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Class of 1981 Reunion Playlist: The Hits of Senior Year
Senior year for the class of 1981 ran from fall 1980 to spring 1981. These are the 40 biggest songs of those two years, ranked from the 1980 and 1981 year-end charts, led by “Call Me” by Blondie.
Play it at the reunion. Open all 40 songs on the Hey DJ 4U decks, with Auto DJ mixing them for you.
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The class of 1981 top 40
Want more? See the full 1980 and 1981 charts, or freshman year: the No. 1 of 1978 was “Shadow Dancing”.
How we pick: each song earns points from its year-end position on the 1980 and 1981 charts (No. 1 = 100 points), so the biggest hits of the whole school year rise to the top. Source: Billboard’s year-end singles charts, as compiled on Wikipedia.