1981 "Jessie's Girl" Rick Springfield
The song was slow to break out. It debuted on Billboard's Hot 100 chart on March 28th but took 19 weeks to hit #1, one of the slowest climbs to No. 1 at that time. It spent two weeks at #1 and was the #1 song when MTV made its debut on August 1st.
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