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Well, Oxygene reached number two in the UK album charts and Oxygene IV was a hit single reaching number 4 in the UK singles charts. Those were popular music cha
by teh_klev 10y ago
Well, Oxygene reached number two in the UK album charts and Oxygene IV was a hit single reaching number 4 in the UK singles charts. Those were popular music charts, and back then there was a much wider variety of genres of music occupying the top 40's, especially in the UK. I was ~11 years old and for a while you couldn't avoid Jarre on the radio and Top of The Pops.
- jacquesm 10y agoDon't forget ABBA and the BeeGees. Sometimes it was as if those three were on continuous high-rotation.
- coldtea 10y agoSure, but "pop music" is also used as a stylistic term, not just about mere popularity. Some jazz and classical works have been on the top-40, but that doesn't make them "pop music" in the first sense. Wham, however, where a pure 80s pop group, if there ever was one.