List of Billboard Hot 100 number ones of 1984

These are the Billboard Hot 100 number-one hits of 1984. Overall, Prince spent the most weeks at number one in 1984, reigning for seven weeks at the top with "When Doves Cry" and "Let's Go Crazy" (with the Revolution). However, "Like a Virgin" by Madonna had the longest run at number one of any song which rose into the top position during 1984. Though it spent only two weeks at number one at the end of the year, it went on to spend an additional four weeks at the top to begin 1985, for a total of six weeks.

That year, 15 acts achieved their first number one song, such as Yes, Culture Club, Van Halen, Kenny Loggins, Phil Collins, Cyndi Lauper, Duran Duran, Prince, Ray Parker Jr., Tina Turner, John Waite, The Revolution, Billy Ocean, Wham!, and Madonna. Prince was the only act to hit number one more than once that year, with two.

Chart history

Singer-songwriter/multi-instrumentalist Prince scored two number one singles with "When Doves Cry" and "Let's Go Crazy" with the Revolution. Overall, Prince spent seven weeks atop the chart.
American hard rock band Van Halen gained their first and only number-one single on the chart with "Jump", which spent five weeks atop the chart.
Singer Tina Turner gained her first and only U.S. number-one single with "What's Love Got to Do with It". Turner was 44 when the song spent three weeks at the top, at the time making her the oldest female solo artist to top the US Hot 100.
Key
The yellow background indicates the #1 song on Billboard's 1984 Year-End Chart of Pop Singles.
No. Issue date Song Artist(s) Ref.
542 January 7 "Say Say Say" Paul McCartney and Michael Jackson
January 14
543 January 21 "Owner of a Lonely Heart" Yes
January 28
544 February 4 "Karma Chameleon" Culture Club
February 11
February 18
545 February 25 "Jump" Van Halen
March 3
March 10
March 17
March 24
546 March 31 "Footloose" Kenny Loggins
April 7
April 14
547 April 21 "Against All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now)" Phil Collins
April 28
May 5
548 May 12 "Hello" Lionel Richie
May 19
549 May 26 "Let's Hear It for the Boy" Deniece Williams
June 2
550 June 9 "Time After Time" Cyndi Lauper
June 16
551 June 23 "The Reflex" Duran Duran
June 30
552 July 7 "When Doves Cry" Prince
July 14
July 21
July 28
August 4
553 August 11 "Ghostbusters" Ray Parker Jr.
August 18
August 25
554 September 1 "What's Love Got to Do with It" Tina Turner
September 8
September 15
555 September 22 "Missing You" John Waite
556 September 29 "Let's Go Crazy" Prince and the Revolution
October 6
557 October 13 "I Just Called to Say I Love You" Stevie Wonder
October 20
October 27
558 November 3 "Caribbean Queen (No More Love on the Run)" Billy Ocean
November 10
559 November 17 "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go" Wham!
November 24
December 1
560 December 8 "Out of Touch" Daryl Hall and John Oates
December 15
561 December 22 "Like a Virgin" Madonna
December 29

Number-one artists

List of number-one artists by total weeks at number one
Position Artist Weeks at No. 1
1 Prince 7
2 Van Halen 5
3 Culture Club 3
Kenny Loggins
Phil Collins
Ray Parker Jr.
Tina Turner
Stevie Wonder
Wham!
10 Paul McCartney 2
Michael Jackson
Yes
Lionel Richie
Deniece Williams
Cyndi Lauper
Duran Duran
Billy Ocean
Daryl Hall and John Oates
Madonna
20 John Waite 1

See also


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