This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1984.

Specific locations

Specific genres

Events

January–March

April–June

July–September

October–December

Bands formed

Bands disbanded

Bands on Hiatus

Bands reformed

Albums released

January

February

March

April

May

June

July

August

September

October

November

December

Release date unknown

Biggest hit singles

The following songs achieved the highest chart positions in the charts of 1984.

Top 40 Chart hit singles

Other Chart hit singles

• "Baby You're Dynamite"/"Ocean Deep" – Cliff Richard (released in 1983) • "Back for More" – Ratt • "Be My Number Two" – Joe Jackson • "Better Be Good to Me" – Tina Turner • "Big City Nights" – The Scorpions • "Big In Japan" – Alphaville • "The Body Electric" – Rush • "Borderline" (1983) – Madonna • "Born in the U.S.A." – Bruce Springsteen • "Blue Jean" – David Bowie • "Breakdance" – Irene Cara • "Breakin'... There's No Stoppin' Us – Ollie & Jerry • "Break My Stride" – Matthew Wilder • "Careless Whisper" – Wham! • "Caribbean Queen (No More Love on the Run)" – Billy Ocean • "Catch My Fall – Billy Idol • "Centipede" – Rebbie Jackson • "Cherry Oh Baby" – UB40 • "Cool It Now" – New Edition • "Cover Me" – Bruce Springsteen • "Crazy" – Kenny Rogers • "Cruel Summer" – Bananarama • "Cry and Be Free" – Marilyn • "Dance Hall Days" – Wang Chung • "Dance Me Up" – Gary Glitter • "Dancing in the Dark" – Bruce Springsteen • "Dancing with Tears in My Eyes" – Ultravox • "Desert Moon" – Dennis DeYoung • "Distant Early Warning" – Rush • "Doctor! Doctor!" – Thompson Twins • "Don't Blame It on Love" – Shakatak • "Don't Tell Me" – Blancmange • "Down on the Street" – Shakatak • "Dr. Beat" – Miami Sound Machine • "Drive" – The Cars • "Easy Lover" – Phillip Bailey duet with Phil Collins • "Eighties" – Killing Joke • "Eye to Eye" – Jermaine Stewart • "Eyes Without a Face" (1983) – Billy Idol • "Fade to Black" – Metallica • "Femme libérée" – Cookie Dingler • "Flame Trees" – Cold Chisel • "Flesh for Fantasy" (1983) – Billy Idol • "Footloose" – Kenny Loggins • "For Whom the Bell Tolls" – Metallica • "Forest Fire" – Lloyd Cole and the Commotions • "Forever Young" – Alphaville • "Freedom" – Wham! • "The Ghost in You" – The Psychedelic Furs • "Ghostbusters" – Ray Parker Jr. • "God Bless the USA" – Lee Greenwood • "Had a Dream (Sleeping with the Enemy)" – Roger Hodgson • "Half A Boy Half A Man" – Nick Lowe • "Hammer to Fall" – Queen • "Heart from the Start" – Classix Nouveaux • "Heaven's on Fire" – Kiss • "Hello" (1983) – Lionel Richie • "Here Comes the Rain Again" – Eurythmics • "High on Emotion" – Chris De Burgh • "Highly Strung" – Spandau Ballet • "The Heart of Rock and Roll" (1983) – Huey Lewis and the News • "Heaven" – Bryan Adams (charted in 1985 in the U.S.) • "Heaven (Must Be There)" – Eurogliders • "Hold Me Now" – Thompson Twins • "Hold on to Love" – Gary Moore • "Hot Water" – Level 42 • "House of Salome" – Kim Wilde • "Human Touch" – Rick Springfield (released in 1983) • "I Feel for You" – Chaka Khan • "I Just Called to Say I Love You" – Stevie Wonder • "I Scare Myself" – Thomas Dolby • "I Wanna Rock" – Twisted Sister • "I Want a New Drug" (1983) – Huey Lewis and the News • "I Want to Break Free" – Queen • "I Want to Know What Love Is" – Foreigner • "I Won't Let the Sun Go Down on Me" – Nik Kershaw • "If This Is It" (1983) – Huey Lewis and the News • "I'll Fly for You" – Spandau