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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
thumb|Singer-songwriter/multi-instrumentalist [[Prince (musician)|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.]]
thumb|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, making her the oldest female solo artist at the time to top the US Hot 100. ]]
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| style="background:#ff9;"|The yellow background indicates the #1 song on Billboards 1984 Year-End Chart of Pop Singles.
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An asterisk (*) by a date indicates an unpublished, "frozen" week, due to the special double issues that Billboard published in print at the end of the year for their year-end charts.
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!Issue date
!Song
!Artist(s)
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|align="center" bgcolor=EDEAE0 rowspan=2|542
||January 7
| rowspan="2"| "Say Say Say"
| rowspan="2"| Paul McCartney and Michael Jackson
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|- style="text-align:center;"
||January 14
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|-
|align="center" bgcolor=EDEAE0 rowspan=2|543
| style="text-align:center;"|January 21
| style="text-align:center;" rowspan="2"| "Owner of a Lonely Heart"
| style="text-align:center;" rowspan="2"| Yes
| style="text-align:center;"|
|- style="text-align:center;"
||January 28
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|- style="text-align:center;"
|align="center" bgcolor=EDEAE0 rowspan=3|544
||February 4
| rowspan="3"| "Karma Chameleon"
| rowspan="3"| Culture Club
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|- style="text-align:center;"
||February 11
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|- style="text-align:center;"
||February 18
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|-
|align="center" bgcolor=EDEAE0 rowspan=5|545
| style="text-align:center;"|February 25
| style="text-align:center;" rowspan="5"| "Jump"
| style="text-align:center;" rowspan="5"| Van Halen
| style="text-align:center;"|
|- style="text-align:center;"
||March 3
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|- style="text-align:center;"
||March 10
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|- style="text-align:center;"
||March 17
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|- style="text-align:center;"
||March 24
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|-
|align="center" bgcolor=EDEAE0 rowspan=3|546
| style="text-align:center;"|March 31
| style="text-align:center;" rowspan="3"| "Footloose"
| style="text-align:center;" rowspan="3"| Kenny Loggins
| style="text-align:center;"|
|- style="text-align:center;"
||April 7
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|- style="text-align:center;"
||April 14
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|- style="text-align:center;"
|align="center" bgcolor=EDEAE0 rowspan=3|547
||April 21
| rowspan="3"| "Against All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now)"
| rowspan="3"| Phil Collins
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|- style="text-align:center;"
||April 28
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|- style="text-align:center;"
||May 5
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|-
|align="center" bgcolor=EDEAE0 rowspan=2|548
| style="text-align:center;"|May 12
| style="text-align:center;" rowspan="2"| "Hello"
| style="text-align:center;" rowspan="2"| Lionel Richie
| style="text-align:center;"|
|- style="text-align:center;"
||May 19
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|- style="text-align:center;"
|align="center" bgcolor=EDEAE0 rowspan=2|549
||May 26
| rowspan="2"| "Let's Hear It for the Boy"
| rowspan="2"| Deniece Williams
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|- style="text-align:center;"
||June 2
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|-
|align="center" bgcolor=EDEAE0 rowspan=2|550
| style="text-align:center;"|June 9
| style="text-align:center;" rowspan="2"| "Time After Time"
| style="text-align:center;" rowspan="2"| Cyndi Lauper
| style="text-align:center;"|
|- style="text-align:center;"
||June 16
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|- style="text-align:center;"
|align="center" bgcolor=EDEAE0 rowspan=2|551
||June 23
| rowspan="2"| "The Reflex"
| rowspan="2"| Duran Duran
| style="text-align:center;"|
|- style="text-align:center;"
||June 30
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|-
|align="center" bgcolor=EDEAE0 rowspan=5|552
| style="text-align:center;"|July 7
| style="background:#ff9; text-align:center;" rowspan="5"| "When Doves Cry"
| style="text-align:center;" rowspan="5"| Prince
| style="text-align:center;"|
|- style="text-align:center;"
||July 14
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|- style="text-align:center;"
||July 21
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|- style="text-align:center;"
||July 28
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|- style="text-align:center;"
||August 4
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|- style="text-align:center;"
|-
|align="center" bgcolor=EDEAE0 rowspan=3|553
| style="text-align:center;"|August 11
| style="text-align:center;" rowspan="3"| "Ghostbusters"
| style="text-align:center;" rowspan="3"| Ray Parker Jr.
