Read on for the Top 50 Songs of 1984. 50 ... Even a 1982 catching-up compilation yielded three new hit singles. But 1984’s “I ...

“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 ...

“[The song] was really a left-field hit … one of the few disks in recent years with a non-English lyric to reach the top,” Billboard wrote at the time. In the 2020s, such hits are ...