Ballet • "I'll Wait" – Van Halen • "Illegal Alien" (1983) – Genesis • "In Jeopardy" – Roger Hodgson • "In Neon" – Elton John • "Infatuation" – Rod Stewart • "An Innocent Man" (1983) – Billy Joel • "Invisible" – Alison Moyet • "It's a Hard Life" – Queen • "It's My Life" – Talk Talk • "Joanna" – Kool & the Gang • "Jokerman" – Bob Dylan • "Jump" – Van Halen • "Jump (For My Love)" – The Pointer Sisters • "Jungle Love" – The Time • "Just Another Woman in Love" – Anne Murray • "Kalimba De Luna" – Dalida • "Karma Chameleon" – Culture Club • "Keeping the Faith" (1983) – Billy Joel • "The Killing Moon" – Echo & the Bunnymen • "Leave a Tender Moment Alone" (1983) – Billy Joel • "Legs" (1983) – ZZ Top • "Let's Go Crazy" – Prince and the Revolution • "Let's Hear It for the Boy" – Deniece Williams • "Like a Virgin" – Madonna • "Lights Out" – Peter Wolf • "L'Innamorata" – Dalida • "A Little Love" – Juice Newton • "Locomotion" – Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark • "The Longest Time" (1983) – Billy Joel • "Love Somebody" – Rick Springfield • "Lovergirl" – Teena Marie • "The Lucky One" – Laura Branigan • "Lucky Star" (1983) – Madonna • "Madam Butterfly" – Malcolm McLaren • "Magic" – The Cars • "Master and Servant" – Depeche Mode • "Message to My Girl" – Split Enz • "Michael Caine" – Madness • "Middle of the Road" – The Pretenders • "Missing You" – John Waite • "Missing You" – Diana Ross • "Miss Me Blind"- Culture Club • "Mistake No. 3" – Culture Club • "The More You Live, the More You Love" – A Flock of Seagulls • "Mr. Telephone Man" – New Edition • "My Ever Changing Moods" – The Style Council • "My Oh My" – Slade • "The NeverEnding Story" – Limahl • "New Moon on Monday" – Duran Duran • "No Mercy" – The Stranglers • "No More Lonely Nights" – Paul McCartney • "Nobody Loves Me Like You Do" – Anne Murray and Dave Loggins • "Obsession" – Animotion • "Oh Sherrie" – Steve Perry • "On a Night Like This" – The Shadows • "One Love/People Get Ready" – Bob Marley & The Wailers • "One Night in Bangkok" – Murray Head • "Only When You Leave" – Spandau Ballet • "Original Sin" – INXS • "Out of Touch" – Hall & Oates • "Panama" – Van Halen • "Passengers" – Elton John • "Pearl In The Shell" – Howard Jones • "Pearly Dewdrops' Drops" – Cocteau Twins • "Penny Lover" (1983) – Lionel Richie • "People Are People" – Depeche Mode • "Perfect Skin" – Lloyd Cole and the Commotions • "Pour te dire je t'aime" – Dalida • "The Power of Love" – Frankie Goes to Hollywood • "Pretty in Pink" – The Psychedelic Furs • "Pride (In the Name of Love)" – U2 • "Purple Rain" – Prince and the Revolution • "Radio Ga Ga" – Queen • "Rattlesnakes" – Lloyd Cole and the Commotions • "Read 'Em and Weep" – Barry Manilow • "Rebel Yell" (1983) – Billy Idol • "Red Sector A" – Rush • "The Reflex" – Duran Duran • "Relax" – Frankie Goes to Hollywood • "The Riddle" – Nik Kershaw • "Robert De Niro's Waiting..." – Bananarama • "Rock You Like a Hurricane" – The Scorpions • "Round and Round" – Spandau Ballet • "Round and Round" – Ratt • "Run Runaway" – Slade • "Runaway" – Bon Jovi • "Run to You" – Bryan Adams • "Running with the Night" (1983) – Lionel Richie • "Sad Songs (Say So Much)" – Elton John • "Saturday Night" – Cold Chisel • "The Second Time" – Kim Wilde • "Self Control" – Laura Branigan • "Seven Seas" – Echo & the Bunnymen • "Sexcrime (Nineteen Eighty-Four)" – Eurythmics • "She Bop" (1983) – Cyndi Lauper • "She