| LW | TW | peaks: | rock | pop |
| 1 | 1 | Amanda | 1 | ▲ |  |
| Boston |
| 3 | 2 | You Give Love A Bad Name | 1 | 1 | |
| Bon Jovi |
| 2 | 3 | Emotion In Motion | 2 | 12 | |
| Ric Ocasek |
| 11 | 4 | To Be A Lover | 1 | 6 | |
| Billy Idol |
| 7 | 5 | Freedom Overspill | 3 | 22 | |
| Steve Winwood |
| 4 | 6 | The Future's So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades | 4 | 5 | |
| Timbuk 3 |
| 10 | 7 | The Way It Is | 1 | 1 | |
| Bruce Hornsby And The Range |
| 20 | 8 | Don't Get Me Wrong | 1 | 3 | |
| The Pretenders |
| 12 | 9 | Hip To Be Square | 8 | 2 | |
| Huey Lewis And The News |
| 9 | 10 | Somebody's Out There | 2 | 17 | |
| Triumph |
| 6 | 11 | Welcome To The Boomtown | 6 | 16 | |
| David & David |
| 18 | 12 | Change In The Weather | 3 | |
| John Fogerty |
| 14 | 13 | Jacob's Ladder | 12 | 1 | |
| Huey Lewis And The News |
| 19 | 14 | What About Love | 8 | 26 | |
| 'Til Tuesday |
| - | 15 | Once In A Lifetime | 15 | |
| Talking Heads |
| - | 16 | This Love | 10 | |
| Bad Company |
| 8 | 17 | Wild Wild Life | 3 | 9 | |
| Talking Heads |
| - | 18 | Don't Stand So Close To Me '86 | 5 | |
| The Police |
| - | 19 | That Voice Again | 13 | |
| Peter Gabriel |
| - | 20 | Headlines | 20 | |
| John Fogerty |
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