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5 hit songs that prove 1979 was the decade's best year for new wave music

Some of new wave's best hits, including Blondie's "Heart of Glass," the Police's "Message in a Bottle," and Gary Numan's ...
American Songwriter

3 One-Hit Wonders From the 1980s That Still Hit Hard Today, Even Though No One Listens to New Wave Anymore

New wave was thought to be the hot new genre from across the pond. But bands like Devo, straight from Akron, Ohio, proved ...
American Songwriter

4 Times a One-Hit Wonder From the 1980s Was Actually a Perfect Song

I consider a one-hit wonder or two (or three) from the 1980s to be totally perfect. You might just agree with me.

On This Day in 1984, a 'Profoundly Weird' New Wave Hit Became Duran Duran’s Last UK No. 1 and First U.S. Smash

Duran Duran ruled British New Wave in the 1980s, and one standout hit marked both their final UK chart-topper and their first ...

1985 Hit Named Greatest One-Hit Wonder of All Time

The European band were a huge success internationally, but only ever scored one chart-topper in the U.S.
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New Wave Movement

Emerging at the cusp of the last decade of the 20th century, the New Wave movement crystallized in the late 1970s and burst into mainstream consciousness throughout the 1980s. Though it branched out ...