Like a lot of bands who had hits in the 80s, Huey Lewis and the News had a brief period where they were really popular (I mean, really popular: Batty you may be too young but there was a time when you couldn't turn on a radio without hearing "If this is it", and then he had that big lawsuit with Ray Parker Jr - who I hear you say? Ghostbusters theme?) - but it was a few years and then everyone forgot about them. I don't even know what was so great about them: just for one shining moment they were "the thing", then people moved on. I suppose MTV as usual had a lot to do with it. And those two movies.
But after Sports and in a smaller way Fore! I don't think anyone seriously gave a crap, and I certainly never bought any of their albums. "If this is it", "I want a new drug", "Heart of rock and roll", "The power of love" - they've been dining out on those hit singles for decades now. Look at their releases after, say, 1986: few if any broke the top 40, and as for their albums - six since Sports and by the 90s they were no longer troubling the charts, with their latest way outside even the top 100. I know chart success is not necessarily a measure of quality, but it is usually a measure of popularity, at least in general, and going from those stats, as Batty says, nobody cares about Huey Lewis any more.
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