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 4Miami ViceSoundtrackMCA[4]
January 11[5]
January 18[6]
January 25The Broadway AlbumBarbra StreisandColumbia[7]
February 1[8]
February 8[9]
February 15PromiseSadePortrait[10]
February 22[11]
March 1Welcome to the Real WorldMr. MisterRCA Victor[12]
March 8Whitney HoustonWhitney HoustonArista[13]
March 15[14]
March 22[15]
March 29[16]
April 5[17]
April 12[18]
April 19[19]
April 265150Van HalenWarner Bros.[20]
May 3[21]
May 10[22]
May 17Whitney HoustonWhitney HoustonArista[23]
May 24[24]
May 31[25]
June 7[26]
June 14[27]
June 21[28]
June 28[29]
July 5ControlJanet JacksonA&M[30]
July 12[31]
July 19Winner in YouPatti LaBelleMCA[32]
July 26Top GunSoundtrackColumbia[33]
August 2
August 9[34]
August 16True BlueMadonnaSire[35]
August 23[36]
August 30[37]
September 6[38]
September 13[39]
September 20Top GunSoundtrackColumbia[40]
September 27Dancing on the CeilingLionel RichieMotown[41]
October 4[42]
October 11Top GunSoundtrackColumbia[43]
October 18Fore!Huey Lewis and the NewsChrysalis[44]
October 25Slippery When WetBon JoviMercury[45]
November 1Third StageBostonMCA[46]
November 8[47]
November 15[48]
November 22[49]
November 29Live/1975–85Bruce Springsteen & The E Street BandColumbia[50]
December 6[51]
December 13[52]
December 20[53]
December 27[54]

See also

References

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