Various artists
Label K-tel
Cat # NE 1070
Released March 1980
Compiled by Nigel Mason
Chart performance
Entered chart w/e March 29, 1980
Peak position #6 (w/e April 12, 1980)
Weeks on chart 8
Certification Gold
20 ORIGINAL HITS
This album captured the shifting sound of the new decade, moving away from disco and soft rock toward New Wave, Synth-pop, and early 80s pop.
BLONDIE: 'Union City Blue'
THE TOURISTS: 'So Good To Be Back Home Again'
PETER GABRIEL: 'Games Without Frontiers'
SPARKS: 'When I'm With You'
NEW MUSIK: 'Living By Numbers'
RUPERT HOLMES: 'Escape (Pina Colada Song)'
BILLY OCEAN: 'Are You Ready'
LIQUID GOLD: 'Dance Yourself Dizzy'
GIBSON BROTHERS: 'Que Sera Mi Vida'
BOOKER T AND THE MG'S: 'Green Onions'
ABBA: 'Gimme Gimme Gimme'
MATCHBOX: 'Buzz Buzz A Diddle It'
REGENTS: '7Teen'
JOHN FOXX: 'Underpass'
VAPORS: 'Turning Japanese'
SAD CAFÉ: 'Strange Little Girl'
MARTHA AND THE MUFFINS: 'Echo Beach'
OSIBISA: 'Pata Pata'
TONY RALLO AND THE MIDNITE BAND: 'Holdin' On' *
AZYMUTH: 'Jazz Carnival'
*Missing from Spotify