soul classics for the wider audience plus includes some hard-to-find gems from the Northern Soul scene which the fans are going to love.

Mariah Carey (born March 27, 1970) is an American R&B singer, songwriter, record producer, and actress. She made her recording debut in 1990 under the guidance of Columbia Records executive Tommy Mottola, and became the first recording artist to have her first five singles top the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart. Following her marriage to Mottola in 1993, a series of hit records established her position as Columbia's highest-selling act. According to Billboard magazine, she was the most successful artist of the 1990s in the United States. Following her separation from Mottola in 1997, Carey introduced elements of hip hop into her album work, to much initial success, but her popularity was in decline when she left Columbia in 2001. She signed to Virgin Records but was paid to leave the label the following year after a highly publicized physical and emotional breakdown, as well as the poor reception given to Glitter, her film and soundtrack project. In 2002, Carey signed with Island Records, and after a relatively unsuccessful period, she returned to the top of pop music in 2005. Carey was named the best-selling female pop artist of the millennium at the 2000 World Music Awards.[6] She has the most number-one singles for a solo artist in the United States (eighteen; second artist overall behind The Beatles), where, according to the Recording Industry Association of America, she is one of the best-selling female artists and sixteenth overall recording artist. In addition to her commercial accomplishments, Carey has earned five Grammy Awards, and is well-known for her vocal range, power, melismatic style, and use of the whistle register. She is ranked as the best-selling female artist of the U.S. Nielsen SoundScan era (third-best-selling artist overall), with shipments of over 62.5 million albums in the U.S. and has sold more than 200 million albums worldwide.

Having begun his career as the main vocalist for Philly Soul pioneers, Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes, Teddy Pendergrass maintained an assured presence that always sounded like it was in partnership with the music. It's this kind of conviction that would continue on through Pendergrass' solo work that would, in turn, stand out as one of the most truly distinctive voices of Philly Soul. Pendergrass would continue this successful relationship on Philadelphia International from 1977-1983 before signing with Elektra/Asylum Records with 1980’s TP LP giving him his biggest commercial success of that decade.