Another great year of music and in my opinion, the "transitional" year as far as music styles are concerned. Rock music continued throughout the year. On the pop scene, the sounds of the "Second British Invasion" started to wind down a bit by the fall (although it continued through the end of the decade) taking over by more American R&B, early sounds of hip hop, freestyle and with Bon Jovi, metal goes mainstream. Great memories as always and thank you Hot Music Charts for keeping them alive!!😁😁👍👍
@Starchaser ......I love everything you mentioned here!! "Individual" and "lifestyle" are in my opinion excellent descriptions you pointed out of music in this 2nd period of the decade. Some of the more.....I like to call them "80s purists".....may discard this period as not "real 80s", but I disagree. 86-91 is as much 80s in music as 80-85 (although 80 for me has a lot of late 70s vibes), just different and unique in its way.
1986 was the year of Genesis. Peter Gabriel, Phil Collins, Mike Rutherford (Mike + The Mechanics), Steve Hackett (GTR), and Genesis all hit the charts.
I was moving from Kindergarten to first grade from summer to fall of 1986, but this was the first full year where I started paying attention to both top-40 radio and music videos, though the genres I heard were much different than other parts of the US since I was growing up in Hawaii at the time. Hearing "Something About You" by Level 42 on the radio for the first time even at five years old was a pure delight, and that became my all-time favorite pop song (still is). Other favorites on here are "Sweet Freedom" by Michael McDonald, "Human" by The Human League, "Bad Boy" and "Words get in the Way" by Gloria Estefan and The Miami Sound Machine, "Stuck with You" by Huey Lewis and the News, and "I Can't Wait" by Nu Shooz.
At fifteen years old, the year 1986 was a pivotal year for ME while most of the music featured on here helped matters back then in terms of my personal survival and self identity and development and the many layers that were and still are involved. The music is still relevant to this very day! A great time for music...lyrically! 1980's music helped ME understand and survive through a lot of my problems of living as a YOUTH back then.
Aha second single the sun always shine on tv went to top 20 so they werent 1 hit wonders, new shooz second single point of no return didnt go to top 20 so they were. If you consider a hit a song that goes to top 40 nu shooz werent a 1 hit wonder too. I personally think a hit must reach top 20.
This was what the cool suburban kids listened to. Their older boomer and silent generation parents listened to Neil Diamond, Barbra Streisand, or any other adult contemporary pop from the 70’s and 80’s or country and western.
Great year in music. The #1 song in 1986 was That"s what Freinds are for. The song has all the meaning amid AIDS pandemic. It was extremely tuff days for many people that lost their life because this horrible and deadly desease
This year had to have some of the best songs of the decade from Sade, Anita Baker, Peter Gabriel, Whitney Houston, and OMD... Experimental Pop from Communards, Falco, Nu Shooz and Dream Academy. But this year had the hands down worst songs of the decade: 1. Double- The Captain of the Heart 2. Boy Don't Cry- I Wanna Be A Cowboy 3. Gloria Loring and Carl Anderson- Friends and Lovers Honorable Worst Mention: Patti Labell and Michael McDonald- On My Own Chris DeBurgh- Lady In Red Fun Fact: Gloria Loring is Robin Thicke's mother
I don't think this is from the official Billboard Year End.. because some songs were peaked in wrong numbers... I remember "Go Home" by Stevie Wonder was the 100th song of 1986..
Adrijono Ruddie......You're right about that. This is not the Billboard year end by points. This one is based on peaked number of the songs regardless of the points they got. This is the 5th one in the series that Hot Music Charts has been doing since the 1990 video going backwards. HMC gives more details below the videos on how the songs are ranked.
I was 18 in 1986 and most of this music, the behavior of the people, hairstyles, and clothing is bizarre! And I haven’t even heard of more than half the songs down to 100! What a forgotten time! These songs represented the suburban folks for the most part, which anybody not at least middle-class and white collar living in a nice home was disposable trash. The bad kids at this time listened to Iron Maiden, Metallica, Megadeth, Dio, Judas Priest, and the like. The really bad ones listened to Slayer or Anthrax.
The 80"s Will live forever.
Class of 86 right here baby! Woot!!
Classic tunes from the mid 80's!
