Midnight Oil 5. Robin Holcomb 8. Duran Duran 9. Chalk it up to timing. Chalk it up to quality.
Some years stand out as stellar in terms of music.
In the 1980s, that year was 1987. Although Whitney Houston and Michael Jackson dominated a good part of that year's charts, some groups managed to give calculated pop a run for its money. U2 finally charted in America with The Joshua Tree . Run DMC and the Beastie Boys introduced rap to white audiences. And some groups that would dominate years later made a significant stake in 1987.