Billboard Top Hits: 1984

Billboard Top Hits: 1984 is a compilation album released by Rhino Records in 1992, featuring ten hit recordings from 1984.

Billboard Top Hits: 1984
Compilation album by
Various artists
ReleasedSeptember 15, 1992
Genre
Length40:45
LabelRhino
Billboard Top Hits chronology
Billboard Top Hits: 1983
(1992)		 Billboard Top Hits: 1984
(1992)		 Billboard Top Hits: 1985
(1994)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]
Robert ChristgauA[2]

The track lineup includes seven songs that reached the top of the Billboard Hot 100 chart, with the remaining three songs each reaching the top five of the chart.

Critical reception

Heather Phares of AllMusic cited the album as "one of the decade's strongest collections of singles."[1] Robert Christgau of The Village Voice gave the album an A rating and wrote: "After four Brits and Eddy Grant in two years, we get five black artists, five U.K. artists, and 'Talking in Your Sleep.' It didn't mean much—this was also the year of Reagan rampant, with 'Karma Chameleon' the only vaguely progressive moment. But give two cheers for formal evolution, the mass marketplace, the pleasures of false consciousness, and England swinging like a pendulum do."[2]

Track listing
No.TitleWriter(s)ArtistLength
1."Owner of a Lonely Heart"
Yes3:52
2."Ghostbusters"Ray Parker Jr.Ray Parker Jr.4:06
3."Talking in Your Sleep"
The Romantics3:58
4."Jump (For My Love)"
  • Stephen Mitchell
  • Marti Sharron
  • Gary Skardina
The Pointer Sisters4:01
5."Caribbean Queen (No More Love on the Run)"
Billy Ocean3:44
6."Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go"George MichaelWham!3:54
7."Let's Hear It for the Boy"
Deniece Williams4:20
8."Karma Chameleon"
Culture Club4:14
9."Hold Me Now"
Thompson Twins4:48
10."What's Love Got to Do With It"
Tina Turner3:48
Total length:40:45
  • Track information and credits were taken from the album's liner notes.[3]

References
  1. Phares, Heather. Billboard Top Hits: 1984 at AllMusic
  2. Christgau, Robert (December 29, 1992). "Consumer Guide". The Village Voice. New York. Retrieved August 10, 2013.
  3. Billboard Top Hits: 1984 (liner notes). Various artists. Rhino. 1992.CS1 maint: others (link)


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