RIP Robert Palmer
RIP Prince
My favorites at the time:
True Blue (song and album)
Live to Tell
Papa Don't Preach
Now this is a great playlist
RIP Clarence Clemons
RIP George Michael
Another great year of music and in my opinion, the "transitional" year as far as music styles are concerned. Rock music continued throughout the year. On the pop scene, the sounds of the "Second British Invasion" started to wind down a bit by the fall (although it continued through the end of the decade) taking over by more American R&B, early sounds of hip hop, freestyle and with Bon Jovi, metal goes mainstream. Great memories as always and thank you Hot Music Charts for keeping them alive!!😁😁👍👍
@Starchaser ......I love everything you mentioned here!! "Individual" and "lifestyle" are in my opinion excellent descriptions you pointed out of music in this 2nd period of the decade. Some of the more.....I like to call them "80s purists".....may discard this period as not "real 80s", but I disagree. 86-91 is as much 80s in music as 80-85 (although 80 for me has a lot of late 70s vibes), just different and unique in its way.
I know Im kind of randomly asking but do anyone know a good site to watch new series online ?
Great. Memories from Brazil.
1986 was the year of Genesis. Peter Gabriel, Phil Collins, Mike Rutherford (Mike + The Mechanics), Steve Hackett (GTR), and Genesis all hit the charts.
I was moving from Kindergarten to first grade from summer to fall of 1986, but this was the first full year where I started paying attention to both top-40 radio and music videos, though the genres I heard were much different than other parts of the US since I was growing up in Hawaii at the time. Hearing "Something About You" by Level 42 on the radio for the first time even at five years old was a pure delight, and that became my all-time favorite pop song (still is). Other favorites on here are "Sweet Freedom" by Michael McDonald, "Human" by The Human League, "Bad Boy" and "Words get in the Way" by Gloria Estefan and The Miami Sound Machine, "Stuck with You" by Huey Lewis and the News, and "I Can't Wait" by Nu Shooz.
Rip Jimi Jamison 😭
Love the mid 80's music! 👍
RIP Ric Ocasek
80s music is the best.
RIP Whitney Houston
1986 is a great year.
I see that so far you have done the years of 1986 to 1991. Its fantastic. Could you also do 1980 to 1985. That would be great!
RIP Tina Turner
At fifteen years old, the year 1986 was a pivotal year for ME while most of the music featured on here helped matters back then in terms of my personal survival and self identity and development and the many layers that were and still are involved. The music is still relevant to this very day! A great time for music...lyrically! 1980's music helped ME understand and survive through a lot of my problems of living as a YOUTH back then.
RIP Aretha Franklin
RIP Falco
Thank you for posting!
RIP Eddie Money
0:37 OPUS , 19:30 Falco💜 - Austria 💎
Proof that Falco, A-Ha and Nu Shooz weren't one-hit wonders in the US.
Aha second single the sun always shine on tv went to top 20 so they werent 1 hit wonders, new shooz second single point of no return didnt go to top 20 so they were.
If you consider a hit a song that goes to top 40 nu shooz werent a 1 hit wonder too.
I personally think a hit must reach top 20.
I consider at least top 40.
Heck yeah!
@@paulojrneto I agree. But I grew up with America's Top 40 on the Radio so if I didn't hear it on there then I wouldn't consider it a hit.
@@WonderWhatHappened yep, if the song made it into American top 40 hostedby Casey Kasem, it was a hit!
I live in Australia & its great to see INXS make the chart.
Taken in by Mike & The Mechanics and The Captain of Her
Heart by Double, i miss those songs never heard of them of quite sometime
Seems impossible that one year could produce this many classics.
Madonna!!!
What a great year
80s were great for rock n roll. Music today is rubbish. Rip , George Micheal, you are missed.❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Back to my youth happy days great music Yorkshire lad England
What an amazing year. There were a lot of Top 5 hits
Peter Gabriel In Your Eyes most under charting song of 1986.
I've seen it ranked as one of the all time best songs.
This was what the cool suburban kids listened to. Their older boomer and silent generation parents listened to Neil Diamond, Barbra Streisand, or any other adult contemporary pop from the 70’s and 80’s or country and western.
AC.DC.chow🇧🇷👍
Great year in music. The #1 song in 1986 was That"s what Freinds are for. The song has all the meaning amid AIDS pandemic. It was extremely tuff days for many people that lost their life because this horrible and deadly desease
but the best song was on my own from patti labelle and michael macdonald
I'm surprised about how many of the lower-numbered songs on this list I still remember. I was 5/6 when they came out.
