July 3, 1982 –
The Human League’s single Don’t You Want Me went to No. 1 on the Billboard Charts on this date.
With help from MTV, which launched on August 1, 1981, this opened a mini-British invasion of the USA. There were a lot of video shows in Europe, so when MTV went on the air, they were forced to play videos by many UK bands because that was most of their library.
