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UK collection. The 1980s were probably the last real decade for the pop single. It was certainly the last one in which every record that made the Hot 100 was an actual vinyl single. Radio was still breaking big hits and new artists, rather than TV talent shows and the still-nascent Internet. And people still rushed to their local record store to buy what their local station was playing, rather than streaming or downloading it. Ace is delighted this month to premiere Rockin' In The USA, it's first anthology of 1980s US Hot 100 hits. Here are almost two dozen of the finest US hits of that decade, all presented as they were originally heard coming over FM Pop radio right across America. Many were also UK hits, and all of them should have been. Some of the best pop and rock of the 80s you will ever hear on the same CD is present on Rockin' In The USA. Includes tracks by The Romantics, Pat Benatar, The Go-Gos, Paul Carrack, The Outfield, Marshal Crenshaw, The Cars, Hall & Oates and many others.