{"id":2863,"date":"2023-06-30T10:26:07","date_gmt":"2023-06-29T22:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/?p=2863"},"modified":"2023-06-30T10:26:07","modified_gmt":"2023-06-29T22:26:07","slug":"sports-hits-number-1-in-1984","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/?p=2863","title":{"rendered":"Sports Hits Number 1 in 1984"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This week in 1984 the album\u00a0<em>Sports<\/em>, the third album by American\u00a0rock\u00a0band\u00a0&#8220;Huey Lewis and the News,&#8221; claimed a week at Number 1 in the USA. <em>Sports <\/em>spent just over three years on the US album chart and spawned four top-ten hits, with <em>Heart and Soul<\/em> and <em>The Heart of Rock &amp; Roll<\/em> earning\u00a0Grammy Award\u00a0nominations.\u00a0<em>Sports<\/em>\u00a0also did very well internationally, with most of its singles charting in the top 40 in multiple countries.\u00a0 It&#8217;s one of just five albums to top the US album chart in 1984, the others being\u00a0<em>Thriller<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Purple Rain,\u00a0Born in the U.S.A., <\/em>and<em> <\/em>the<em>\u00a0Footloose<\/em> soundtrack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Huey Lewis &amp; The News - I Want A New Drug\" width=\"620\" height=\"349\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/N6uEMOeDZsA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week in 1984 the album\u00a0Sports, the third album by American\u00a0rock\u00a0band\u00a0&#8220;Huey Lewis and the News,&#8221; claimed a week at Number 1 in the USA. Sports spent just over three years on the US album chart and spawned four top-ten hits, with Heart and Soul and The Heart of Rock &amp; Roll earning\u00a0Grammy Award\u00a0nominations.\u00a0Sports\u00a0also did very [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[303],"class_list":["post-2863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flashback","tag-huey-lewis-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2863"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2864,"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2863\/revisions\/2864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}