Top 106.7 KROQ Songs in the Year
1986
| Rank | Band | Song |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pet Shop Boys | Suburbia |
| 2 | Depeche Mode | A Question of Lust |
| 3 | Oingo Boingo | Pain |
| 4 | Dramarama | Anything, Anything |
| 5 | Smiths | Ask |
| 6 | Gene Loves Jezebel | Desire |
| 7 | B-52's | She Brakes for Rainbows |
| 8 | Peter Gabriel | Sledgehammer |
| 9 | Duran Duran | Notorious |
| 10 | Talking Heads | Wild, Wild Life |
| 11 | Cure | Close to Me |
| 12 | Dead or Alive | Brand New Lover |
| 13 | Depeche Mode | But Not Tonight |
| 14 | Modern English | Ink and Paper |
| 15 | Billy Idol | To Be a Lover |
| 16 | OMD | If You Leave |
| 17 | Smiths | Panic |
| 18 | Deborah Harry | French Kissing in the USA |
| 19 | INXS | What You Need |
| 20 | XTC | Dear God |
| 21 | Erasure | Oh L'Amour |
| 22 | Thompson Twins | Nothing in Common |
| 23 | New Order | Bizarre Love Triangle |
| 24 | Public Image Limited | Rise |
| 25 | Pretenders | Don't Get Me Wrong |
| 26 | Smithereens | Blood and Roses |
| 27 | Bangles | Walk Like an Egyptian |
| 28 | Fine Young Cannibals | Ever Fallen in Love |
| 29 | Big Country | Look Away |
| 30 | Siouxsie and the Banshees | Cities in Dust |
| 31 | Ken Heaven | The Calling |
| 32 | B-52's | Summer of Love |
| 33 | Sparks | Music That You Can Dance To |
| 34 | R.E.M. | Superman |
| 35 | Peter Gabriel | Big Time |
| 36 | Cure | Boys Don't Cry |
| 37 | Smiths | Bigmouth Strikes Again |
| 38 | Sigue Sigue Sputnik | Love Missile F1-11 |
| 39 | Arcadia | Steal My Flame |
| 40 | New Order | Shellshock |
| 41 | Oingo Boingo | Not My Slave |
| 42 | Depeche Mode | A Question of Time |
| 43 | Blow monkeys | Digging Your Scene |
| 44 | OMD | Forever Live and Die |
| 45 | Love and Rockets | Kundalini Express |
| 46 | Talking Heads | Puzzling Evidence |
| 47 | Real Life | Babies |
| 48 | Fixx | Secret Separation |
| 49 | Psychedelic Furs | Heartbreak Beat |
| 50 | Robert Palmer | Addicted to Love |
| 51 | Fine Young Cannibals | Suspicious Minds |
| 52 | King | Alone Without You |
| 53 | Iggy Pop | Real Wild Child |
| 54 | Oingo Boingo | Stay |
| 55 | General Public | Too Much of Nothing |
| 56 | Bronski Beat | Hit That Perfect Beat |
| 57 | Bangles | Manic Monday |
| 58 | Howard Jones | You Know I Love You |
| 59 | Pet Shop Boys | Love Comes Quickly |
| 60 | A-ha | I've Been Losing You |
| 61 | Bananarama | Venus |
| 62 | Smithereens | Behind the Wall of Sleep |
| 63 | Eurythmics | Missionary Man |
| 64 | Psychedelic Furs | Pretty in Pink |
| 65 | Wang Chung | Everybody Have Fun Tonight |
| 66 | Cure | A Man Inside My Mouth |
| 67 | Ice House | Cross the Border |
| 68 | INXS | Listen Like Thieves |
| 69 | Simple Minds | All the Things She Said |
| 70 | Talking Heads | Love For Sale |
| 71 | Genesis | Invisible Touch |
| 72 | Gene Loves Jezebel | Heartache |
| 73 | Martini Ranch | How Can a Laboring Man Find Time for Self-Culture |
| 74 | Falco | Rock Me Amadeus |
| 75 | David Bowie | Absolute Beginners |
| 76 | Divinyls | Pleasure & Pain |
| 77 | Venetians | So Much for Love |
| 78 | Stan Ridgeway | Drive She Said |
| 79 | Feargal Sharkey | A Good Heart |
| 80 | Tears for Fears | Mothers Talk |
| 81 | Belinda Carlisle | Mad About You |
| 82 | Big Audio Dynamite | E=MC2 |
| 83 | INXS | Do What You Do |
| 84 | Boys Don't Cry | I Want to Be a Cowboy |
| 85 | John Taylor | I Do What I Do to Have You |
| 86 | Run DMC | Walk This Way |
| 87 | Love and Rockets | All in My Mind |
| 88 | Robert Palmer | I Didn't Mean to Turn You On |
| 89 | Tonio K | Romeo and Jane |
| 90 | Art of Noise | Legs |
| 91 | Pet Shop Boys | Why Don't We Live Together |
| 92 | Magazine 60 | Don Quichotte |
| 93 | Prince | Kiss |
| 94 | Arcadia | Say the Word |
| 95 | Boom Boom Room | Here Comes the Man |
| 96 | Erasure | Who Needs Love Like That |
| 97 | Andy Taylor | Take it Easy |
| 98 | INXS | Kiss the Dirt |
| 99 | Smiths | There is a Light That Never Goes Out |
| 100 | Mick Jagger | Ruthless People |
| 101 | Love and Money | Candybar Express |
| 102 | Billy Idol | Soul Standing By |
| 103 | Ric Ocasek | True to You |
| 104 | Fixx | Built for the Future |
| 105 | Robbie Nevil | Time Waits for No One |
| 106 | Device | Hanging on a Heart Attack |
| 106.7 | Dream Team is in the House | LA Dream Team |