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In Retrospect

If I had the power, perhaps in an alternate timeline, the Top 40 would have been quite different...

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Number
1 Up by 9

Life's What You Make It
Talk Talk
From the album: The Colour of Spring
Peak
1 (for 1 weeks)
Weeks
7
Number
2 Down by 1

Bring On the Dancing Horses
Echo & the Bunnymen
From the album: Songs to Learn & Sing
Peak
1 (for 9 weeks)
Weeks
20
Number
3 Down by 1

Cloudbusting
Kate Bush
From the album: Hounds of Love
Peak
1 (for 1 weeks)
Weeks
18
Number
4 Down by 1

Election Day
Arcadia
From the album: So Red the Rose
Peak
1 (for 1 weeks)
Weeks
21
Number
5

Life in a Northern Town
The Dream Academy
From the album: The Dream Academy
Peak
5
Weeks
15
Number
6

Tarzan Boy
Baltimora
From the album: Living in the Background, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Peak
6
Weeks
22
Number
7 Up by 1

La Femme Accident
Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark
From the album: Crush
Peak
7
Weeks
11
Number
8 Down by 4

I Love You Like a Ball and Chain
Eurythmics
From the album: Be Yourself Tonight
Peak
4
Weeks
22
Number
9

Cities In Dust
Siouxsie & The Banshees
From the album: Tinderbox
Peak
9
Weeks
19
Number
10 Up by 4

Let's Go All the Way
Sly Fox
From the album: Let's Go All the Way
Peak
10
Weeks
11
Number
11 Up by 2

Conditioned Soul
Eurythmics
From the album: Be Yourself Tonight
Peak
11
Weeks
11
Number
12 Up by 4

What You Need
INXS
From the album: Listen Like Thieves
Peak
12
Weeks
9
Number
13 Down by 2

Secret
Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark
From the album: Crush
Peak
11
Weeks
14
Number
14 Down by 7

A Love Bizarre
Sheila E.
From the album: Romance 1600
Peak
7
Weeks
17
Number
15

King for a Day
Thompson Twins
From the album: Here's to Future Days
Peak
15
Weeks
9
Number
16 Up by 5

Rock Me Amadeus
Falco
From the album: Falco 3
Peak
16
Weeks
6
Number
17 Down by 5

Dead Man's Party
Oingo Boingo
From the album: Dead Man's Party, Back to School (Music From The Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Peak
10
Weeks
18
Number
18 Up by 5

Hounds of Love
Kate Bush
From the album: Hounds of Love
Peak
18
Weeks
3
Number
19 Up by 1

(How to Be A) Millionaire
ABC
From the album: How to Be a Zillionaire!
Peak
19
Weeks
9
Number
20 Up by 2

The Lady Don't Mind
Talking Heads
From the album: Little Creatures
Peak
20
Weeks
11
Number
21 Up by 8

Kiss
Prince & The Revolution
From the album: Parade (Music From the Motion Picture "Under the Cherry Moon")
Peak
21
Weeks
4
Number
22 Down by 3

Don't Run Wild
The Del Fuegos
Peak
16
Weeks
17
Number
23 Up by 2

Live Is Life
Opus
From the album: Live Is Life, Up and Down
Peak
23
Weeks
8
Number
24 Up by 2

Manic Monday
The Bangles
From the album: Different Light
Peak
24
Weeks
8
Number
25 Up by 2

Goodbye Is Forever
Arcadia
From the album: So Red the Rose
Peak
25
Weeks
7
Number
26 Up by 4

There Is A Light That Never Goes Out
The Smiths
From the album: The Queen Is Dead, The World Won't Listen
Peak
26
Weeks
6
Number
27 Up by 6

Addicted to Love
Robert Palmer
From the album: Riptide
Peak
27
Weeks
6
Number
28 Down by 11

Stay Up Late
Talking Heads
From the album: Little Creatures
Peak
5
Weeks
23
Number
29 Up by 3

Calling America
Electric Light Orchestra
From the album: Balance of Power
Peak
29
Weeks
7
Number
30 Up by 1

Strength
The Alarm
Peak
30
Weeks
10
Number
31 Up by 4

Something About You
Level 42
From the album: World Machine
Peak
31
Weeks
5
Number
32 Up by 5

Crush
Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark
From the album: Crush
Peak
32
Weeks
3
Number
33 Up by 6

Just Another Day
Oingo Boingo
From the album: Dead Man's Party
Peak
33
Weeks
8
Number
34 Up by 6

West End Girls
Pet Shop Boys
From the album: Please
Peak
34
Weeks
3
Number
35 Down by 17

Driver 8
R.E.M.
From the album: Fables of the Reconstruction
Peak
1 (for 1 weeks)
Weeks
28
Number
36 Down by 12

One Vision
Queen
From the album: A Kind of Magic
Peak
17
Weeks
14
Number
37 Down by 9

Time Bomb Town
Lindsey Buckingham
From the album: Back To The Future (Music From The Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Peak
2
Weeks
24
Number
38 Up by 7

It's Alright (Baby's Coming Back)
Eurythmics
From the album: Be Yourself Tonight
Peak
38
Weeks
3
Number
39 Up by 5

Le Bel Age (The Best Years)
Pat Benatar
Peak
39
Weeks
5
Number
40 Down by 4

Roll Over
Thompson Twins
From the album: Here's to Future Days
Peak
13
Weeks
19
Number
41 Up by 9

