Billboard #1s for the Week Ending September 22, 1984

This week’s Time Capsule!

Chart	Title	Act	Weeks
Hot 100	Missing You	John Waite	1
R & B	Caribbean Queen (No More Love On the Run)	Billy Ocean	3
Country	Let’s Chase Each Other Around the Room	Merle Haggard	1
Adult Contemporary	Drive	The Cars	1
Rock	On the Dark Side	John Cafferty and the Beaver Brown Band	1
Album	Purple Rain	Prince and the Revolution	8

This week sees  a boy band that launched many careers debut with their first big hit. Producer and songwriter Maurice Starr, frustrated with his lack of success as a singer, assembled five teens (Ricky Bell, Michael Bivins, Bobby Brown,  Ronald DeVoe, and Ralph Tresvant) into the group New Edition. Their first single, Candy Girl, topped the R&B chart but just missed the pop Top 40. This week their fourth single, Cool It Now, enters the Hot 100 at #84. In its sixth week it became their first Top 40 hit; it eventually peaked at #4 and also became their second R&B chart-topper.

After they logged a few smaller hits, Brown left for a successful solo career, replaced by Johnny Gill. After a couple of hits from the talented team of Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis, the group broke up in 1990. Gill and Tresvant had some solo  success and the remaining three hit it fairly big as Bell Biv DeVoe. In 1996, all six reunited for another successful run on the charts, including their biggest hit, 1996’s Hit Me Off [#3, #1 R&B (three weeks)].