Billboard's Top Artist of each year from 1981 to present: a rundown of every act that has dominated Billboard's annual Top ...

Blondie is Billboard's Greatest Pop Star of 1981 for how the band defined pop cool at the outset of the MTV age.

reviving a bit of disco and dabbling in reggae with their cover of the Paragons' "The Tide Is High," which topped the Billboard Hot 100 the last week of January 1981. Notably, Autoamerican also ...