Was Hot" – The Rolling Stones • "Shooting From the Heart" – Cliff Richard • "Shout" – Tears for Fears • "Shout to the Top" – The Style Council • "Silver" – Echo & the Bunnymen • "Sister Christian" – Night Ranger • "Skin Deep" – Stranglers • "Soul Kind of Feeling" – Dynamic Hepnotics • "Smalltown Boy" – Bronski Beat • "Smooth Operator" – Sade • "So. Central Rain (I'm Sorry)" – R.E.M. • "So Tired" – Ozzy Osbourne • "Soleil" – Dalida • "Somebody's Watching Me" – Rockwell featuring Michael Jackson • "Some Guys Have All the Luck" – Rod Stewart • "Sounds Like a Melody" – Alphaville • "Special Girl" – America • "Standing in the Shadow" – Whitesnake • "State of the Nation" – Industry • "Stranger in Town" – Toto • "Strut" – Sheena Easton • "Stuck on You" – Lionel Richie • "Sugar Walls" – Sheena Easton • "Summer of '69" – Bryan Adams • "Sunglasses at Night" – Corey Hart • "Take On Me" (1984 European version) – a-ha • "Taking It All Too Hard" (1983) – Genesis • "That's All" – Genesis (released in 1983) • "That's Not the Way (It's S'posed to Be)" – Anne Murray • "Thieves Like Us" – New Order • "Thin Line Between Love and Hate" – The Pretenders • "Thriller" (1982) – Michael Jackson • "Ti Amo" – Laura Branigan • "Time After Time" (1983) – Cyndi Lauper • "Tinseltown in the Rain" – The Blue Nile • "To All the Girls I've Loved Before" – Julio Iglesias and Willie Nelson • "To France" – Mike Oldfield • "Together in Electric Dreams" – Philip Oakey & Giorgio Moroder • "Too Young to Fall in Love" (1983) – Mötley Crüe • "Torture" – The Jacksons • "The Touch" – Kim Wilde • "TV Dinners" (1983) – ZZ Top • "Twist of Fate" – Olivia Newton-John • "Two Tribes" – Frankie Goes to Hollywood • "Up on the Catwalk" – Simple Minds • "Very Personal" – Ian Dury • "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go" – Wham! • "Wanted Man" – Ratt • "The War Song" – Culture Club • "We Belong" – Pat Benatar • "We Rock" – Dio • "We're Not Gonna Take It" – Twisted Sister • "What About Me?" – Kenny Rogers, Kim Carnes and James Ingram • "What Difference Does It Make?" – The Smiths • "What's Love Got to Do with It" – Tina Turner • "When Am I Going to Make a Living" – Sade • "When Doves Cry" – Prince • "When Love Breaks Down" – Prefab Sprout • When the Lady Smiles" – Golden Earring • "Where the Rose Is Sown" – Big Country • "Whisper to a Scream (Birds Fly)" – Icicle Works • "White Lines (Don't Don't Do It)" – Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five (released in 1983) • "Who Wears These Shoes?" – Elton John • "The Wild Boys" – Duran Duran • "William, It Was Really Nothing" – The Smiths • "Wood Beez" – Scritti Politti • "Wouldn't It Be Good" – Nik Kershaw • "You Don't Love Me" – Marilyn • "You Might Think" – The Cars • "You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)" – Dead or Alive • "You Think You're a Man" – Divine • "You Were Made for Me" – Irene Cara • "You're the Best Thing" – The Style Council • "Young at Heart" – The Bluebells • "Your Love Is King" – Sade

Notable singles

Other Notable singles

• "Doledrums" – The Chills • "Dum Dum Girl" – Talk Talk • "Part Company" – The Go-Betweens

Christmas songs

Published popular music

Classical music

Ballet

See List of 1984 ballet premieres

Opera

Jazz

Musical theater

Musical films

Births

Deaths

Awards

Grammy Awards

Country Music Association Awards

Eurovision Song Contest

Charts

List of no. 1 hits

List of no. 1 albums