1986 Top Ten Music Charts

1986’s Biggest Artists and Songs

Sade (1985 Best New Artist Grammy Winner, presented in 1986)
Phil Collins (Grammy for Album of the Year)
New Artists in the Pop Charts Included:
Ozzie Osbourne (solo), Jennifer rush, Art of Noise, Miami Sound
Machine, Anita Baker, Simply Red, Bangles, The Cure

1986’s Retro Top 10 Hits

1. Rock Me Amadeus – Falco
2. Shake You Down – Gregory Abbott
3. The Rain – Oran Juice Jones
4. Hands Across America – Voices Of America
5. If You Leave – OMD (Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark)
6. Something About You – Level 42
7. Heartbeat – Don Johnson
8. Caravan of Love – Isley, Jasper, Isley
9. I Can’t Wait – Nu Shooz
10. Friends and Lovers – Gloria Loring

1986’s ‘One Hit Wonders’

1. One Step Closer To You – Gavin Christopher
2. The Future’s So Bright I Gotta Wear Shades – Timbuk 3
3. The Rain – Oran ‘Juice’ Jones
4. Tough Enough – The Fabulous Thunderbirds
5. The Captain of Her Heart – Double
6. Don Quichotte – Magazine 60
7. Life In A Northern Town – The Dream Academy
8. I Wanna Be A Cowboy – Boy’s Don’t Cry
9. Jungle Boy – John Eddie
10. Digging Your Scene – The Blow Monkeys

1986’s Dance Top 10 Hit List

1. Kiss – Prince
2. How Will I Know – Whitney Houston
3. Word Up – Cameo
4. Sidewalk Talk – Jellybean with Madonna
5. The Men All Pause – Klymaxx
6. For Tonight – Nancy Martinez
7. Let’s Go All The Way – Sly Fox
8. Sex Shooter – Apollonia 6
9. Crazay – Jesse Johnson
10. Don Quichotte – Magazine 60

More of 1986’s Dance Top Hits

Under The Influence – Vanity
1986’s Pop Dance Top 10 Hit List
1. Addicted To Love – Robert Palmer
2. Venus – Bananarama
3. Walk This Way – Run-D.M.C. and Aerosmith
4. Higher Love – Steve Winwood
5. Sledgehammer – Peter Gabriel
6. A Love Bizarre – Sheila E
7. Rumors – Timex Social Club
8. Papa Don’t Preach – Madonna
9. Everybody Dance – Ta Mara and the Seen
10. Everybody Have Fun Tonight – Wang Chung

More of 1986’s Pop Dance Top Hits

One Step Closer To You – Gavin Christopher
1986’s Pop Rock Top 10 Hit List
1. Burning Heart – Survivor
2. You Give Love a Bad Name – Bon Jovi
3. Take Me Home Tonight – Eddie Money with Ronnie Spector
4. Tarzan Boy – Baltimora
5. Manic Monday – The Bangles
6. Invisible Touch – Genesis
7. Tuff Enuff – Fabulous Thunderbirds
8. Don’t Forget Me When I’m Gone – Glass Tiger
9. Danger Zone – Kenny Loggins
10. These Dreams – Heart

1986’s Alternative Rock Top 10 Hit List

1. West End Girls – Pet Shop Boys
2. The Future’s So Bright I Gotta wear Shades – Timbuk 3
3. If You Leave – OMD (Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark
4. Something About You – Level 42
5. Pretty In Pink – Psychedelic Furs
6. Rock Me Amadeus – Falco
7. Life In A Northern Town – Dream Academy
8. Live Is Life – Opus
9. Once In A Lifetime (Live) – Talking Heads
10. Pleasure and Pain – Divinyls

More of 1986’s Alternative Rock Hits

1. Paranomia – Art of Noise with Max Headroom

1986’s Album Rock Top 10 Hit List

1. Walk of Life – Dire Straits
2. Shot In The Dark – Ozzie Osbourne
3. Like A Rock – Bob Seger
4. In Your Eyes – Peter Gabriel
5. You’re a Friend Of Mine – Clarence Clemons and Jackson Brown
6. Love Walks In – Van Halen
7. War – Bruce Springsteen
8. Silent Running (On Dangerous Ground) – Mike + The Mechanics
9. Freedom Overspill – Steve Winwood
10. I Knew The Bride When She Used To Rock and Roll – Nick Lowe

More of 1986’s top Album Rock Songs

The Way It Is – Bruce Hornsby and the Range
Your Wildest Dreams – The Moody Blues
Welcome To The Boomtown – David and David

1986’s Bubblegum Pop Music Top Ten

1. Walk Like An Egyptian – The Bangles
2. What Have You Done For Me Lately – Janet Jackson
3. Conga – Miami Sound Machine
4. True Colors – Cyndi Lauper
5. True Blue – Madonna
6. How Will I Know – Whitney Houston
7. I Can’t Wait – Nu Shooz
8. Everybody Have Fun Tonight – Wang Chung
9. Two Of Hearts – Stacy Q
10. I Like You – Phyllis Nelson

PCM’s 1986 Top 10 Hit List

1. That’s What Friends Are For – Dionne & Friends
2. Addicted To Love – Robert Palmer
3. Kiss – Prince
4. Walk This Way – Run D.M.C./Aerosmith
5. Living In America – James Brown
6. You Give Love A Bad Name – Bon Jovi
7. Take My Breath Away – Berlin
8. Burning Heart – Survivor
9. Walk Like An Egyptian – The Bangles
10. The Sweetest Taboo – Sade