| Top 40 Hits of May 1986 |
| 1 |
Spitting Image | The Chicken Song |
| 2 |
Patti Labelle & Michael McDonald | On My Own |
| 3 |
Falco | Rock Me Amadeus |
| 4 |
Level 42 | Lessons In Love |
| 5 |
Madonna | Live To Tell |
| 6 |
Peter Gabriel | Sledgehammer |
| 7 |
Doctor & The Medics | Spirit In The Sky |
| 8 |
Janet Jackson | What Have You Done For Me Lately? |
| 9 |
Matchroom Mob With Chas & Dave | Snooker Loopy |
| 10 |
Van Halen | Why Can't This Be Love |
| 11 |
Five Star | Can't Wait Another Minute |
| 12 |
Whitney Houston | The Greatest Love Of All |
| 13 |
Marvin Gaye | I Heard It Through The Grapevine |
| 14 |
George Michael | A Different Corner |
| 15 |
Billy Ocean | There'll Be Sad Songs (To Make You Cry) |
| 16 |
Status Quo | Rollin' Home |
| 17 |
B-52s | Rock Lobster |
| 18 |
Joyce Sims | All And All |
| 19 |
Queen | A Kind Of Magic |
| 20 |
Simply Red | Holding Back The Years |
| 21 |
Aurra | You And Me Tonight |
| 22 |
Robert Palmer | Addicted To Love |
| 23 |
Jaki Graham | Set Me Free |
| 24 |
Princess | I'll Keep On Loving You |
| 25 |
Big Country | Look Away |
| 26 |
Cure | Boys Don't Cry |
| 27 |
Atlantic Starr | Secret Lovers |
| 28 |
Grange Hill Cast | Just Say No |
| 29 |
ZZ Top | Rough Boy |
| 30 |
Pete Wylie | Sinful |
| 31 |
AC / DC | Who Made Who |
| 32 |
Force MDs | Tender Love |
| 33 |
Dire Straits | Your Latest Trick |
| 34 |
Cashflow | Mine All Mine / Party Freak |
| 35 |
SOS Band | The Finest |
| 36 |
Tears For Fears | Everybody Wants To Run The World |
| 37 |
Simple Minds | All The Things She Said |
| 38 |
Cliff Richard & The Young Ones | Living Doll |
| 39 |
Nu Shooz | I Can't Wait |
| 40 |
Real Thing | Can't Get By Without You (The Second Decade Remix) |
