Music through the decades

1. Music Through The Decades

2. THE 60’S In March 1960 – Elvis Presley returned to the music scene after being in the US army and recorded ‘It’s now or never’ and ‘Are you lonesome tonight’ In the 1960’s Motown R ecord Corporation was founded. Its first top ten hit was ‘Shop Around’ by the Miracles hitting number 2 on The Billboard Top 100, and was the record companies first record to reach sell one million copies. Motown Record Corporation’s first number one hit was released by ‘The Marvelettes ’ – ‘Please Mr Postman’ was released in 1961. Also The Four Seasons released 3 straight number one hits. The Beatles arrived in America in 1963 contributing to the British music invasion in the US. The Supremes scored twelve number one hit singles between 1964 and 1969, beginning with "Where Did Our Love Go". Cilla Black's number one hit "Anyone who had a Heart" still remains the top selling single by a female artist in the UK from 1964 . The Rolling Stones have a huge #1 hit with their song "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" in the summer of 1965. The Woodstock Festival, and four months later, the Altamont Free Concert in 1969

3. THE 70’S One of the most successful European groups of the decade was the quartet ABBA. The Swedish group, who are still the most successful group from their country, first found fame when they won the 1974 Eurovision Song Contest. They became one of the most widely known European groups ever and one of the best selling artists of all time. "Take a Chance on Me" and "Dancing Queen" are two of ABBA's most popular songs (Wikipedia) . One of the first events of the 1970s was the breakup of The Beatles in the spring of 1970. Paul McCartney formed a new group, Wings, and continued to enjoy great mainstream success. The three other former Beatles — John Lennon, George Harrison and Ringo Starr — all continued hugely successful recording careers throughout the decade and beyond. Several of their songs are listed among the biggest hits of the 1970s: Wings' "Silly Love Songs" and "My Love," and Harrison's "My Sweet Lord“ (Wikipedia). The Jackson 5 became one of the biggest pop-music phenomena of the 1970s, [9] playing from a repertoire of rhythm and blues, soul, pop and later disco. The Jacksons — brothers Jackie, Tito, Jermaine, Marlon and Michael — the first act in recording history to have their first four major label singles: "I Want You Back", "ABC", "The Love You Save", and "I'll Be There" reach the top of the Billboard Hot 100. The band served as the launching pad for the solo careers of their lead singers Jermaine and Michael, and while Jermaine had some success, it was Michael who would transform his early fame into greater success as an adult artist, with songs such as "Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough" and "Rock with You .”( http:// en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1970s_in_music#The_U.K_and_Europe)

4. THE 80’S In the United States, MTV was launched and music videos began to have a larger effect on the record industry. Pop artists such as Michael Jackson, Duran Duran , Prince, Madonna, and Queen mastered the format and helped turn this new product into a profitable business. New Wave and Synthpop were developed by many British and American artists, and became popular phenomena throughout the decade, especially in the early and mid eighties. Michael Jackson was a popular entertainer of the 1980s and his leather jacket, glove and Moonwalk dance were often imitated. Jackson's 1982 album Thriller became—and currently remains—the best-selling album of all time, with sales estimated by various sources as somewhere between 65 and 110 million copies worldwide. Madonna was regarded as the most ground breaking female artist of the decade; she was also noted for her many fashion incarnations. The keyboard synthesizer and drum machine were among the most popular in music in the early 1980s, especially in New Wave music. By the middle part of the 1980s synthesizers began to become incorporated into mainstream pop music. After the 1980s electronic instruments were no longer popular in rock but continued to be the main component of mainstream pop . Information from: http ://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980s#Music

5. THE 90’S At the beginning of the 1990s, artists such as Public Enemy, Beastie Boys, Mc Hammer, Ice Cube, A Tribe Called Quest, Gang Starr, Dr. Dre , Eazy -E, Snoop Dogg , Nas , Wu-Tang Clan continued to increase hip hop's visibility in the music mainstream. With the help of artists such as Fugees , 2Pac, and Notorious B.I.G., hip hop had overtaken other forms of popular music with commercial sales and success by the mid-1990s The Spice Girls became one of the biggest global pop acts of the 90’s Popular American Contemporary R&B artists of the 90’s included Michael Bolton, Kenny G, Celine Dion, Mariah Carey, D'Angelo , Lauryn Hill, Whitney Houston, Sade, En Vogue, TLC, Toni Braxton, Boyz II Men, Dru Hill, Gloria Estefan, Vanessa L. Williams and LeAnn Rimes.

6. 2010 January "TiK ToK" by Kesha tops the U.S. Billboard Hot 100– Lady Gaga becomes the first artist in the survey's 17-year history to send her first five singles to number one on the Billboard Pop Songs chart with her single "Bad Romance". February Beyoncé played to a sold out crowd of 60,000 people in São Paulo, Brazil at Morumbi Stadium. March Lady Gaga becomes the first artist in the survey's 17-year history to send her first six singles to number-one (let alone six consecutive singles) on Billboard Pop Songs chart when her single "Telephone" jumped to number one. April My World 2.0 by Justin Bieber , reaches number 1 on Billboard's Top 200 album chart. May Kelly Clarkson performed in Malaysia for the first time on her All I Ever Wanted Tour. This is her first tour in Asia. June Katy Perry's "California Gurls " reaches the top of the US charts. July Enrique Iglesias releases his first bilingual album Euphoria with contained equal amount of original English and Spanish tracks with two different singles successfully released to English and Latin formats simultaneously. August The Foo Fighters headed back into the studio to record their seventh studio album. September Rihanna, released her much anticipated lead single, "Only Girl (In the World)", off her fifth studio album Loud . November After years of legal disputes, music from The Beatles is now available on iTunes. December 53rd Grammy Awards nominees announced from Los Angeles' Club Nokia with Eminem leads with ten nominations for his album Recovery . Bruno Mars scored seven nominations and Lady Gaga, Jay-Z and Lady Antebellum with six nominations each. The ceremony was held in the Staples Center on February 13, 2011.