{{Short description|Ranking of recorded music}}
{{Short description|Ranking of recorded music}}
[[File:Dionne_Warwick_(1986_NSMT_publicity_photo).jpg|thumb|right|190px|”[[That’s What Friends Are For]]” by [[Dionne Warwick]] (”pictured”) and Friends was the number one song of 1986.]]
[[File:Dionne_Warwick_(1986_NSMT_publicity_photo).jpg|thumb|right||”[[That’s What Friends Are For]]” by [[Dionne Warwick]] (”pictured”) and Friends was the number one song of 1986.]]
[[File:Madonna in concert wearing fishnets 1987 colorized.jpg|thumb|upright|[[Madonna]] charted three songs from her album ”[[True Blue (album)|True Blue]]” on the year-end chart, two of which (“[[Papa Don’t Preach]]” and “[[Live to Tell]]”) appeared in its top-40.]]
[[File:Janet Jackson 1986 (A&M Publicity photo).jpg|thumb|upright|[[Janet Jackson]] had three songs on the year-end chart of 1986, all from her album ”[[Control (Janet Jackson album)|Control]]”: “[[When I Think of You]]” (number 32), “[[What Have You Done For Me Lately]]” (number 43), and “[[Nasty (Janet Jackson song)|Nasty]]” (number 58).]]
[[File:Whitney Houston – The Star-Ledger (1987).jpg|thumb|upright|”[[How Will I Know]]” and “[[The Greatest Love of All]]” by [[Whitney Houston]] (”pictured”) appeared at numbers six and 11, respectively, on the year-end chart.]]
[[File:Gloria Estefan Weezy Trish (27193732928) (cropped).jpg|thumb|upright|[[Miami Sound Machine]], led by vocalist [[Gloria Estefan]] (”pictured”), had three songs on the year-end chart.]]
”[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]” magazine each year releases a [[Billboard Year-End|Year-End]] chart of the most popular songs across all genres called the [[Billboard Hot 100|Hot 100]] songs of the year. This is the year-end Hot 100 songs of [[1986 in music|1986]].<ref>{{cite book |title=Billboard |date=27 December 1986 |publisher=Nielsen Business Media, Inc. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tiQEAAAAMBAJ&pg=RA1-PA9}}</ref>
”[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]” magazine each year releases a [[Billboard Year-End|Year-End]] chart of the most popular songs across all genres called the [[Billboard Hot 100|Hot 100]] songs of the year. This is the year-end Hot 100 songs of [[1986 in music|1986]].<ref>{{cite book |title=Billboard |date=27 December 1986 |publisher=Nielsen Business Media, Inc. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tiQEAAAAMBAJ&pg=RA1-PA9}}</ref>
