Top 1984 Singles Ranked
|
Rank |
Artist |
Title |
|
1 |
The Art of Noise |
Beat Box |
|
2 |
The Art of Noise |
Close (To the Edit) |
|
3 |
Band Aid |
Do They Know It's Christmas? |
|
4 |
Chaka Khan |
I Feel for You |
|
5 |
Sheila E. |
The Glamorous Life |
|
6 |
Bananarama |
Cruel Summer |
|
7 |
INXS |
Melting in the Sun |
|
8 |
Minimal Compact |
Next One is Real |
|
9 |
The Bangles |
Going Down to Liverpool |
|
10 |
Cyndi Lauper |
Time After Time |
|
11 |
King |
Love and Pride |
|
12 |
Fiction Factory |
(Feels Like) Heaven |
|
13 |
Bananarama |
Robert De Niro's Waiting |
|
14 |
The Human League |
The Lebanon |
|
15 |
Sade |
Hang on to Your Love |
|
16 |
Talk Talk |
It's My Life |
|
17 |
Ministry |
Every Day Is Halloween |
|
18 |
Guadalcanal Diary |
Watusi Rodeo |
|
19 |
Animotion |
Obsession |
|
20 |
Dead or Alive |
You Spin Me Round (Like a Record) |
|
21 |
Bananarama |
Rough Justice |
|
22 |
M+M |
Black Stations/White Stations |
|
23 |
Bryan Adams and Tina Turner |
It's Only Love |
|
24 |
Tina Turner |
What's Love Got to Do With It |
|
25 |
The Go-Go's |
Turn to You |
|
26 |
The Blue Nile |
Tinseltown in the Rain |
|
27 |
INXS |
I Send a Message |
|
28 |
Madonna |
Like a Virgin |
|
29 |
The Time |
Jungle Love |
|
30 |
Frankie Goes to Hollywood |
Two Tribes |
|
31 |
Jocelyn Brown |
Somebody Else's Guy |
|
32 |
New Order |
Thieves Like Us |
|
33 |
The Bangles |
Restless |
|
34 |
Laura Branigan |
Self Control |
|
35 |
King |
And as for Myself |
|
36 |
Big Country |
East of Eden |
|
37 |
General Public |
Tenderness |
|
38 |
Bananarama |
Hotline to Heaven |
|
39 |
Depeche Mode |
People Are People |
|
40 |
Jermaine Jackson with Michael Jackson |
Tell Me I'm Not Dreamin' (Too Good to Be True) |
|
41 |
INXS |
Love Is (What I Say) |
|
42 |
King |
I Kissed the Spikey Fridge |
|
43 |
Teena Marie |
Lovergirl |
|
44 |
Pat Benatar |
Love in the Ice Age |
|
45 |
Bar-Kays |
Sexomatic |
|
46 |
Frankie Goes to Hollywood |
Relax |
|
47 |
The Pointer Sisters |
Jump (For My Love) |
|
48 |
Depeche Mode |
Now This Is Fun |
|
49 |
Chuck Brown & the Soul Searchers |
We Need Money |
|
50 |
Hoodoo Gurus |
I Want You Back |
|
51 |
Christine McVie |
Got a Hold on Me |
|
52 |
Madonna |
Borderline |
|
53 |
The Go-Go's |
Head Over Heels |
|
54 |
Murray Head |
One Night In Bangkok |
|
55 |
King |
Soul on My Boots |
|
56 |
Bryan Adams |
Run to You |
|
57 |
The Bangles |
James |
|
58 |
Hoodoo Gurus |
Leilani |
|
59 |
Pat Benatar |
We Belong |
|
60 |
R.E.M. |
So. Central Rain (I'm Sorry) |
|
61 |
R.E.M. |
(Don't Go Back to) Rockville |
|
62 |
INXS |
Dancing on the Jetty |
|
63 |
Bruce Foxton |
Trying to Forget You |
|
64 |
Wham! |
Careless Whisper |
|
65 |
Billy Idol |
Eyes Without a Face |
|
66 |
Rebbie Jackson |
Centipede |
|
67 |
Guadalcanal Diary |
Trail of Tears |
|
68 |
The Bangles |
Hero Takes a Fall |
|
69 |
Billy Ocean |
Caribbean Queen |
|
70 |
Tones On Tail |
Go! |
|
71 |
The Replacements |
I Will Dare |
|
72 |
Tina Turner |
I Might Have Been Queen |
|
73 |
Hall & Oates |
Out of Touch |
|
74 |
Spandau Ballet |
I'll Fly for You |
|
75 |
Cherrelle |
Fragile... Handle With Care |
|
76 |
Prince and the Revolution |
Take Me With U |
|
77 |
The Jacksons and Mick Jagger |
State of Shock |
|
78 |
Talk Talk |
Tomorrow Started |
|
79 |
