1985 Number One Singles U.S. Pop

Title / Artist / Weeks at #1​:​​ 

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• Like A Virgin - Madonna (4 weeks)
• I Want To Know What Love Is - Foreigner (2 weeks)
• Careless Whisper - Wham! (3 weeks)
• Can't Fight This Feeling - REO Speedwagon (3 weeks)
• One More Night - Phil Collins (2 weeks)
• We Are The World - USA for Africa (4 weeks)
• Crazy For You - Madonna  (1 week)
• Don't You (Forget About Me) - Simple Minds (1 week)
• Everything She Wants - Wham! (2 weeks)
• Everybody Wants To Rule The World - Tears For Fears (2 weeks)
• Heaven - Bryan Adams (2 weeks)
• Sussudio - Phil Collins (1 week)
• A View To A Kill - Duran Duran (2 weeks)
• Everytime You Go Away - Paul Young (1 week)
• Shout - Tears For Fears (3 weeks)
• The Power Of Love - Huey Lewis & The News (2 weeks)
• St. Elmo's Fire (Man In Motion) - John Parr (2 weeks)
• Money For Nothing - Dire Straits (3 weeks)
• Oh Sheila - Ready For The World (1 week)
• Take On Me - A-ha (1 week)
• Saving All My Love For You - Whitney Houston (1 week)
• Part-Time Lover - Stevie Wonder (1 week)
• Miami Vice Theme - Jan Hammer (1 week)
• We Built This City - Starship (2 weeks)
• Separate Lives - Phil Collins & Marilyn Martin (1 week)
• Broken Wings - Mr. Mister (2 weeks)
• Say You, Say Me - Lionel Richie (2 weeks)

1985 Number One Singles U.K.​​

Title / Artist / Weeks at #1​​: 

• I Want to Know What Love Is - Foreigner (3 weeks)
• I Know Him So Well - Elaine Paige & Barbara Dickson  (4 weeks)
• You Spin Me Round (Like A Record) - Dead or Alive  (2 weeks)
• Easy Lover - Phillip Bailey/Phil Collins (4 weeks)
• We Are The World - USA for Africa (2 weeks)
• Move Closer - Phyllis Nelson (1 week)
• 19 - Paul Hardcastle (5 weeks)
• You'll Never Walk Alone - The Crowd  (2 weeks)
• Frankie - Sister Sledge (4 weeks)
• There Must Be An Angel - Eurythmics (1 week)
• Into The Groove - Madonna (4 weeks)
• I Got You Babe - UB40 & Chrissie Hynde (1 week)
• Dancing In The Street - Mick Jagger & David Bowie (4 weeks)
• If I Was - Midge Ure  (1 week)
• The Power Of Love - Jennifer Rush (5 weeks)
• A Good Heart - Feargal Sharkey (2 weeks)
• I'm Your Man - Wham! (2 weeks)
• Saving All My Love For You - Whitney Houston (2 weeks)
• Merry Christmas Everyone - Shakin' Stevens (2 weeks)

