List of French number-one hits of 1984

This is a list of the French

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Singles & Airplay Chart Reviews/SNEP Top 50 Singles number-ones of 1984.

Singles chart

Week	Issue Date	Artist	Single
1	8 January	Irene Cara Irene Cara Irene Cara is an American singer and actress. Cara won an Academy Award in 1984 in the category of Best Original Song for co-writing "Flashdance... What a Feeling." She is also known for her recording of the song "Fame", and she also starred in the 1980 film Fame.She married Hollywood stuntman...	"Flashdance... What a Feeling Flashdance... What a Feeling "Flashdance... What a Feeling" is a song from the 1983 film Flashdance, written by Giorgio Moroder, Keith Forsey, and Irene Cara, and performed by Cara. Despite the title, the word "Flashdance" is never used in the lyrics; however, the line "In a flash, take a hold of my heart" refers to the... "
2	15 January	Irene Cara	"Flashdance... What a Feeling"
3	22 January	Irene Cara	"Flashdance... What a Feeling"
4	29 January	Irene Cara	"Flashdance... What a Feeling"
5	5 February	Michael Jackson Michael Jackson Michael Joseph Jackson was an American recording artist, entertainer, and businessman. Referred to as the King of Pop, or by his initials MJ, Jackson is recognized as the most successful entertainer of all time by Guinness World Records...	"Thriller Thriller (song) "Thriller" is a song recorded by American recording artist Michael Jackson, composed by Rod Temperton, and produced by Quincy Jones. It is the seventh and final single from his sixth studio album Thriller. It was released on January 23, 1984 by Epic Records... "
6	12 February	Michael Jackson	"Thriller"
7	19 February	Michael Jackson	"Thriller"
8	26 February	Break Machine Break Machine Break Machine was the name of a 1980s rap act, fronted by Keith Rodgers and produced by Jacques Morali and Henri Belolo; the team behind the Village People.-Career:...	"Street Dance"
9	4 March	Break Machine	"Street Dance"
10	11 March	Break Machine	"Street Dance"
11	18 March	Break Machine	"Street Dance"
12	25 March	Break Machine	"Street Dance"
13	1 April	Frankie Goes to Hollywood Frankie Goes to Hollywood Frankie Goes to Hollywood were a British dance-pop band popular in the mid-1980s. The group was fronted by Holly Johnson , with Paul Rutherford , Peter Gill , Mark O'Toole , and Brian Nash .The group's debut single "Relax" was banned by the BBC in 1984 while at number six in the charts and...	"Relax Relax (song) "Relax" is the debut single by British dance group Frankie Goes to Hollywood, released in the UK by ZTT Records in 1983. The song was later included on the album Welcome to the Pleasuredome .... "
14	8 April	Frankie Goes to Hollywood	"Relax"
15	15 April	Frankie Goes to Hollywood	"Relax"
16	22 April	Frankie Goes to Hollywood	"Relax"
17	29 April	Frankie Goes to Hollywood	"Relax"
18	6 May	Frankie Goes to Hollywood	"Relax"
19	13 May	Frankie Goes to Hollywood	"Relax"
20	20 May	Frankie Goes to Hollywood	"Relax"
21	27 May	Frankie Goes to Hollywood	"Relax"
22	3 June	Rockwell Rockwell (musician) Rockwell is an R&B performer who was signed to the Motown label.-Biography:...	"Somebody's Watching Me Somebody's Watching Me "Somebody's Watching Me" is the debut single by R&B artist Rockwell, released on the Motown label in 1984. The song's lyrics relate the narrator's paranoid fear of being followed and watched. It featured former Motown artists Michael Jackson on the chorus and Jermaine Jackson on additional backing... "
23	10 June	Rockwell	"Somebody's Watching Me"
24	17 June	Rockwell	"Somebody's Watching Me"
25	24 June	Rockwell	"Somebody's Watching Me"
26	1 July	Rockwell	"Somebody's Watching Me"
27	8 July	The Art Company	"Susanna"
28	15 July	The Art Company	"Susanna"
29	22 July	Rockwell	"Somebody's Watching Me"
30	29 July	The Art Company	"Susanna"
