The Top Ten Singles
10 - Got a Hold on Me - Christine McVie
9 - Adult Education - Hall and Oates
8 - Automatic - The Pointer Sisters
7 - 99 LuftBalloons - Nena
6 - I Want a New Drug - Huey Lewis & The News
5 - Here Comes the Rain Again - Eurythmics
4 - Footloose - Kenny Loggins
3 - Girls Just Want to Have Fun - Cyndi Lauper
2 - Somebody's Watching Me - Rockwell
1 - Jump - Van Halen
(5th of 5 weeks at #1)
The Top 10 Albums
10 - An Innocent Man - Billy Joel
9 - Touch - Eurythmics
8 - Synchronicity - The Police
7 - Learning To Crawl - The Pretenders
6 - Sports - Huey Lewis & The News
5 - Footloose - Kenny Loggins
4 - Can't Slow Down - Lionel Richie
3 - Colour By Numbers - Culture Club
2 - 1984 - Van Halen
1 - Thriller - Michael Jackson
(33rd of 37 non consecutive weeks at #1)
The winner of 8 Grammy Awards in 1984 including Album of the Year.
Certified 29 times Platinum in 2009, having sold over 29 million copies since its release November of 1982.
The first album to have 7 top ten hits on the Billboard Hot 100 and was the only album to be the best selling album of 2 consecutive years (1983-1984) in the US. The album also reached #1 in the UK (8 weeks), Japan and Australia.
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