Weekly Pop Top 30 for August 23, 1986 |
| LW | TW | peaks: |
rock | pop |
| 3 | 1 | Higher Love | 1 | ▲ |
| Steve Winwood |
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| 6 | 2 | Venus | ▲ |
| Bananarama |
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| 4 | 3 | Sweet Freedom | ▲ |
| Michael McDonald |
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| 7 | 4 | Dancing On The Ceiling | 1 |
| Lionel Richie |
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| 9 | 5 | Take My Breath Away | 1 |
| Berlin |
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| 2 | 6 | We Don't Have To Take Our Clothes Off | 2 |
| Jermaine Stewart |
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| 13 | 7 | Rumors | ▲ |
| Timex Social Club |
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| 8 | 8 | Words Get In The Way | 1 |
| Miami Sound Machine |
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| 10 | 9 | Baby Love | 5 |
| Regina |
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| 1 | 10 | Papa Don't Preach | 1 |
| Madonna |
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| 5 | 11 | Glory Of Love | 1 |
| Peter Cetera |
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| 18 | 12 | The Edge Of Heaven | ▲ |
| Wham! |
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| 11 | 13 | Mad About You | 15 | 3 |
| Belinda Carlisle |
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| 17 | 14 | Don't Forget Me (When I'm Gone) | 10 | 1 |
| Glass Tiger |
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| 12 | 15 | Love Touch | 3 |
| Rod Stewart |
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| 26 | 16 | Stuck With You | 4 | 1 |
| Huey Lewis And The News |
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| 14 | 17 | Yankee Rose | 7 | 14 |
| David Lee Roth |
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| 22 | 18 | Friends And Lovers | 2 |
| Gloria Loring & Carl Anderson |
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| - | 19 | Love Zone | 7 |
| Billy Ocean |
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| 15 | 20 | All The Love In The World | 16 | 8 |
| The Outfield |
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| 29 | 21 | Two Of Hearts | 2 |
| Stacey Q |
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| 20 | 22 | Holding Back The Years | 1 |
| Simply Red |
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| 16 | 23 | You Should Be Mine (The Woo Woo Song) | 16 |
| Jeffrey Osborne |
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| - | 24 | Man Size Love | 18 |
| Klymaxx |
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| - | 25 | Dreamtime | 6 |
| Daryl Hall |
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| - | 26 | Hanging On A Heart Attack | ▲ |
| Device |
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| 21 | 27 | Sledgehammer | 1 | 1 |
| Peter Gabriel |
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| - | 28 | The Other Side Of Life | 4 | 20 |
| The Moody Blues |
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| - | 29 | The Captain Of Her Heart | 21 |
| Double |
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| 19 | 30 | Your Wildest Dreams | 3 | 2 |
| The Moody Blues |
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