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| Song title | Release date | Singer - Band | Singer-Band picture | Album | Country | Musical genre | Remarks | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| La colegiala | 1980 | RODOLFO Y SU TIPICA | La colegiala | Peru | Latin music | Composed by Walter Leon Aguilar, leader of the Peruvian cumbia group Los Ilusionistas, in 1975 | ||
| Do You Feel My Love | 1980 | EDDY GRANT | Can't Get Enough | England | Reggae | |||
| Bad News | 1980 | MOON MARTIN | Bad News | USA | POP song | |||
| Stand the Ghetto | Jan. 80 | BERNARD LAVILLIERS | O gringo | France | Reggae music | |||
| Quelques mots d'Amour | Jan. 80 | MICHEL BERGER | Beau séjour | France | POP | |||
| Food for Thought | Feb. 80 | UB40 |  | Signing Off | England | Reggae music | ||
| L'Encre de tes yeux | May 80 | FRANCIS CABREL | Fragile | France | Various | |||
| Could You Be Loved | Jul. 80 | BOB MARLEY AND THE WAILERS | Uprising | Jamaica | Reggae | |||
| Babooshka | Jun. 80 | KATE BUSH | Never for Ever | England | Art ROCK | It tells the story of a woman who wants to test the fidelity of her husband, posing for another whose pen name is Babooshka | ||
| Everybody's Got to Learn Sometime | Jun. 80 | THE KORGIS | Dumb Waiters | England | POP | James Warren has said it took only 15 minutes to write, literally singing the first thing to come into his mind | ||
| Emotional Rescue | Jun. 80 | THE ROLLING STONES | Emotional Rescue | England | ROCK song | Written by Jagger; at the time, Richards did not like the direction in which Jagger was trying to take the Band with such disco-like compositions ... | ||
| The Winner Takes It All | Jul. 80 | ABBA | Super Trouper | Sweden | POP | Written by Bjorn Ulvaeus after separating from Agnetha Fältskog | ||
| Late in the Evening | Jul. 80 | PAUL SIMON |  | One-Trick Pony | USA | POP | It describes a dream that Paul Simon had when he was a teenager | |
| Happy Birthday | Sept. 80 | STEVIE WONDER | Hotter than July | USA | R&B | Stevie Wonder recorded this to lobby for Martin Luther King's birthday to be an American national holiday | ||
| Woman in Love | Sept. 80 | BARBRA STREISAND | Guilty | USA | Soft ROCK | |||
| Lady | Sept. 80 | KENNY ROGERS | Lady | USA | POP | Written especially for Kenny Rogers by Lionel Ritchie | ||
| Enola Gay | Sept. 80 | ORCHESTRAL MANOEUVRES IN THE DARK | Organisation | United Kingdom | POP | The lyrics speak of "Little Boy", the atomic bomb dropped over Hiroshima in 1945 by the Boeing B- 29 "Enola Gay" | ||
| Johnny and Mary | Sept. 80 | ROBERT PALMER | Clues | England | POP song | It refers to the relationship between Marilyn Monroe and John F. Kennedy ... | ||
| What You're Proposing | Oct. 1980 | STATUS QUO | Just Supposin' | England | ROCK | |||
| Au coeur de la nuit | Oct. 1980 | TÉLÉPHONE | Au coeur de la nuit | France | ROCK | |||
| Romeo And Juliet | Oct. 1980 | DIRE STRAITS | Making Movies | England | ROCK song | Written by Knopfler, it was inspired by his failed romance with Holly Vincent | ||
| Lay All Your Love on Me | Nov. 1980 | ABBA |  | Super Trouper | Sweden | POP | Probably due to the Disco backlash of the time, the album saw the Band returning to a more straightforward pop sound | |
| Je ne suis pas un héros | Nov. 1980 | DANIEL BALAVOINE | Un autre monde | France | POP | Originally written for Johnny Hallyday | ||
| Super Trouper | Nov. 1980 | ABBA | Super Trouper | Sweden | POP | Super Trouper refers to the spotlights used in stadium concerts | ||
| Woman | Nov. 1980 | JOHN LENNON | Double Fantasy | England | Soft ROCK | Written as an ode to Yoko Ono and to all women. It was one of the last John Lennon's songs, released one month before his murder in New York |
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