Editing New wave music (section)

===1970s===
In mid-1977, ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]''<ref>{{cite magazine|url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,919062-2,00.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090124151910/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,919062-2,00.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=24 January 2009 |title=Anthems of the Blank Generation | magazine=Time |date=11 July 1977 |access-date=15 May 2011}}</ref> and ''[[Newsweek]]'' wrote favorable lead stories on the punk/new wave movement.<ref name="punk/newwave">{{cite web |url-status=dead |url=https://www.allmusic.com/descriptor-check/d4491 |website=AllMusic |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220527144714/https://www.allmusic.com/subgenre/punk-new-wave-ma0000011872 |archive-date=27 May 2022 |title=Punk/New Wave }}</ref> Acts associated with the movement received little or no radio airplay, or music industry support. Small scenes developed in major cities. Continuing into the next year, public support remained limited to select elements of the artistic, bohemian, and intellectual population<ref name=Gendron /> as [[arena rock]] and [[disco]] dominated the charts.<ref name=StJames /> In early 1979, Eve Zibart of [[The Washington Post]] noted the contrast between "the American audience's lack of interest in New Wave music" compared to critics, with a "stunning two-thirds of the Top 30 acts" in the 1978 [[Pazz & Jop]] poll falling into the "New Wave-to-rock 'n' roll revivalist spectrum".<ref>{{cite news|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|last=Zibart|first=Eve|date=30 January 1979|title=Clash-Consciousness: The Latest Breaking of Britain's New Wave|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1979/01/31/clash-consciousness-the-latest-breaking-of-britains-new-wave/ab744a16-b80a-4aa0-aef2-a81657c07233/|access-date=14 February 2024}}</ref> A month later, the same columnist called [[Elvis Costello]] the "Best Shot of the New Wave" in America, speculating that "If New Wave is to take hold here, it will be through the efforts of those furthest from the punk center" due to "inevitable" American middle class resistance to the "jarring rawness of New Wave and its working-class angst."<ref>{{cite news|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|last=Zibart|first=Eve|date=8 February 1979|title=Elvis Costello: Best Shot of the New Wave|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1979/02/09/elvis-costello-best-shot-of-the-new-wave/78b41e9a-4042-4667-9a5b-bccac1446c03/|access-date=14 February 2024}}</ref>

Starting in late 1978 and continuing into 1979, acts associated with punk and acts that mixed punk with other genres began to make chart appearances and receive airplay on rock stations and rock discos.{{sfn|Cateforis|2011|p=37}} [[Blondie (band)|Blondie]], Talking Heads, the Police, and the Cars charted during this period.<ref name="dissertation" /><ref name=StJames>{{cite encyclopedia |url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/media/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/new-wave-music |title=New Wave Music |encyclopedia=St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture |first=Steve |last=Graves |via=Encyclopedia.com |access-date=30 March 2019}}</ref> "[[My Sharona]]", a single from [[the Knack]], was ''Billboard'' magazine's number-one single of 1979; its success, combined with new wave albums being much cheaper to produce during the music industry's worst slump in decades,{{sfn|Cateforis|2011|p=37}} prompted record companies to sign new wave groups.<ref name="dissertation" /> At the end of 1979, [[Dave Marsh]] wrote in [[Time (magazine)|Time]] that the Knack's success confirmed rather than began the new wave movement's commercial rise, which had been signaled in 1978 by hits for the Cars and Talking Heads.<ref>{{cite magazine|magazine=[[Rolling Stone]]|title=The Flip Sides of 1979|last=Marsh|first=Dave|author-link=Dave Marsh|date=27 December 1979|access-date=14 February 2024|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/the-flip-sides-of-1979-113608/}}</ref> In 1980, there were brief forays into new wave-style music by non-new wave artists [[Billy Joel]] (''[[Glass Houses (album)|Glass Houses]]''), [[Donna Summer]] (''[[The Wanderer (Donna Summer album)|The Wanderer]]''), and [[Linda Ronstadt]] (''[[Mad Love (Linda Ronstadt album)|Mad Love]]'').<ref name="dissertation" />