List of European number-one hits of 1986

This is a list of the Hitkrant (to November 1986) /Music & Media magazines' European Hot 100 Singles and European Top 100 Albums number-ones of 1986.

Issue Date	Song	Artist	Album	Artist
4 January	"Take on Me"	a-ha	Promise	Sade
11 January
18 January
25 January	"Nikita"	Elton John
1 February
8 February
15 February	"The Sun Always Shines on T.V."	a-ha
22 February
1 March	"When the Going Gets Tough, the Tough Get Going"	Billy Ocean
8 March
15 March	"Burning Heart"	Survivor	Brothers in Arms	Dire Straits
22 March	"When the Going Gets Tough, the Tough Get Going"	Billy Ocean
29 March
5 April	"Burning Heart"	Survivor
12 April
19 April	"When the Going Gets Tough, the Tough Get Going"	Billy Ocean	Rocky IV (soundtrack)	Various Artists
26 April
3 May	"A Different Corner"	George Michael
10 May
17 May			Dirty Work	Rolling Stones
24 May
31 May
7 June	"Live to Tell"	Madonna	So	Peter Gabriel
14 June
21 June	"A Different Corner"	George Michael	A Kind of Magic	Queen
28 June	"Atlantis is Calling (S.O.S. for Love)"	Modern Talking
5 July
12 July	"The Edge of Heaven"	Wham!
19 July	"Atlantis is Calling (S.O.S. for Love)"	Modern Talking	True Blue	Madonna
26 July	"The Edge of Heaven"	Wham!
2 August	"Papa Don't Preach"	Madonna
9 August
16 August
23 August
30 August
6 September
13 September
20 September
27 September
4 October
11 October
18 October	"True Blue"
25 October	"The Final Countdown"	Europe
1 November	"Take My Breath Away"	Berlin
8 November
15 November
22 November
29 November	"The Final Countdown"	Europe
6 December
13 December
20 December
27 December