According to RPM magazine, the biggest song of 1984 in Canada was “I Just Called To Say I Love You” by Stevie Wonder off The Woman in Red soundtrack. There was a dearth of CanCon this year on the year-end Top 100 which included only two songs involving Canadian artists: “Almost Paradise” by Loverboy’s Mike Reno and Heart’s Ann Wilson (#32) and squeaking in at #100 “Sunglasses at Night” by Corey Hart. Those entries have been bolded in red in the chart below. The Canadian charts are an accurate reflection of Canadian tastes in music, and the Top 100 songs were determined both from nationwide sales and radio airplay data. The drawback with year-end charts is that songs charting from the end of one year through beginning of the next will have their chart performance split between the two years. More year-end and other Canadian charts can be found here.
RANK | TITLE | ARTIST |
1 | I Just Called To Say I Love You | Stevie Wonder |
2 | Against All Odds | Phil Collins |
3 | What’s Love Got to Do with It | Tina Turner |
4 | Ghostbusters | Ray Parker Jr. |
5 | Karma Chameleon | Culture Club |
6 | Wake Me Up Before You Go Go | Wham |
7 | Missing You | John Waite |
8 | Time After Time | Cyndi Lauper |
9 | Girls Just Want to Have Fun | Cyndi Lauper |
10 | When Doves Cry | Prince |
11 | Hello | Lionel Richie |
12 | To All the Girls I’ve Loved… | J. Iglesias/W. Nelson |
13 | 99 Red Balloons | Nena |
14 | Jump | Van Halen |
15 | Self-Control | Laura Branigan |
16 | Oh Sherrie | Steve Perry |
17 | Footloose | Kenny Loggins |
18 | Red Red Wine | UB40 |
19 | Talking In Your Sleep | Romantics |
20 | Dancing In the Dark | Bruce Springsteen |
21 | Let’s Hear It For the Boy | Denice Williams |
22 | The Warrior | Scandal |
23 | The Reflex | Duran Duran |
24 | Hold Me Now | Thompson Twins |
25 | She Bop | Cyndi Lauper |
26 | Let’s Go Crazy | Prince |
27 | Sister Christian | Night Ranger |
28 | Somebody’s Watching Me | Rockwell |
29 | Owner of a Lonely Heart | Yes |
30 | Caribbean Queen | Billy Ocean |
31 | Thriller | Michael Jackson |
32 | Almost Paradise | M. Reno/A. Wilson |
33 | Major Tom | Peter Schilling |
34 | Stuck On You | Lionel Richie |
35 | The Glamorous Life | Sheila E. |
36 | Sad Songs | Elton John |
37 | Pruple Rain | Prince |
38 | The Wild Boys | Duran Duran |
39 | Say Say Say | P. McCartney/M. Jackson |
40 | They Don’t Know | Tracey Ullman |
41 | Break Me Stride | Matthew Wilder |
42 | Drive | The Cars |
43 | We’re Not Gonna Take It | Twisted Sister |
44 | Nobody Told Me | John Lennon |
45 | Eyes Without A Face | Billy Idol |
46 | If Ever You’re In My Arms | Peabo Bryson |
47 | Out of Touch | Hall & Oates |
48 | Twist of Fate | Olivia Newton-John |
49 | Miss Me Blind | Culture Club |
50 | Jump | Pointer Sisters |
51 | I Want a New Drug | Huey Lewis |
52 | Hard Habit to Break | Chicago |
53 | Blue Jean | David Bowie |
54 | If This Is It | Huey Lewis |
55 | Eat It | Weird Al Yankovic |
56 | Union of the Snake | Duran Duran |
57 | Sea of Love | Honeydrippers |
58 | Here Comes the Rain Again | Eurythmics |
59 | Better Be Good To Me | Tina Turner |
60 | Strut | Sheena Easton |
61 | You Might Think | The Cars |
62 | Wouldn’t It Be Good | Nik Kershaw |
63 | Romancing the Stone | Eddy Grant |
64 | I Feel For You | Chaka Khan |
65 | Dance Hall Days | Wang Chung |
66 | The Heart of Rock ‘n’ Roll | Huey Lewis |
67 | The War Song | Culture Club |
68 | All of You | J. Iglesias/D. Ross |
69 | Dynamite | Jermaine Jackson |
70 | Two Tribes | Frankie Goes to Hollywood |
71 | Love Is a Battlefield | Pat Benatar |
72 | Lucky Star | Madonna |
73 | Desert Moon | Dennis DeYoung |
74 | Legs | ZZ Top |
75 | All Through the Night | Cyndi Lauper |
76 | Doctor Doctor | Thompson Twins |
77 | Rockit | Herbie Hancock |
78 | Radio Ga Ga | Queen |
79 | Think of Laura | Christopher Cross |
80 | Come On Feel the Noise | Quiet Riot |
81 | State of Shock | Jacksons |
82 | That’s Why They Call It… | Elton John |
83 | Breakdance | Irene Cara |
84 | Run Runaway | Slade |
85 | Infatuation | Rod Stewart |
86 | Love Somebody | Rick Springfield |
87 | Round and Round | Ratt |
88 | Relax | Frankie Goes to Hollywood |
89 | Middle of the Road | Pretenders |
90 | Who’s That Girl | Eurythmics |
91 | Let the Music Play | Shannon |
92 | Breakin’ | Ollie & Jerry |
93 | I Can Dream About You | Dan Hartman |
94 | Cover Me | Bruce Springsteen |
95 | Rebel Yell | Billy Idol |
96 | Hyperactive | Thomas Dolby |
97 | Torture | Jacksons |
98 | No More Lonely Nights | Paul McCartney |
99 | Running With the Night | Lionel Richie |
100 | Sunglasses At Night | Corey Hart |
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