Top 30 80s Songs That Got Popular Again

[@WatchMojo]

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[@devingiles6597]

Kool & the Gang - Celebration A-ha - Take on Me Journey - Don't Stop Believin' Debbie Deb - Lookout Weekend Technotronic - Pump Up the Jam Bon Jovi - Livin' On a Prayer Starship - We Built This City Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams Are Made of These

[@RDrRD1989]

Like a Prayer by Madonna

[@trinaq]

The 1980's: "The Future's so Bright, we gotta wear shades." The 2020's: "Can we go back to the 80's, please?!"

[@JonesingUSAF]

💯

[@sunayocarissime5309]

IKR! There are days I actually miss the times between 1980 and 1999. We all seemed happier then.😥 I spent most of the time wondering what college would be like and what I would do after I graduated high school. Now I find myself wishing I could go back to 1982.

[@NotMeNaNaNa]

That song was about nuclear annihilation so I’d say that prediction not being true is a win for us 😜

[@DeltaElites]

To be fair, I'd only go back for those live concert days. I truly love the progress we've made in today's world and wouldn't want to go back to land line tech...lol. I did retire at 49 after building a successful ISP and selling it after 14 years though so I suppose I'm biased.

[@HarryChestMaster]

AI: No.

[@bluethunder7391]

The 70's and 80's where so great that everyone keep going back there virtually.

[@blackyvertigo]

when modern singers can't 'sing' without autotune i mean what else can you do?

[@trinaq]

KZbin is the closest thing to a time machine we have. The 80's are my favourite decade for music, since all of the tunes are timeless, and they're being introduced to new generations.

[@matthewselby376]

Could not agree more, the 80s are far and away my favourite decade for music. I was 7 in 1980.

[@starscreamthecruel8026]

@@matthewselby376 You were born in 1973? Me too! Gen X forever \m/

[@laurabailey1054]

I was 14 in 1980. The 80’s were great to be in high school and early 20’s.

[@lexkanyima2195]

It's so obvious

[@BlackHatCinephile]

🥈

[@mr.decencykeepinitreal6348]

“Never Gonna Give You Up.” “Take on Me.” “Everybody Wants to Rule the World.” “Tainetd Love.” Few of my 150+ most favorite songs in the ‘80s… Good job, WatchMojo… 😊

[@SueP-D]

It’s my Life West End Girls Don’t You Forget About Me Shout Pretty In Pink Cars You Spin Me Round Yup. The 80s were awesome 😎 Edit: I commented before watching the entire video so some of these maybe on Mojo’s list 😉

[@laurabailey1054]

The 80’s were great to be alive. I was in my teens and early 20’s in the 80’s.

[@flixi3105]

love tears for fears

[@bramscheDave]

This must be the slowest burn Rick-Roll in history!

[@jacara1981]

🤣

[@MikeAbili]

I can’t believe I got Rick Rolled

[@Bo_D_Hansen]

All music from the 1980s is still a big hit for me, and I'm still listening to it every day. 🎶🎵🎶

[@Amanda_Woodward]

7 years old , early 90s, parents blasting danger zone and us kids running and doing cannonballs into the pool. Best times of my life

[@thomasschneider8474]

Honestly, most of these songs have never really been away at all. They were just always there. Almost independent from any time context.

[@ladariusmcdonald]

Kate Bush's music is everything to me since I was a young teen. I was 13 when I discovered her music (Suspended in Gaffa from The Dreaming) for the first time over twenty years ago while watching VH1 Classic. Been a Kate Bush stan ever since.

[@camecex]

80's is the best decade for music.

[@paulienuti8031]

I wasn’t even alive in the 1980’s I love the music

[@RichardSullivan-p6c]

Same

[@bencharlie9509]

Absolutely. They don’t have music like that at any other period of history. I am going to play some Depeche Mode today!

[@Theanonymousbystander]

*90's

[@trinaq]

@@camecex Preach, the 80's, 90's and 70's are the best music decades for me, in that order.

[@04beni04]

Suddenly feeling an urge to rewatch Hold Me Now by Thompson Twins and dance like the dramatic kid I was when it first came out.

