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

Hounds of Love
Kate Bush
From the album: Hounds of Love
Peak
1 (for 7 weeks)
Weeks
13
Number
2

Kiss
Prince & The Revolution
From the album: Parade (Music From the Motion Picture "Under the Cherry Moon")
Peak
2
Weeks
14
Number
3 Up by 1

Crush
Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark
From the album: Crush
Peak
3
Weeks
13
Number
4 Down by 1

Life's What You Make It
Talk Talk
From the album: The Colour of Spring
Peak
1 (for 4 weeks)
Weeks
17
Number
5

Rock Me Amadeus
Falco
From the album: Falco 3
Peak
5
Weeks
16
Number
6 Up by 1

If You Leave
Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark
From the album: Pretty In Pink (Soundtrack)
Peak
6
Weeks
12
Number
7 Up by 1

West End Girls
Pet Shop Boys
From the album: Please
Peak
7
Weeks
13
Number
8 Up by 1

I Can't Wait
Nu Shooz
From the album: Poolside
Peak
8
Weeks
11
Number
9 Down by 3

La Femme Accident
Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark
From the album: Crush
Peak
4
Weeks
21
Number
10 Up by 7

Something About You
Level 42
From the album: World Machine
Peak
10
Weeks
15
Number
11 Up by 1

Just Another Day
Oingo Boingo
From the album: Dead Man's Party
Peak
11
Weeks
18
Number
12 Down by 1

Let's Go All the Way
Sly Fox
From the album: Let's Go All the Way
Peak
4
Weeks
21
Number
13 Up by 5

Can't Help Falling In Love
Lick the Tins
Peak
13
Weeks
10
Number
14 Down by 4

What You Need
INXS
From the album: Listen Like Thieves
Peak
6
Weeks
19
Number
15 Up by 1

Calling America
Electric Light Orchestra
From the album: Balance of Power
Peak
15
Weeks
17
Number
16 Down by 1

Addicted to Love
Robert Palmer
From the album: Riptide
Peak
15
Weeks
16
Number
17 Up by 2

Positively Lost Me
The Rave-Ups
Peak
17
Weeks
9
Number
18 Up by 4

88 Seconds in Greensboro
Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark
From the album: Crush
Peak
18
Weeks
9
Number
19 Down by 6

There Is A Light That Never Goes Out
The Smiths
From the album: The Queen Is Dead, The World Won't Listen
Peak
13
Weeks
16
Number
20 Up by 1

It's Alright (Baby's Coming Back)
Eurythmics
From the album: Be Yourself Tonight
Peak
20
Weeks
13
Number
21 Down by 7

(How to Be A) Millionaire
ABC
From the album: How to Be a Zillionaire!
Peak
12
Weeks
19
Number
22 Up by 1

A Kind of Magic
Queen
From the album: A Kind of Magic
Peak
22
Weeks
8
Number
23 Up by 4

Mutual Surrender (What a Wonderful World)
Bourgeois Tagg
Peak
23
Weeks
7
Number
24 Up by 1

One Hit (To The Body)
The Rolling Stones
From the album: Dirty Work
Peak
24
Weeks
8
Number
25 Down by 5

Manic Monday
The Bangles
From the album: Different Light
Peak
14
Weeks
18
Number
26 Up by 8

Sledgehammer
Peter Gabriel
From the album: So
Peak
26
Weeks
3
Number
27 Up by 1

Shellshock
New Order
From the album: Pretty In Pink (Soundtrack)
Peak
27
Weeks
8
Number
28 Up by 4

The Love Parade
The Dream Academy
From the album: The Dream Academy
Peak
28
Weeks
6
Number
29 Up by 4

A Question Of Lust
Depeche Mode
From the album: Black Celebration
Peak
29
Weeks
5
Number
30

Stripped
Depeche Mode
From the album: Black Celebration
Peak
30
Weeks
11
Number
31

I Engineer
Animotion
Peak
31
Weeks
11
Number
32 Down by 8

Conditioned Soul
Eurythmics
From the album: Be Yourself Tonight
Peak
7
Weeks
21
Number
33 Down by 7

Goodbye Is Forever
Arcadia
From the album: So Red the Rose
Peak
16
Weeks
17
Number
34 Up by 4

I Wanna Be A Cowboy
Boys Don't Cry
From the album: Boys Don't Cry
Peak
34
Weeks
7
Number
35 Down by 6

Live Is Life
Opus
From the album: Live Is Life, Up and Down
Peak
15
Weeks
18
Number
36 Up by 8

Vienna Calling
Falco
From the album: Falco 3
Peak
36
Weeks
4
Number
37

Right Between The Eyes
Wax
From the album: Magnetic Heaven
Peak
37
Weeks
10
Number
38 Up by 1

Out of Mind, Out of Sight
Models
Peak
38
Weeks
5
Number
39 Up by 1

So Serious
Electric Light Orchestra
From the album: Balance of Power
Peak
39
Weeks
5
Number
40 Debut

Secret Separation
The Fixx
From the album: Walkabout
Peak
40
Weeks
1
Number
41

I Still Believe (Great Design)
The Call
Peak
41
Weeks
6
Number
42 Up by 5

Listen Like Thieves
INXS
From the album: Listen Like Thieves
Peak
42
Weeks
3
Number
43