This year had to have some of the best songs of the decade from Sade, Anita Baker, Peter Gabriel, Whitney Houston, and OMD... Experimental Pop from Communards, Falco, Nu Shooz and Dream Academy. But this year had the hands down worst songs of the decade:
1. Double- The Captain of the Heart
2. Boy Don't Cry- I Wanna Be A Cowboy
3. Gloria Loring and Carl Anderson- Friends and Lovers
Honorable Worst Mention:
Patti Labell and Michael McDonald- On My Own
Chris DeBurgh- Lady In Red
Fun Fact: Gloria Loring is Robin Thicke's mother
@@nah....6151 That song made my skin crawl. I might have been going through a lot during that time. :)
Gloria Loring also sang the theme to "The Facts of Life," written by her husband, Alan Thicke.
@@Allencartercomix Ah, yes of course. One of my favorite theme songs.
15:18 my favorite song of all time!
The Beatles ❤️
Yes very cool. :-) That song was popular at that time though, because it was in Ferris Bueller.
When music was worth listening to....Billboard was amazing. Nowadays is CRAP. Madonna was AMAZINGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG
This Sound Of Number 1 Us Hot 100 Of 1986 Very Good But In November 1985 17 In Uk Singles Charts
i was just a pup in '86, but damn 80's had best music (still love 70's for their classic/psychedelic rock), hard to find anything like that today.
Angela Marie C.Bonoan
JANET!
oh yes the number 1 winner of top 200 of 1986 goes to stevie wonder gladys knight dionne warwick and elton john thats what friends are for
I seem to remember hearing "Calling America" and "Russians" both having peaked higher than what you have them listed at...
Can you do one of these for 1985?
Can someone explain why Klymaxx "I missed you", which is at no 3 in Billboard top 100 chart 1986 is not in this video?
Number 169 is an underrated Stevie Wonder classic.
Why does the intro make me think of You've got the right stuff by New Kids on the block lol.
First heard Missionary Man by Ghost, I had no idea it was a cover or that is was by The Eurythmics lol 😂
When was the last time you saw Rolling Stones on VH1 or MTV 80.90 ?
1980 to 1985 videos, please
No puedo dormir
Que hora tienes allí?
@@manel4034 4:37 am y mañana tengo que trabajar a las 7
Some of these songs are from 1985.
And yet they peaked in 1986 in the US, as explained in the video's description.
A T E M P O R A L
Not a bad list. Where’s Brand New Lover by Dead or Alive????
Theirs Janet songs that are missing
Not really. Her three top 5 singles of 1986 are all on here. She had more hits in 1987.
I was 14 girl in 1986
CHRISTMAS EVE 1986 (Wednesday)
BIRTH OF JESUS CHRIST
#87: I clearly remember this song having hit #1 on the Hot 100.
No, not really.
I don't think this is from the official Billboard Year End.. because some songs were peaked in wrong numbers... I remember "Go Home" by Stevie Wonder was the 100th song of 1986..
Adrijono Ruddie......You're right about that. This is not the Billboard year end by points. This one is based on peaked number of the songs regardless of the points they got. This is the 5th one in the series that Hot Music Charts has been doing since the 1990 video going backwards. HMC gives more details below the videos on how the songs are ranked.
Alas, music channels have become much worse
MTV Classic, MTV 80, MTV 90 show the same video
why is everything so bad?
I was 18 in 1986 and most of this music, the behavior of the people, hairstyles, and clothing is bizarre! And I haven’t even heard of more than half the songs down to 100! What a forgotten time! These songs represented the suburban folks for the most part, which anybody not at least middle-class and white collar living in a nice home was disposable trash. The bad kids at this time listened to Iron Maiden, Metallica, Megadeth, Dio, Judas Priest, and the like. The really bad ones listened to Slayer or Anthrax.
Nu shooz- I dant wait peaked at number 2
Nope. It peaked at #3 on the Billboard Top 100 Singles. It did reach #2 on the R&B/ Soul Charts and it was #1 on the dance charts.
And it peaked at number 2 in the UK charts,around the end of June/early July 1986.
This sucks ! Bangles was no 1 singel of 1987 you removed their success and put them nunber two here? And not at all inte 1987 list? Nope not true
ROD STEWART EL MEJOR
Mummydona, in number 9?? 2 week in number 1 and 18 week on chart??? Whitney, Janet and Cyndi have best position