[@jmer3536]

FOREVER YOUNG! Has been covered many times in movies and on the radio. Even right now. Come on MOJO

[@justapeacefulmanwhosbornin7291]

“Somebody’s Watching Me.” is still one of my most favorite ‘80s songs. 😁

[@ewok40k]

And it got new meaning with the everpresent surveillance

[@DragonKazooie89]

It’s a staple of my Halloween playlist!

[@marlonperumal1994]

Need this for the 70s too!

[@devingiles6597]

Not to mention the 90s, as well.

[@RichardSullivan-p6c]

Fr

[@dannyaraya8017]

@@devingiles6597they did with that bald guy doing the narrating. smash mouth were included on that list

[@NotMeNaNaNa]

Yes half of that list will be songs featured in Boogie Nights 😉

[@Docmain3]

80's simply the best. From rock to pop and even disco. Mostly wrote their own songs and played their own instruments.

[@selenedm999]

And best of all, NO F*CKIN' AUTOTUNE! Autotune is the worst thing to ever happen to music!

[@paigemills67]

I was in high school and college during the 80's. Ahhh, the memories! ❤

[@laurabailey1054]

Me too!

[@cocoaorange1]

Same here!!😀

[@mr.decencykeepinitreal6348]

1980s, my number one favorite decade with great music.

[@gregoryhoward2349]

Thanks to Stranger things for making running up the hill popular again Also many of other classic hits for a new gen audience

[@Breezy_OntheRun]

Yes Kate bush is amazing but also loved placebos cover of it!

[@ocrossrep]

Bo Bruce rendition of Running Up the Hill, when seen thru her eyes as she struggles with her mother cancer diagnosis, will bring the meaning of the word into a whole new context of feelings. kzbin.info/www/bejne/lWa8aaWPedtkoLc&pp=ygUdYm8gYnJ1Y2UgcnVubmluZyB1cCB0aGF0IGhpbGw%3D

[@italosblogtalkradio4279]

I grew up during the 80’s but never came across Kate Bush until Stranger Things which is stranger than fiction if you ask me cause I would have loved it regardless

[@Shadowace724]

Almost every song is on my favorites playlist.

[@The_Cali_State]

2000s kid and I grew up with "old" music. I love that my favorite music is getting popular again.

[@cindeed4422]

Purple Rain, Billie Jean, Addicted To Love, Flashdance What A Feeling, Fame, Let’s Dance, Dress U Up, Obsession, Must Have Been Love, Alone, Islands In The Stream,Foolish Beat, Is This Love, Let The Music Play, O Sheri, Candy Girl, Hello. To name a few!

[@FarhanNaqvi-oy5we]

😢😢😢

[@jacobyrassilon]

And that's just pop hits...metal hits of the 80s have their on immortal quality going for them.

[@DaddyOfTheSugarVariety]

Every year on my birthday, I still listen to Happy Birthday - Weird Al Yankovic & Happy To Me - Syreeta.

[@fnjesusfreak]

1980s music never went out of style for me. It was still all over the airwaves well into the 1990s where I lived, so it stayed in the Zeitgeist until I was almost an adult.

[@HammerJammer81]

Many of these have always been on my playlists, they never died.

[@johnciocci3323]

I love that they included ‘Take My Breath Away’ because of a resurgence in… 1990. 😂 Bonus points for it being due to the movie premiering on television.

[@laurabailey1054]

I prefer their song Metro.

[@Memelord2020]

Honorable Mention: Like a Prayer by Madonna following its inclusion in Deadpool & Wolverine

[@r-rod8116]

Jump by Van Halen in opening of 2018 Ready Player One.

[@savannahraemccracken8222]

My wife and I LOVE San Junipero so much that we used an acoustic version of heaven is a place on earth for our first dance and then ended our wedding with the OG version on the dance floor! It was perfect!

[@eddielee3928]

80's by far was the best decade for music. No other decade has had as many pieces sampled or covered by others since.

[@Grandizer8989]

90s are the best or a close second.

[@TornSparrow1974]

"Everybody Wants to Rule the World" always makes me remember the movie Real Genius. Kristen Bell & Dax Shepherd did a great video for "Africa".

[@jasonkay42]

Had the same thought… Now I want to go laser up a bowl of popcorn and enter the Frito-Lay sweepstakes…

[@valerimorales5281moh3]

Pixeles.

