List of number-one albums of 1986 (U.S.)

The Billboard 200, published in Billboard magazine, is a weekly chart that ranks the 200 highest-selling music albums and EPs in the United States. Before Nielsen SoundScan began tracking sales in 1991, Billboard estimated the sales for the album charts from a representative sampling of record stores nationwide, which was gathered by telephone, fax or messenger service.[1] The data was based on reports from record stores, who ranked the popularity of the best-selling records but did not provide an actual sales figures.[2][3]

Albums

Issue date Album Artist Reference
January 4 Miami Vice Soundtrack [4]
January 11 [5]
January 18 [6]
January 25 The Broadway Album Barbra Streisand [7]
February 1 [8]
February 8 [9]
February 15 Promise Sade [10]
February 22 [11]
March 1 Welcome to the Real World Mr. Mister [12]
March 8 Whitney Houston Whitney Houston [13]
March 15 [14]
March 22 [15]
March 29 [16]
April 5 [17]
April 12 [18]
April 19 [19]
April 26 5150 Van Halen [20]
May 3 [21]
May 10 [22]
May 17 Whitney Houston Whitney Houston [23]
May 24 [24]
May 31 [25]
June 7 [26]
June 14 [27]
June 21 [28]
June 28 [29]
July 5 Control Janet Jackson [30]
July 12 [31]
July 19 Winner in You Patti LaBelle [32]
July 26 Top Gun Soundtrack [33]
August 2
August 9 [34]
August 16 True Blue Madonna [35]
August 23 [36]
August 30 [37]
September 6 [38]
September 13 [39]
September 20 Top Gun Soundtrack [40]
September 27 Dancing on the Ceiling Lionel Richie [41]
October 4 [42]
October 11 Top Gun Soundtrack [43]
October 18 Fore! Huey Lewis and the News [44]
October 25 Slippery When Wet Bon Jovi [45]
November 1 Third Stage Boston [46]
November 8 [47]
November 15 [48]
November 22 [49]
November 29 Live/1975-85 Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band [50]
December 6 [51]
December 13 [52]
December 20 [53]
December 27 [54]

See also

References

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