Battle of the 80s Hits

(Each of these mini-brackets are numbered 1-8. This is the second bracket that we chose from. It started with 29 songs and got pared down to these 16. If my math is right, we'll pick from this starting on April 21.) 1) Every Breath You Take - Police 16) Get Outta My Dreams - Billy Ocean 8) Wishing Well - Terence Trent D'Arby 9) Like a Prayer - Madonna 5) Living On a Prayer - Bon Jovi 12) Out of Touch - Hall and Oates 4) Say You, Say Me - Lionel Richie 13) How Will I Know - Whitney Houston 3) Crazy Little Thing Called Love - Queen 14) Mickey - Toni Basil 6) Rock On - Michael Damian 11) Holding Back The Years - Simply Red 7) What's Love Got To Do With It - Tina Turner 10) Morning Train - Sheena Easton 2) Say Say Say - Paul McCartney and Michael Jackson 15) Bad - Michael Jackson (whoops!)

(Each of the mini-brackets are numbered, 1-8. This is the first bracket that we picked from. It started with 29 songs and got pared down to these 16. If my math is right, we'll do the second round of this bracket starting April 13th.) 1) Endless Love - Diana Ross and Lionel Richie 16) We Didn't Start the Fire - Billy Joel 8) Heaven is a Place on Earth - Belinda Carlisle 9) Who's That Girl - Madonna 5) Magic - Olivia Newton John 12) I Want to Know What Love Is - Foreigner 4) The Way It Is - Bruce Hornsby 13) Missing You - John Waite 3) Look Away - Chicago 14) Who Can It Be Now - Men At Work 6) I'll Be There For You - Bon Jovi 11) Owner of a Lonely Heart - Yes 7) Against All Odds - Phil Collins 10) Jessie's Girl - Rick Springfield 2) Flashdance - Irene Cara 15) Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For - U2

All of the main action occurs on the Facebook page , so be sure to go there and vote. This page is intended to a) explain what's going on and b) allow me to post some graphic representations of the brackets without interrupting the flow over there. Explanation This is a bracket style tournament of all the songs that reached #1 in the 80s. There were 230 songs. Brackets work best when you have a power of 2 and the nearest power of 2 is 256. To make this work, I gave 26 songs a first round bye. The second round will have 128 songs, third round 64 and so on and so on. The list was collected from here . I seeded the songs by the number of weeks they were at #1. Some extra consideration was also given to songs that were the #1 song in their particular year. I'm not going to pretend that this necessarily evaluates the songs by quality but this was the least subjective way I could think of putting them in some kind of order. I took the songs and split them into 8 brackets of 32.