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There's also: S.O.S. Band's Just the Way You Like It Chicago 17 Sade's Diamond Life Wham!'s Make It Big "Weird Al" Yankovic in 3-D Run-D.M.C. Kool and the Gang's Emergency Bananarama John Lennon and Yoko Ono's Milk and Honey The Go-Gos' Talk Show Julio Iglesias' 1100 Bel Aire Place The Pointer Sisters' Break Out Alabama's Roll On Midnight Star's No Parking on the Dance Floor Culture Club's Waking Up With the House on Fire Rick Springfield's Hard to Hold Human League's Hysteria Steve Perry's Street Talk Midnight Oil's Red Sails in the Sunset This is Spinal Tap Chaka Khan's I Feel for You The Fat Boys' Fat Boys The Temptations' Truly for You Stevie Ray Vaughan's Couldn't Stand the Weather Mtume's You, Me and He Ramones' Too Tough to Die Apollonia 6 New Edition Stryper's The Yellow and Black Attack Philip Bailey's Chinese Wall Willie Nelson's City of New Orleans The Beverly Hills Cop soundtrack Donna Summer's Cats Without Claws Miami Sound Machine's Eyes of Innocence Billy Ocean's Suddenly Frank Sinatra's L.A. is My Lady Motorhead's No Remorse Sammy Hagar's VOA Kiss' Animalize Stevie Wonder's The Woman in Red soundtrack Barbra Streisand's Emotion AC/DC's '74 Jailbreak Paul McCartney's Give My Regards to Broad Street Jimmy Buffett's Riddles in the Sand Iron Maiden's Powerslave The Bangles' All Over the Place Dokken's Tooth and Nail Pat Benatar's Tropico The Honeydrippers: Volume One Barry Manilow's 2:00 AM Paradise Cafe Bryan Adams' Reckless Glenn Frey's The Allnighter and so on and on and on... [Edited 1/26/17 7:10am] | |
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livewire said: rogifan said: I still love the fact that Prince is the only artist in modern popular music to have a #1 album, single and move at the same time. Only other that came close was The Beatles with a Hard Days Night in August of '64. . As much as I wish this was still a pop culture record Prince held by himself, it's not and hasn't been for years now. Eminem also scored a #1 song ("Lose Yourself"), album ("8 Mile Soundtrack") and movie ("8 Mile") in the same week. I remember all the hype when it happened, with music outlets confirming that Em was only the second artist to achieve this feat following Prince. Broke my heart a little. Good catch. I wasn't aware Eminem's movie hit #1 at the box office. Paisley Park is in your heart
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A lot of acts either released their biggest albums of their career in 1984 or just prior in 1983. But all of their successful albums where on the charts in 1984. Had there not been so many successful albums Purple Rain would have sold even more.
Huey Lewis and the News/ Sports Pointer Sisters/Break Out Bruce Springsteen/Born 'in the USA ZZtop/ Eliminator Madonna/Like A Virgin Lionel Richie/ Can't Slow Down Cyndi Lauper/She's So Unusual Tina Turner/Private Dancer Van Halen/1984 Footloose soundtrack Even MJ's 1982's Thriller was still selling.
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kewlschool said: A lot of acts either released their biggest albums of their career in 1984 or just prior in 1983. But all of their successful albums where on the charts in 1984. Had there not been so many successful albums Purple Rain would have sold even more.
Huey Lewis and the News/ Sports Pointer Sisters/Break Out Bruce Springsteen/Born 'in the USA ZZtop/ Eliminator Madonna/Like A Virgin Lionel Richie/ Can't Slow Down Cyndi Lauper/She's So Unusual Tina Turner/Private Dancer Van Halen/1984 Footloose soundtrack Even MJ's 1982's Thriller was still selling.
According to Wikipedia Van Halen's 1984 never topped the charts. Which is crazy considering how huge it was. I guess just bad timing with Thriller and all. Paisley Park is in your heart
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I did some research on this via internet search. It appears that he did have a number one song and movie. I'm not certain about album. Movie release date of Wednesday Nov 6th. Lose Yourself release date Oct 22. Album release date Friday Nov.8th. I'm not certain that it's enough time to reach number one on the album sales chart and I'm not certain what the cut off times where. He for sure had a number one film and song at the same time. His first week of sales landed him a number one album, but the second week the movie went to the number 2 position, perhaps when his album went to number one? To put into perspective Purple Rain grossed around 85 million. While 8 mile grossed around 116 million. Purple Rain movie tickets cost about half of what 8 mile movie tickets cost. Almost 40% more people went to see Purple Rain than 8 mile. 99.9% of everything I say is strictly for my own entertainment |
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kewlschool said: A lot of acts either released their biggest albums of their career in 1984 or just prior in 1983. But all of their successful albums where on the charts in 1984. Had there not been so many successful albums Purple Rain would have sold even more.
Huey Lewis and the News/ Sports Pointer Sisters/Break Out Bruce Springsteen/Born 'in the USA ZZtop/ Eliminator Madonna/Like A Virgin Lionel Richie/ Can't Slow Down Cyndi Lauper/She's So Unusual Tina Turner/Private Dancer Van Halen/1984 Footloose soundtrack Even MJ's 1982's Thriller was still selling.
All these albums being blockbuster successes simultaneously is a spectaclur feat. Looking at how today's scene is, it's impossible to fathom how so many names were able to experience such great success within the same timespan. There was never a dull moment for music in '83 or '84 but now it's the exact opposite. | |
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That's also a diverse selection of albums. Though most were pop, they each brought their own distinguished flavor and style to the genre if they didn't outright fuse other genres with it. Huey Lewis and the News/ Sports: Bar band rock & roll with a modernized old school flavor Pointer Sisters/ Break Out: Soulful post-disco with electric synths Bruce Springsteen/ Born in the USA: Heartland and hard rock ZZ Top/ Eliminator: Blues and boogie rock, Southern rock Madonna/ Like A Virgin: Dance and electronic pop Lionel Richie/ Can't Slow Down: R&B, adult contemporary, dance Cyndi Lauper/ She's So Unusual: New wave, pop rock Tina Turner/ Private Dancer: R&B, dance-rock Van Halen/ 1984: Synth-rock, metal (heavy and hair), arena rock | |
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TrivialPursuit said: I don't know why it's embarrassing to see Hammer on the list. Please Hammer Don't Hurt 'Em was a huge album, and everyone was listening to it. He was no one-hit wonder, and it's odd that people who danced to "Can't Touch This" or "Pray" now act like it's a William Shatner album. You took me back for a minute... Thanks Best time period in my twelve year old life. [Edited 1/28/17 0:01am] | |
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https://www.google.com/am...d-boost-us In regards to how sales were counted, I came across this article where 2016 is compared to 1984. 1984 is mentioned about 18 paragraphs in if you want to check it out. | |
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