This is a list of the European Hot 100 Singles and European Top 100 Albums number ones of 1985, as published by Eurotipsheet magazine (renamed Music & Media in April 1986).
† | Indicates best-performing single and album of 1985[1] |
Issue date | Song | Artist | Album | Artist | Ref. |
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7 January | "Ghostbusters" | Ray Parker Jr. | Private Dancer | Tina Turner | [2] |
14 January | "I Just Called to Say I Love You" | Stevie Wonder | Welcome to the Pleasuredome | Frankie Goes to Hollywood | [3] |
21 January | "Ghostbusters" | Ray Parker Jr. | Make It Big | Wham! | [4] |
28 January | Arena | Duran Duran | [5] | ||
4 February | "Like a Virgin" | Madonna | [6] | ||
11 February | Welcome to the Pleasuredome | Frankie Goes to Hollywood | [7] | ||
18 February | Diamond Life | Sade | [8] | ||
25 February | [9] | ||||
4 March | [10] | ||||
11 March | "Easy Lover" | Philip Bailey and Phil Collins | [11] | ||
18 March | No Jacket Required | Phil Collins | [12] | ||
25 March | [13] | ||||
1 April | [14] | ||||
8 April | [15] | ||||
15 April | [16] | ||||
22 April | "We Are the World" † | USA for Africa | [17] | ||
29 April | [18] | ||||
6 May | [19] | ||||
13 May | [20] | ||||
20 May | [21] | ||||
27 May | [22] | ||||
3 June | [23] | ||||
10 June | Brothers in Arms † | Dire Straits | [24] | ||
17 June | [25] | ||||
24 June | [26] | ||||
1 July | "Live Is Life" | Opus | [27] | ||
8 July[a] | [28] | ||||
15 July[a] | |||||
22 July[b] | "A View to a Kill" | Duran Duran | [29] | ||
29 July[b] | "Live Is Life" | Opus | |||
5 August | [30] | ||||
12 August | [31] | ||||
19 August | "Tarzan Boy" | Baltimora | [32] | ||
26 August | [33] | ||||
2 September | [34] | ||||
9 September | [35] | ||||
16 September | [36] | ||||
23 September | [37] | ||||
30 September | Like a Virgin | Madonna | [38] | ||
7 October | Brothers in Arms † | Dire Straits | [39] | ||
14 October | "Into the Groove" | Madonna | [40] | ||
21 October | "Part-Time Lover" | Stevie Wonder | [41] | ||
28 October | [42] | ||||
4 November | [43] | ||||
11 November | [44] | ||||
18 November | Like a Virgin | Madonna | [45] | ||
25 November | "Take On Me" | A-ha | Brothers in Arms † | Dire Straits | [46] |
2 December | [47] | ||||
9 December | [48] | ||||
16 December | Promise | Sade | [49] | ||
23 December | [50] | ||||
30 December | No chart published |