![]() Due to changes in chart methodology over the years, certain eras are weighted to account for different chart turnover rates over various periods. Olivia Newton-John was an English singer and actress who was born on September 26, 1948, in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK. 1 earning the greatest value and weeks at No. Songs are ranked based on an inverse point system, with weeks at No. Olivia Newton-John / Electric Light Orchestra originally released Xanadu written by Jeff Lynne and Olivia Newton-John / Electric Light Orchestra released it. Olivia Newton-John’s top 20 Billboard Hot 100 hits chart is based on actual performance on the weekly Billboard Hot 100, through the Aug. See below for a look at Newton-John’s top 20 biggest hits on the Hot 100, counting down to No. 1 on Billboard‘s Adult Contemporary chart - where she landed 10 chart-toppers between 19. The singer-actress also topped the Hot 100 with “You’re the One That I Want,” with John Travolta, from the blockbuster film Grease (in which Newton-John and Travolta starred), as well as “Magic” (from her film Xanadu), and “Have You Never Been Mellow” and “I Honestly Love You.” The latter three tracks also reached No. In the 15-year span from January 1970 through December 1984, Newton-John notched 15 top 10-charting hits on the Hot 100 - the most of any female artist in that period. The four-time Grammy Award winner made her Hot 100 debut with “If Not for You” in 1971 and was last on the list in 2010, when the Glee Cast took its cover of “Physical,” featuring Newton-John, to No. 1 hit of the entire 1980s decade - it tops Billboard‘s Greatest of All Time Songs of the ’80s chart - and scored the most weeks atop the weekly Hot 100 of any song that decade. It’s not only her biggest hit, but also the No. 1 on the tally in late 1981 and early 1982. Newton-John’s all-time biggest hit on the Hot 100 is “Physical,” which spent a whopping 10 weeks at No. ![]() ![]() She claimed nearly 40 entries on the Billboard Hot 100 - including five No. ![]() 8) - logged an incredible catalog of hits on Billboard’s charts. But it was a joy to revisit so much great, groundbreaking music.Pop icon Olivia Newton-John - who died at the age of 73 on Monday (Aug. Getting our list down to 80 was a real struggle (sorry, Dire Straits’ Making Movies and George Benson’s Give Me the Night). July 18th was an especially rough day for mopey punk fans, who were forced to choose between Echo and the Bunnymen’s Crocodiles (Number 72) and Joy Division’s Closer (Number 10), and headbangers had it rough on April 14th, the release day for Iron Maiden’s self-titled debut (Number 41) as well as Judas Priest’s British Steel (Number 18). This kind of consumer crisis came up all the time in 1980. If you walked into a record store on October 8th, and you only had enough cash for one record, you were really in a bind, because Prince’s Dirty Mind (Number Three) and Talking Heads’ Remain in Light (Number Four) both came out that very same day. What came out of it all this was, arguably, the greatest year for great albums ever. Meanwhile, the classic artists who’d defined rock, country, and R&B were going strong, either by responding to the changes around them (Pete Townshend, Genesis), sticking to their guns (Van Morrison, Neil Young), or getting even weirder than they were in the Seventies (Bob Dylan). Metal was getting meaner, faster, and sharper. Every style of music was fragmenting and evolving in ways that would’ve been hard to imagine just a couple of years ago, especially punk and New Wave, which were mutating into synth-pop, post-punk, goth, the New Romantic movement, the two-tone ska revival, the very beginnings of indie rock, and more. However, a sad occurrence on the 'Xanadu' building burnt down. The Xanadu Building The Xanadu building was the Pan Pacific Auditorium on 7600 W Beverly Blvd in LA. After soaring to fame in Grease, Newton-John who has died aged 73 became the queen of the movie soundtrack album, and her roles in oddball hits Xanadu and A Mom for Christmas meant audiences. Here's a little bit more about the movie. ![]() 'Xanadu' reached number one in several countries and was the band's only UK number-one single, when it peaked. It’s fitting that the Clash’s London Calling, which is ranked Number One on our list of the best albums of 1980, came out in January of that year, and if you listen to the records that follow it on the list, there’s a palpable sense of clearing away the past to invent the future. Still, Olivia is a singer rather than an actress IMHO - and I have to say that she made an excellent Muse in Xanadu. In a 2017 interview, Lynne named it as his favourite song of the ones he has written. In terms of music, the new decade started off like someone had fired a starter’s pistol. Released in the summer of 1980, this genre-mixing musical. It was the end- the end of the Seventies - and everyone was more than a little antsy to get going on whatever was about to come next. Were remembering the luminous Olivia Newton-John with a screening of the cult classic XANADU. ![]()
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