[@TornSparrow1974]

@@jasonkay42 High five! I'll take the RV if you win. 🤣

[@romibodoni]

To me most of them are classics, meaning they never came back because they never went away nor will they ever

[@michaelmonthey5974]

“Don’t You Forget About Me” was also featured in the 2018 film, “Bumblebee”. The titular transformer, who is unable to speak after his vocal processor was damaged, used the song to communicate his bittersweet departure from his first human friend.

[@calvinfoo]

80s songs are awesome

[@jillgerber]

Thank you for including the most epic Rick Roll of all time at the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade! I needed to hear Cheese say, “ I like Rick rolling.”

[@mr.decencykeepinitreal6348]

Oh, I can’t stop listening to this song “Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This).” It is still one of the best 150+ songs in the ‘80s… 😊

[@lynnetteglocke3584]

The best use of Survivor's "Eye of the Tiger" was in Supernatural.

[@DJ-7]

Having grown up in the 80s, this may be my favorite Mojo Top... list EVER. 💛

[@Cliffjumper24]

ABC: When Smokey Sings A-ha: The Sun Always Shines on TV Martika: Toy Soldiers Fleetwood Mac: Little Lies Depeche Mode: Enjoy The Silence Michael Jackson: Beat it B-52's: Roam Katrina and the Waves: Walking on Sunshine Yes: Owner of A Lonely Heart Duran Duran: Wild Boys Wilson Phillips: Hold On Simple Minds: Alive and Kicking Mark Safan: Win In The End I could list loads more!!!

[@RustyHinge]

Journey's "Separate Ways (Worlds Apart)" also had a resurgence, first with the movie "Yes Man" and then with the last season of "Stranger Things".

[@flamegamer3424]

The Safety Dance is underrated that I listen to it occasionally. Take on Me has that pumping feel to it. Eye Of The Tiger gets me rocking. Never Gonna Give You Up will always be catchy, even if it gets memed. I got introduced to some these songs as well as others thanks to old cartoons, films and video games.

[@semperfiyorkies]

I can’t believe you didn’t mention Supernatural for Eye of the Tiger.

[@devingiles6597]

Honorable mention: Debbie Deb - Lookout Weekend The song was played during the end credits of the 2019 film, Ma.

[@lateefp80]

Total eclipse of heart made a major come back in the movie Old School 😁

[@MissLucyJane]

My favorite use of "Safety Dance" will always be when Turk sang it on "Scrubs." There are so many 80s songs I still love. I graduated from high school in 1989, so the decade is my coming-of-age years. My 80s playlist on Spotify (called "Class of '89", of course) is currently over 700 songs, and they range from the sublime ("I will haven't found what I'm looking for") to the ridiculous ("Shiney Happy People"). It's my happy place.

[@Caffeinatedandgrouchy]

For my 12 birthday in 1980, one of my friends asked the DJ at a school dance to play Another One Bites the Dust. It was very appropriate and good memories.

[@daledillahunty6575]

Long Live 80s Music

[@mr.decencykeepinitreal6348]

“I Wanna Dance (With Somebody Who Loves Me)” = One of my top 3 favorite Whitney Houston songs. 😁

[@reynaolvera7526]

Berlins Take My Breathe Away now always causes the flash of an image of Charlie battling Dennis to a dance off 😂

[@qkwnwkw]

As an 80's boy this proves that 80's RULE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@DaddyOfTheSugarVariety]

As a kid I listened to Total Eclipse on repeat. When my nephew was a kid, he thought the song was hilarious.

[@laurabailey1054]

I have the sheet music for the song.

[@DaddyOfTheSugarVariety]

@laurabailey1054 Nice

[@tylergoodman3560]

These songs were always popular. Good songs never go out of style. 🎉

[@JJ.-BB]

Ridiculous troll

[@Reaperguy67]

​@@JJ.-BB you already admitted to trolling already. Why don't you grow up and lean how to leave people alone.

[@tylergoodman3560]

​@@JJ.-BBYes, you are. 🎉

[@Milo-Simms]

​@tylergoodman3560 You know who that is? He's a famous actor that's been in many movies.

