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1984 (op de hoes staat de titel in Romeinse cijfers vermeld als MCMLXXXIV) is het zesde album van rockband Van Halen. Het album is genoemd naar het productiejaar. De meest succesvolle single van het album is "Jump".

Op 1984 speelt Eddie Van Halen veel meer keyboard dan op de vorige albums van de band. Het album is in 1983 opgenomen in zijn thuisstudio 5150 in Hollywood. Na dit album heeft zanger David Lee Roth de band verlaten.

Op de albumhoes staat een cherubijn afgebeeld met een sigaret in zijn hand. In het Verenigd Koninkrijk werd over deze sigaret een sticker geplakt in het kader van een anti-rookcampagne.

Op het album werd de Oberheim OB-X synthesizer gebruikt.

1984 (stylized in Roman numerals as MCMLXXXIV) is the sixth studio album by American rock band Van Halen, released on January 9, 1984. It was the last Van Halen studio album until A Different Kind of Truth (2012) to feature lead singer David Lee Roth, who left the band in 1985 following creative differences. This is the final full-length album to feature all four original members (the Van Halen brothers Eddie and Alex, Roth, and Michael Anthony), although they reunited briefly in 2000 to start work on what would much later become 2012's A Different Kind of Truth. Roth returned in 2007, but Eddie's son Wolfgang replaced Anthony in 2006. 1984 and Van Halen's self-titled debut album are the band's best-selling albums, each having sold more than 10 million copies in the United States.

1984 was well received by music critics. Rolling Stone ranked the album number 81 on its list of the "100 Greatest Albums of the 1980s". It reached number two on the Billboard 200 and remained there for five weeks, kept off the top spot by Michael Jackson's Thriller, on which guitarist Eddie Van Halen made a guest performance. 1984 produced four singles, including "Jump", Van Halen's only number-one single on the Billboard Hot 100; the top-20 hits "Panama" and "I'll Wait"; and the MTV favorite "Hot for Teacher". The album was certified Diamond by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) in 1999 for ten million shipped copies in the U.S.