Billboard Top Hits: 1984

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Billboard Top Hits: 1984
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Compilation album by
Various artists
ReleasedSeptember 15, 1992
Recorded1984
Genre
Length40:45
Label Rhino
Billboard Top Hits chronology
Billboard Top Hits: 1983
(1992)		Billboard Top Hits: 1984
(1992)		 Billboard Top Hits: 1985
(1994)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
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Robert Christgau A [2]

Billboard Top Hits: 1984 is a compilation album released by Rhino Records in 1992, featuring ten hit recordings from 1984.

Contents

The track lineup includes seven songs that reached the top of the Billboard Hot 100 chart, with the remaining three songs each reaching the top five of the chart.

Critical reception

Heather Phares of AllMusic cited the album as "one of the decade's strongest collections of singles." [1] Robert Christgau of The Village Voice gave the album an A rating and wrote: "After four Brits and Eddy Grant in two years, we get five black artists, five U.K. artists, and 'Talking in Your Sleep.' It didn't mean much—this was also the year of Reagan rampant, with 'Karma Chameleon' the only vaguely progressive moment. But give two cheers for formal evolution, the mass marketplace, the pleasures of false consciousness, and England swinging like a pendulum do." [2]

Track listing

No.TitleWriter(s)ArtistLength
1."Owner of a Lonely Heart"
 Yes 3:52
2."Ghostbusters" Ray Parker Jr. Ray Parker Jr. 4:06
3."Talking in Your Sleep"
 The Romantics 3:58
4."Jump (For My Love)"
  • Stephen Mitchell
  • Marti Sharron
  • Gary Skardina
 The Pointer Sisters 4:01
5."Caribbean Queen (No More Love on the Run)"
 Billy Ocean 3:44
6."Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go" George Michael Wham! 3:54
7."Let's Hear It for the Boy"
 Deniece Williams 4:20
8."Karma Chameleon"
 Culture Club 4:14
9."Hold Me Now"
 Thompson Twins 4:48
10."What's Love Got to Do With It"
 Tina Turner 3:48
Total length:40:45

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References

  1. 1 2 Phares, Heather. Billboard Top Hits: 1984 at AllMusic
  2. 1 2 Christgau, Robert (December 29, 1992). "Consumer Guide". The Village Voice . New York. Retrieved August 10, 2013.
  3. ↑ Billboard Top Hits: 1984 (liner notes). Various artists. Rhino. 1992.CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)


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