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.

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.

Key

The yellow background indicates the #1 song on Billboard's 1984 Year-End Chart of Pop Singles.

An asterisk (*) by a date indicates an unpublished, "frozen" week, due to the special double issues that Billboard published in print at the end of the year for their year-end charts.

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542	January 7	"Say Say Say"	Paul McCartney and Michael Jackson	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
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543	January 21	"Owner of a Lonely Heart"	Yes	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
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544	February 4	"Karma Chameleon"	Culture Club	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
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545	February 25	"Jump"	Van Halen	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
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546	March 31	"Footloose"	Kenny Loggins	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
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547	April 21	"Against All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now)"	Phil Collins	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
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548	May 12	"Hello"	Lionel Richie	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
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549	May 26	"Let's Hear It for the Boy"	Deniece Williams	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
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550	June 9	"Time After Time"	Cyndi Lauper	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
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551	June 23	"The Reflex"	Duran Duran	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
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552	July 7	"When Doves Cry"	Prince	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
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553	August 11	"Ghostbusters"	Ray Parker Jr.	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
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554	September 1	"What's Love Got to Do with It"	Tina Turner	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
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555	September 22	"Missing You"	John Waite	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
556	September 29	"Let's Go Crazy"	Prince and the Revolution	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
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557	October 13	"I Just Called to Say I Love You"	Stevie Wonder	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
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558	November 3	"Caribbean Queen (No More Love on the Run)"	Billy Ocean	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
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559	November 17	"Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go"	Wham!	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
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560	December 8	"Out of Touch"	Daryl Hall and John Oates	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
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561	December 22	"Like a Virgin"	Madonna	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
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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

• 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

Additional sources

• Fred Bronson's Billboard Book of Number 1 Hits, 5th Edition (Template:ISBN)
• Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles 1955-2008, 12 Edition (Template:ISBN)
• Joel Whitburn Presents the Billboard Hot 100 Charts: The Eighties (Template:ISBN)
• Additional information obtained can be verified within Billboard's online archive services and print editions of the magazine.