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The Buggles peaked at No. 37 on the Shazam Global Chart with "Video Killed the Radio Star", spending 5 days in the Top 50.
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The highest position a song reached on the Shazam Global Chart.
The total number of days a song spent in the Top 50 of the Shazam Global Chart. These days may have been non-consecutive.
The date a song first entered the Top 50 of the Shazam Global Chart.
The Buggles
#375Sep 19, 2023
"Video Killed the Radio Star" by The Buggles achieved a peak position of No. 37 on the Shazam Global Chart and remained in the Top 50 for 5 day(s).
Album
The Age of PlasticReleased
1979Total Shazams
7M
Days in Top 50
5The total number of days a song spent in the Top 50 of the Shazam Global Chart. These days may have been non-consecutive.
Top 50 Debut
Sep 19, 2023"Video Killed the Radio Star" by The Buggles achieved a peak position of No. 37 on the Shazam Global Chart and remained in the Top 50 for 5 day(s).
Album
The Age of PlasticReleased
1979Total Shazams
7M
Days in Top 50
5The total number of days a song spent in the Top 50 of the Shazam Global Chart. These days may have been non-consecutive.
Top 50 Debut
Sep 19, 2023The Buggles's Popular Music Videos
About The Buggles
The short-lived New Wave duo The Buggles made history on August 1, 1981, when their technophobic 1979 hit “Video Killed the Radio Star” became the first-ever video played on MTV.
• Singer and bassist Trevor Horn met keyboardist Geoff Downes in the late ’70s when both were working as session musicians. They formed The Buggles soon after.
• “Video Killed the Radio Star” was their debut single. It went No. 1 in the UK in September 1979, about two years before its historic moment on MTV.
• The group’s 1980 debut LP, The Plastic Age, is a concept album about the perils of technology.
• While working on their second album, both Buggles members joined the legendary prog-rock band Yes, replacing Jon Anderson and Rick Wakeman for their 1980 album Drama.
• Downes then left the Buggles to form the supergroup Asia, leaving Horn to finish recording the second (and final) Buggles album, Adventures in Modern Recording, released in 1981.
• Horn went on to become a superstar producer whose credits include ABC, Frankie Goes to Hollywood, and Pet Shop Boys. In 1996, Horn won a Record of the Year Grammy for his work on Seal’s “Kiss From a Rose.”
• Singer and bassist Trevor Horn met keyboardist Geoff Downes in the late ’70s when both were working as session musicians. They formed The Buggles soon after.
• “Video Killed the Radio Star” was their debut single. It went No. 1 in the UK in September 1979, about two years before its historic moment on MTV.
• The group’s 1980 debut LP, The Plastic Age, is a concept album about the perils of technology.
• While working on their second album, both Buggles members joined the legendary prog-rock band Yes, replacing Jon Anderson and Rick Wakeman for their 1980 album Drama.
• Downes then left the Buggles to form the supergroup Asia, leaving Horn to finish recording the second (and final) Buggles album, Adventures in Modern Recording, released in 1981.
• Horn went on to become a superstar producer whose credits include ABC, Frankie Goes to Hollywood, and Pet Shop Boys. In 1996, Horn won a Record of the Year Grammy for his work on Seal’s “Kiss From a Rose.”
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