List of Billboard Hot 100 number ones of 1984

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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.

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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. Prince Brussels 1986 (retouched).jpg
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. Tina turner 21021985 01 350.jpg
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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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An asterisk (*) by a date indicates an unpublished, "frozen" week, due to the special double issues that Billboard published in print at the end of the year for their year-end charts.

No.Issue dateSongArtist(s)Ref.
542January 7"Say Say Say" Paul McCartney and Michael Jackson [1]
January 14 [2]
543January 21"Owner of a Lonely Heart" Yes [3]
January 28 [4]
544February 4"Karma Chameleon" Culture Club [5]
February 11 [6]
February 18 [7]
545February 25"Jump" Van Halen [8]
March 3 [9]
March 10 [10]
March 17 [11]
March 24 [12]
546March 31"Footloose" Kenny Loggins [13]
April 7 [14]
April 14 [15]
547April 21"Against All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now)" Phil Collins [16]
April 28 [17]
May 5 [18]
548May 12"Hello" Lionel Richie [19]
May 19 [20]
549May 26"Let's Hear It for the Boy" Deniece Williams [21]
June 2 [22]
550June 9"Time After Time" Cyndi Lauper [23]
June 16 [24]
551June 23"The Reflex" Duran Duran [25]
June 30 [26]
552July 7"When Doves Cry" Prince [27]
July 14 [28]
July 21 [29]
July 28 [30]
August 4 [31]
553August 11"Ghostbusters" Ray Parker Jr. [32]
August 18 [33]
August 25 [34]
554September 1"What's Love Got to Do with It" Tina Turner [35]
September 8 [36]
September 15 [37] [38]
555September 22"Missing You" John Waite [39] [40]
556September 29"Let's Go Crazy"Prince and the Revolution [41]
October 6 [42] [43]
557October 13"I Just Called to Say I Love You" Stevie Wonder [44] [45]
October 20 [46] [47]
October 27 [48] [49]
558November 3"Caribbean Queen (No More Love on the Run)" Billy Ocean [50] [51]
November 10 [52] [53]
559November 17"Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go" Wham! [54] [55]
November 24 [56] [57]
December 1 [58] [59]
560December 8"Out of Touch" Daryl Hall and John Oates [60] [61]
December 15 [62] [63]
561December 22"Like a Virgin" Madonna [64] [65]
December 29* [66]

Number-one artists

List of number-one artists by total weeks at number one
PositionArtistWeeks at No. 1
1Prince7
2Van Halen5
3Culture Club3
Kenny Loggins
Phil Collins
Ray Parker Jr.
Tina Turner
Stevie Wonder
Wham!
10Paul McCartney2
Michael Jackson
Yes
Lionel Richie
Deniece Williams
Cyndi Lauper
Duran Duran
Billy Ocean
Daryl Hall and John Oates
Madonna
20John Waite1

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