List of French number-one hits of 1985
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| # | Issue date | Artist | Single | Country | Weeks | Straight to #1 ? |
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| Top 1 | Top 10 | Top 50 | |||||||
| 6 January | Peter and Sloane Peter and Sloane Peter and Sloane was a 1980s French musical group. This duet was composed of Jean-Pierre Savelli and Chantal Richard . Their greatest hit was the song "Besoin de rien, envie de toi", which was number 1 for nine weeks in 1984 in France.... |
"Besoin de rien, envie de toi" | France | 9 | 18 | 25 | — | Platinum | |
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| 20 January | Ray Parker Jr | "Ghostbusters Ghostbusters (song) "Ghostbusters" is a 1984 song recorded by Ray Parker, Jr. as the theme to the film of the same name starring Bill Murray and Dan Aykroyd. It hit number one on the Billboard Hot 100 on August 11 in 1984, and stayed there for three weeks... " |
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5 | 22 | 27 | — | Platinum | |
| 27 January | |||||||||
| 4 | 3 February | Pia Zadora Pia Zadora Pia Zadora is an American actress and singer. After working as a child actress on Broadway, in regional theater, and in the film Santa Claus Conquers the Martians , she came to national attention in 1981 when, following her starring role in the highly criticized Butterfly, she won a Golden Globe... and Jermaine Jackson Jermaine Jackson Jermaine La Jaune Jackson is an American singer, bassist, composer, a member of The Jackson 5, older brother of American pop stars Michael Jackson and Janet Jackson and occasional film director... |
"When the Rain Begins to Fall When the Rain Begins to Fall "When the Rain Begins to Fall" is a 1984 song recorded by singers Jermaine Jackson and Pia Zadora, and released as a single at the end of 1984. The song was performed in the movie Voyage of the Rock Aliens in which Zadora played a lead role... " |
U.S. | 3 | 18 | 27 | — | Platinum |
| 10 February | |||||||||
| 17 February | Ray Parker Jr | "Ghostbusters" | |||||||
| 24 February | Pia Zadora and Jermaine Jackson | "When the Rain Begins to Fall" | |||||||
| 3 March | Ray Parker Jr | "Ghostbusters" | |||||||
| 5 | 10 March | Al Corley Al Corley Al Corley is an American actor, singer and producer. In the late 1970s, he worked as a doorman at Studio 54. He would later appear in a VH1 Behind the Music special on Studio 54 to recount his experiences.... |
"Square Rooms Square Rooms "Square Rooms" is a Europop song recorded by American singer, actor and producer Al Corley. It was the first single from his album of the same name... " |
U.S. | 5 | 12 | 27 | — | — |
| 17 March | |||||||||
| 24 March | |||||||||
| 6 | 31 March | Jeanne Mas Jeanne Mas Jeanne Mas, born on 28 February 1958 in Alicante, Spain, is a French pop singer and actress.She was well known in France, Switzerland and Belgium for a number of hit singles released in the 1980s. From the late eighties onwards her career slid into the has-been category. Her first success was... |
"Johnny, Johnny Johnny, Johnny "Johnny, Johnny" is a 1985 song recorded by the French singer Jeanne Mas. It was her second single from her debut album, Jeanne Mas, on which it features as the second track... " |
France | 4 | 14 | 23 | Gold | |
| 7 April | |||||||||
| 14 April | Al Corley | "Square Rooms" | |||||||
| 21 April | Jeanne Mas | "Johnny, Johnny" | |||||||
| 28 April | |||||||||
| 7 | 5 May | USA for Africa USA for Africa USA for Africa was the name under which forty-seven predominantly U.S. artists, led by Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie, recorded the hit single "We Are the World" in 1985. The song was a US and UK Number One for the collective in April of that year... |
"We Are the World We Are the World "We Are the World" is a song and charity single originally recorded by the supergroup USA for Africa in 1985. It was written by Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie, and produced by Quincy Jones and Michael Omartian for the album We Are the World... " |
U.S. | 3 | 12 | 22 | — | Platinum |
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| 19 May | |||||||||
| 8 | 26 May | Chanteurs sans Frontières | "Éthiopie Éthiopie "Éthiopie" is a charity song recorded in 1985 by the collective band known under the name 'Chanteurs sans Frontières'. The song achieved a huge success in France, topping the chart for two months and becoming one of the best-selling singles in that country.... " |
France | 8 | 14 | 22 | — | Platinum |
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| 14 July | |||||||||
| 9 | 21 July | Opus Opus (band) Opus is a pop-rock group from Graz, Austria. Formed in 1973, the group remains active today. The band is especially well known for its 1985 single release, "Live Is Life."-History:... |
"Live Is Life Live Is Life "Live Is Life" is a popular song originally recorded in 1984 by Austrian pop-rock group Opus. It was successful and was covered by many artists throughout the years.-Background and writing:... " |
Austria Austria Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the... |
7 | 16 | 23 | — | — |
| 28 July | |||||||||
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| 11 August | |||||||||
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| 25 August | |||||||||
| 1 September | |||||||||
| 10 | 8 September | Baltimora Baltimora Baltimora were an Italian New Wave dance outfit active in the mid to late 1980s. The group comprised Jimmy McShane , Maurizio Bassi , Giorgio Cocilovo , Claudio Bazzari , Pier Michelatti and Gabriele Melotti... |
"Tarzan Boy Tarzan Boy "Tarzan Boy" is the title of a song recorded by Italy-based act Baltimora. It was the group's debut single, released in April 1985, from its first album Living in the Background, on which it features as first track... " |
Ireland Ireland Ireland is an island to the northwest of continental Europe. It is the third-largest island in Europe and the twentieth-largest island on Earth... |
5 | 14 | 25 | — | Gold |
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| 22 September | |||||||||
| 29 September | |||||||||
| 6 October | |||||||||
| 11 | 13 October | Century Century (band) Century are a French rock band formed in Marseille in 1985. Led by singer and composer Jean-Louis Milford, Century are probably best known for their single "Lover Why" from the album And... Soul It Goes in 1986... |
"Lover Why" | France | 7 | 14 | 24 | — | — |
| 20 October | |||||||||
| 27 October | |||||||||
| 3 November | |||||||||
| 10 November | |||||||||
| 17 November | |||||||||
| 24 November | |||||||||
| 12 | 1 December | Jean-Jacques Goldman Jean-Jacques Goldman Jean-Jacques Goldman is a Grammy Awards-winning French singer-songwriter. He is hugely popular in the French-speaking world, and since 2003 was the second-highest-grossing French living pop singer, after Johnny Hallyday.- Biography :... and Michael Jones |
"Je te donne Je te donne "Je te donne" is a bilingual pop song, recorded in English and French. It was successfully performed by Jean-Jacques Goldman and Michael Jones and was released as a single in late 1985. It reached number-one for eight weeks on the French Singles Chart, becoming one of the best-selling singles of... " |
France | 7 | 16 | 26 | — | Gold |
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See also
- 1985 in music1985 in musicThis is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1985.-January–March:*January 1 - The newest music video channel, VH-1, debuts on American cable. It is aimed at an older demographic than its sister station, MTV...
- List of number-one hits (France)
- List of artists who reached number one on the French Singles Chart