What type of music was famous on the 80s?

Who?

By: Andres

Types of musicThere were many different types of famous and heard music on the 80’s like for example:

• Rock• Heavy metal• Alternative rock• Electronic• Contemporary R&B• Hip Hop• Country music• POP

But still, the most famous type was…

POP MUSIC!!!On the 80s, the most famous type of music was POP. The most powerful musicians at that time, were Michael Jackson and Madonna. Their videos became a permanent fixture on MTV and gained a worldwide mass audience. Another very good and famous musician from the 80s was Cyndi Lauper.

Michael Jackson MadonnaCyndi Lauper

Cyndi LauperDuring the mid-1980s an American pop singer, Cyndi Lauper was considered the MTV voice of the 80s generation and had so different visual style that made the world for teens. Her albums She’s So Unusual and True Colors, were a total exit and released one of the 80’s biggest classic, “Girls Just Want to Have Fun”.

Michael Jackson’s Thriller album from 1982 is the best-selling album of all time, it is cited as selling as many as about 110 million copies worldwide. Being the biggest selling artist of that decade he was indisputably the biggest star of the 1980s.

Michael Jackson

Thanks for listening!!!

BibliographyMartin, Antonio. "1980s in Music." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, 8 Aug. 2012. Web. 29 Aug. 2012. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980s_in_music>.