Top 1986 Singles Ranked
|
Rank |
Artist |
Title |
|
1 |
Bananarama |
Venus |
|
2 |
The Art of Noise |
Peter Gunn |
|
3 |
New Order |
Bizarre Love Triangle |
|
4 |
The B-52's |
Summer of Love |
|
5 |
Janet Jackson |
Nasty |
|
6 |
Peter Gabriel |
Big Time |
|
7 |
Janet Jackson |
When I Think of You |
|
8 |
Cameo |
Word Up |
|
9 |
Grace Jones |
I'm Not Perfect (But I'm Perfect for You) |
|
10 |
INXS |
What You Need |
|
11 |
Kraftwerk |
Electric Café |
|
12 |
Peter Gabriel |
Sledgehammer |
|
13 |
Dwight Yoakam |
Honky Tonk Man |
|
14 |
Gwen Guthrie |
Ain't Nothing Going on But the Rent |
|
15 |
The Smiths |
The Boy With the Thorn in His Side |
|
16 |
a-ha |
Cry Wolf |
|
17 |
The Art of Noise |
Beatback |
|
18 |
Kraftwerk |
Sex Object |
|
19 |
New Order |
Weirdo |
|
20 |
The Art of Noise |
Paranoimia |
|
21 |
The Smiths |
Bigmouth Strikes Again |
|
22 |
The B-52's |
Girl from Ipanema Goes to Greenland |
|
23 |
Crowded House |
Don't Dream It's Over |
|
24 |
Dwight Yoakam |
Heartaches by the Number |
|
25 |
The Bangles |
September Gurls |
|
26 |
The The |
Infected |
|
27 |
Talk Talk |
Life's What You Make It |
|
28 |
Bananarama |
More Than Physical [Single Version] |
|
29 |
Human League |
Human |
|
30 |
Beastie Boys |
Fight for Your Right |
|
31 |
Grace Jones |
Hollywood Liar |
|
32 |
Dead or Alive |
Brand New Lover |
|
33 |
Communards |
Heavens Above |
|
34 |
Janet Jackson |
Control |
|
35 |
R.E.M. |
What If We Give It Away? |
|
36 |
INXS |
Kiss The Dirt (Falling Down The Mountain) |
|
37 |
Everything But the Girl |
Little Hitler |
|
38 |
The Smiths |
Ask |
|
39 |
Dwight Yoakam |
Guitars, Cadillacs |
|
40 |
Nu Shooz |
I Can't Wait |
|
41 |
Public Image Ltd. |
FFF |
|
42 |
Kraftwerk |
Musique Non-Stop |
|
43 |
New Order |
All Day Long |
|
44 |
The Art of Noise |
The Chameleon's Dish |
|
45 |
Bourgeois Tagg |
Mutual Surrender (What a Wonderful World) |
|
46 |
M+M |
Song in My Head |
|
47 |
It's Immaterial |
Driving Away From Home |
|
48 |
The Housemartins |
Happy Hour |
|
49 |
The Judds |
Grandpa |
|
50 |
Kraftwerk |
The Telephone Call |
|
51 |
The Art of Noise |
Something Always Happens |
|
52 |
King |
Alone Without You |
|
53 |
Pet Shop Boys |
Love Comes Quickly |
|
54 |
Cyndi Lauper |
Change of Heart |
|
55 |
Madonna |
Open Your Heart |
|
56 |
The Bangles |
Manic Monday |
|
57 |
The Pandoras |
In and Out of My Life (In a Day) |
|
58 |
The Smiths |
There Is a Light That Never Goes Out |
|
59 |
XTC |
Mermaid Smiled |
|
60 |
The Smiths |
Golden Lights |
|
61 |
Janet jackson |
What Have You Done for Me Lately? |
|
62 |
Les Rita Mitsouko |
Andy |
|
63 |
The Lover Speaks |
Every Lover's Sign |
|
64 |
New Order |
Paradise |
|
65 |
54-40 |
I Go Blind |
|
66 |
Cameo |
Candy |
|
67 |
The Housemartins |
Think for a Minute |
|
68 |
The Smithereens |
Blood and Roses |
|
69 |
The S.O.S. Band |
The Finest |
|
70 |
Les Rita Mitsouko |
C'est Comme Ça |
|
71 |
The B-52's |
Housework |
|
72 |
Killing Joke |
Sanity |
|
73 |
a-ha |
The Weight of the Wind |
|
74 |
Dead or Alive |
Something in My House |
|
75 |
Cocteau Twins |
Whales Tails |
|
76 |
Beastie Boys |
She's Crafty |
|
77 |
Love Tractor |
Party Train |
|
78 |
New Order |
State of the Nation |
|
79 |
Eurythmics |
Missionary Man |
|
80 |
Joan Armatrading |
Kind Words (And a Real Good Heart) |
|
81 |