UB40 |
If It Happens Again |
|
80 |
Howard Jones |
New Song |
|
81 |
Cyndi Lauper |
All Through the Night |
|
82 |
Fashion |
You in the Night |
|
83 |
Time Zone |
World Destruction |
|
84 |
The Cars |
Magic |
|
85 |
Bruce Springsteen |
Pink Cadillac |
|
86 |
M+M |
Come Out and Dance |
|
87 |
Missing Persons |
Give |
|
88 |
U2 |
Pride (In the Name of Love) |
|
89 |
R.E.M. |
Harborcoat |
|
90 |
Wham! |
Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go |
|
91 |
The Judds |
Why Not Me |
|
92 |
Bananarama |
Through a Child's Eyes |
|
93 |
King |
Won't You Hold My Hand Now |
|
94 |
Tina Turner |
Show Some Respect |
|
95 |
The Staple Singers |
Slippery People |
|
96 |
Guadalcanal Diary |
Why Do the Heathen Rage? |
|
97 |
Cyndi Lauper |
She Bop |
|
98 |
Echo & the Bunnymen |
The Killing Moon |
|
99 |
Bananarama |
The Wild Life |
|
100 |
Hall & Oates |
Method of Modern Love |
|
101 |
The Cars |
You Might Think |
|
102 |
M+M |
Cooling the Medium |
|
103 |
The Style Council |
You're the Best Thing |
|
104 |
Tracie |
The House That Jack Built |
|
105 |
The Truth |
Exception of Love |
|
106 |
M+M |
Alibi Room |
|
107 |
Hoodoo Gurus |
My Girl |
|
108 |
Tina Turner |
I Can't Stand The Rain |
|
109 |
Cyndi Lauper |
Money Changes Everything |
|
110 |
X |
Wild Thing |
|
111 |
Rod Stewart |
Infatuation |
|
112 |
Duran Duran |
Wild Boys |
|
113 |
The Human League |
Life on Your Own |
|
114 |
Sheena Easton |
Sugar Walls |
|
115 |
Tracie |
Dr. Love |
|
116 |
Tina Turner |
Better Be Good to Me |
|
117 |
Eurythmics |
For the Love of Big Brother |
|
118 |
Pat Benatar |
Temporary Heroes |
|
119 |
The Smiths |
Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now |
|
120 |
Prince and the Revolution |
When Doves Cry |
|
121 |
Sheila E. |
Oliver's House |
|
122 |
The Stranglers |
Skin Deep |
|
123 |
King |
Fish |
|
124 |
Bananarama |
Link |
|
125 |
Bananarama |
Dream Baby |
|
126 |
Sade |
When Am I Going to Make a Living |
|
127 |
Wang Chung |
Dance Hall Days |
|
128 |
Howard Jones |
What Is Love? |
|
129 |
Talk Talk |
Such a Shame |
|
130 |
INXS |
Burn for You |
|
131 |
The Thompson Twins |
Hold Me Now |
|
132 |
Tracey Ullman |
Terry |
|
133 |
Tones On Tail |
Lions |
|
134 |
King |
Unity Song |
|
135 |
The Thompson Twins |
Doctor! Doctor! |
|
136 |
Tina Turner |
1984 |
|
137 |
Pat Benatar |
Painted Desert |
|
138 |
Minimal Compact |
Not Knowing |
|
139 |
The Temptations |
Treat Her Like a Lady |
|
140 |
Scandal Featuring Patty Smyth |
The Warrior |
|
141 |
Thomas Dolby |
Hyperactive! |
|
142 |
Don Henley |
The Boys of Summer |
|
143 |
The Judds |
Mama He's Crazy |
|
144 |
Eurythmics |
Julia |
|
145 |
Sade |
Cherry Pie |
|
146 |
The Style Council |
My Ever Changing Moods |
|
147 |
Madonna |
Material Girl |
|
148 |
Dolly Parton |
Tennessee Homesick Blues |
|
149 |
Ashford & Simpson |
Solid |
|
150 |
Carmel |
The Drum Is Everything |
|
151 |
The Style Council |
The Paris Match |
|
152 |
The Style Council |
The Whole Point of No Return |
|
153 |
M+M |
Garden in the Sky |
|
154 |
Prefab Sprout |
Cruel |
|
155 |
Patrice Rushen |
Get Off (You Fascinate Me) |
|
156 |
The Blue Nile |
Heatwave |
|
157 |
Tracie |
What Did I Hear You Say |
|
158 |
R.E.M. |
Pretty Persuasion |
|
159 |
Bananarama |
Cairo |
|
160 |
Cameo |
She's Strange |
|
