Number-one dance hits of 1986 (USA)
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These are the Billboard magazine Hot Dance Club Play
number one hits of 1986.
Hot Dance Club Play
The Hot Dance Club Songs chart is a weekly national survey of the songs that are most popular in U.S. dance clubs...
number one hits of 1986.
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| January 4 | "Baby Talk" | Alisha Alisha (singer) Alisha Ann Itkin is an American Freestyle, dance-pop singer from Brooklyn, New York who had several hits in the 1980s and 1990s.-Music career:... |
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| January 11 | "Go Home Go Home "Go Home" is a 1986 hit single released by American and Motown musician Stevie Wonder released on the Tamla label. The song showcased the narrator's plea to a young woman to go home, though the girl tries to get the narrator to stay with her. In the U.S., the song became another #1 adult... " |
Stevie Wonder Stevie Wonder Stevland Hardaway Morris , better known by his stage name Stevie Wonder, is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer and activist... |
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| January 25 | "Love's Gonna Get You" | Jocelyn Brown Jocelyn Brown Jocelyn Lorette Brown is an American R&B and dance music singer... |
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| February 1 | "Slave to the Rhythm Slave to the Rhythm (song) "Slave to the Rhythm" was the first single from Grace Jones' album of the same name, which was released in 1985. The song and the album was written by Bruce Woolley, Simon Darlow, Stephen Lipson and Trevor Horn and was produced by Horn... " |
Grace Jones Grace Jones Grace Jones is a Jamaican-American singer, model and actress.Jones secured a record deal with Island Records in 1977, which resulted in a string of dance-club hits. In the late 1970s, she adapted the emerging electronic music style and adopted a severe, androgynous look with square-cut hair and... |
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| February 8 | "No Frills Love" | Jennifer Holliday Jennifer Holliday Jennifer-Yvette Holliday is an African-American singer and Tony Award-winning actress. She started her career on Broadway in musicals such as Dreamgirls, and later became a successful recording artist... |
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| February 15 | Colonel Abrams Colonel Abrams (album) Colonel Abrams is the self-titled debut album of Colonel Abrams, released in 1985. This album consists of garage house-influenced Urban contemporary songs with lyrics and vocal performances provided by Abrams.... (all cuts) |
Colonel Abrams Colonel Abrams Colonel Abrams is a house and urban musician who was born in Detroit, Michigan and raised in New York City, New York. He graduated from Benjamin Franklin High School currently known as Manhattan Center for Science and Mathematics which is in East Harlem section of Manhattan, there he met a fellow... |
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| March 1 | "If You Should Ever Be Lonely If You Should Ever Be Lonely "If You Should Ever Be Lonely" is 1986 single by Val Young, a Motown artist. The single peaked at number twenty-one on the U.S. R&B chart. It was most successful on the dance chart, hitting number one for three weeks.-References:... " |
Val Young Val Young Val Young , is an Urban/Dance-pop artist from Detroit, Michigan, who achieved success during the 1980s. She is now based in Los Angeles.- Career :... |
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| March 22 | "I'm Not Gonna Let You I'm Not Gonna Let You "I'm Not Gonna Let You" is a 1986 single by Colonel Abrams. The single, from Colonel Abrams self-titled album, was his third number one on the dance chart and reached the top spot a short three weeks after all cuts from the album, Colonel Abrams had dropped out of the number-one position. "I'm... " |
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| March 29 | "I Can't Wait I Can't Wait (Nu Shooz song) "I Can't Wait" is the title of a song recorded by American group Nu Shooz from the album Poolside. The song was originally recorded the previous year and became a popular radio track in and around the band's hometown of Portland, Oregon... " |
Nu Shooz Nu Shooz Nu Shooz is an American Freestyle-R&B-Dance group fronted by husband-and-wife team of John Smith and Valerie Day, based in Portland, Oregon. The Shooz released four albums in the U.S... |
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| April 12 | "Kiss Kiss (song) In 1988 Art of Noise released a cover of the song, featuring Tom Jones on vocals. The song became the band's biggest hit to that point, reaching number eighteen on the U.S. dance charts and number five on the UK Singles Chart, higher than the original in that country... " |
Prince Prince (musician) Prince Rogers Nelson , often known simply as Prince, is an American singer, songwriter, musician, and actor. Prince has produced ten platinum albums and thirty Top 40 singles during his career. Prince founded his own recording studio and label; writing, self-producing and playing most, or all, of... and the Revolution The Revolution (band) The Revolution was an American rock band formed in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1979 by Prince. Although widely associated with rock music, the band's sound incorporated heavy metal, pop, funk, R&B and hard rock elements. Before their official break-up, The Revolution had released one studio album,... |
