Big comebacks, creative leaps and multiplatinum records dominated the year’s greatest music, as you’ll see in the below list of the Top 50 Songs of 1984. As voted on by the UCR staff, these ...

Incredibly, the song only scraped to Number 49 in the UK on its inital release, but a reissue in March 1985 saw the track peak at Number 17. The lead single from the band's album 1984, this rock ...

Early in the 1900s, Billboard presented charts detailing the popularity of sheet music in the U.S. In July 1940, Billboard unveiled its first chart ranking the sales of recorded songs, the 10 ...

Lindsay Let’s kick things off with a propulsive track from one of my favorite 1984 releases, the Replacements’ “Let It Be.” While it’s difficult to pick just one song from such a great a ...

Nearly every other track on this incredible album holds up to that same standard. So, you tell us, which song on '1984' deserves the nod more than its brothers?

“Hold Me Now” by Thompson Twins from Into the Gap Hits in 1984 were buoyed by earnestness. Thompson Twins’ defining song embodies this dramatic spirit. Think of how you might lip-sync this on ...

Nik Kershaw in November 1984, the same year The Riddle was released The hit 1984 song The Riddle by Nik Kershaw was just "nonsense" lyrics, the singer/songwriter has confirmed. Kershaw ...