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Music Charts Archive

Weekly national charts, as the trade papers printed them

R&R Adult Contemporary · May 9, 1986

30 positions ← 05/02 05/16 →
3W 2W LW TW Weeks Title Artist Peak
5 3 2 1 9 Holding Back The Years SIMPLY RED 1
11 5 3 2 6 On My Own PATTI LaBELLE & MICHAEL McDONALD 2
14 8 5 3 5 Live To Tell MADONNA 3
2 1 1 4 8 Greatest Love Of All WHITNEY HOUSTON 1
8 4 4 5 7 Never As Good As The First Time SADE 4
19 12 9 6 5 There'll Be Sad Songs (To Make You Cry) BILLY OCEAN 6
13 11 8 7 8 Bad Boy MIAMI SOUND MACHINE 7
1 2 6 8 8 Take Me Home PHIL COLLINS 1
16 14 11 9 6 Something About You LEVEL 42 9
25 19 16 10 4 No One Is To Blame HOWARD JONES 10
18 16 12 11 5 Move Away CULTURE CLUB 11
26 18 15 12 4 Your Wildest Dreams THE MOODY BLUES 12
- 23 18 13 3 A Different Corner GEORGE MICHAEL 13
6 6 7 14 9 Call Me DENNIS DeYOUNG 6
24 21 17 15 5 All I Need Is A Miracle MIKE + THE MECHANICS 15
4 7 10 16 10 So Far Away DIRE STRAITS 4
- 25 22 17 3 If Your Heart Isn't In It ATLANTIC STARR 17
9 10 14 18 8 Manic Monday BANGLES 9
- - 28 19 2 Headed For The Future NEIL DIAMOND 19
3 9 13 20 11 I Think It's Love JERMAINE JACKSON 3
21 20 20 21 6 If You Leave ORCHESTRAL MANOEUVRES IN THE DARK 20
- 30 25 22 3 The Love Parade THE DREAM ACADEMY 22
DEBUT 23 1 That's Why I'm Here JAMES TAYLOR 23
DEBUT 24 1 That Girl Is Gone DAVID PACK 24
- 29 26 25 3 The Heart Is So Willing STEPHEN BISHOP 25
10 15 21 26 13 Tender Love FORCE M.D.'S 1
- - 30 27 2 A Fine Mess THE TEMPTATIONS 27
- - 29 28 2 West End Girls PET SHOP BOYS 28
7 13 19 29 11 Whisper In The Dark DIONNE WARWICK 6
12 17 23 30 12 Overjoyed STEVIE WONDER 1