No One Is to Blame
Howard Jones
From the album: Dream Into Action
Peak
43
Weeks
4
Number
44 Down by 9

Bring On the Dancing Horses
Echo & the Bunnymen
From the album: Songs to Learn & Sing
Peak
1 (for 9 weeks)
Weeks
30
Number
45 Up by 3

The Big Sky
Kate Bush
From the album: Hounds of Love
Peak
45
Weeks
2
Number
46 Up by 3

Left Of Center
Suzanne Vega featuring Joe Jackson
From the album: Pretty In Pink (Soundtrack)
Peak
46
Weeks
2
Number
47 Up by 3

Peter Gunn
The Art of Noise featuring Duane Eddy
From the album: In Visible Silence
Peak
47
Weeks
2
Number
48 Up by 3

Give It Up
Talk Talk
From the album: The Colour of Spring
Peak
48
Weeks
2
Number
49 Down by 13

Strength
The Alarm
Peak
30
Weeks
20
Number
50 Down by 8

Life in a Northern Town
The Dream Academy
From the album: The Dream Academy
Peak
5
Weeks
25
Number
51 Debut

Oh L'Amour
Erasure
From the album: Wonderland
Peak
51
Weeks
1

Dropouts

Number
45 Dropout

The Lady Don't Mind
Talking Heads
From the album: Little Creatures
Peak
15
Weeks
20
Number
46 Dropout

I Can't Wait
Stevie Nicks
From the album: Rock A Little
Peak
31
Weeks
13

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Date

May 24, 1986

Songs

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1 1 Kate Bush – “Hounds of Love” 1(×7) 13

2 2 Prince & The Revolution – “Kiss” 2 14

4 3 Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark – “Crush” 3 13

3 4 Talk Talk – “Life's What You Make It” 1(×4) 17

5 5 Falco – “Rock Me Amadeus” 5 16

7 6 Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark – “If You Leave” 6 12

8 7 Pet Shop Boys – “West End Girls” 7 13

9 8 Nu Shooz – “I Can't Wait” 8 11

6 9 Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark – “La Femme Accident” 4 21

17 10 Level 42 – “Something About You” 10 15

12 11 Oingo Boingo – “Just Another Day” 11 18

11 12 Sly Fox – “Let's Go All the Way” 4 21

18 13 Lick the Tins – “Can't Help Falling In Love” 13 10

10 14 INXS – “What You Need” 6 19

16 15 Electric Light Orchestra – “Calling America” 15 17

15 16 Robert Palmer – “Addicted to Love” 15 16

19 17 The Rave-Ups – “Positively Lost Me” 17 9

22 18 Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark – “88 Seconds in Greensboro” 18 9

13 19 The Smiths – “There Is A Light That Never Goes Out” 13 16

21 20 Eurythmics – “It's Alright (Baby's Coming Back)” 20 13

14 21 ABC – “(How to Be A) Millionaire” 12 19

23 22 Queen – “A Kind of Magic” 22 8

27 23 Bourgeois Tagg – “Mutual Surrender (What a Wonderful World)” 23 7

25 24 The Rolling Stones – “One Hit (To The Body)” 24 8

20 25 The Bangles – “Manic Monday” 14 18

34 26 Peter Gabriel – “Sledgehammer” 26 3

28 27 New Order – “Shellshock” 27 8

32 28 The Dream Academy – “The Love Parade” 28 6

33 29 Depeche Mode – “A Question Of Lust” 29 5

30 30 Depeche Mode – “Stripped” 30 11

31 31 Animotion – “I Engineer” 31 11

24 32 Eurythmics – “Conditioned Soul” 7 21

26 33 Arcadia – “Goodbye Is Forever” 16 17

38 34 Boys Don't Cry – “I Wanna Be A Cowboy” 34 7

29 35 Opus – “Live Is Life” 15 18

44 36 Falco – “Vienna Calling” 36 4

37 37 Wax – “Right Between The Eyes” 37 10

39 38 Models – “Out of Mind, Out of Sight” 38 5

40 39 Electric Light Orchestra – “So Serious” 39 5

NE 40 The Fixx – “Secret Separation” 40 1

41 41 The Call – “I Still Believe (Great Design)” 41 6

47 42 INXS – “Listen Like Thieves” 42 3

43 43 Howard Jones – “No One Is to Blame” 43 4

35 44 Echo & the Bunnymen – “Bring On the Dancing Horses” 1(×9) 30

48 45 Kate Bush – “The Big Sky” 45 2

49 46 Suzanne Vega ft. Joe Jackson – “Left Of Center” 46 2

50 47 The Art of Noise ft. Duane Eddy – “Peter Gunn” 47 2

51 48 Talk Talk – “Give It Up” 48 2

36 49 The Alarm – “Strength” 30 20

42 50 The Dream Academy – “Life in a Northern Town” 5 25

NE 51 Erasure – “Oh L'Amour” 51 1

DROPOUTS:

45 -- Talking Heads – “The Lady Don't Mind” 15 20

46 -- Stevie Nicks – “I Can't Wait” 31 13

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