1980 in British music McLean's cover of Roy Orbison's "Crying". The Ska and Mod revivals reached their peak this year, with strong chart showings by The Jam, The Specials and Madness. 1970s favourites ABBA and Blondie both had their last years as chart heavyweights, clocking up 5 No.1 singles between them. David Bowie scored his second No.1 this year, while the death of John Lennon at the end of the year gave him his first chart topper (and would dominate the early months of 1981). Kate Bush became the first British female artist to have a No.1 album, and The Police finished the year
Aphrodite (album) by the British Phonographic Industry for shipments of 300,000 units. Minogue became a Guinness World Record-holder for become the female artist with the most consecutive decades with top five albums in the United Kingdom. She also became the first solo artist to have a number one album in four different decades in the United Kingdom, in the 1980s, 1990s, 2000s and 2010s. In Austria, the album entered and peaked at number three on the Austrian Albums charts and stayed on the chart for a total of 10 weeks. In the Dutch-speaking Flanders region of Belgium, it entered the Ultratop chart