1985 Year End Charts

Top Songs of 1985
Rank	Song	Artist	Plays
1	Walk of Life	Dire Straits	116
2	Don't You (Forget About Me)	Simple Minds	107
3	Summer of '69	Bryan Adams	107
4	Fade to Black	Metallica	106
5	I Want to Know What Love Is	Foreigner	105
6	Take on Me	A-ha	103
7	Only the Young	Journey	97
8	Crazy for You	Madonna	97
9	Money for Nothing	Dire Straits	90
10	Don't Bang the Drum	The Waterboys	90
11	Glory Days	Bruce Springsteen	88
12	Material Girl	Madonna	87
13	We Are the World	U.S.A. for Africa	86
14	Walking on Sunshine	Katrina & the Waves	82
15	Rain	The Cult	77
16	Careless Whisper	Wham (George Michael)	76
17	Into the Groove	Madonna	76
18	Take Me Home	Phil Collins	75
19	Downbound Train	Bruce Springsteen	72
20	Shake the Disease	Depeche Mode	68
21	Small Town	John Mellencamp	67
22	How Soon Is Now?	The Smiths	65
23	Saudade	Love and Rockets	65
24	Don't Come Around Here No More	Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers	64
25	I Drink Alone	George Thorogood & the Destroyers	63
26	All the Things She Gave Me	The Waterboys	63
27	Heaven	Bryan Adams	61
28	Black Codes	Wynton Marsalis	60
29	That's What Friends Are For	Various	57
30	And We Danced	The Hooters	56
31	You're the Inspiration	Chicago	54
32	Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go	Wham!	54
33	One More Night	Phil Collins	53
34	Can't Fight This Feeling	REO Speedwagon	51
35	Androgynous	The Replacements	50
36	The Boys of Summer	Don Henley	48
37	We Belong	Pat Benatar	47
38	Living in America	James Brown (Rocky IV)	47
39	Love is the Seventh Wave	Sting	47
40	The Whole of the Moon	The Waterboys	46
41	The Big Money	Rush	44
42	Overjoyed	Stevie Wonder	43
43	Rain on the Scarecrow	John Mellencamp	43
44	Never Surrender	Corey Hart	41
45	Long Long Way to Go	Phil Collins	41
46	Runaway	Bon Jovi	40
47	White Line	Emmylou Harris	39
48	Trumpets	The Waterboys	39
49	A.I.R.	Anthrax	38
50	You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)	Dead or Alive	37
1985
Top Albums
Rank	Album	Artist	Units (M)
1	Brothers In Arms	Dire Straits	5.5
2	This is the Sea	The Waterboys	4.9
3	No Jacket Required	Phil Collins	4.3
4	Make it Big	Wham!	3.6
5	Seventh Dream of Teenage Heaven	Love and Rockets	3.5
6	Scarecrow	John Mellencamp	3.2
7	Miami Vice	Jan Hammer (Soundtrack)	2.9
8	Fables of the Reconstruction	R.E.M.	2.7
9	Black Codes (From the Underground)	Wynton Marsalis	2.6
10	In Square Circle	Stevie Wonder	2.4
Top Books
Rank	Book	Author	Units (M)
1	The Handmaid's Tale	Margaret Atwood	2.8
2	The Polar Express	Chris Van Allsburg	2.6
3	Contact	Carl Sagan	2.3
4	Amusing Ourselves to Death	Neil Postman, Andrew Postman	2.1
5	Texas	James Michener	2.0
6	The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat…	Oliver Sacks	1.7
7	Love in the Time of Cholera	Gabriel Garcia Marquez	1.7
8	The Cider House Rules	John Irving	1.4
9	Nueromancer	William Gibson	1.2
10	Common Ground	J. Anthony Lukas	1.1
Top Movies
Rank	Movie		Units (M)
1	Back to the Future		17.8
2	The Breakfast Club		15.7
3	Paris, Texas		9.9
4	1984		8.6
5	A Passage to India		8.5
6	The Killing Fields		8.4
7	Starman		8.1
8	Better Off Dead		7.6
9	Runaway Train		7.6
10	Witness		7.3