Taken from "The Back Page" - Radio & Records #1 songs of 1984

Week	Contemporary Hit Radio	Adult/Contemporary	AOR/Tracks	Black/Urban
Jan 6	"Owner of a Lonely Heart" Yes	"I Guess That's Why They Call It the Blues" Elton John	"That's All" Genesis	"If Only You Knew" Patti LaBelle
Jan 13			"Jump" Van Halen
Jan 20	"Karma Chameleon" Culture Club	"Joanna" Kool & The Gang
Jan 27
Feb 3		"An Innocent Man" Billy Joel		"Yah Mo Be There" James Ingram with Michael McDonald
Feb 10	"Thriller" Michael Jackson			"Encore" Cheryl Lynn
Feb 17	"Jump" Van Halen	"This Woman" Kenny Rogers		"Somebody's Watching Me" Rockwell
Feb 24
Mar 2		"Got a Hold on Me" Christine McVie	"Footloose" Kenny Loggins
Mar 9			"Runner" Manfred Mann's Earth Band
Mar 16			"You Might Think" The Cars
Mar 23	"Footloose" Kenny Loggins	"Hello" Lionel Richie		"She's Strange" Cameo
Mar 30
Apr 6
Apr 13	"Against All Odds..." Phil Collins
Apr 20				"Hello" Lionel Richie
Apr 27			"Oh Sherrie" Steve Perry
May 4		"The Longest Time" Billy Joel
May 11	"Let's Hear It for the Boy" Deniece Williams		"Magic" The Cars	"Let's Hear It for the Boy" Deniece Williams
May 18		"Time After Time" Cyndi Lauper
May 25			"Dancing in the Dark" Bruce Springsteen
June 1	"Time After Time" Cyndi Lauper
June 8				"Tell Me I'm Not Dreamin' (Too Good to Be True)" Jermaine Jackson
June 15
June 22	"The Reflex" Duran Duran	"Almost Paradise" Mike Reno & Ann Wilson		"When Doves Cry" Prince
June 29	"Dancing in the Dark" Bruce Springsteen
July 6	"When Doves Cry" Prince	"If Ever You're in My Arms" Peabo Bryson
July 13			"Rock Me Tonite" Billy Squier
July 20		"Stuck on You" Lionel Richie	"Missing You" John Waite
July 27
Aug 3	"Ghostbusters" Ray Parker, Jr.
Aug 10				"Ghostbusters" Ray Parker, Jr.
Aug 17				"You, Me and He" Mtume
Aug 24	"Stuck on You" Lionel Richie	"Leave a Tender Moment Alone" Billy Joel
Aug 31	"Missing You" John Waite		"Cover Me" Bruce Springsteen	"Just the Way You Like It" The S.O.S. Band
Sept 7		"Drive" The Cars
Sept 14	"Let's Go Crazy" Prince			"The Last Time I Made Love" Joyce Kennedy & Jeffrey Osborne
Sept 21			"Are We Ourselves?" The Fixx	"Let's Go Crazy" Prince
Sept 29		"I Just Called to Say I Love You" Stevie Wonder	"Blue Jean" David Bowie	"I Feel for You" Chaka Khan
Oct 5
Oct 12	"Hard Habit to Break" Chicago
Oct 19	"I Just Called to Say I Love You" Stevie Wonder
Oct 26		"What About Me?" Kenny Rogers with Kim Carnes and James Ingram	"Pride (In the Name of Love)" U2
Nov 2	"Purple Rain" Prince	"Penny Lover" Lionel Richie
Nov 9			"Run to You" Bryan Adams	"Cool It Now" New Edition
Nov 16	"Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go" Wham			"Solid" Ashford & Simpson
Nov 23				"Don't Stop" Jeffrey Osborne
Nov 30	"Out of Touch" Daryl Hall & John Oates	"No More Lonely Nights" Paul McCartney		"Operator" Midnight Star
Dec 7	"The Wild Boys" Duran Duran		"The Boys of Summer" Don Henley
Dec 14	"Like a Virgin" Madonna	"All I Need" Jack Wagner
Dec 22
Week	Contemporary Hit Radio	Adult/Contemporary	AOR/Tracks	Black/Urban

Painstakingly compiled from primary sources and presented here for purposes of comparison (and because I was curious and am mildly addicted to chart data).

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