New Wave Rock Bands

These are the best known new wave rock bands/groups which dominated the charts during the late 1970’s and into the 1980’s.

RANK	ARTISTS	RANK	ARTISTS
1	The Police	37	The Motels
2	The Cars	38	Talk Talk
3	The Pretenders	39	Animotion
4	Depeche Mode	40	Dexys Midnight Runners
5	Blondie	41	Midnight Oil
6	Duran Duran	42	Madness
7	INXS	43	Squeeze
8	Elvis Costello & The Attractions	44	Spandau Ballet
9	Talking Heads	45	Cutting Crew
10	Devo	46	Dead or Alive
11	Eurythmics	47	Echo & The Bunnymen
12	Culture Club	48	Men Without Hats
13	Tears For Fears	49	Oingo Boingo
14	The Cure	50	The Psychedelic Furs
15	Pet Shop Boys	51	Yaz (or Yazoo)
16	Thompson Twins	52	Modern English
17	The B-52's	53	Soft Cell
18	The Fixx	54	Split Enz
19	Men At Work	55	'Til Tuesday
20	Roxy Music	56	Bow Wow Wow
21	Berlin	57	Wall of Voodoo
22	The Human League	58	After The Fire
23	ABC	59	A-ha
24	The English Beat	60	Divinyls
25	The Tubes	61	Kajagoogoo
26	The Go-Go's	62	M
27	The Knack	63	Re-Flex
28	Bananarama	64	Romeo Void
29	Simple Minds	65	Tom Tom Club
30	A Flock of Seagulls	66	Orchestral Manoeuvres in The Dark (OMD)
31	Mr. Mister	67	The Dream Academy
32	Missing Persons	68	Sniff 'n' The Tears
33	New Order	69	The Vapors
34	Wang Chung	70	The Waitresses
35	Power Station	71	The Church
36	Naked Eyes	72	Baltimora