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An asterisk (*) by a date indicates an unpublished, "frozen" week, due to the special double issues that Billboard published in print at the end of the year for their year-end charts.

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

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