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| Song title | Release date | Singer - Band | Singer-Band picture | Album | Country | Musical genre | Remarks | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fade to Grey | Nov. 1980 | VISAGE | Visage | United Kingdom | New Wave | It helped to popularize the synthpop music at the beginning of the decade and is considered the first title of the New Romantics wave | ||
| Stop the Cavalry | Dec. 1980 | JONA LEWIE | Heart Skips Beat | England | New Wave | This anti-war song was written during an increase in tension between the West and the Soviet Union | ||
| Carte postale | 1981 | FRANCIS CABREL | Carte postale | France | Folk ROCK | |||
| Répondez-moi | 1981 | FRANCIS CABREL | Carte postale | France | Various music | |||
| Sarà perché ti amo | 1981 | RICCHI E POVERI | E penso a te | Italia | POP | |||
| Mister Sandman | Jan. 1981 | EMMYLOU HARRIS | Evangeline | USA | POP | The original release by the Chordettes is from 1954 | ||
| Kids in America | Jan. 1981 | KIM WILDE | Kim Wilde | England | New Wave | This first single was written by Kim Wilde's brother Ricky and her father Marty | ||
| Bette Davis Eyes | Mar. 1981 | KIM CARNES | Mistaken Identity | USA | Soft ROCK | Written by Donna Weiss and Jackie DeShannon then recorded in 1975 | ||
| Manu | Mar. 1981 | RENAUD |  | Le Retour de Gérard Lambert | France | Various music | Manu being the second name of Renaud, it is possible that this text is related to the personal life of the singer ... Unfortunatetly, the 10 friends who came back did not help him much .. | |
| I've Seen That Face Before (Libertango) | May 1981 | GRACE JONES | Nightclubbing | USA | Reggae | It juxtaposes an Argentine tango classic written by Astor Piazzolla in 1974 against a reggae arrangement | ||
| Tainted Love | Jul. 1981 | SOFT CELL | Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret | England | POP song | Written in 1964 by Ed Cobb for Gloria Jones | ||
| Souvenir | Aug. 1981 | ORCHESTRAL MANOEUVRES IN THE DARK | Architecture & Morality | England | New Wave | It talks especially of Joy Division singer Ian Curtis, who died in 1980 at the age of 24 ... | ||
| I Go to Sleep | Aug. 1981 | THE PRETENDERS | The Pretenders II | United Kingdom | ROCK ballad | Ray Davies from the Kinks wrote it in 1965; The Pretenders recorded this in 1981, when Chrissie Hynde was living with Ray Davies | ||
| You Drive Me Crazy | Sept. 1981 | SHAKIN' STEVENS | Shaky | Wales | ROCK | |||
| Harden My Heart | Sept. 1981 | QUATERFLASH | Quarterflash | U.S. | ROCK | |||
| Don't You Want Me | Oct. 1981 | THE HUMAN LEAGUE | Dare | England | POP | Lead singer Philip Oakey originally thought that releasing this "poor quality filler track" would be a disaster! | ||
| Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic | Oct. 1981 | THE POLICE | Ghost in the Machine | United Kingdom | New Wave | Written by Sting in 1976 | ||
| I Love Rock 'n' Roll | Nov. 1981 | JOAN JETT AND THE BLACKHEARTS | I Love Rock 'n' Roll | USA | ROCK | Written by Alan Merrill and Jake Hooker of the Arrows in 1975 | ||
| Tout pour la musique | Dec. 1981 | FRANCE GALL | Tout pour la musique | France | Various music | |||
| Flash In The Night | Dec. 1981 | SECRET SERVICE | Flash In The Night | Sweden | New Wave | |||
| Midnight Blue | 1982 | LOUISE TUCKER | Midnight Blue | England | POP | The music comes from Piano Sonata No. 8 Op. 13 by Ludwig Van Beethoven | ||
| Femmes, je vous aime | 1982 | JULIEN CLERC |  | Femmes, Indiscrétion, Blasphème | FRANCE | Various | Written by Jean-Loup Dabadie. At first, Julien Clerc was reluctant to release this song, for fear of being accused of low cost donjuanism | |
| Le Gitan | 1982 | DANIEL GUICHARD | Le Gitan | France | Various | |||
| Shoot Your Shot | 1982 | DIVINE | The Story So Far | USA | POP | |||
| Sunshine Reggae | 1982 | LAID BACK | Sunshine Reggae | Denmark | Reggae |
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