161 |
Frankie Goes to Hollywood |
War |
|
162 |
Siouxsie & the Banshees |
Swimming Horses |
|
163 |
ZZ Top |
Legs |
|
164 |
Thomas Dolby |
The Flat Earth |
|
165 |
King |
Trouble |
|
166 |
APB |
What Kind of Girl? |
|
167 |
The Cars |
Drive |
|
168 |
Sheila E. |
Shortberry Strawcake |
|
169 |
Talk Talk |
Dum Dum Girl |
|
170 |
U2 |
A Sort of Homecoming |
|
171 |
M+M |
In Between Sleep and Reason |
|
172 |
Cabaret Voltaire |
Sensoria |
|
173 |
Bananarama |
Push! |
|
174 |
INXS |
Original Sin |
|
175 |
XTC |
You're the Wish You Are I Had |
|
176 |
Honeymoon Suite |
New Girl Now |
|
177 |
The Smiths |
William, It Was Really Nothing |
|
178 |
The Style Council |
Blue Café |
|
179 |
Pat Benatar |
A Crazy World Like This |
|
180 |
Run-D.M.C. |
It's Like That |
|
181 |
The Judds |
Girls Night Out |
|
182 |
XTC |
All You Pretty Girls |
|
183 |
R.E.M. |
7 Chinese Brothers |
|
184 |
Patrice Rushen |
Feels So Real (Won't Let Go) |
|
185 |
Bananarama |
Live Now |
|
186 |
Alison Moyet |
Invisible |
|
187 |
Don Henley |
All She Wants to Do Is Dance |
|
188 |
Pat Benatar |
Outlaw Blues |
|
189 |
Tracie |
Soul's on Fire |
|
190 |
M+M |
I Start to Stop |
|
191 |
Sade |
Why Can't We Live Together |
|
192 |
U2 |
Wire |
|
193 |
Kurtis Blow |
Basketball |
|
194 |
Prince and the Revolution |
Let's Go Crazy |
|
195 |
The Style Council |
A Gospel |
|
196 |
The Style Council |
Strength of Your Nature |
|
197 |
Carmel |
Tracks of My Tears |
|
198 |
Hoodoo Gurus |
Dig It Up |
|
199 |
Pat Benatar |
Suburban King |
|
200 |
Elvis Costello & The Attractions |
I Wanna Be Loved |
|
201 |
XTC |
This World Over |
|
202 |
Tina Turner |
Private Dancer |
|
203 |
M+M |
Nation of Followers |
|
204 |
Cherrelle |
I Didn't Mean to Turn You On |
|
205 |
Prince and the Revolution |
Purple Rain |
|
206 |
Pat Benatar |
Diamond Field |
|
207 |
Til Tuesday |
Voices Carry |
|
208 |
Blancmange |
Don't Tell Me |
|
209 |
Talk Talk |
The Last Time |
|
210 |
Minimal Compact |
Deadly Weapons |
|
211 |
Deniece Williams |
Let's Hear It for the Boy |
|
212 |
Special AKA |
Free Nelson Mandela |
|
213 |
Sade |
Your Love Is King |
|
214 |
King |
Cherry |
|
215 |
The Bangles |
Tell Me |
|
216 |
The Commodores |
Nightshift |
|
217 |
Madonna |
Love Don't Live Here Anymore |
|
218 |
XTC |
Seagulls Screaming Kiss Her, Kiss Her |
|
219 |
The Smiths |
I Don't Owe You Anything |
|
220 |
U2 |
Bad |
|
221 |
Dan Hartman |
I Can Dream About You |
|
222 |
INXS |
Face the Change |
|
223 |
The Blue Nile |
A Walk Across the Rooftops |
|
224 |
The Bangles |
He's Got a Secret |
|
225 |
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark |
Tesla Girls |
|
226 |
R.E.M. |
Second Guessing |
|
227 |
Bananarama |
State I'm In |
|
228 |
Tracie |
Nothing Happens Here But You |
|
229 |
The Thompson Twins |
Sister of Mercy |
|
230 |
New Edition |
Mr. Telephone Man |
|
231 |
Tracey Ullman |
Falling in and Out of Love |
|
232 |
Tina Turner |
Steel Claw |
|
233 |
Sheena Easton |
Strut |
|
234 |
The Smiths |
This Charming Man |
|
235 |
INXS |
All the Voices |
|
236 |
Blancmange |
Blind Vision |
|
237 |
Shalamar |
Dancing in the Sheets |
|
238 |
Rick James |
17 (Seventeen) |
|
239 |
Everything But the Girl |
Frost and Fire |
|
240 |
Talk Talk |
It's You |
|
241 |
Lindsey Buckingham |
Go Insane |