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| April 26 | "Whenever You Need Somebody" | O'Chi Brown O'Chi Brown O'chi Brown is a female dance music singer born in Tottenham, London England. She scored two hits on the Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart, the most successful being "Whenever You Need Somebody," which hit #1 in 1986... |
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| May 3 | "West End Girls West End Girls "West End Girls" is a song by British pop duo Pet Shop Boys. Written by Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe, the song was released twice as a single. It is a synthpop song, influenced by hip hop music. The lyrics focus on class, and inner-city pressure, and were inspired by T.S. Eliot's poem The Waste Land... " |
Pet Shop Boys Pet Shop Boys Pet Shop Boys are an English electronic dance music duo, consisting of Neil Tennant, who provides main vocals, keyboards and occasional guitar, and Chris Lowe on keyboards.... |
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| May 17 | "Say It, Say It Say It, Say It "Say It, Say It" is a 1986 crossover dance single by actress/singer, Elizabeth Daily. The single went to number one on the dance charts for one week, and also made soul singles chart, peaking at number seventy-one, and the Hot 100, peaking at number seventy.... " |
E. G. Daily Elizabeth Daily Elizabeth Ann Guttman , better known by her stage names of Elizabeth Daily and E.G. Daily, is an American voice actress, actress, singer-songwriter, and musician... |
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| May 24 | "What I Like" | Anthony and the Camp Anthony and the Camp Anthony and the Camp is a dance music group led by producer Anthony Malloy. The group also consists of Crawford Peterson, Henley Goddard and Linden Aaron... |
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| June 14 | "Jump Back (Set Me Free)" | Dhar Braxton Dhar Braxton Dhar Braxton , is a female house music singer. In 1986, she had a #1 hit single on the US Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart with the song, "Jump Back ." Braxton is not related to, nor a member of, The Braxtons singing group. She is the younger daughter of the late singer Byrdie Green... |
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| June 28 | "Baby Love Baby Love (Regina song) "Baby Love" is a 1986 crossover hit single by Brooklyn-born singer Regina. The single hit number one on the dance charts for two weeks in mid-1986. The single also crossed over to the pop singles chart, where it peaked at #10 and also made the Top 30 on the Soul Singles chart... " |
Regina Regina Richards Regina Richards , better known by her stage name Regina, is an American dance music singer born in Brooklyn, New York. She is best known for her hit "Baby Love," which reached Number 10 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1986. It peaked in the UK Singles Chart at #50 the same year... |
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| July 12 | "Sledgehammer Sledgehammer (song) "Sledgehammer" is a song by British musician Peter Gabriel from his 1986 album So. It hit number one in Canada on 21 July 1986 where it spent four weeks; number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in the United States on 26 July 1986; and number four in the UK singles chart, thanks in part to a... " |
Peter Gabriel Peter Gabriel Peter Brian Gabriel is an English singer, musician, and songwriter who rose to fame as the lead vocalist and flautist of the progressive rock group Genesis. After leaving Genesis, Gabriel went on to a successful solo career... |
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| July 19 | "Rumors Rumors (Timex Social Club song) "Rumors" is a 1986 song by Bay Area based R&B/funk music group Timex Social Club from their debut album Vicious Rumors. was a hit in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom, reaching number eight on the U.S. pop charts and number thirteen on the UK charts, in addition to topping the U.S.... "/ "Vicious Rumors" |
Timex Social Club Timex Social Club The Timex Social Club was an American R&B/Hip hop group, formed in 1982 by students of Berkeley High School in Berkeley, California. They are perhaps best known for their 1986 hit single, "Rumors" and for being major forerunners to the soon-incipient new jack swing movement.-History:Originally... |
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| August 9 | "Venus" | Bananarama Bananarama Bananarama are an English female pop duo who have had success on the pop and dance charts since 1982. Rather than relying on a two part harmony, the duo generally sings in unison, as do their background vocalists. Although there have been line-up changes, the group enjoyed their most popular... |
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| August 23 | "Ain't Nothin' Goin' on But the Rent Ain't Nothin' Goin' on But the Rent "Ain't Nothin' Goin' on But the Rent" is a hit song recorded by R&B singer Gwen Guthrie. Released as a single in 1986 on Polydor Records, the song became the biggest hit of Guthrie's career, and the song's title became a semi-popular catchphrase among many women throughout the late 1980s and early... " |
