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Purple Rain by Prince and The Revolution stayed twenty-two weeks at number one and sold more than nine million copies. The Billboard 200, published in Billboard magazine, is a weekly chart that ranks the highest-selling music albums and EPs in the United States. Before Nielsen SoundScan began tracking sales in 1991, Billboard estimated sales from a representative sampling of record stores ...
This is a list of the best-selling albums by year in the United States, published by American music magazine Billboard since 1956 as year-end rankings of album sales. Until 1991, the Billboard album chart was based on a survey of representative retail outlets that determined a ranking, not a tally of actual sales.
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 ]
Holly Johnson of Frankie Goes to Hollywood posing outside the White House with a full-size cutout of Ronald Reagan, during their US tour, November 8, 1984 (Credit: Mike Maloney/Mirrorpix/Getty Images)
The chart grew from a weekly top 10 list in 1956 to become a top 200 list in May 1967, acquiring its existing name in March 1992. Its previous names include the Billboard Top LPs (1961–1972), Billboard Top LPs & Tape (1972–1984), Billboard Top 200 Albums (1984–1985), Billboard Top Pop Albums (1985–1991), and Billboard 200 Top Albums ...
This is a list of number-one albums in the United States by year from the main Billboard albums chart, currently called the Billboard 200. Billboard first began publishing an album chart on March 24, 1945. The chart expanded to 200 positions on the week ending May 13, 1967, and adopted its current name on March 14, 1992.
List of Canadian number-one albums of 1984; List of Cash Box Top 100 number-one singles of 1984; List of Dutch Top 40 number-one singles of 1984; List of Hot Adult Contemporary number ones of 1984; List of Hot Country Singles number ones of 1984; List of number-one dance singles of 1984 (U.S.) List of number-one hits of 1984 (Argentina)
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 ...