| Top 40 Hits of January 1986 |
| 1 |
A-ha | The Sun Always Shines On TV |
| 2 |
Pet Shop Boys | West End Girls |
| 3 |
Dire Straits | Walk Of Life |
| 4 |
Bronski Beat | Hit That Perfect Beat |
| 5 |
Cherelle With Alexander O'Neal | Saturday Love |
| 6 |
Whitney Houston | Saving All My Love For You |
| 7 |
Mr Mister | Broken Wings |
| 8 |
Nana Mouskouri | Only Love |
| 9 |
Feargal Sharkey | You Little Thief |
| 10 |
Sophia George | Girlie Girlie |
| 11 |
Full Force | Alice I Want You Just For Me |
| 12 |
Fine Young Cannibals | Suspicious Minds |
| 13 |
Aretha Franklin | Who's Zoomin' Who |
| 14 |
Shakin' Stevens | Merry Christmas Everyone |
| 15 |
Eurythmics | It's Alright (Baby's Coming Back) |
| 16 |
Sting | Russians |
| 17 |
Madonna | Borderline |
| 18 |
Five Star | System Addict |
| 19 |
Madonna | Dress You Up |
| 20 |
Level 42 | Leaving Me Now |
| 21 |
Aled Jones | Walking In The Air |
| 22 |
Phil Collins & Marilyn Martin | Separate Lives |
| 23 |
Jennifer Rush | Ring Of Ice |
| 24 |
Elton John | Wrap Her Up |
| 25 |
Billy Ocean | When The Going Gets Tough (The Tough Get Going) |
| 26 |
Wham! | I'm Your Man |
| 27 |
Sarah Brightman & Steve Harley | The Phantom Of The Opera |
| 28 |
Grace Jones | Pull Up To The Bumper / La Vie En Rose |
| 29 |
Starship | We Built This City |
| 30 |
Amazulu | Don't You Just Know It |
| 31 |
Alarm | Spirit of '76 |
| 32 |
King | Torture |
| 33 |
Wham! | Last Christmas |
| 34 |
Paul McCartney | Spies Like Us |
| 35 |
Dee C Lee | See The Day |
| 36 |
Talk Talk | Life's What You Make It |
| 37 |
AC / DC | Shake Your Foundations |
| 38 |
Band Aid | Do They Know It's Christmas? |
| 39 |
Go West | Don't Look Down - The Sequel |
| 40 |
James Brown | Living In America |