Gwen Guthrie Gwen Guthrie Gwen Guthrie was an American singer-songwriter, who also sang backing vocals for Aretha Franklin, Billy Joel, Stevie Wonder, and Madonna, among others, and who wrote songs made famous by Ben E. King, and Roberta Flack.... |
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| August 30 | |||
| September 6 | "Point of No Return Point of No Return (Nu Shooz song) "Point of No Return" is the title of the second single taken from the Nu Shooz album Poolside. The song spent one week at #1 on the Billboard Hot Dance Club Play chart in September 1986. It also peaked at #28 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and #36 on the R&B chart in the U.S., as well as topping... " |
Nu Shooz | |
| September 13 | "Down and Counting" | Claudja Barry Claudja Barry Claudja Barry, is a singer and actress who has performed in the European versions of the stage musicals Hair and Catch My Soul.-Early music career:... |
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| September 20 | "When I Think of You When I Think of You "When I Think of You" is the third single from Janet Jackson's third studio album, Control . Written by Jackson and Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis, and produced by Jam and Lewis, the song is about a person who finds relief and fun in a lover... " |
Janet Jackson Janet Jackson Janet Damita Jo Jackson is an American recording artist and actress. Known for a series of sonically innovative, socially conscious and sexually provocative records, as well as elaborate stage shows, television and film roles, she has been a prominent figure in popular culture for over 25 years... |
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| October 11 | "Gotta See You Tonight" | Barbara Roy Barbara Roy Barbara Roy was born in Kinston, North Carolina and is a dance music singer. She scored several big hits on the Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart during the 1970s as the lead vocalist for Ecstasy, Passion & Pain, then went on to have more success as a solo artist.In 1986, Roy hit number... |
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| October 25 | "Human" | The Human League The Human League The Human League are an English electronic New Wave band formed in Sheffield in 1977. They achieved popularity after a key change in line-up in the early 1980s and have continued recording and performing with moderate commercial success throughout the 1980s up to the present day.The only constant... |
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| November 15 | "Word Up! Word Up! (song) "Word Up!" is a funk/hip hop song written and originally recorded by Cameo in 1986. Due to its heavy play on American dance and R&B radio, as well as music video play on MTV , the single became the band's most well-known hit.From the album of the same name, "Word Up!" was Nick's first US Top 40... " |
Cameo Cameo (band) Cameo is an American soul-influenced funk group that formed in the early 1970s. Cameo was initially a 13-member group known as the New York City Players; this name was later changed to Cameo to avoid a lawsuit from Ohio Players, another group from that era. Since then, Cameo has recorded several... |
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| November 22 | "Don't Leave Me This Way Don't Leave Me This Way "Don't Leave Me This Way" is an R&B/soul/disco song written by Kenneth Gamble, Leon Huff, and Cary Gilbert. First charting as a hit for Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes, an act on Gamble & Huff's Philadelphia International label in 1975, "Don't Leave Me This Way" was later a hit single for both... " |
The Communards The Communards The Communards were a British pop duo active from 1985 to 1988. They are most famous for their cover of Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes' song, "Don't Leave Me This Way" as well as "Never Can Say Goodbye".-History:... |
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| November 29 | "I Can't Turn Around" | J. M. Silk | |
| December 6 | "Brand New Lover Brand New Lover "Brand New Lover" is the name of a song recorded by the British new wave band Dead or Alive. It was the first single to be released from the band's third album, Mad, Bad, and Dangerous to Know. It achieved international success when released as a single in 1986. The song proved to be more... " |
Dead or Alive Dead or Alive (band) Dead or Alive were a British New Wave band from Wirral, England, United Kingdom, Europe. The band rose to fame in the 1980s with their number one single on the UK Singles Chart, "You Spin Me Round ". They were the first group to have a number one single under the production team Stock Aitken Waterman... |
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| December 20 | "Control Control (Janet Jackson song) "Control" is the fourth single from Janet Jackson's third album Control. The song was written by Jackson, James Harris III, and Terry Lewis and produced by Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis. Its arrangement, built upon complex rhythmic tracks, showcased state-of-the-art production. The song is about... " |
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See also
- 1986 in music1986 in musicThis is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1986.-January-June:*January 23 – The first induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame takes place...
- List of number-one dance hits (United States)
- List of artists who reached number one on the U.S. Dance chart