Top 100 Billboard Year-End Singles | 1986

[@sassykaren7587]

This is the year that I graduated from high school, and these songs bring back so many great memories. I miss the 80’s like crazy!!! 😢

[@oldmustang2678]

How were the 80s and 90s as an adult and kid?!?!?

[@christineobrien7707]

86 h.s. grad too. I can't believe I knew every single song on this list! I miss both the 70s & 80s...such magical,fun, awesome times😎👍👍

[@Allencartercomix]

1986 will always hold a special place in my heart, as it was the first year I listened to both top 40 radio and watched music videos. I turned 6 in June of that year, and my parents got cable at the end of the summer (including vh-1). My favorites on this year-end list are: Starpoint - Object of My Desire Anita Baker - Sweet Love Madonna - True Blue Michael McDonald - Sweet Freedom Miami Sound Machine - Bad Boy and Words get in the Way Human League - Human Nu Shooz - I Can't Wait Peter Cetera - Glory of Love Huey Lewis and the News - Stuck with You Atlantic Starr - Secret Lovers Klymaxx - I Miss You Dionne Warwick and Friends - That's what friends are For And my all-time favorite pop song then and to this day: Level 42 - Something About You

[@zalkkareita9017]

Queen of R&B on the thumbnail

[@imalwaysright]

Empress of Music

[@bdiaz6081]

And the Queen of Pop all over the chart! M 👑

[@imalwaysright]

A good year and so many classic. Some songs are better than the ones that finished Top 10

[@douglasahenry6105]

Wow!! What a chart. Hearing these songs again, brings back some very good memories.

[@neutral6941]

80s music is the best.

[@briannicholson5205]

Love Starpoint coming in at #93. Back in the day-- I thought it was so great that a #25 song could make the year end chart. I don't think there was another lower peaking song that made the Top100YE during the pre-soundscan era.

[@JaDav40]

I think their method then was something like 101-X points per week, where X is the chart position, for each week on the chart. So a week at #1 was 100 points, and a week at #25 was 76 points. A long chart stay can let you rack up weekly points even if your peak is low. The years ends skew heavy towards songs that debuted in the previous year and particularly toward songs that are high on the chart at the end of the previous calendar year, because they get points for that frozen week twice.

[@RJSchex]

“What About Me” by Moving Pictures-only peaked at #29, but placed at #88 for the year 1983.

[@stephenkz498]

So many classics❗

[@davidgerow]

I enjoy watching these videos.

[@williammunson5832]

One of the greatest years of music!

[@fredsystra7584]

just simply isn’t

[@baldboss7359]

These were the days❤️

[@gogoyubari366]

Good songs!

[@klausmoritz6311]

My birth year..so proud to have come from such era

[@enthusiastic_swiftie_13]

1:37 Sample for: “That’s What I Want” - Lil Nas X

[@veddyveddygood]

It's crazy how many classic songs only stayed at #1 for only 1wk back in the day. Compare this with absolute stinkers in the past 20yrs that have stayed at #1 for 10+ wks.

[@marcofalzone6469]

Agreed. The whole decade of the 80s was worth more than half of the past twenty imo.

[@adrijonoruddie3467]

Exactly... Reaching one single week at #1 still a #1 hit. No need to spend more than 10 weeks at #1for it..

[@marcofalzone6469]

@@adrijonoruddie3467 uh huh. You can't tell me a soundtrack remake of a country song, a tribute to a dead young gangster, and an ode to the "end of the road" whatever that means, was worth spending almost half a year at the top. Soundscan FAVORED urban r&b airplay and sales imo. Just look at the change between 1991-93. The trajectory completely was more r&b than pop.

[@imalwaysright]

⁠@@marcofalzone6469country and rock, adult contemporary have done well in soundscan era. Late 90s, early 2000s is filled with rock and country dominating charts, probably all 90s

[@12inch_monster]

goes to show that the myspace, youtube, & tiktok eras pretty much killed music as now anyone can be a star if you get enough followers

[@lauraluffman6177]

Great music I was 8 and had the greatest childhood

[@lbc1232]

Awesome

[@TramiNguyen-oi3kp]

That was for 37 years ago!

[@lauraluffman6177]

Sweet freedom and Janet jacksons pleasure principle was my favorite did alot of roller skating 😂

[@EDCHunter73]

Definitely going to be looking for those colored lighters😎👍

[@imalwaysright]

Love the picture choice of your thumbnail ❤

[@RJSchex]

Quite appropriate that Toto had the #99 song of the year, since six years earlier they had a Top 40 hit titled "99". (Casey Kasem pointed this out on AT40's Year End Countdown.)

[@paulsonj72]

Belinda Carlise as asterisk. It was her first solo hit but she charted with the Go Go’s

[@daveydcxcix]

Dionne Warwick for the win!! 🏆 ❤

[@sylvainbeaulieu6300]

Falco the ONLY Continental European artist (Non-UK) to make it to the Billboard Year End Chart. Which was pretty much the case back in the 1980's in North America.

[@JayYoung-ro3vu]

First year of college. 🤯

[@carlikukaguzman2165]

Hi

[@Paulo2k6]

7:10

[@therealeye175]

God66 flash

[@RhonMor-fn8jh]

Best year of my life the most fucked upest too😮😮😮😮😮❤❤❤❤ Metal lica.....

[@AureWaxman]

we need the European chart

[@bebebe6090]

55

[@slamwall9057]

Fun fact: 1986 has been scientifically proven to be the most boring year in music history