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Second British Invasion
The term Second British Invasion refers to music acts from the United Kingdom that became popular in the United States from the summer of 1982〔 into the autumn of 1986,〔 primarily due to the cable music channel MTV. While acts with a wide variety of styles were part of the invasion, it was mainly synthpop and new wave influenced acts that predominated. During the late 1980s, hair metal and dance music replaced Second Invasion acts atop the U.S. charts.
==Background==
In the late 1970s and early 1980s, music from the United Kingdom was informed by the after effects of the "punk/new wave" revolution. In early 1979 "Sultans of Swing" by Dire Straits and "Roxanne" by The Police cracked the American Top 40, followed by the more modest chart successes of Elvis Costello,〔 Sniff 'n' the Tears, The Pretenders, Gary Numan, and Squeeze. Scripps-Howard news service described this success as an early stage of the invasion.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Culture Club, Police, Duran Duran lead Second Invasion Scripps-Howard News Service printed by The Pittsburgh Press October 31, 1984 )〕
Music videos, having been a staple of British music television programs for half a decade, had evolved into image conscious short films.〔(From Comiskey Park to Thriller: The Effect of “Disco Sucks” on Pop ) by Steve Greenberg founder and CEO of S-Curve Records 10 July 2009.〕〔Simon Reynolds, ''Rip It Up and Start Again Postpunk 1978–1984'', pp. 340, 342–3.〕 At the same time, pop and rock music in the United States was undergoing a creative slump due to several factors, including audience fragmentation and the effects of the anti-disco backlash.〔〔A. Bennett, ''Rock and Popular Music: Politics, Policies, Institutions'' (London: Routledge, 1993), p. 240.〕 Videos did not exist for most hits by American acts, and those that did were usually taped concert performances.〔〔 When the cable music channel MTV launched on August 1, 1981, it had little choice but to play a large number of music videos from British new wave acts.〔 The Buggles' "Video Killed the Radio Star" was the first music video shown on MTV in the U.S. At first, MTV was only available in small towns and suburbs. To the surprise of the music industry, when MTV became available in a local market, record sales by acts played solely on the channel increased immediately and listeners phoned radio stations requesting to hear them.〔 Also in 1981, Los Angeles radio station KROQ-FM began the ''Rock of the '80s'' format, which would make it the most popular station in that city.〔
More hints of the impending invasion were observed in 1981 on the dance charts. Only seven of the top 30 groups of the dance rock chart Rockpool were of American origin, while later in the year, 12-inch singles by British groups began appearing on the Billboard Disco chart. The trend was particularly strong in Manhattan where import records and the British music press were convenient to obtain and where the ''New York Rocker'' warned that “Anglophilia” was hurting U.S. underground acts.〔Cateforis p. 53〕
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