1985 Best Selling Singles

Based on Worldwide Sales

  1 USA For Africa / We Are the World

  2 A-Ha / Take On Me

  3 Foreigner / I Want to Know What Love Is

  4 Tears For Fears / Shout

  5 Lionel Richie / Say You, Say Me

  6 Tears For Fears / Everybody Wants to Rule the World

  7 Dire Straits / Money For Nothing

  8 Elton John / Nikita

  9 Madonna / Crazy For You

10 Murray Head / One Night in Bangkok

11 Paul Hardcastle / 19

12 Huey Lewis & The News / The Power of Love

13 Duran Duran / A View to a Kill

14 Tina Turner / We Don't Need Another Hero (Thunderdome)

15 Simple Minds / Don't You (Forget About Me)

16 Madonna / Into the Groove

17 Jennifer Rush / The Power of Love

18 Whitney Houston / Saving All My Love For You

19 Don Henley / The Boys of Summer

20 Baltimora / Tarzan Boy

21 Mr Mister / Broken Wings

22 Kool & The Gang / Cherish

23 Jefferson Starship / We Built This City

24 David Bowie & Mick Jagger / Dancing in the Street

25 Bruce Springsteen / Born in the USA

26 Wham! / I'm Your Man

27 Dead Or Alive / You Spin me 'round (Like a Record)

28 Stevie Wonder / Part-Time Lover

29 Phil Collins / One More Night

30 Simple Minds / Alive & Kicking

31 Paul Young / Every Time You Go Away

32 Sandra / (I'll Never Be) Maria Magdalena

33 Madonna / Material Girl

34 Philip Bailey & Phil Collins / Easy Lover

35 Opus / Live Is Life

36 John Parr / St Elmo's Fire (Man in Motion)

37 Wham! / Everything She Wants

38 Bryan Adams / Heaven

39 Harold Faltermeyer / Axel F

40 Fergal Sharkey / A Good Heart

41 The Eurythmics / There Must Be an Angel

42 Phil Collins & Marilyn Martin / Separate Lives

43 Bruce Springsteen / I'm On Fire

44 Glenn Frey / The Heat is On

45 UB40 & Chrissie Hynde / I Got You Babe

46 REO Speedwagon / Can't Fight This Feeling

47 Modern Talking / You're My Heart You're My Soul

48 Phil Collins / Sussudio

49 Ashford & Simpson / Solid

50 Billy Ocean / Loverboy

51 Bryan Adams / Summer of '69

52 The Eurythmics / Would I Lie to You?

53 The Commodores / Nightshift

54 Jim Diamond / I Should Have Known Better

55 Katrina & The Waves / Walking On Sunshine

56 Jan Hammer / Miami Vice Theme

57 The Pointer Sisters / Neutron Dance

58 Modern Talking / Cheri Cheri Lady

59 DeBarge / Rhythm of the Night

60 Kate Bush / Running Up That Hill

61 Chicago / You're the Inspiration

62 Sade / The Sweetest Taboo

63 Bruce Springsteen / Glory Days

64 Julian Lennon / Too Late For Goodbyes

65 Madonna / Angel

66 Prince / Raspberry Beret

67 Howard Jones / Things Can Only Get Better

68 David Bowie & The Pat Metheny Group / This is Not America

69 Arcadia / Election Day

70 Power Station / Some Like it Hot

71 Sting / If You Love Somebody Set Them Free

72 Tears For Fears / Head Over Heels

73 Dire Straits / So Far Away

74 Madonna / Dress You Up

75 Mick Jagger / Just Another Night

76 Talking Heads / Road to Nowhere

77 Depeche Mode / Shake the Disease

78 Marillion / Kayleigh

79 Corey Hart / Never Surrender

80 Aretha Franklin / Freeway of Love

81 Midge Ure / If I Was

82 John Cougar Mellencamp / Small Town

83 Animotion / Obsession

84 King / Love & Pride

85 Falco / Vienna Calling

86 The Thompson Twins / Lay Your Hands On Me

87 Freddie Mercury / I Was Born to Love You

88 Glenn Frey / You Belong To The City

89 Sister Sledge / Frankie

90 Bryan Adams / Run to You

91 Ready For the World / Oh Sheila

92 U2 / The Unforgettable Fire

93 Modern Talking / You Can Win If You Want

94 Godley & Creme / Cry

95 Bryan Adams & Tina Turner / It's Only Love

96 Pat Benatar / Invincible

97 Jermaine Jackson / Do What You Do

98 Dead Or Alive / Lover Come Back to Me