|
242 |
The Bangles |
All About You |
|
243 |
The Smiths |
Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want |
|
244 |
R.E.M. |
Letter Never Sent |
|
245 |
Bryan Adams |
Somebody |
|
246 |
Romeo Void |
A Girl in Trouble (Is a Temporary Thing) |
|
247 |
Tones On Tail |
Happiness |
|
248 |
Diana Ross |
Swept Away |
|
249 |
Kool & the Gang |
Fresh |
|
250 |
Isley Jasper Isley |
Look the Other Way |
|
251 |
INXS |
Johnson's Aeroplane |
|
252 |
The Smiths |
Girl Afraid |
|
253 |
Don Henley |
Drivin' With Your Eyes Closed |
|
254 |
The Human League |
Don't You Know I Want You |
|
255 |
O'Bryan |
Lovelite |
|
256 |
Blancmange |
Game Above My Head |
|
257 |
Hoodoo Gurus |
Tojo |
|
258 |
Sade |
I Will Be Your Friend |
|
259 |
Bryan Adams |
Summer of '69 |
|
260 |
The Blue Nile |
From Rags to Riches |
|
261 |
The Church |
Violet Town |
|
262 |
Elvis Costello & The Attractions |
Only Flame in Town |
|
263 |
Prince and the Revolution |
I Would Die 4 U |
|
264 |
Thomas Dolby |
Screen Kiss |
|
265 |
Thomas Dolby |
I Scare Myself |
|
266 |
Thomas Dolby |
Dissidents |
|
267 |
Carmel |
More, More, More |
|
268 |
Alison Moyet |
Love Resurrection |
|
269 |
The Church |
Into My Hands |
|
270 |
The Human League |
I Love You Too Much |
|
271 |
Kool & the Gang |
Misled |
|
272 |
The Pointer Sisters |
Neutron Dance |
|
273 |
R.E.M. |
Time After Time (Annelise) |
|
274 |
Bananarama |
King of the Jungle |
|
275 |
Hall & Oates |
Some Things Are Better Left Unsaid |
|
276 |
Jermaine Jackson |
Dynamite |
|
277 |
The Scorpions |
Rock You Like a Hurricane |
|
278 |
Paul & Linda McCartney |
No More Lonely Nights |
|
279 |
The Style Council |
Dropping Bombs on the Whitehouse |
|
280 |
Pat Benatar |
Ooh Ooh Song |
|
281 |
Eurythmics |
Greeting's from a Dead Man |
|
282 |
The Human League |
Rock Me Again & Again & Again & Again & Again & Again |
|
283 |
Joe Jackson |
You Can't Get What You Want (Till You Know What You Want) |
|
284 |
Sheila E. |
The Belle of St. Mark |
|
285 |
The Human League |
I'm Coming Back |
|
286 |
The Blue Nile |
Stay |
|
287 |
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark |
Locomotion |
|
288 |
Minimal Compact |
There's Always Now |
|
289 |
Ratt |
Round and Round |
|
290 |
Don Henley |
Not Enough Love in the World |
|
291 |
Hall & Oates |
Adult Education |
|
292 |
Everything But the Girl |
Laugh You Out the House |
|
293 |
Elton John |
Sad Songs (Say So Much) |
|
294 |
Kenny Loggins |
Footloose |
|
295 |
Kirsty MacColl |
A New England |
|
296 |
Simple Minds |
Up on the Catwalk |
|
297 |
Whodini |
Freaks Come Out at Night |
|
298 |
INXS |
The Swing |
|
299 |
The Thompson Twins |
You Take Me Up |
|
300 |
David Bowie |
Blue Jean |
|
301 |
Eurythmics |
Doubleplusgood |
|
302 |
Vanity |
Pretty Mess |
|
303 |
Kurtis Blow |
8 Million Stories |
|
304 |
Richard Mazda |
Johannesberg |
|
305 |
Van Halen |
Jump |
|
306 |
Limahl |
Never Ending Story |
|
307 |
New Edition |
Cool It Now |
|
308 |
Jermaine Jackson |
Do What You Do |
|
309 |
Billy Squier |
Rock Me Tonight |
|
310 |
Dazz Band |
Let It All Blow |
|
311 |
Harold Faltermeyer |
Axel F |
|
312 |
The Replacements |
Androgynous |
|
313 |
Cameo |
Talkin' Out the Side of Your Neck |
|
314 |
Talk Talk |
Call in the Night Boy |
|
315 |
Tones On Tail |
Twist |
