R&B number-one hits of 1984 (USA)
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These are the Billboard magazine R&B singles chart number one hits of 1984:
See also: 1984 in music
, List of number-one R&B hits (United States)
See also: 1984 in music
1984 in music
This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1984.-Janury-March:*January 21 – "Relax" by Frankie Goes to Hollywood reaches number one in the UK singles chart, despite being banned by the BBC; it spends a total of forty-two weeks in the Top 40.*January 27 – Michael Jackson's...
, List of number-one R&B hits (United States)
| Issue Date | Song | Artist |
| January 7 | Time Will Reveal | DeBarge DeBarge DeBarge was a sibling music group of American origin whose repertoire included R&B, soul, funk, and later gospel. Active as a professional recording group from 1979 and 1989, the group was one of the few recording acts to bring success to the Motown label during the 1980s.-Background:Hailing from... |
| January 14 | Joanna | Kool & the Gang Kool & the Gang Kool & the Gang are an American jazz, R&B, soul, and funk group, originally formed as the Jazziacs in Jersey City, New Jersey in 1964.They went through several musical phases during the course of their recording career, starting out with a purist jazz sound, then becoming practitioners of R&B and... |
| January 21 | Joanna | Kool & the Gang |
| January 28 | If Only You Knew If Only You Knew If Only You Knew was a single written and produced primarily by Dexter Wansel and Cynthia Biggs for American singer Patti LaBelle's sixth solo album, I'm in Love Again. It was released as the album's official first single in 1983, spending four weeks at number one on the U.S... |
Patti LaBelle Patti LaBelle Patricia Louise Holte-Edwards , better known under the stage name, Patti LaBelle, is a Grammy Award winning American singer, author and actress who has spent over 50 years in the music industry... |
| February 4 | If Only You Knew | Patti LaBelle |
| February 11 | If Only You Knew | Patti LaBelle |
| February 18 | If Only You Knew | Patti LaBelle |
| February 25 | Encore Encore (Cheryl Lynn song) "Encore" is a 1984 R&B hit single for popular R&B/soul singer Cheryl Lynn. The song is written and produced by the highly successful Minneapolis funk duo, Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis. Although the single peaked at sixty-nine on the Hot 100, it was the duo's first number one R&B hit as... |
Cheryl Lynn Cheryl Lynn Lynda Cheryl Smith , known better by her professional name Cheryl Lynn, is a female African-American disco, R&B and soul singer known best for her 1978 disco song, "Got to Be Real".-Early career:... |
| March 3 | Somebody's Watching Me Somebody's Watching Me "Somebody's Watching Me" is the debut single by R&B artist Rockwell, released on the Motown label in 1984. The song's lyrics relate the narrator's paranoid fear of being followed and watched. It featured former Motown artists Michael Jackson on the chorus and Jermaine Jackson on additional backing... |
Rockwell Rockwell (musician) Rockwell is an R&B performer who was signed to the Motown label.-Biography:... |
| March 10 | Somebody's Watching Me | Rockwell |
| March 17 | Somebody's Watching Me | Rockwell |
| March 24 | Somebody's Watching Me | Rockwell |
| March 31 | Somebody's Watching Me | Rockwell |
| April 7 | She's Strange She's Strange She's Strange is the tenth album by the funk/R&B band Cameo, released in 1984.This album is dedicated to the late Polygram A&R-representative , Bill Haywood.As Cameo mentions in the liner-notes of the album , "The album which he always wanted"... |
Cameo Cameo (band) Cameo is an American soul-influenced funk group that formed in the early 1970s. Cameo was initially a 13-member group known as the New York City Players; this name was later changed to Cameo to avoid a lawsuit from Ohio Players, another group from that era. Since then, Cameo has recorded several... |
| April 14 | She's Strange | Cameo |
| April 21 | She's Strange | Cameo |
| April 28 | She's Strange | Cameo |
| May 5 | Hello Hello (Lionel Richie song) "Hello" is a song by Lionel Richie. Taken as the third single from Richie's multi-platinum album Can't Slow Down, the song was released in 1984 and reached number one on three Billboard music charts: the pop chart , the R&B chart , and the adult contemporary chart . The song also went to number one... |
Lionel Richie Lionel Richie Lionel Brockman Richie, Jr. , is an American singer-songwriter, musician and record producer. Since 1968, he has been a member of the musical group Commodores signed to Motown Records... |
| May 12 | Hello | Lionel Richie |
| May 19 | Hello | Lionel Richie |
| May 26 | Don't Waste Your Time Don't Waste Your Time (Yarbrough & Peoples song) Don't Waste Your Time is a 1984 single by the R&B vocal duo, Yarbrough & Peoples. The song was written and produced by Jonah Ellis and was the duo's second number one on the R&B chart and also charted on the Hot 100 peaking at number forty-eight.... |
Yarbrough & Peoples |
| June 2 | Let's Hear It for the Boy | Deniece Williams Deniece Williams June Deniece Chandler known by her stage name Deniece Williams is an American Grammy Award-winning singer, songwriter and record producer who achieved success in the 1970s and 1980s... |
| June 9 | Let's Hear It for the Boy | Deniece Williams |
| June 16 | Let's Hear It for the Boy | Deniece Williams |
| June 23 | Lovelite Lovelite "Lovelite" is a 1984 single by R&B/funk artist, O'Bryan. The single was his fifth entry on the R&B chart and his only number-one hit, where it placed at the top spot for one week. "Lovelite" did not chart on the Hot 100.... |
