1984 Year End Charts

Top Songs of 1984
Rank	Song	Artist	Plays
1	Born in the U.S.A.	Bruce Springsteen	120
2	Like a Virgin	Madonna	118
3	Jump	Van Halen	114
4	When Doves Cry	Prince	113
5	Rock You Like a Hurricane	Scorpions	106
6	Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'	Michael Jackson	106
7	Never Ending Story	Limahl	104
8	Girls Just Want to Have Fun	Cyndi Lauper	103
9	Purple Rain	Prince	103
10	Pride (In the Name of Love)	U2	100
11	Drive	Cars	97
12	Creeping Death	Metallica	96
13	Song to the Siren	This Mortal Coil	95
14	Dancing in the Dark	Bruce Springsteen	91
15	Forever Young	Alphaville	91
16	Bastian's Happy Flight	Klaus Doldinger (Never Ending Story)	90
17	Lucky Star	Madonna	88
18	Let's Go Crazy	Prince	88
19	Icarus' Dream Suite Op. 4	Yngwie Malmsteen	87
20	For Whom the Bell Tolls	Metallica	84
21	If Ever You're in My Arms Again	Peabo Bryson	83
22	Authority Song	John Mellencamp	80
23	Borderline	Madonna	78
24	Panama	Van Halen	78
25	Legs	ZZ Top	77
26	Ghostbusters	Ray Parker Jr.	76
27	Ivory Tower	Giorgio Moroder (Never Ending Story)	76
28	I Can't Drive 55	Sammy Hagar	75
29	Musette and Drums	Cocteau Twins	75
30	Rags	The Waterboys	74
31	Riddle Me	UB40	72
32	Hot For Teacher	Van Halen	72
33	That's All	Genesis	71
34	Everything Counts	Depeche Mode	70
35	Hold Me Now	Thompson Twins	70
36	Swamps of Sadness	Giorgio Moroder (Never Ending Story)	69
37	Talking In Your Sleep	The Romantics	68
38	The Big Music	The Waterboys	68
39	Holding Out for a Hero	Bonnie Tyler (Footloose)	66
40	Relax	Frankie Goes to Hollywood	65
41	La Vie Dansante	Jimmy Buffett	65
42	Love is a Battlefield	Pat Benatar	64
43	Sunglasses at Night	Corey Hart	62
44	Middle of the Road	Pretenders	61
45	(Don't Go Back To) Rockville	R.E.M.	61
46	All Through the Night	Cyndi Lauper	60
47	Round and Round	Ratt	60
48	Red Army Blues	The Waterboys	59
49	The Beautiful Ones	Prince	59
50	Do They Know It's Christmas?	Band Aid	59
1984
Top Albums
Rank	Album	Artist	Units (M)
1	Purple Rain	Prince & the Revolution	9.7
2	Born in the U.S.A.	Bruce Springsteen	9.4
3	Amadeus (Soundtrack)	Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart	9.3
4	1984	Van Halen	8.1
5	Like a Virgin	Madonna	7.8
6	The Never Ending Story (Soundtrack)	Giorgio Moroder, Klaus Doldinger	6.6
7	Thriller	Michael Jackson	6.4
8	Ride the Lightning	Metallica	6.0
9	She's So Unusual	Cyndi Lauper	5.1
10	A Pagan Place	The Waterboys	4.8
Top Books
Rank	Book	Author	Units (M)
1	The Kennedys: An American Drama	Peter Collier, David Horowitz	2.5
2	Lincoln	Gore Vidal	1.8
3	They Cage the Animals at Night	Jennings Michael Burch	1.6
4	The Astrology of Fate	Liz Green	1.6
5	Love and War	John Jakes	1.5
6	The Unbearable Lightness of Being	Milan Kundera	1.4
7	Hollywood Wives	Jackie Collins	1.4
8	The March of Folly	Barbara Tuchman	1.1
9	Motherhood	Erma Brombeck	1.1
10	The Haj	Leon Uris	1.0
Top Movies
Rank	Movie		Units (M)
1	Amadeus		19.3
2	The NeverEnding Story		14.9
3	Once Upon a Time in America		12.1
4	The Terminator		11.8
5	This Is Spinal Tap		9.6
6	Gremlins		9.5
7	Scarface		9.5
8	The Natural		8.7
9	The Karate Kid		8.6
10	Terms of Endearment		8.3