| style="text-align:center;"|
|- style="text-align:center;"
||August 18
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|- style="text-align:center;"
||August 25
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|-
|align="center" bgcolor=EDEAE0 rowspan=3|554
| style="text-align:center;"|September 1
| style="text-align:center;" rowspan="3"| "What's Love Got to Do with It"
| style="text-align:center;" rowspan="3"| Tina Turner
| style="text-align:center;"|
|- style="text-align:center;"
||September 8
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|-
| style="text-align:center;"|September 15
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|align="center" bgcolor=EDEAE0|555
| style="text-align:center;"|September 22
| style="text-align:center;"| "Missing You"
| style="text-align:center;"| John Waite
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|align="center" bgcolor=EDEAE0 rowspan=2|556
| style="text-align:center;"|September 29
| style="text-align:center;" rowspan="2"| "Let's Go Crazy"
| style="text-align:center;" rowspan="2"| Prince and the Revolution
| style="text-align:center;"|
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| style="text-align:center;"|October 6
| style="text-align:center;"|
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|align="center" bgcolor=EDEAE0 rowspan=3|557
| style="text-align:center;"|October 13
| style="text-align:center;" rowspan="3"| "I Just Called to Say I Love You"
| style="text-align:center;" rowspan="3"| Stevie Wonder
| style="text-align:center;"|
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| style="text-align:center;"|October 20
| style="text-align:center;"|
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| style="text-align:center;"|October 27
| style="text-align:center;"|
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|align="center" bgcolor=EDEAE0 rowspan=2|558
| style="text-align:center;"|November 3
| style="text-align:center;" rowspan="2"| "Caribbean Queen (No More Love on the Run)"
| style="text-align:center;" rowspan="2"| Billy Ocean
| style="text-align:center;"|
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| style="text-align:center;"|November 10
| style="text-align:center;"|
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|align="center" bgcolor=EDEAE0 rowspan=3|559
| style="text-align:center;"|November 17
| style="text-align:center;" rowspan="3"| "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go"
| style="text-align:center;" rowspan="3"| Wham!
| style="text-align:center;"|
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| style="text-align:center;"|November 24
| style="text-align:center;"|
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| style="text-align:center;"|December 1
| style="text-align:center;"|
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|align="center" bgcolor=EDEAE0 rowspan=2|560
| style="text-align:center;"|December 8
| style="text-align:center;" rowspan="2"| "Out of Touch"
| style="text-align:center;" rowspan="2"| Daryl Hall and John Oates
| style="text-align:center;"|
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| style="text-align:center;"|December 15
| style="text-align:center;"|
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|align="center" bgcolor=EDEAE0 rowspan=2|561
| style="text-align:center;"|December 22
| style="text-align:center;" rowspan="2"| "Like a Virgin"
| style="text-align:center;" rowspan="2"| Madonna
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|- style="text-align:center;"
||December 29*
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Number-one artists
{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center;"
|+ List of number-one artists by total weeks at number one
! Position
! Artist
! Weeks at No. 1
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| 1
| Prince
| 7
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| 2
| Van Halen
| 5
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| rowspan=7| 3
| Culture Club
| rowspan=7| 3
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| Kenny Loggins
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| Phil Collins
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| Ray Parker Jr.
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| Tina Turner
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| Stevie Wonder
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| Wham!
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| rowspan=10| 10
| Paul McCartney
| rowspan=10| 2
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| Michael Jackson
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| Yes
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| Lionel Richie
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| Deniece Williams
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| Cyndi Lauper
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| Duran Duran
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| Billy Ocean
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| Daryl Hall and John Oates
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| Madonna
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| 20
| John Waite
| 1
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See also
- 1984 in music
- List of Cash Box Top 100 number-one singles of 1984
- List of Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles of the 1980s
References
Additional sources
- Fred Bronson's Billboard Book of Number 1 Hits, 5th Edition ()
- Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles 1955-2008, 12 Edition ()
- Joel Whitburn Presents the Billboard Hot 100 Charts: The Eighties ()
- Additional information obtained can be verified within Billboard's online archive services and print editions of the magazine.