O'Bryan O'Bryan O'Bryan McCoy Burnette Jr. is an American singer/songwriter, usually credited simply as O'Bryan. Born to O’Bryan and Glenice Burnette at Pender County Memorial Hospital in Burgaw, North Carolina, Burnette began his career in the music business at age 18... |
| June 30 | When Doves Cry When Doves Cry A hit cover version by R&B singer Ginuwine was produced by Timbaland in 1996 for Ginuwine's The Bachelor album, Ginuwine's cover uses actual dove sound effects as texture for its jungle music-inspired instrumental track.-Charts:-Other cover versions:... |
Prince |
| July 7 | When Doves Cry | Prince |
| July 14 | When Doves Cry | Prince |
| July 21 | When Doves Cry | Prince |
| July 28 | When Doves Cry | Prince |
| August 4 | When Doves Cry | Prince |
| August 11 | When Doves Cry | Prince |
| August 18 | When Doves Cry | Prince |
| August 25 | 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... |
Ray Parker, Jr. Ray Parker, Jr. Ray Erskine Parker, Jr. , is an American guitarist, songwriter, producer and recording artist. Parker is known for writing and performing the theme song to the motion picture Ghostbusters, for his solo hits, and performing with his band Raydio as well as the late Barry White.-Early life and... |
| September 1 | Ghostbusters | Ray Parker, Jr. |
| September 8 | Caribbean Queen (No More Love on the Run) Caribbean Queen (No More Love on the Run) "Caribbean Queen" is a song by Billy Ocean. Co-written and co-produced by Keith Diamond, it climbed to number one on both the soul singles and Hot 100, in the U.S... |
Billy Ocean Billy Ocean Billy Ocean is a Trinidad-born English Grammy Award winning popular music performer who had a string of rhythm and blues international pop hits in the 1970s and 1980s. He was the most popular British-based R&B singer / songwriter of the early to mid-1980s... |
| September 15 | Caribbean Queen (No More Love on the Run) | Billy Ocean |
| September 22 | Caribbean Queen (No More Love on the Run) | Billy Ocean |
| September 29 | Caribbean Queen (No More Love on the Run) | Billy Ocean |
| October 6 | Let's Go Crazy Let's Go Crazy "Let's Go Crazy" is a 1984 song by Prince and The Revolution, from the album, Purple Rain. It was the opening track on both the album, and the film Purple Rain. "Let's Go Crazy" is one of Prince's most popular songs, and is almost always a staple for concert performances, often segueing into other... |
Prince and the Revolution The Revolution (band) The Revolution was an American rock band formed in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1979 by Prince. Although widely associated with rock music, the band's sound incorporated heavy metal, pop, funk, R&B and hard rock elements. Before their official break-up, The Revolution had released one studio album,... |
| October 13 | I Just Called to Say I Love You I Just Called to Say I Love You "I Just Called to Say I Love You" is a song, produced, written and performed by Stevie Wonder. It was one of Wonder's most commercially successful singles.... |
Stevie Wonder Stevie Wonder Stevland Hardaway Morris , better known by his stage name Stevie Wonder, is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer and activist... |
| October 20 | I Just Called to Say I Love You | Stevie Wonder |
| October 27 | I Just Called to Say I Love You | Stevie Wonder |
| November 3 | I Feel For You I Feel for You "I Feel for You" is a song written by Prince that originally appeared on his 1979 self-titled album. It became a hit single in 1984 for female R&B singer Chaka Khan, appearing on her album, which was also called I Feel for You... |
Chaka Khan Chaka Khan Chaka Khan , frequently known as the Queen of Funk, is a 10-time Grammy Award winning American singer-songwriter who gained fame in the 1970s as the frontwoman and focal point of the funk band Rufus. While still a member of the group in 1978, Khan embarked on a successful solo career... |
| November 10 | I Feel For You | Chaka Khan |
| November 17 | I Feel For You | Chaka Khan |
| November 24 | Cool It Now Cool It Now "Cool It Now" is a 1984 hit single by R&B/Pop group New Edition, and is the first single from their eponymous second album, New Edition. The song peaked at #4 in January, 1985 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.-Overview:... |
New Edition New Edition New Edition is an R&B group formed in Boston in 1978. The group reached its height of popularity during the 1980s. They were the progenitors of the boy band movement of the 1980s and 1990s and led the way for groups like New Kids on the Block, Boyz II Men, Backstreet Boys and 'N Sync... |
| December 1 | Solid Solid (song) "Solid" is a hit single recorded by the husband-and-wife songwriting duo Ashford & Simpson. It was featured on their album, also titled Solid and released as a single in late 1984.... |
Ashford & Simpson Ashford & Simpson Nickolas Ashford , and Valerie Simpson , were a husband and wife songwriting/production team and recording artists.... |
| December 8 | Solid | Ashford & Simpson |
| December 15 | Solid | Ashford & Simpson |
| December 22 | Operator Operator (Midnight Star song) "Operator" is a 1984 # 1 R&B/dance single by Midnight Star, produced by then-current bandmember Reggie Calloway. At the dawning of 1984, despite having achieved much success on the R&B chart and an extremely successful album, No Parking on the Dance Floor the previous year, Midnight Star had yet to... |
Midnight Star Midnight Star Midnight Star is an R&B and electro-funk group that had a string of R&B hits in the 1980s.-Band history:The group was formed in 1976 at Kentucky State University by trumpeter Reggie Calloway, vocalist Belinda Lipscomb, guitarist/vocalist Melvin Gentry, bassist Kenneth Gant, multi-instrumentalist... |
| December 29 | Operator | Midnight Star |