Billboard calls "Every Breath You Take" the Biggest Summer Song of the '70s and '80s.
The magazine crunched the numbers based on its charts between Memorial Day and Labor Day to rank the songs that ruled the pools and reached the beaches.
Let's call it the Summer Power Top 20:
- "Every Breath You Take" - The Police - 1983
- "I Just Want to Be Your Everything" - Andy Gibb - 1977
- "When Doves Cry" - Prince - 1984
- "Alone Again (Naturally)" - Gilbert O'Sullivan - 1972
- "Bad Girls" - Donna Summer - 1979
- "Eye of the Tiger" - Survivor - 1982
- "Close to You" - The Carpenters - 1970
- "Shadow Dancing" - Andy Gibb - 1978
- "How Can You Mend a Broken Heart" - The Bee Gees - 1971
- "It's Too Late"/"I Feel the Earth Move" - Carole King - 1971
- "Best of My Love" - The Emotions - 1977
- "It's Still Rock and Roll to Me" - Billy Joel - 1980
- "Roll With It" - Steve Winwood - 1988
- "Ghostbusters" - Ray Parker Junior - 1984
- "Ring My Bell" - Anita Ward - 1979
- "Magic" - Olivia Newton-John - 1980
- "Jessie's Girl" - Rick Springfield - 1981
- "Hurts So Good" - John Mellencamp - 1982
- "Alone" - Heart - 1987
- "Brandy" - Looking Glass - 1972
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