1984 (Van Halen album)
1984 (written as MCMLXXXIV on the album's front cover) is the sixth studio album by American hard rock band Van Halen. 1984 remains one of Van Halen's most popular albums in terms of sales, (with 12 million copies sold in the U.S. alone;) Billboard chart performance, (reaching #2 on the Billboard Top 200 Album Charts, and remaining there for 5 weeks - behind Michael Jackson's mega-selling Thriller, on which Eddie Van Halen played guitar;) and in terms of memorable singles - including the #1 Billboard Pop Hit, Jump; Top #13 Hits Panama, I'll Wait; and the MTV sensation, Hot for Teacher. 1984 was the last, full-length Van Halen album to feature the band's iconic frontman David Lee Roth until 2012's A Different Kind of Truth, and also its latest album (to date) to sell over 10 million copies in America alone, (i.e. achieve RIAA Diamond status.)
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