Billboard #1 Hits: #548: ‘ Hello’- Lionel Richie. May 12, 1984. #1 for 2 weeks in Billboard Hot 100.

• Single: ‘Hello’- Lionel Richie
• Record Company-Motown
• Genre: Pop
• Written by Lionel Richie
• Time: 4:14
• B-side:’You Mean More To Me’
• Album-Can’t Slow Down
• Grade: C
• Peaked at #1 2 weeks in Billboard Hot 100. #1 in UK Singles Chart, #1 in Australia, Belgium, Canada, Ireland, Netherlands, New Zealand, Portugal and Switzerland.

Yet another boringly slow ballad from Lionel Richie. It was a big hit around the world though. He had 5 #1 hits in the first half of the 1980’s. While I believe the best year for music in the 1980’s was 1984- as far as #1’s go- I will go with 1983 as having the best.