List of Hot Country Singles number ones of 1984
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File:Dirt Band 1976.jpg achieved its first number one single in 1984.|alt=A group of men performing on a stage. One is playing a violin, three are playing guitars, and one is playing drums. The drummer and two of the guitarists are wearing cowboy hats.]]
Hot Country Songs is a chart that ranks the top-performing country music songs in the United States, published by Billboard magazine. In 1984, 50 different singles topped the chart, then published under the title Hot Country Singles, in 52 issues of the magazine, based on playlists submitted by country music radio stations and sales reports submitted by stores.{{cite book|title=Joel Whitburn's Top Country Songs: 1944-2005|page=ix|first=Joel|last=Whitburn|authorlink=Joel Whitburn|publisher=Record Research|date=2005|isbn=978-0-89820-165-9}}
Six acts tied for the most number ones in 1984, with three each: bands Alabama and Exile and soloists Earl Thomas Conley, Merle Haggard, Ricky Skaggs and George Strait. One of the only two songs to spend more than a single week at number one was a collaboration between Julio Iglesias and Willie Nelson. Iglesias had been successful in his native Spain and other Latin markets since the late 1960s, but his 1984 album 1100 Bel Air Place was his United States breakthrough.{{cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/julio-iglesias-mn0000102985/biography|title=Julio Iglesias Biography & History|publisher=AllMusic|access-date=February 28, 2018|first=Mark|last=Deming|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180301044445/https://www.allmusic.com/artist/julio-iglesias-mn0000102985/biography|archive-date=March 1, 2018|url-status=live}} The album featured duets with American singers from a range of genres,{{cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/1100-bel-air-place-mw0000650276|title=110 Bel Air Place|first=Stephen Thomas|last=Erlewine|publisher=AllMusic|access-date=May 9, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190509175754/https://www.allmusic.com/album/1100-bel-air-place-mw0000650276|archive-date=May 9, 2019|url-status=live}} and the first single to be taken from it, "To All the Girls I've Loved Before", paired Iglesias with veteran country singer Nelson. The song was a top 10 hit on the all-genres Billboard Hot 100 but went all the way to number one on the country chart.{{cite book|title=Dynamic Duets: The Best Pop Collaborations from 1955 to 1999|first=Bob|last=Leszczak|pages=58–60|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|date=2016|isbn=978-1-4422-7150-0}} The only other multi-week chart-topper in 1984 was "Why Not Me" by mother-daughter duo The Judds, which ended the year at number one.
The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band had its first number one in 1984. The band had been active since the 1960s and released a number of acclaimed albums in the 1970s before shortening its name to simply Dirt Band and taking a mainstream pop music approach. Soon after reverting to its original name and switching back to country music, the band finally achieved its first Hot Country chart-topper with "Long Hard Road (The Sharecropper's Dream)".{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MBEZBL7Dr7YC&q=%22Long+Hard+Road%22+dirt+band+first+number+one&pg=PA113|page=113|title=Music of the 1980s|first=Thomas|last=Harrison|date=2011|publisher=ABC-CLIO|isbn=978-0-313-36600-0|access-date=2018-02-26|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180226211909/https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=MBEZBL7Dr7YC&pg=PA113&lpg=PA113&dq=%22Long+Hard+Road%22+dirt+band+first+number+one&source=bl&ots=GUwpnJwkDd&sig=IdAbjFiTvgAQfPrakJwL5T9fLDk&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwik1ZDN2sPZAhVB1xQKHZIzCgw4ChDoAQg8MAQ#v=onepage&q=%22Long%20Hard%20Road%22%20dirt%20band%20first%20number%20one&f=false|archive-date=2018-02-26|url-status=live}}{{cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/the-nitty-gritty-dirt-band-mn0000718907/biography|title=The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band Biography & History|publisher=AllMusic|access-date=February 27, 2018|first=Bruce|last=Eder|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180201075422/https://www.allmusic.com/artist/the-nitty-gritty-dirt-band-mn0000718907/biography|archive-date=February 1, 2018|url-status=live}} Another act to reach number one for the first time in 1984 after a lengthy chart career was Eddy Raven, who claimed the top spot in June with "I Got Mexico",{{cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/eddy-raven-mn0000147306/biography|title=Eddy Raven Biography & History|publisher=AllMusic|access-date=February 28, 2018|first=Tom|last=Roland|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180301044641/https://www.allmusic.com/artist/eddy-raven-mn0000147306/biography|archive-date=March 1, 2018|url-status=live}} more than ten years after his first appearance on the Hot Country Singles chart in early 1974. He would go on to have a total of six number one singles before his success tailed off in the late 1980s.{{cite magazine|url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/eddy-raven/chart-history/csi/|title=Eddy Raven Chart History|access-date=March 1, 2018|magazine=Billboard|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180513172910/https://www.billboard.com/music/eddy-raven/chart-history/country-songs/4|archive-date=May 13, 2018|url-status=live}} Exile also topped the country chart for the first time in 1984; the band had topped the Hot 100 six years earlier for four weeks with the disco-influenced pop track "Kiss You All Over", but went on to achieve much greater success after a shift to the country genre in the early 1980s.{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/exile-mn0000791480/biography|title=Exile Biography & History|publisher=AllMusic|access-date=February 27, 2018|first=Steve|last=Huey|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171201041921/https://www.allmusic.com/artist/exile-mn0000791480/biography|archive-date=December 1, 2017|url-status=live}}
Chart history
File:Julio_Iglesias09.jpg, Spanish singer Julio Iglesias had a country number one in 1984 duetting with Willie Nelson.|alt=A dark-haired man wearing a tuxedo, holding his hands in front of him with palms together]]
File:Anne_Murray.jpg had two chart-toppers in 1984.|alt=A blonde woman wearing an orange blouse and black vest]]
File:Johnny_Lee.jpg was another act to top the chart twice during the year.|alt=A heavy-set middle-aged man with a beard, wearing a cowboy hat, grey jacket and tie, playing a guitar]]
File:Exile, the band (2013).jpg had their first number-one country single in 1984, and would go on to have three by year's end. The band had previously had a number-one pop hit in 1978 with "Kiss You All Over" before shifting to country in the 1980s.|alt=Five middle-aged men standing together with their arms on each other's shoulders. The second, fourth, and fifth men are all wearing glasses, and the third is wearing a beret]]
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