[@Reaperguy67]

@@Milo-Simms why are you spamming this

[@starscreamthecruel8026]

My fav version for Eye of The Tiger, was Dean from Supernatural doing his actions to the video at the end of one of the episodes about fear :)

[@jerryf.coffey2671]

I'm kind of surprised that Kickstart My Heart by Motley Crue didn't make the list considering how many car commercials and video packages for racing that I've heard it in. Lol 😅

[@hasshaf]

Absolute bangers. Don't get this today 😢

[@Jeremiah_Rivers76]

Whereas Max used “Running Up That Hill (A Deal with God)” as her song to escape Vecna, “Take On Me” would be my song because I’d want to protect her and the rest of Hawkins’ heroes: Will, Mike, Lucas, Dustin, Eleven/Jane, Joyce, Hopper, Nancy, Jonathan, etc.

[@kiralee2012]

All of those songs will stay with me forever. They are from my childhood. 😂

[@celticpoet21]

Great list! Without a doubt, Queen transcends time itself, along with everything else! Sweet child o mine was sung in the Viggo Mortensen movie "Captain Fantastic" and let's not forget Adam Lambert's rendition of "holding out for a hero". Marilyn Manson's cover of "sweet dreams" was played during the werewolf transformation scene in "Trick 'r treat."

[@michaelmonthey5974]

“Eye Of The Tiger” was featured in a blooper scene in an episode of “Supernatural”. I think it’s called “Yellow Fever”. In the scene, Jensen Ackles breaks character and hilariously lip syncs to the song.

[@mrandisg]

Came here to say this! I'm surprised it wasn't mentioned during that segment!

[@ricbrown1114]

Why isn't "In the Air Tonight" by Phil Collins not part of this list? It should be, at least, in the top 5. It's iconic 80's, has been remixed, sampled and covered by countless artists. Very confused.

[@Cliffjumper24]

Mojo is produced by Americans, so they probably have a different radar than in Europe The Journey track is big in the US, but not so much in the UK.

[@SnakeEyesNZ]

Yeah, they could have least matched it with the Cadbury Gorilla ad 🤣

[@Cliffjumper24]

@@SnakeEyesNZ A great advert.... which I doubt they've seen. Incidentally, there are reaction videos about that advert on youtube!!

[@NotMeNaNaNa]

Yes and don’t forget its use in The Hangover.

[@izzy.e]

"Everyone want to rule the world" also got introduced recently to a new generation of song listeners through the Skibidi Toilet series. My 11 year old son was playing that song over and over for weeks.

[@jaytaggert2335]

25:45 Careless whisper had it's different version of getting popular again here in the philippines. 😂🤣 For context to all foreigners, back in 2009 a s*x tape between a very famous actress(at that time) and a doctor was leaked before they did the deed. They were dancing to this song playing in the background of the said s*x tape 😂 The actress's name is Katrina Halili and the celebrity doctor was Hayden ko/kho. They even had a senate hearing about it, which was both hilarious and a huge waste of everyone's time. To this day, it still didn't make any sense why they didn't settle the lawsuit in court privately instead publicizing it with useless philippine politicians 😂

[@StupidJLee]

'75-'95 was the best music had to offer.

[@ryanbutler74]

‘Take My Breath Away’ was not written by Berlin. Georgio Meroder and Tom Whitlock wrote it and most of the Top Gun soundtrack.

[@Canberrapool]

Yeah these songs always being on my playlists since the 80s..awesome that they are popular again

[@deuts]

You must have missed The Time of My Life from Dirty Dancing.

[@erinreed9696]

Gotta LOVE THE 80S!!! 🎶❤🎧

[@melanietremblay3161]

Thank you watchmojo because of the number 1 is gonna stay in my head for a couple of days😂😂🙄

[@jacara1981]

Wheezers Africa was awesome, most people didn't notice when Weird Al comes in as the main singer.

[@jamesletts2209]

The 80s is by far the best decade for music! 😍

[@joermnyc]

#2 was famous in the 1990s because the band Placebo covered it, and their version is VERY haunting, so much so it was used to promote the PBS documentary series “The War” (Ken Burns made it) about WW2 and the people who lived through it.😂

[@GizmoBeach]

80’s songs never lost their appeal to those of us who lived through that decade and before. Since the 00’s very little of “popular” music has any lasting appeal past the next video by a particular artist.

[@georgieboy9101]

A great song never dies.

[@Elke_KB]

I thank Stranger Things and Guardians of the Galaxy for convincing my Gen-Z kids that their mom's music is the best. I remember a friend getting mad at me because I liked Van Halen and Wham. My immigrant parents taught me to appreciate different genres of music, but there is something special about certain eras, espcially the 60s to 80s.