If You Leave
Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark
From the album: Pretty In Pink (Soundtrack)
Peak
41
Weeks
2
Number
42 Up by 1

Rise
Public Image Ltd.
From the album: Album
Peak
42
Weeks
6
Number
43 Up by 3

I Can't Wait
Stevie Nicks
From the album: Rock A Little
Peak
43
Weeks
4
Number
44 Down by 10

I Touch Roses
BOOK OF LOVE
Peak
15
Weeks
19
Number
45 Up by 3

Stereotomy
The Alan Parsons Project
Peak
45
Weeks
4
Number
46 Debut

I Can't Wait
Nu Shooz
From the album: Poolside
Peak
46
Weeks
1
Number
47 Down by 9

Alive and Kicking
Simple Minds
From the album: Once Upon a Time
Peak
21
Weeks
18
Number
48 Down by 7

Face the Face
Pete Townshend
From the album: White City: A Novel
Peak
17
Weeks
19
Number
49 Down by 7

Chain Reaction
Diana Ross
From the album: Eaten Alive
Peak
33
Weeks
13
Number
50 Debut

I Engineer
Animotion
Peak
50
Weeks
1
Number
51 Debut

Stripped
Depeche Mode
From the album: Black Celebration
Peak
51
Weeks
1
Number
52 Down by 1

Be Near Me
ABC
From the album: How to Be a Zillionaire!
Peak
1 (for 2 weeks)
Weeks
30

Dropouts

Number
47 Dropout

Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God)
Kate Bush
From the album: Hounds of Love
Peak
1 (for 4 weeks)
Weeks
27
Number
49 Dropout

So in Love
Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark
From the album: Crush
Peak
1 (for 4 weeks)
Weeks
28
Number
52 Dropout

Blue Kiss
Jane Wiedlin
Peak
10
Weeks
24

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Date

March 15, 1986

Songs

52

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10 1 Talk Talk – “Life's What You Make It” 1(×1) 7

1 2 Echo & the Bunnymen – “Bring On the Dancing Horses” 1(×9) 20

2 3 Kate Bush – “Cloudbusting” 1(×1) 18

3 4 Arcadia – “Election Day” 1(×1) 21

5 5 The Dream Academy – “Life in a Northern Town” 5 15

6 6 Baltimora – “Tarzan Boy” 6 22

8 7 Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark – “La Femme Accident” 7 11

4 8 Eurythmics – “I Love You Like a Ball and Chain” 4 22

9 9 Siouxsie & The Banshees – “Cities In Dust” 9 19

14 10 Sly Fox – “Let's Go All the Way” 10 11

13 11 Eurythmics – “Conditioned Soul” 11 11

16 12 INXS – “What You Need” 12 9

11 13 Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark – “Secret” 11 14

7 14 Sheila E. – “A Love Bizarre” 7 17

15 15 Thompson Twins – “King for a Day” 15 9

21 16 Falco – “Rock Me Amadeus” 16 6

12 17 Oingo Boingo – “Dead Man's Party” 10 18

23 18 Kate Bush – “Hounds of Love” 18 3

20 19 ABC – “(How to Be A) Millionaire” 19 9

22 20 Talking Heads – “The Lady Don't Mind” 20 11

29 21 Prince & The Revolution – “Kiss” 21 4

19 22 The Del Fuegos – “Don't Run Wild” 16 17

25 23 Opus – “Live Is Life” 23 8

26 24 The Bangles – “Manic Monday” 24 8

27 25 Arcadia – “Goodbye Is Forever” 25 7

30 26 The Smiths – “There Is A Light That Never Goes Out” 26 6

33 27 Robert Palmer – “Addicted to Love” 27 6

17 28 Talking Heads – “Stay Up Late” 5 23

32 29 Electric Light Orchestra – “Calling America” 29 7

31 30 The Alarm – “Strength” 30 10

35 31 Level 42 – “Something About You” 31 5

37 32 Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark – “Crush” 32 3

39 33 Oingo Boingo – “Just Another Day” 33 8

40 34 Pet Shop Boys – “West End Girls” 34 3

18 35 R.E.M. – “Driver 8” 1(×1) 28

24 36 Queen – “One Vision” 17 14

28 37 Lindsey Buckingham – “Time Bomb Town” 2 24

45 38 Eurythmics – “It's Alright (Baby's Coming Back)” 38 3

44 39 Pat Benatar – “Le Bel Age (The Best Years)” 39 5

36 40 Thompson Twins – “Roll Over” 13 19

50 41 Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark – “If You Leave” 41 2

43 42 Public Image Ltd. – “Rise ” 42 6

46 43 Stevie Nicks – “I Can't Wait” 43 4

34 44 BOOK OF LOVE – “I Touch Roses” 15 19

48 45 The Alan Parsons Project – “Stereotomy” 45 4

NE 46 Nu Shooz – “I Can't Wait” 46 1

38 47 Simple Minds – “Alive and Kicking” 21 18

41 48 Pete Townshend – “Face the Face” 17 19

42 49 Diana Ross – “Chain Reaction” 33 13

NE 50 Animotion – “I Engineer” 50 1

NE 51 Depeche Mode – “Stripped” 51 1

51 52 ABC – “Be Near Me” 1(×2) 30

DROPOUTS:

47 -- Kate Bush – “Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God)” 1(×4) 27

49 -- Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark – “So in Love” 1(×4) 28

52 -- Jane Wiedlin – “Blue Kiss” 10 24

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