Duran Duran |
Notorious |
|
82 |
Bananarama |
Promised Land |
|
83 |
King |
Torture |
|
84 |
Talk Talk |
Give It Up |
|
85 |
Human League |
Love Is All That Matters |
|
86 |
Orchestral Manoevers in the Dark |
(Forever) Live and Die |
|
87 |
The Housemartins |
Anxious |
|
88 |
Che |
(Be My) Powerstation |
|
89 |
Kraftwerk |
Boing Boom Tschak |
|
90 |
Lone Justice |
Reflected (On My Side) |
|
91 |
Beastie Boys |
Hold It Now, Hit It |
|
92 |
Prince & The Revolution |
Kiss |
|
93 |
Siouxsie & the Banshees |
The Sweetest Chill |
|
94 |
Bananarama |
A Trick of the Night |
|
95 |
Ledernacken |
Do the Boogaloo |
|
96 |
Eurythmics |
Thorn in My Side |
|
97 |
Love Tractor |
Got to Give It Up |
|
98 |
Dwight Yoakam |
Ring of Fire |
|
99 |
New Order |
Shellshock |
|
100 |
Les Rita Mitsouko |
Les Histoires d'A |
|
101 |
The Stranglers |
Always the Sun |
|
102 |
The The |
Slow Train to Dawn |
|
103 |
Book of Love |
Yellow Sky |
|
104 |
UB40 |
Rat in Mi Kitchen |
|
105 |
Orchestral Manoevers in the Dark |
Flame of Hope |
|
106 |
The Smiths |
Panic |
|
107 |
Run D.M.C. |
It's Tricky |
|
108 |
Eddie Money and Ronnie Spector |
Take Me Home Tonight/Be My Baby |
|
109 |
Marti Jones |
Whenever You're on My Mind |
|
110 |
Cyndi Lauper |
True Colors |
|
111 |
Steve Winwood |
Higher Love |
|
112 |
New Order |
Broken Promise |
|
113 |
Donna Allen |
Serious |
|
114 |
Orchestral Manoevers in the Dark |
Southern |
|
115 |
The Stranglers |
Nice in Nice |
|
116 |
R.E.M. |
Fall on Me |
|
117 |
Big Audio Dynamite |
Hollywood Boulevard |
|
118 |
Depeche Mode |
A Question of Time |
|
119 |
The Bangles |
Walk Like an Egyptian |
|
120 |
Crowded House |
Something So Strong |
|
121 |
Level 42 |
Something About You |
|
122 |
China Crisis |
Arizona Sky |
|
123 |
Peter Gabriel |
Don't Give Up |
|
124 |
Cameo |
Back and Forth |
|
125 |
Robbie Nevil |
C'est La Vie |
|
126 |
Pet Shop Boys |
Opportunities (Let's Make Lots of Money) |
|
127 |
The Smiths |
Cemetry Gates |
|
128 |
World Party |
All Come True |
|
129 |
Winter Hours |
Hyacinth Girl |
|
130 |
XTC |
The Meeting Place |
|
131 |
The Damned |
Alone Again Or |
|
132 |
The B-52's |
Theme for a Nude Beach |
|
133 |
Love Tractor |
Amusement Park |
|
134 |
The Blow Monkeys |
Digging Your Scene |
|
135 |
The Smithereens |
Time and Time Again |
|
136 |
The Bangles |
If She Knew What She Wants |
|
137 |
Love Tractor |
Outside with Ma |
|
138 |
Run D.M.C. |
You Be Illin' |
|
139 |
Gene Loves Jezebel |
Desire |
|
140 |
Robert Palmer |
Addicted To Love |
|
141 |
Les Rita Mitsouko |
Un Soir un Chen |
|
142 |
The Stranglers |
Too Precious |
|
143 |
Pieces of a Dream |
Joyride [Joy Mix] |
|
144 |
UB40 |
The Elevator |
|
145 |
Icehouse |
No Promises |
|
146 |
The Art of Noise |
Camilla: The Old, Old Story |
|
147 |
The Stranglers |
Ghost Train |
|
148 |
BoDeans |
Fadeaway |
|
149 |
World Party |
Ship of Fools |
|
150 |
Paul Kelly & The Coloured Girls |
Execution |
|
151 |
The Bangles |
Walking Down Your Street |
|
152 |
Guadalcanal Diary |
T.R.O.U.B.L.E. |
|
153 |
The Lucy Show |
Part of Me Now |
|
154 |
Gene Loves Jezebel |
Beyond Doubt |
|
155 |
King |
Taste of Your Tears |
|
156 |
The Smiths |
Unloveable |
|
157 |
Let's Active |
In Little Ways |
|
158 |
Love Tractor |
Beatle Boots |
|
159 |
Beastie Boys |
Brass Monkey |
|
160 |
Tina Turner |
