"Stars on 45" is a song issued in December of 1979 by the studio group Stars on 45. In some countries including UK, Ireland and New Zealand the band was credited as 'Starsound' and the medley itself was named "Stars on 45".
Its official title in the US (as on the record and in Billboard) where it was credited to 'Stars on 45' was "Medley:
Intro Venus / Sugar Sugar / No Reply / I'll Be Back / Drive My Car / Do You Want to Know a Secret / We Can Work It Out / I Should Have Known Better / Nowhere Man / You're Going to Lose That Girl / Stars on 45."

In the U.S. the song's one-week stay at the top interrupted the Kim Carnes single "Bette Davis Eyes" run as the #1 single at five weeks. The next week, Carnes' song regained its #1 status for an additional four weeks.

The song became also a huge success in the UK where it kicked off a craze for medleys, with a large number of records in the Stars on 45 mold reaching the UK Top 40 in 1981. Likewise, in the U.S. the song started a medley craze that lasted for about a year and introduced not only other medleys by Stars on 45, but medleys by The Beach Boys, the Royal Philharmonic and others.

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