1986 Year End Charts

Top Songs of 1986
Rank	Song	Artist	Plays
1	Master of Puppets	Metallica	110
2	Fight For Your Right to Party	Beastie Boys	103
3	There Is a Light That Never Goes Out	The Smiths	99
4	Land Of Confusion	Genesis	98
5	Be Good to Yourself	Journey	95
6	Open Your Heart	Madonna	94
7	You Give Love a Bad Name	Bon Jovi	94
8	Robot Romp	Alan Silvestri (Flight of the Navigator)	92
9	As the World Falls Down	David Bowie	89
10	Inca Dance	Cusco	88
11	The Boy With the Thorn in His Side	The Smiths	85
12	Brass Monkey	Beastie Boys	84
13	Manic Monday	The Bangles	81
14	Addicted to Love	Robert Palmer	78
15	Velcro Fly	ZZ Top	78
16	Stripped	Depeche Mode	78
17	Sanitarium (Welcome Home)	Metallica	77
18	How Will I Know	Whitney Houston	74
19	I Know It's Over	The Smiths	73
20	True Blue	Madonna	72
21	Invisible Touch	Genesis	72
22	Your Wildest Dreams	The Moody Blues	70
23	Rock Me Amadeus	Falco	68
24	The Final Countdown	Europe	68
25	Danger Zone	Kenny Loggins (Top Gun)	67
26	Graceland	Paul Simon	65
27	Main Title	Alan Silvestri (Flight of the Navigator)	65
28	Papa Don't Preach	Madonna	64
29	Shot in the Dark	Ozzy Osbourne	64
30	If You Leave	O.M.D.	63
31	Girl Can't Help It	Journey	61
32	Everybody Have Fun Tonight	Wang Chung	60
33	Stuck With You	Huey Lewis & the News	60
34	Guitar Town	Steve Earle	60
35	Live to Tell	Madonna	59
36	The Dog-end of a Day Gone By	Love and Rockets	58
37	Antagonism	Skinny Puppy	58
38	Tutu	Miles Davis	57
39	All I Ask of You	Andrew Lloyd Webber	57
40	Mountains	Prince	56
41	Tupac Amaru	Cusco	56
42	Greatest Love of All	Whitney Houston	55
43	The Lovecats	The Cure	53
44	Take Me Home Tonight	Eddie Money	52
45	Like a Rock	Bob Seger	52
46	Who Made Who	AC/DC	51
47	Peace Sells	Megadeth	51
48	Stand Up and Fight for It	Drivin' N' Cryin'	50
49	Superman	R.E.M.	49
50	Get Up	Van Halen	49
1986
Top Albums
Rank	Album	Artist	Units (M)
1	The Queen is Dead	The Smiths	5.3
2	Master of Puppets	Metallica	4.6
3	True Blue	Madonna	4.6
4	Apurimac	Cusco	4.4
5	Graceland	Paul Simon	4.0
6	Flight of the Navigator	Alan Silvestri (Soundtrack)	3.6
7	Whitney Houston	Whitney Houston	3.5
8	Tutu	Miles Davis	2.9
9	The Phantom of the Opera	Andrew Lloyd Webber	2.8
10	Afterburner	ZZ Top	2.5
Top Books
Rank	Book	Author	Units (M)
1	It	Stephen King	3.8
2	Blood Meridian	Cormac McCarthy	3.5
3	The Autobiography of Martin Luther King Jr.	Martin Luther King Jr.	2.9
4	Arctic Dreams	Barry Lopez	2.7
5	Ender's Game	Orson Scott Card	2.6
6	Fatherhood	Bill Cosby	2.0
7	Lonesome Dove	Larry McMurtry	1.8
8	The Mammoth Hunters	Jean M. Auel	1.8
9	Red Storm Rising	Tom Clancy	1.7
10	Cadillac Desert	Marc Reisner	1.5
Top Movies
Rank	Movie		Units (M)
1	Out of Africa		10.7
2	Come and See		10.5
3	Ferris Bueller's Day Off		10.3
4	A Room with a View		9.9
5	The Color Purple		9.8
6	Aliens		9.6
7	Ran		9.2
8	Flight of the Navigator		8.8
9	Top Gun		8.8
10	The Fly		8.3