{"id":11989,"date":"2013-03-04T08:08:23","date_gmt":"2013-03-04T08:08:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toyah.net\/?p=11989"},"modified":"2013-03-04T08:16:50","modified_gmt":"2013-03-04T08:16:50","slug":"top-100-best-selling-singles-acts-of-the-1980s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/top-100-best-selling-singles-acts-of-the-1980s\/","title":{"rendered":"Top 100 Best Selling Singles Acts Of The 1980s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.popjustice.com\/forum\/threads\/28021-Top-100-Best-Selling-Singles-Acts-Of-the-80s\/page3\" rel=\"http:\/\/www.popjustice.com\/forum\/threads\/28021-Top-100-Best-Selling-Singles-Acts-Of-the-80s\/page3\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9468\" style=\"border: white 6px solid;\" title=\"fftep12a\" src=\"https:\/\/www.toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/fftep12a.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/fftep12a.jpg 200w, https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/fftep12a-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>The <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.popjustice.com\/forum\/threads\/28021-Top-100-Best-Selling-Singles-Acts-Of-the-80s\" target=\"_blank\">Popjustice<\/a><\/strong> forum\u00a0has been\u00a0running another comprehensive countdown, this one detailing the Top 100 Singles Acts of the 80s. Based entirely on UK sales of singles from 1980 to &#8217;89, Toyah places at number 84 for the decade, selling close to 1.5m singles.<\/p>\n<p><strong>84. TOYAH (1,481,000)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>TOTAL HITS: 12<br \/>\nBEST YEAR: 1981<br \/>\nBEST SELLER: FOUR FROM TOYAH (EP) (381,000)<\/p>\n<p>Knocking around since the late 70s, Toyah are more than just spokesman Toyah Willcox whose striking image was the main factor in getting press coverage in the early days. It started out very well for the group with 4 straight top 20 hits, and then&#8230;&#8230;no more!<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 View the\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.popjustice.com\/forum\/threads\/28021-Top-100-Best-Selling-Singles-Acts-Of-the-80s\" target=\"_blank\">opening page<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0of the thread for details on the countdown, and the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.popjustice.com\/forum\/threads\/28021-Top-100-Best-Selling-Singles-Acts-Of-the-80s\/page3\" target=\"_blank\">page<\/a><\/strong> that includes the info on Toyah. The countdown was completed yesterday, with Madonna revealed as selling the most singles of the 1980s. View <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.popjustice.com\/forum\/threads\/28021-Top-100-Best-Selling-Singles-Acts-Of-the-80s\/page25\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Popjustice forum\u00a0has been\u00a0running another comprehensive countdown, this one detailing the Top 100 Singles Acts of the 80s. Based entirely on UK sales of singles from 1980 to &#8217;89, Toyah places at number 84 for the decade, selling close to 1.5m singles. 84. TOYAH (1,481,000) TOTAL HITS: 12 BEST YEAR: 1981 BEST SELLER: FOUR FROM [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[441],"tags":[561,652],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11989"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11989"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12067,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11989\/revisions\/12067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}