Typical Male |
|
161 |
The Whirling Dervishes |
Tan |
|
162 |
The Lucy Show |
Shame |
|
163 |
The Lover Speaks |
Never to Forget You |
|
164 |
Stan Ridgway |
Drive, She Said |
|
165 |
UB40 |
All I Want to Do |
|
166 |
World Party |
All I Really Want to Do |
|
167 |
Run D.M.C. |
Walk This Way |
|
168 |
Lone Justice |
Belfry |
|
169 |
The Pretenders |
Don't Get Me Wrong |
|
170 |
Prince & The Revolution |
Girls & Boys |
|
171 |
The Blow Monkeys |
Wicked Ways |
|
172 |
Agent Orange |
I Kill Spies |
|
173 |
The Art of Noise |
Eye of a Needle |
|
174 |
The Damned |
In Dulce Decorum |
|
175 |
Billy Bragg and Kirsty MacColl |
Greetings to the New Brunette |
|
176 |
The Smiths |
Frankly, Mr. Shankly |
|
177 |
Grace Jones |
Scary But Fun |
|
178 |
Anita Baker |
Sweet Love |
|
179 |
BoDeans |
She's a Runaway |
|
180 |
Iggy Pop |
Isolation |
|
181 |
The Smithereens |
Behind The Wall Of Sleep |
|
182 |
Synergy |
West Side Nights |
|
183 |
Duran Duran |
Winter Marches On |
|
184 |
The Lucy Show |
Melody |
|
185 |
Les Rita Mitsouko |
Bad Days |
|
186 |
The Art of Noise |
Backbeat |
|
187 |
Siouxsie & the Banshees |
The Quarterdrawing of the Dog |
|
188 |
Cyndi Lauper |
What's Going On |
|
189 |
King |
These Things |
|
190 |
The Housemartins |
Reverends Revenge |
|
191 |
Steve Earle |
Guitar Town |
|
192 |
Ministry |
Just Like You |
|
193 |
The Lucy Show |
New Message |
|
194 |
Anita Baker |
No One in the World |
|
195 |
The Smiths |
Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others |
|
196 |
The Coolies |
Having My Baby |
|
197 |
R.E.M. |
White Tornado |
|
198 |
Let's Active |
Last Chance Down |
|
199 |
Love Tractor |
Chilli, Pt. 2 |
|
200 |
The Swimming Pool Q's |
Big Fat Tractor |
|
201 |
The Art of Noise |
Instruments of Darkness (All of Us Are One People) |
|
202 |
Dwight Yoakam |
South of Cincinnati |
|
203 |
The Smiths |
Vicar in a Tutu |
|
204 |
Scott Goddard |
Ballad of Jed Clampett |
|
205 |
R.E.M. |
Walter's Theme |
|
206 |
King |
Wait for No One |
|
207 |
Duran Duran |
Skin Trade |
|
208 |
Eurythmics |
The Last Time |
|
209 |
Icehouse |
Angel Street |
|
210 |
BoDeans |
Still the Night |
|
211 |
Madonna |
Papa Don't Preach |
|
212 |
Aretha Franklin and George Michael |
I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me) |
|
213 |
The Lover Speaks |
No More "I Love You's" |
|
214 |
Eurythmics |
A Little of You |
|
215 |
XTC |
Earn Enough For Us |
|
216 |
Crowded House |
World Where You Live |
|
217 |
King |
I Cringed, I Died, I Felt Hot |
|
218 |
Eurythmics |
When Tomorrow Comes |
|
219 |
Grace Jones |
Victor Should Have Been a Jazz Musician |
|
220 |
XTC |
Big Day |
|
221 |
UB40 |
Looking Down at My Reflections |
|
222 |
Duran Duran |
A Matter of Feeling |
|
223 |
David & David |
Welcome to the Boomtown |
|
224 |
Dwight Yoakam and Maria McKee |
Bury Me |
|
225 |
BoDeans |
Angels |
|
226 |
XTC |
Season Cycle |
|
227 |
The Smithereens |
Strangers When We Meet |
|
228 |
World Party |
Private Revolution |
|
229 |
The B-52's |
She Brakes for Rainbows |
|
230 |
Bananarama |
True Confessions |
|
231 |
King |
Platform One |
|
232 |
Lone Justice |
Shelter |
|
233 |
David & David |
Being Alone Together |
|
234 |
Paul Kelly & The Coloured Girls |
Before Too Long |
|
235 |
Eurythmics |
In This Town |
|
236 |
Grace Jones |
