List of Billboard 200 number-one albums of 1986

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]

Chart history

Key

Indicates best performing album of 1986

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

See also

• 1986 in music
• List of number-one albums (United States)

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