Wave 80 Radio

📻 Welcome to Wave 80 – streaming the best of 1980s Top 40, 24/7. From synth-pop to power ballads, we’ve got your neon-soaked memories on loop. Hit wave80hits.com and time-travel via synths, drum machines, and glorious pop hooks.

On this day in 1982: Asia’s self-titled debut album dropped! Topped Billboard & Canada charts, powered by “Heat of the Moment.” Epic supergroup vibes! 🎸

29 yrs ago today we lost Jermaine Stewart (1957–1997). Soul Train dancer turned 1986 hitmaker with “We Don’t Have to Take Our Clothes Off.” Gone at 39 from AIDS-related liver cancer. RIP, legend. 🎶🕺 #80smusic

@Squeezeofficial @BBCRadio2 Why is there no apostrophe in Trixies???

Big news, and a bigger thank you to @bbcradio2 for making Trixies the Album of the Week this week! squeeze.lnk.to/Trixies #squeeze #newmusic #AOTW

@Squeezeofficial Why does Trixies not have an apostrophe?

@Squeezeofficial @BanquetRecords Why does Trixies not have an apostrophe?

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Tonight: 3 hours of synths, sneer, and slightly confused hair. It’s Friday Night New Wave with Gary Teel. Requests, deep cuts, and a new Spotlight Artist at fnnw.live. Chat’s open. You are not alone. 🕘 8p ET / 5p PT

Journey perfected the balance between big emotion and mass appeal, writing songs that worked just as well on a car radio as they did in a sold-out arena, which is why their music never really went away.

The Goonies worked because it felt like the kind of wild adventure every kid swore they’d stumble into one day… booby traps, treasure maps, secret tunnels… and somehow it still hits that same nerve today. It’s one of the rare 80s movies that never stopped feeling fun.

Miami Vice didn’t just use 80s music… it shaped the entire mood of the decade, with neon nights, brooding synths, and stories that hit harder because the soundtrack knew when to breathe, a reminder that sometimes a TV show becomes the era it lives in.

@BetweenDaCleats No worries, a guy in Austria got it for me. I appreciate you replying though. Happy new year!

@Wave80radio It will take me a few weeks, but I can post that for you.

American Top 40 December 16, 1978 24. The Power Of Gold-Dan Fogelberg & Tim Weisberg

@BoyGeorge @RealCultureClub So much for “lots of love.”

@RealCultureClub I hate to correct this but Jon is no longer in CC. He tried to bankrupt me in the last couple of years so I hope the Xmas tree falls on his head! Lol! His leaving and attempts to destroy me did however inspire these songs.

Sending lots of love this holiday season from all of us in Culture Club. Here’s to more music, more joy, and dancing with you again in 2026! ❤️💛💚

New Year’s Eve on Wave 80 is officially a tradition now. The sixth annual all-request 80s show runs 7 PM–3 AM Eastern, counting it down every hour for every time zone. Same regulars, same decade, same chaos. Stream it at wave80hits.com.

Nov 28, 1987: USA lost its mind & let cheesy, sweater-vest-humping “(I’ve Had) The Time of My Life” hit #1 for 2 weeks. Swayze’s ghost raw-dogged the charts while the world snorted better tunes. Congrats, Reagan’s America… your taste peaked between coke & shoulder pads.

1980, Sound Affects, The Jam’s fifth kick in the nuts to the music industry. Flopped harder than a drunk uncle at a wedding in America, limping to a pathetic #72 on Billboard, while back home in the UK it shot straight to #2 because Brits still had functioning eardrums and taste.

@funebrilho Much better!

@Wave80radio Fuck that shit. Let’s go with the UK chart instead.

1982 – Lionel Richie drops “Truly,” that diabetic-coma love ballad, and somehow this syrupy slow-dance bait claws its way to #1 in America for two goddamn weeks. Yeah, from November 27 to December 10 the entire country decided blue-balls wedding music was peak culture. Shoot me.

1981 – “Don’t You Want Me” by The Human League The synth-pop stalker anthem that cockblocked the entire planet, parked its neon ass at #1 in America for three straight weeks like it owned the place, then went full colonial tour: Basically everywhere except your ex’s heart.

Nov 27: Soft Cell drops debut “Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret”. Pure 80s sleaze. US peaked #22 (too busy w/ hairspray), UK #5. Incl. “Tainted Love” – turned 1981 bedrooms into synth-pop orgies. RIP virginity.

🚤 Let’s cruise back to the pastel‑suit era of Miami Vice — which aired its Season 3 episode “Baby Blues” on Nov 21, 1986. Sunglasses, speedboats and synths — that’s your Friday night.