The DeuxDuel 80s Pop lineup
21 songs · 16 artists · 1981–1989 · listed A–Z, not ranked
What this list is
DeuxDuel draws from 21 songs when it builds a 80s Pop matchup. Two of them appear side by side, you play a 30-second preview of each, and you pick the one you would rather hear. Every track here is a real Apple Music catalogue song, hand-picked for this category — not pulled from a streaming chart — and voting needs no music subscription.
The order below is alphabetical by artist. It is not a ranking and does not imply one.
No ranking is published for 80s Pop yet. DeuxDuel only publishes a chart once a category has real head-to-head evidence behind it, so this page shows the lineup and nothing more. How the ranking works.
Every song in 80s Pop
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Take On Me
a-ha · 1985 -
Uptown Girl
Billy Joel · 1983 -
Dancing In the Dark
Bruce Springsteen · 1984 -
Karma Chameleon
Culture Club · 1983 -
Girls Just Want to Have Fun
Cyndi Lauper · 1983 -
Time After Time
Cyndi Lauper · 1983 -
Hungry Like the Wolf
Duran Duran · 1982 -
Rio
Duran Duran · 1982 -
Faith
George Michael · 1987 -
All Night Long (All Night)
Lionel Richie · 1983 -
Like a Prayer
Madonna · 1989 -
Material Girl
Madonna · 1984 -
Beat It
Michael Jackson · 1982 -
Billie Jean
Michael Jackson · 1982 -
Thriller
Michael Jackson · 1982 -
In the Air Tonight
Phil Collins · 1981 -
When Doves Cry
Prince · 1984 -
Kiss
Prince & The Revolution · 1986 -
What's Love Got to Do with It
Tina Turner · 1984 -
Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go
Wham! · 1984 -
I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)
Whitney Houston · 1987
Disagree with what belongs here? The lineup is settled by the
people voting on it — every matchup you play moves 80s Pop closer to
a published chart.