1984In 1984, the UK Singles Chart enjoyed its most commercially explosive year of the decade, sound-tracked by an extraordinary boom in million-selling records. It was a massive watershed moment for bold, theatrical pop and underground queer culture breaking heavily into the mainstream. Liverpool newcomers Frankie Goes to Hollywood completely dominated the year, making history by steering their first three consecutive singles—”Relax”, “Two Tribes”, and “The Power of Love”—straight to number one. The year concluded with a monumental cultural phenomenon when Band Aid’s charity anthem “Do They Know It’s Christmas?” smashed all existing industry records, instantly becoming the fastest and best-selling UK single of all time.