List of top 25 singles for 1985 in Australia

The following lists the top 25 (end of year) charting singles on the Australian Singles Charts, for the year of 1985. These were the best charting singles in Australia for 1985. The source for this year is the "Kent Music Report", known from 1987 onwards as the "Australian Music Report".

#TitleArtistHighest pos. reachedweeks at No. 1
1."We Are the World"USA for Africa19
2."Angel" / "Into the Groove"Madonna14
3."Crazy for You"Madonna14
4."Live it Up"Mental As Anything2
5."I Want to Know What Love Is"Foreigner15
6."Out of Mind, Out of Sight"Models12
7."Money for Nothing"Dire Straits4
8."I Got You Babe"UB40 with Chrissie Hynde13
9."I Should Have Known Better (Jim Diamond song)"Jim Diamond11
10."Would I Lie To You?"Eurythmics12
11."Dancing in the Street"David Bowie & Mick Jagger12
12."Take On Me"a-ha12
13."You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)"Dead or Alive3
14."Shout"Tears For Fears11
15."One Night in Bangkok"Murray Head11
16."Born in the U.S.A."Bruce Springsteen2
17."Neutron Dance"Pointer Sisters4
18."What You Need"INXS2
19."Do They Know It's Christmas"Band Aid14
20."We Don't Need Another Hero"Tina Turner13
21."Walking on Sunshine"Katrina and the Waves4
22."The Heat Is On"Glenn Frey2
23."The Power of Love"Jennifer Rush12
24."The Power of Love"Huey Lewis and the News12
25."Like a Virgin"Madonna15 (#1 in 1984 & 85)

Top 25 singles of 1985
Other Australian top charts for 1985
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Australian top 40 charts for the 1980s
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Australian number-one charts of 1985
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These charts are calculated by David Kent of the Kent Music Report and they are based on the number of weeks and position the records reach within the top 100 singles for each week.

source: David Kent's "Australian Chart Book 1970-1992"

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