This is a list of the weekly Canadian RPM magazine number one Top Singles chart of 1986.
identifies Canadian musical acts.
| Volume:Issue | Issue Date(s) | Weeks on Top | Song | Artist |
| 43:15-16 | 21 December 1985 – 11 January 1986 § | 4 | "Say You, Say Me" | Lionel Richie |
| 43:17 | 18 January 1986 | 1 | "Everything in My Heart" | Corey Hart |
| 43:18 | 25 January | 1 | "That's What Friends Are For" | Dionne Warwick and Friends |
| 43:19 | 1 February | 1 | "Rock Me Amadeus" | Falco |
| 43:20 | 8 February | 1 | "I Miss You" | Klymaxx |
| 43:21 | 15 February | 1 | "When the Going Gets Tough, the Tough Get Going" | Billy Ocean |
| 43:22 | 22 February | 1 | "Conga" | Miami Sound Machine |
| 43:23 | 1 March | 1 | "How Will I Know" | Whitney Houston |
| 43:24-25 | 8 – 15 March | 2 | "Kyrie" | Mr. Mister |
| 43:26 | 22 March | 1 | "Sara" | Starship |
| 44:1-2 | 29 March – 5 April | 2 | "Don't Forget Me (When I'm Gone)" | Glass Tiger |
| 44:3 | 12 April | 1 | "Secret Lovers" | Atlantic Starr |
| 44:4 | 19 April | 1 | "Bop" | Dan Seals |
| 44:5-6 | 26 April - 3 May | 1 | "The Power of Love" | Jennifer Rush |
| 44:7 | 10 May | 1 | "Let's Go All the Way" | Sly Fox |
| 44:8 | 17 May | 1 | "West End Girls" | Pet Shop Boys |
| 44:9-10 | 24 May - 31 May | 2 | "Live to Tell" | Madonna |
| 44:11 | 7 June | 1 | "Greatest Love of All" | Whitney Houston |
| 44:12 | 14 June | 1 | "A Different Corner" | George Michael |
| 44:13-14 | 21 – 28 June | 2 | "On My Own" | Patti Labelle and Michael McDonald |
| 44:15 | 5 July | 1 | "There'll Be Sad Songs (To Make You Cry)" | Billy Ocean |
| 44:16 | 12 July | 1 | "I Can't Wait" | Nu Shooz |
| 44:17 | 19 July | 1 | "Who's Johnny" | El DeBarge |
| 44:18-19 | 26 July – 2 August | 2 | "Sledgehammer" | Peter Gabriel |
| 44:20-21 | 9 – 16 August | 2 | "Papa Don't Preach" | Madonna |
| 44:22-23 | 23 – 30 August | 2 | "Glory of Love" | Peter Cetera |
| 44:24 | 6 September | 1 | "Mad About You" | Belinda Carlisle |
| 44:25 | 13 September | 1 | "Higher Love" | Steve Winwood |
| 44:26 | 20 September | 1 | "Friends and Lovers" | Gloria Loring and Carl Anderson |
| 45:1 | 27 September | 1 | "Stuck with You" | Huey Lewis and The News |
| 45:2-3 | 4 – 11 October | 2 | "Rumors" | Timex Social Club |
| 45:4 | 18 October | 1 | "Spirit in the Sky" | Doctor and the Medics |
| 45:5-6 | 25 October – 1 November | 2 | "The Lady in Red" | Chris de Burgh |
| 45:7 | 8 November | 1 | "True Colors" | Cyndi Lauper |
| 45:8 | 15 November | 1 | "Human" | Human League |
| 45:9 | 22 November | 1 | "True Blue" | Madonna |
| 45:10 | 29 November | 1 | "Two of Hearts" | Stacey Q |
| 45:11 | 6 December | 1 | "Amanda" | Boston |
| 45:12 | 13 December | 1 | "The Next Time I Fall" | Peter Cetera and Amy Grant |
| 45:13 | 20 December | 1 | "Stand By Me" | Ben E. King |
| 45:14 | 27 December - 10 January 1987 | 1 | "The Way It Is" | Bruce Hornsby and The Range |
Note: § - RPM did not publish issues for the first two weeks of January 1986.
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