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Prince had two songs on the Year-End Hot 100, "When Doves Cry", the number one hit of the year, and "Let's Go Crazy" at number 21. Lionel Richie had four songs on the Year-End Hot 100, the most of any artist in 1984. This is a list of Billboard magazine's Top Hot 100 songs of 1984. [1]
Singles from 1984 January 7 "Talking in Your Sleep" The Romantics: 3 January 28 7 "I Guess That's Why They Call It the Blues" Elton John: 4 January 28 6 January 14 "Karma Chameleon" Culture Club: 1 February 4 9 "Running with the Night" Lionel Richie: 7 February 4 5 January 21 "Joanna" Kool & the Gang: 2 February 11 6 January 28 "That's All ...
August 20 – Carminho, a Portuguese fado and popular music singer. August 21. Alizée, French singer, dancer and voice actress. Melissa Schuman, singer ; August 24 – Yesung, Korean singer (Super Junior) August 31 – Will Martin, New Zealand-born classical crossover singer; September – Di Wu, Chinese-American pianist; September 1
[5] [6] In the 1930s and 1940s, as jazz and swing music were gaining popularity, it was the more commercially successful white artists Paul Whiteman and Benny Goodman who became known as "the King of Jazz" and "the King of Swing" respectively, despite there being more highly regarded contemporary African-American artists.
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 ...
"1984" is a song by the English musician David Bowie, from his 1974 album Diamond Dogs, released as a single in the United States and Japan. [1] Written in 1973, it was inspired by George Orwell 's Nineteen Eighty-Four and, like much of its parent album, originally intended for a stage musical based on the novel, which was never produced ...
1984 (stylized in Roman numerals as MCMLXXXIV) is the sixth studio album by American rock band Van Halen, released on January 9, 1984. [2] It was the last Van Halen studio album until A Different Kind of Truth (2012) to feature lead singer David Lee Roth , who left the band in 1985 following creative differences.
"Friends" is a song by American singer Amii Stewart, released as a single in 1984. The song contains backing vocals by Italian musician Mike Francis , who also wrote and composed the song. It did not initially appear on the 1984 album Try Love , except for the Dutch release, but was included on later pressings of the album.