List of Billboard number-one dance/disco singles of 1986

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Billboard magazine compiled the top-performing dance singles in the United States on the Hot Dance/Disco Club Play chart and the Hot Dance/Disco 12-inch Singles Sales chart. Premiered in 1976, the Club Play chart ranked the most-played singles on dance club based on reports from a national sample of club DJs. The 12-inch Singles Sales chart was launched in 1985 to compile the best-selling dance singles based on retail sales across the United States.

Charts history

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Chart history
Issue date Hot Dance/Disco Club Play Hot Dance/Disco 12-inch Singles Sales Ref.
Title Artist(s) Title Artist(s)
January 4 "Baby Talk" Alisha "I Like You" Phyllis Nelson [1][2]
January 11 "Go Home" Stevie Wonder [3][4]
January 18 [5][6]
January 25 "Love's Gonna Get You" Jocelyn Brown "Love's Gonna Get You" Jocelyn Brown [7][8]
February 1 "Slave to the Rhythm" Grace Jones [9][10]
February 8 "No Frills Love" Jennifer Holliday "Living In America" James Brown [11][12]
February 15 Colonel Abrams (all cuts) Colonel Abrams [13][14]
February 22 [15][16]
March 1 "If You Should Ever Be Lonely" Val Young "Saturday Love" (Remix) Cherrelle featuring Alexander O'Neal [17][18]
March 8 [19][20]
March 15 [21][22]
March 22 "I'm Not Gonna Let You" Colonel Abrams "What Have You Done For Me Lately" Janet Jackson [23][24]
March 29 "I Can't Wait" Nu Shooz "Saturday Love" (Remix) Cherrelle featuring Alexander O'Neal [25][26]
April 5 "Kiss" (Remix) / "♥ or $" Prince and the Revolution [27][28]
April 12 "Kiss" Prince and the Revolution [29][30]
April 19 [31][32]
April 26 "Whenever You Need Somebody" O'Chi Brown [33][34]
May 3 "West End Girls" Pet Shop Boys [35][36]
May 10 [37][38]
May 17 "Say It, Say It" E. G. Daily "On My Own" Patti LaBelle & Michael McDonald [39][40]
May 24 "What I Like" Anthony and the Camp [41][42]
May 31 [43][44]
June 7 [45][46]
June 14 "Jump Back (Set Me Free)" Dhar Braxton "The Finest" The S.O.S. Band [47][48]
June 21 [49][50]
June 28 "Baby Love" Regina [51][52]
July 5 "Rumors"/
"Vicious Rumors"		 Timex Social Club [53][54]
July 12 "Sledgehammer" Peter Gabriel [55][56]
July 19 "Rumors" / "Vicious Rumors" Timex Social Club [57][58]
July 26 [59][60]
August 2 "Venus" (Remix) Bananarama [61][62]
August 9 "Venus" Bananarama [63][64]
August 16 [65][66]
August 23 "Ain't Nothin' Goin' on But the Rent" Gwen Guthrie "Papa Don't Preach" Madonna [67][68]
August 30 [69][70]
September 6 "Point of No Return" Nu Shooz "Two of Hearts" Stacey Q [71][72]
September 13 "Down and Counting" Claudja Barry "Down and Counting" Claudja Barry [73][74]
September 20 "When I Think of You" Janet Jackson [75][76]
September 27 [77][78]
October 4 [79][80]
October 11 "Gotta See You Tonight" Barbara Roy "Two of Hearts" Stacey Q [81][82]
October 18 [83][84]
October 25 "Human" The Human League "Human" The Human League [85][86]
November 1 [87][88]
November 8 [89][90]
November 15 "Word Up!" Cameo [91][92]
November 22 "Don't Leave Me This Way" The Communards [93][94]
November 29 "I Can't Turn Around" J. M. Silk "Brand New Lover" Dead or Alive [95][96]
December 6 "Brand New Lover" Dead or Alive [97][98]
December 13 [99][100]
December 20 "Control" Janet Jackson [101][102]
December 27 [103][104]
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