99 Artists United Against Apartheid / Sun City

100 Frankie Goes To Hollywood / Welcome to the Pleasure Dome

1985 Best Selling Albums

Based on Worldwide Sales

  1 Dire Straits / Brothers In Arms

  2 Whitney Houston / Whitney Houston

  3 Phil Collins / No Jacket Required

  4 Bryan Adams / Reckless

  5 Tears For Fears / Songs From The Big Chair

  6 Sting / The Dream Of The Blue Turtles

  7 Sade / Promise

  8 Foreigner / Agent Provocateur

  9 Prince / Around The World In A Day

10 ZZ Top / Afterburner

11 Kate Bush / Hounds Of Love

12 The Eurythmics / Be Yourself Tonight

13 John Fogerty / Centerfield

14 USA For Africa / We Are The World

15 Heart / Heart

16 The Cure / The Head On The Door

17 A-Ha / Hunting High & Low

18 Original Soundtrack / Beverly Hills Cop

19 Talking Heads / Little Creatures

20 Simple Minds / Once Upon A Time

21 Billy Joel / Billy Joel's Greatest Hits, Volume I & Volume II

22 John Cougar Mellencamp / Scarecrow

23 The Smiths / Meat Is Murder

24 Stevie Wonder / In Square Circle

25 Bryan Ferry / Boys & Girls

26 Mick Jagger / She's The Boss

27 Marillion / Misplaced Childhood

28 Original Soundtrack / Miami Vice

29 Paul Young / The Secret Of Association

30 Tom Waits / Rain Dogs

31 Howard Jones / Dream Into Action

32 The Alan Parsons Project / Vulture Culture

33 Billy Idol / Vital Idol

34 The Scorpions / World Wide Live

35 Jesus & Mary Chain / Psychocandy

36 Iron Maiden / Live After Death

37 Elton John / Ice On Fire

38 Jennifer Rush / Movin'

39 The Pogues / Rum, Sodomy & The Lash

40 Power Station / The Power Station

41 The Thompson Twins / Here's To Future Days

42 INXS / Listen Like Thieves

43 REM / Fables Of The Reconstruction

44 AC/DC / Fly On The Wall

45 Supertramp / Brother Where You Bound

46 Motley Crue / Theatre Of Pain

47 Eric Clapton / Behind The Sun

48 Jennifer Rush / Jennifer Rush

49 The Commodores / Nightshift

50 Suzanne Vega / Suzanne Vega

51 Aretha Franklin / Who's Zoomin' Who?

52 Rush / Power Windows

53 Style Council / Our Favourite Shop

54 The Cars / The Cars' Greatest Hits

55 Dio / Sacred Heart

56 New Order / Low-Life

57 Corey Hart / Boy In The Box

58 Sisters of Mercy / First & Last & Always

59 Scritti Politti / Cupid & Psyche '85

60 Rick Springfield / Tao

61 Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers / Southern Accents

62 Loverboy / Lovin' Every Minute Of It

63 The Replacements / Tim

64 Yello / Stella

65 Robert Palmer / Riptide

66 Prefab Sprout / Steve McQueen/Two Wheels Good

67 Level 42 / World Machine

68 Modern Talking / The 1st Album

69 LL Cool J / Radio

70 Modern Talking / Let's Talk About Love

71 Pete Townshend / White City - A Novel

72 The Cult / Love

73 George Benson / 20/20

74 Dead Or Alive / Youthquake

75 The Waterboys / This Is The Sea

76 Grace Jones / Slave To The Rhythm

77 Freddie Jackson / Rock Me Tonight

78 U2 / Wide Awake In America

79 Luther Vandross / The Night I Fell In Love

80 Kiss / Asylum

81 Ratt / Invasion Of Your Privacy

82 Ashford & Simpson / Solid

83 REO Speedwagon / Wheels Are Turnin'

84 Arcadia / So Red The Rose

85 Freddie Mercury / Mr Bad Guy

86 Peter Maffay / Sonne in der Nacht

87 Julio Iglesias / Libra

88 Depeche Mode / The Singles 81-85

89 Diana Ross / Eaten Alive

90 The Pointer Sisters / Contact

91 Propaganda / Secret Wish

92 WASP / The Last Command

93 Bon Jovi / 7800 Fahrenheit

94 Accept / Metal Heart

95 Fine Young Cannibals / Fine Young Cannibals

96 Bob Dylan / Empire Burlesque

97 The Firm / The Firm

98 Saga / Behaviour

99 Philip Bailey / Chinese Wall

100 Gary Moore / Run For Cover