Top 100 Songs of The 80s

The 1980s saw the emergence ofelectronic dance musicandnew wave, also known as Modern Rock. Asdiscofell out of fashion in the decade s early years, genres such aspostdisco, Italo disco, Euro disco, anddancepopbecame more popular. Rock musiccontinued to enjoy a wide audience. Soft rock, glam metal, thrash metal, shred guitarcharacterized by heavy distortion, pinch harmonics, glam metalbecame the largest, most commercially successful brand of music worldwide R B, hip hop, andurbangenres were becoming commonplace, particularly in the innercity areas of large, metropolitan cities; rap was especially successful in the latter part of the decade.