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Rise of British synth-pop and New Pop artists in U.S. pop music charts. The Second British Invasion was a sharp increase in the popularity of British synth-pop and New Pop artists in the United States. [1][2][3] It began in the summer of 1982, peaked in 1983, and continued throughout much of the 1980s. MTV began in 1981.
The following is a list of groups and artists associated with the Second British Invasion music phenomenon, that occurred during the early and mid-1980s and was associated with MTV, including new wave music.
Nov 10, 1983 · Thinking back to the first British Invasion, which occurred roughly from the years 1964 to 1966, one tends to forget that Britain had not, prior to that time, been a principal exporter of pop ...
Jul 16, 2023 · Getty Images. In the mid-1960s, America experienced the British Invasion, an explosion of new music coming from the U.K. led in large part due to the success of the Beatles, the Rolling Stones ...
Jul 9, 2013 · These U.K. acts' brief dominance of the American pop charts 30 years ago was described as a Second British Invasion reminiscent of the first one back in the 1960s led by the Beatles. At the apex ...
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Apr 6, 2023 · On 7th April 1984, the most unprecedented moment in UK and US music history happened. 40 of the artists featured on the Billboard US Top 100 singles chart were British, which was a brand new record. Dubbed the ‘Second British Invasion’, artists from the UK started to dominate the music industry in a way not seen since the 1960s, where bands ...
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A subsequent wave of British artists rose to popularity in the early 1980s as British music videos appeared in American media, leading to what is now known as the "Second British Invasion". Another wave of British mainstream prominence in US music charts came in the mid-1990s with the brief success of Spice Girls , Oasis , Blur, Radiohead and Robbie Williams .
