The 1980s are a rich text of classic songs that topped the Billboard charts and shaped culture along the way. Stacker ranked the top 25 hits of the '80s based on their overall popularity.

What were the best rock music videos for each year of the 1980s? It was a decade that set the standard for what the music video can be and we saw the growth explode over the course of the 1980s.

MTV launched in 1981 and within two years the economics of the music industry had rearranged themselves around a medium nobody had planned for. Some artists understood immediately. They didn’t make ...