[@DuaneTanTC]

these songs not only popular again now... these songs are always popular!

[@1ncredulous]

Tainted love also had a resurgence in the 2000s with a Levi’s ad where a man is being operated on. Mid-surgery he becomes aware that the beeping and hissing sounds in the OR are playing the tune.

[@steverussell932]

“I Wanna Dance With Somebody” was also sampled in Natalie La Rosa’s 2016 single appropriately titled “Somebody.”

[@caitlinbures4802]

500 miles by the proclaimers!!! Released in 1988 it hit he charts 6 years late when it was used in the Johnny Depp movie Bonny and Joon. Then it was used in How I met your mother as the song that continually plays is Marsh’s car!!! Great song!!!!

[@InCorygible]

I couldn't stop singing Queen music all day today. Turns out I had Freddie Mercury poisoning. It Brian May be contagious.

[@saymynameice-zen-berg511]

Others I’ve seen have some kind of a resurgence are: -Spirit In The Sky-Norman Greenbaum -Vacation-The GoGos -Highway To Hell-AC/DC -Gloria-Laura Branigan

[@laurabailey1054]

Doctor and the Medics covered Spirt in the Sky in the 80’s bringing back the original into popularity.

[@roujainne]

Did not expect to be Rick Rolled 😂

[@danieljckson]

The 80s was peak music!!!

[@solid4brewing]

Placebo's cover of Running Up That Hill is just magic!

[@antoniodagostino2291]

Used in any modern animation movie, tv musical shows or someone covering it on a talent competition will always keep 80s music relevant....stranger. things has also introduced the new generation to it as well while us generation x get to relive it again 😁

[@Maximum_Warp]

Heaven is a place on Earth is a great song but 'Circle in the Sand' is my all time favorite by Belinda.

[@MithunOnTheNet]

Testament to quality of the great pop and rocks songs from the 1980s! Every generation loves it.

[@reallyretro]

I remember hearing the cover of Kate Bush's Running Up That Hill by the group Placebo on The OC sitcom back around 2006 or so. Amazing song

[@hudsonja]

Very surprised that neither Scrubs nor Goldfinger were mentioned when talking about 99 Luftballons. Or Jessica Simpson's cover of Take My Breath Away.

[@pockylovingranger]

My brain went RIGHT to the Literally Video version for Total Eclipse of the Heart when this started xD

[@reymartmacanang8330]

Sweet Dreams was also repopularized when it was used as background music for the introduction of Quicksilver's character in an X-Men movie

[@keithdean9149]

There is great music from almost every era. The 80s has more than its share.

[@azureblue.567]

19:46 Happy belated birthday Annie Lennox!! Absolute legend ❤❤

[@reedspace8267]

A Capella group Straight No Chaser began with a 12 Days of Christmas spoof that turns into a parody of "Africa" at the end. So add that to the Toto portion of this list.

[@FreeSpeech-q7v]

You forgot Van Halen JUMP

[@michaelcarey8388]

Tainted Love was the 1st song I recorded from the radio on to a cassette back in the day....

[@timothylopez8572]

CROSSTALGIA: The feeling of nostalgia you feel, but the first time you see someone else exerperince hearing a great old song for the first time.

[@LTCEZIO]

I'm so thankful my parents raised me on good music. I'm pretty sure there are several people watching this going who's Kenny loggins

[@MamaMio17]

I waited this whole time to hear the mention of Cramps "goo goo muck" making a huge comeback through the Wednesday Adams prom dance, but I guess that was a 70's hit.

[@garrettrobinson1447]

Wow who would have thought that Mojo made a whole count down show just to Rick Roll us!

[@bradball]

The majority of these songs didn’t become “popular again”… they just transitioned from Top 40 hits in the 1980’s to regular rotation on adult contemporary radio in the 1990’s and 2000’s… and finally to wide spread circulation on streaming platforms such as Pandora and Spotify in the 2010’s. I’d say the biggest “popular again” hits on this list are Journey’s Don’t Stop Believing, Aha’s Take On Me, and Kate Bush’s Running Up That Hill… all of which went through a significant period (in the 90’s) when they were largely forgotten songs - and have now become so massively popular and widespread that everyone knows by them by heart. JMHO.

[@alexanderreznikov2682]

My most favorite song will forever be "Time After Time."