80s Hi – NRG & Eurobeat

200+ 80s Classic Hi-NRG Hits

In 1990 Casey Jones, a leading New York club DJ throughout the 1980s, and remixer of many Hi-NRG tracks for the Disconet Program Service in the 80s, put together a list of 200 top Hi-NRG tracks spanning the whole decade, from 1980 to 1989. His top 200 (actually a total of 246 songs) was later published on hotdiscomix.de. Casey’s list is as good a place as any to start a discovery into 80s Hi-NRG. The songs are not ranked in any particular order, being listed purely alphabetically by song title. The major artists associated with Hi-NRG appear in this list, and their names will keep cropping up in subsequent posts – Sylvester, Bobby “O”, Lime, The Flirts, Hazell Dean, Dead Or Alive, to name but a few.

Hi-NRG Top 200 Of The 1980s

Dance Music Report January 1990. Compiled by Casey Jones for http://www.hotdiscomix.de/index.htm

The Original chart can be found here:

http://www.hotdiscomix.de/charts/hinrg_top200.htm

Below are a selection of Hi-NRG tracks from this chart that do not appear in any of the other Hi-NRG charts published on this blog.

Disco & Club Charts 1981: Abba, Lime, Three Degrees, Kelly Marie, Carol Jiani, Spandau Ballet, Visage, Duran Duran, Kim Carnes, Roni Griffith, Japan, Tom Tom Club & Phyllis Nelson

The charts in this blog are taken from the 1981 issues of Record World Magazine and Billboard Magazine Disco Dance Charts in the USA, and Record Business in the UK. Record World was a U.S. music industry trade magazine published from 1946 to April 1982 and included The Disco File, a chart of the top…

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