List of Billboard 200 number-one albums of 1984

Footloose, the original soundtrack of the Paramount motion picture, Footloose, which included the two number one hits, "Footloose" by Kenny Loggins and "Let's Hear It for the Boy" by Deniece Williams,[4][5] spent ten weeks at number one, sold over seven million copies and received a nomination for Best Score Soundtrack Album for a Motion Picture at the 27th Grammy Awards.

[9] In 1984, singer-songwriter Bruce Springsteen released his seventh studio album Born in the U.S.A. Springsteen ignored the musical movements of the Second British Invasion, instead he embraced the legacy of Phil Spector's and the garage bands releases with more radio-friendly arrangements, the use of synthesizers and incorporating new electronic textures while keeping the American rock & roll from the early 1960s.

[10][11] The album stayed four weeks at number one, yielded seven top ten singles and sold more than seven and a half million copies.

[12] Purple Rain, the soundtrack from the film of the same name, was the first Prince album to be recorded with and credited to his backing group The Revolution.

The album was loaded with life, invention, pure rock & roll, with synthesizer touches that pushed heavily into psychedelic music,[13] and have constant reminders of Sly Stone in the bass lines,[14][15] which make it the most pop-oriented album Prince has ever made.