This weeks top 20 pop hits chart—40 years ago.

Unknown ^ | 6/15/2025 | Unknown

[Phoenix8]

So much better than today.

If I recall correctly, this was of the time of the “2nd British Rock Invasion”. Much better than the first. I can see several such songs.

Of course with music much is opinion.

[Fledermaus]

I only know a few of those and I was 26 and a newlywed.

[GSWarrior]

Does anybody alive refer to the pop music charts anymore. I doubt it.

[oldtech]

I never listened to any of that stuff on the that chart. You guys never heard of country?

[oldtech]

I never listened to any of that stuff on the that chart. You guys never heard of country?

[Fledermaus]

I live just South of Nashville.

Parents had old country. Merle, Ray Price, Cash etc. But mom also liked Elvis, Beatles and such. I was a Monkee fan as a kid.

Some country today is so so. .I liked Toby.

[shelterguy]

Music stopped being made in 1978. Then disco destroyed it all. Plus...the Beatles sucked.

[DarrellZero]

I could pretty much listen to all of that except Sussudio.

Sorry Phil, but that song drove me up the wall.

[Phoenix8]

It was this kind of music that put disco back where it belonged.

In obscurity.

[Racketeer]

Aimee Mann with that beautiful frame, face, and voice. Til Tuesday rocked!!

[ifinnegan]

Better than today, but still crappy for the most part.

[Skooz]

Several of these I despised at the time, but now the nostalgia is so strong I kind of like them.

My 1985 summer was a very weird planet.

[Leaning Right]

> Music stopped being made in 1978. <

You are, I think, being too generous. The cut-off date for me is somewhere around 1970, before the British Invasion completely ruined everything. But as usual, your mileage may vary.

And now a word from Johnny Cash (1963):

[PermaRag]

EVERY Top 100 (not just top 20) singles and album chart for every week from 1970-1982 is available here, e.g. this one from this week in 1979:

Top 100 singles for the week of June 16, 1979

Some weekly charts have more than 100 songs.

[Salamander]

If it’s not Merle, Marty, Mac or Johnny, no.

[Salamander]

But can you dance?

[Salamander]

Yeah

/currently playing Wicked Game on endless loop and I don’t know why

[fidelis]

Can't narrow it down to the week of June 15, 1985, for you, but here is the Country chart for that same year:

Top 100 Country Songs in 1985

[shelterguy]

I lived through disco. The only thing good about that era was that nobody had cell phones so there is no photographic or video evidence that can be used against me.

[Phoenix8]

https://images.app.goo.gl/C9gcnUs6wsgk2qGbA