Acclaimed Music - The Top 100 Artists of the 80s

The Top 100 Artists of the 80s


1 Prince
2 The Smiths
3 U2
4 R.E.M.
5 Bruce Springsteen
6 Public Enemy
7 Pixies
8 New Order
9 Madonna
10 Talking Heads
11 The Cure
12 Michael Jackson
13 Sonic Youth
14 Elvis Costello
15 Tom Waits
16 Joy Division
17 Hüsker Dü
18 Beastie Boys
19 Run-D.M.C.
20 The Jesus and Mary Chain
21 The Stone Roses
22 The Replacements
23 Guns N' Roses
24 Metallica
25 Peter Gabriel
26 The Police
27 Grandmaster Flash and The Furious Five
28 N.W.A
29 Eric B. & Rakim
30 Kate Bush
31 Echo and the Bunnymen
32 AC/DC
33 Dexys Midnight Runners
34 De La Soul
35 The Clash
36 Pretenders
37 The Jam
38 Nick Cave
39 The Pogues
40 Paul Simon
41 Motörhead
42 The Human League
43 X
44 David Bowie
45 Pet Shop Boys
46 Depeche Mode
47 XTC
48 The Specials
49 Violent Femmes
50 Dinosaur Jr.
51 ABC
52 Frankie Goes to Hollywood
53 The Fall
54 Iron Maiden
55 Slayer
56 Def Leppard
57 Talk Talk
58 Black Flag
59 Boogie Down Productions
60 Dead Kennedys
61 Soul II Soul
62 Billy Bragg
63 Cyndi Lauper
64 Soft Cell
65 Prefab Sprout
66 Eurythmics
67 LL Cool J
68 Lou Reed
69 Tracy Chapman
70 Van Halen
71 Big Black
72 The Go-Betweens
73 The Waterboys
74 Minutemen
75 Simple Minds
76 Jane's Addiction
77 The The
78 My Bloody Valentine
79 Marvin Gaye
80 Laurie Anderson
81 The Gun Club
82 Dire Straits
83 Nine Inch Nails
84 Morrissey
85 Brian Eno
86 Bad Brains
87 Roxy Music
88 Leonard Cohen
89 Donald Fagen
90 Richard and Linda Thompson
91 The Cult
92 Neil Young
93 Janet Jackson
94 Afrika Bambaataa & The Soulsonic Force
95 Duran Duran
96 George Michael
97 Tina Turner
98 Bon Jovi
99 Spacemen 3
100 The Beat