Chan Hitchhikes to Shanghai |
|
237 |
Duran Duran |
Vertigo (Do The Demolition) |
|
238 |
Crowded House |
Now We're Getting Somewhere |
|
239 |
Annabella |
Desire |
|
240 |
The Style Council |
It Didn't Matter |
|
241 |
Dwight Yoakam |
It Won't Hurt |
|
242 |
Belinda Carlisle |
Mad About You |
|
243 |
Talking Heads |
Wild Wild Life |
|
244 |
The The |
Sweet Bird of Truth |
|
245 |
Peter Gabriel |
In Your Eyes |
|
246 |
Talk Talk |
Living in Another World |
|
247 |
Let's Active |
Whispered News |
|
248 |
INXS |
Listen Like Thieves |
|
249 |
a-ha |
I've Been Losing You |
|
250 |
Pet Shop Boys |
Two Divided by Zero |
|
251 |
The B-52's |
Juicy Jungle |
|
252 |
Madonna |
True Blue |
|
253 |
BoDeans |
That's All |
|
254 |
Orchestral Manoevers in the Dark |
We Love You |
|
255 |
Boston |
Amanda |
|
256 |
Les Rita Mitsouko |
Someone to Love |
|
257 |
Public Image Ltd. |
Rise |
|
258 |
Cocteau Twins |
Fluffy Tufts |
|
259 |
Debbie Harry |
French Kissin' in the USA |
|
260 |
Killing Joke |
Wintergardens |
|
261 |
Iggy Pop |
Real Wild Child |
|
262 |
Everything But the Girl |
Come on Home |
|
263 |
Annabella |
High Powered Girl |
|
264 |
Heaven 17 |
Contenders |
|
265 |
XTC |
Ballet For A Rainy Day |
|
266 |
The Smithereens |
In A Lonely Place |
|
267 |
The Pretenders |
Light of the Moon |
|
268 |
Anita Baker |
Mystery |
|
269 |
Everything But the Girl |
Sugar Finney |
|
270 |
Jermaine Stewart |
We Don't Have To Take Our Clothes Off |
|
271 |
Love Tractor |
Cartoon Kiddies |
|
272 |
Stan Ridgway |
The Big Heat |
|
273 |
R.E.M. |
Cuyahoga |
|
274 |
Ministry |
All Day [Remix] |
|
275 |
Duran Duran |
American Science |
|
276 |
Grace Jones |
Party Girl |
|
277 |
George Strait |
Nobody In His Right Mind Would've Left Her |
|
278 |
Pet Shop Boys |
Suburbia |
|
279 |
UB40 |
Sing Our Own Song |
|
280 |
Crowded House |
Tombstone |
|
281 |
Talk Talk |
Happiness Is Easy |
|
282 |
Iggy Pop |
Baby It Can't Fall |
|
283 |
Holly Dunn |
Daddy's Hands |
|
284 |
XTC |
That's Really Super, Supergirl |
|
285 |
Marti Jones |
Be Myself Again |
|
286 |
Love Tractor |
Small Town |
|
287 |
Killing Joke |
Adorations |
|
288 |
Stan Ridgway |
Salesman |
|
289 |
George Clinton |
Do Fries Go With That Shake |
|
290 |
Marti Jones |
It's Too Late |
|
291 |
Beastie Boys |
No Sleep Till Brooklyn |
|
292 |
The Style Council |
The Cost of Loving |
|
293 |
Everything But the Girl |
Don't Leave Me Behind |
|
294 |
The Stranglers |
You'll Always Reap What You Sow |
|
295 |
Crowded House |
Hole in the River |
|
296 |
XTC |
Summer's Cauldron |
|
297 |
The Stranglers |
Dreamtime |
|
298 |
Public Image Ltd. |
Bags |
|
299 |
Winter Hours |
Incendiary |
|
300 |
Lone Justice |
Dreams Come True (Stand Up And Take It) |
|
301 |
Orchestral Manoevers in the Dark |
Stay (The Black Rose and the Universal Wheel) |
|
302 |
Randy Travis |
On the Other Hand |
|
303 |
Paul Kelly & The Coloured Girls |
Before the Old Man Died |
|
304 |
Run D.M.C. |
My Adidas |
|
305 |
Iggy Pop |
Blah-Blah-Blah |
|
306 |
Lone Justice |
Wheels |
|
307 |
Falco |
The Sound of Musik |
|
308 |
George Clinton |
Hey Good Lookin' |
|
309 |
Kim Wilde |
You Keep Me Hangin' On |
|
310 |
Timbuk 3 |
The Future's So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades |
|
311 |
Annabella |
Fever |
|
312 |
Les Rita Mitsouko |
Stupid Anyway |
