Ranking All 30 #1 Hits From 1986.
- 30: ‘Kyrie’- Mr. Mister
- 29. ‘Sara’- Starship
- 28. ‘Amanda’- Boston
- 27-‘You Give Love A Bad Name’- Bon Jovi
- 26-‘That’s What Friends Are For’- Dionne Warwick
- 25-‘Glory Of Love’- Peter Cetera
- 24-‘The Next Time I Fall’- Peter Cetera and Amy Grant
- 23- ‘There’ll Be Sad Songs – Billy Ocean
- 22-‘On My Own’- Patti LaBelle and Michael McDonald
- 21-‘Stuck With You’- Huey Lewis And The News
- 20- ‘These Dreams’- Heart
- 19-Venus’- Bananarama
- 18-‘Take My Breath Away’- Berlin
- 17-‘Invisible Touch’- Genesis
- 16-‘Holding Back The Years’- Simply Red
- 15-‘When I Think Of You’- Janet Jackson
- 14-‘Greatest Love Of All- Whitney Houston
- 13-‘True Colors’- Cyndi Lauper
- 12-‘Higher Love’- Steve Winwood
- 11-‘Papa Don’t Preach’- Madonna
- 10-‘Addicted To Love’- Robert Palmer
- 9- ‘Kiss’- Prince
- 8-‘ Human’ -Human League
- 7-‘How Will I Know’- Whitney Houston
- 6-‘Rock Me Amadeus’- Falco
- 5-‘Walk Like An Egyptian- The Bangles
- 4-‘The Way It Is’- Bruce Hornsby And The Range
- 3-‘Live To Tell’- Madonna
- 2-‘Sledgehammer’- Peter Gabriel
- 1- ‘West End Girls’- Pet Shop Boys
slicethelife 
I like your pick for the best one. It has aged well, too. I like it even better now than back then. Some of those songs don’t seem like #1 material at all. They sure didn’t at the time, either.
I am thinking a lot of the songs from this era do not seem like #1 material.
Those are a sad bunch of songs. I do like West End Girls but as a whole…no thank you. I would take a top 40 on a given week from 72 to beat that.
There were a few greats (“Sledgehammer” “The Way it Is”) some very good ones (“Papa Don’t Preach”, “West End Girls”…) but a lot of weak material all in all. Remarkably I like “Sara” by starship, the one and only song I can tolerate by them after they dropped the Jefferson from their name. Mighty glad we had an alternative rock station where I was that year!
I like Kyrie – I’d move that and Higher Love into the top ten, and get rid of Addicted to Love and How Will I Know. Otherwise I largely agree.
OH! Kyrie is better than Sara…come on…LOL!
I’d swap 14 and 16, but other than that…