31	5 August	Laura Branigan Laura Branigan Laura Ann Branigan was an American singer-songwriter and actress of Italian and Irish ancestry. She is best known in the United States for her 1982 Platinum-certified hit "Gloria" and in Europe for the number-one single "Self Control"...	"Self Control Self Control (song) "Self Control" is the name of an international hit song recorded in 1984 by Laura Branigan, as well as the album on which it appears. The song was recorded that same year with the same English lyrics by Italian singer Raf, who co-wrote the song with Giancarlo Bigazzi and Steve Piccolo. Branigan's... "
32	12 August	The Art Company	"Susanna"
33	19 August	Jeanne Mas Jeanne Mas Jeanne Mas, born on 28 February 1958 in Alicante, Spain, is a French pop singer and actress.She was well known in France, Switzerland and Belgium for a number of hit singles released in the 1980s. From the late eighties onwards her career slid into the has-been category. Her first success was...	"Toute première fois"
34	26 August	The Art Company	"Susanna"
35	2 September	The Art Company	"Susanna"
36	9 September	Cookie Dingler	"Femme libérée Femme libérée "Femme libérée" is a successful song recorded by French band Cookie Dingler. Written in 1984, it achieved a huge success in France and became a popular song throughout the years... "
37	16 September	Cookie Dingler	"Femme libérée"
38	23 September	Cookie Dingler	"Femme libérée"
39	30 September	Cookie Dingler	"Femme libérée"
40	7 October	France Gall France Gall France Gall is a popular French yé-yé singer.Gall was married to, and had a successful singing career in partnership with, French singer-songwriter Michel Berger....	"Hong-Kong Star"
41	14 October	Mike Oldfield Mike Oldfield Michael Gordon Oldfield is an English multi-instrumentalist musician and composer, working a style that blends progressive rock, folk, ethnic or world music, classical music, electronic music, New Age, and more recently, dance. His music is often elaborate and complex in nature...	"To France To France "To France" is a single by musician Mike Oldfield, released in 1984. It is from the album Discovery and features Maggie Reilly on vocals.It references Mary Stuart in its chorus... "
42	21 October	Cookie Dingler	"Femme libérée"
43	28 October	Stevie Wonder Stevie Wonder Stevland Hardaway Morris , better known by his stage name Stevie Wonder, is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer and activist...	"I Just Called to Say I Love You I Just Called to Say I Love You "I Just Called to Say I Love You" is a song, produced, written and performed by Stevie Wonder. It was one of Wonder's most commercially successful singles.... "
SNEP number-one singles
Week	Issue Date	Artist	Single
1	4 November	Peter and Sloane Peter and Sloane Peter and Sloane was a 1980s French musical group. This duet was composed of Jean-Pierre Savelli and Chantal Richard . Their greatest hit was the song "Besoin de rien, envie de toi", which was number 1 for nine weeks in 1984 in France....	"Besoin de rien, envie de toi"
2	11 November	Peter and Sloane	"Besoin de rien, envie de toi"
3	18 November	Peter and Sloane	"Besoin de rien, envie de toi"
4	25 November	Peter and Sloane	"Besoin de rien, envie de toi"
5	2 December	Peter and Sloane	"Besoin de rien, envie de toi"
6	9 December	Peter and Sloane	"Besoin de rien, envie de toi"
7	16 December	Peter and Sloane	"Besoin de rien, envie de toi"
8	23 December	Stevie Wonder	"I Just Called to Say I Love You"
9	30 December	Ray Parker Jr	"Ghostbusters Ghostbusters (song) "Ghostbusters" is a 1984 song recorded by Ray Parker, Jr. as the theme to the film of the same name starring Bill Murray and Dan Aykroyd. It hit number one on the Billboard Hot 100 on August 11 in 1984, and stayed there for three weeks... "

On November 1984, IFOP affiliated MEDEF and established The Official French Singles Chart under the Syndicat National de l'Édition Phonographique

Syndicat National de l'Edition Phonographique

The Syndicat national de l'édition phonographique is the inter-professional organization which protects the interests of the French record industry...

(SNEP). The first official chart was on the issue week of November 4, 1984. There was no official chart before this date, but reviews from IFOP since the music industry was created in France in 1922.

Singles chart

See also