Editing 1986 in music (section)

===July–September===
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! colspan="2"|Date
!Album
!Artist
!Notes
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| rowspan="26" valign="center" align="center" style="background:#FFA07A; textcolor:#000;" | '''J<br />U<br />L<br />Y'''
| rowspan="4" style="vertical-align:top;"|7
| ''[[The Final (album)|The Final]]'' || [[Wham!]] || Compilation + New Songs
|-
| ''[[Eat 'Em and Smile]]'' || [[David Lee Roth]] ||Solo debut
|-
| ''[[Made in U.S.A. (The Beach Boys album)|Made in U.S.A.]]'' || [[The Beach Boys]] || Compilation
|-
| ''[[Oh, My God! (Doug E. Fresh album)|Oh, My God!]]'' || [[Doug E. Fresh]] || Debut
|-
| rowspan="1" style="vertical-align:top;"|14
| ''[[Knocked Out Loaded]]'' || [[Bob Dylan]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="1" style="vertical-align:top;"|21
| ''[[Orgasmatron (album)|Orgasmatron]]'' || [[Motörhead]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="2" style="vertical-align:top;"|22
| ''[[The Collection (Amy Grant album)|The Collection]]'' || [[Amy Grant]] || Compilation
|-
| ''[[Word Up! (album)|Word Up!]]'' || [[Cameo (band)|Cameo]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="3" style="vertical-align:top;"|25
| ''[[The Bridge (Billy Joel album)|The Bridge]]'' || [[Billy Joel]] ||-
|-
| ''[[The 2 Live Crew Is What We Are]]'' || [[2 Live Crew]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Lightning Strikes (Loudness album)|Lightning Strikes]]'' || [[Loudness (band)|Loudness]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="3" style="vertical-align:top;"|28
| ''[[Landing on Water]]'' || [[Neil Young]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Lifes Rich Pageant]]'' || [[R.E.M.]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Rat in the Kitchen]]'' || [[UB40]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="12" style="vertical-align:top;" |?
| ''[[QR III]]'' || [[Quiet Riot]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Destiny (Chaka Khan album)|Destiny]]'' || [[Chaka Khan]] ||-
|-
| ''[[54-40 (album)|54–40]]'' || [[54-40 (band)|54–40]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Color in Your Life]]'' || [[Missing Persons (band)|Missing Persons]] ||-
|-
| ''[[East of Midnight]]'' || [[Gordon Lightfoot]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Montana Cafe]]'' || [[Hank Williams Jr.]] ||-
|-
| ''[[No Guru, No Method, No Teacher]]'' || [[Van Morrison]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Should the World Fail to Fall Apart]]'' || [[Peter Murphy (musician)|Peter Murphy]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Sound of Confusion]]'' || [[Spacemen 3]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Sub Pop 100]]'' || Various Artists || Compilation
|-
| ''[[Then & Now... The Best of The Monkees]]'' || [[The Monkees]] || Compilation + 3 new recordings
|-
| ''[[True Confessions (album)|True Confessions]]'' || [[Bananarama]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="23" valign="center" align="center" style="background:#D8BFD8; textcolor:#000;" | '''A<br />U<br />G<br />U<br />S<br />T'''
| style="vertical-align:top;"|4
| ''[[Designer Beatnik]]'' || [[Stephen Duffy|Dr Calculus]] ||-
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;"|5
| ''[[Dancing on the Ceiling]]'' || [[Lionel Richie]] ||-
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;"|11
| ''Now That's What I Call Music 7'' || Various Artists ||-
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;" |13
| ''[[Feel My Power]]'' || [[MC Hammer]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="5" style="vertical-align:top;"|18
| ''[[ABBA Live]]'' || [[ABBA]] || Live
|-
| ''[[Kicking Against the Pricks]]'' || [[Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Silk & Steel (Five Star album)|Silk & Steel]]'' || [[Five Star]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Slippery When Wet]]'' || [[Bon Jovi]] ||-
|-
| ''[[True as Steel (album)|True as Steel]]'' || [[Warlock (band)|Warlock]] ||-
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;" |19
| ''[[Guitars, Cadillacs, Etc., Etc.]]'' || [[Dwight Yoakam]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="2" style="vertical-align:top;"|20
| ''[[Fahrenheit (Toto album)|Fahrenheit]]'' || [[Toto (band)|Toto]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Fore!]]'' || [[Huey Lewis and the News]] ||-
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;" |21
| ''[[Dangerous Games (album)|Dangerous Games]]'' || [[Alcatrazz]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="2" style="vertical-align:top;"|25
| ''[[Graceland (album)|Graceland]]'' || [[Paul Simon]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Press to Play]]'' || [[Paul McCartney]] ||US
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;"|29 
| ''[[In the Army Now (album)|In the Army Now]]'' || [[Status Quo (band)|Status Quo]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="7" style="vertical-align:top;"|?
| ''[[The Sport of Kings (album)|The Sport of Kings]]'' || [[Triumph (band)|Triumph]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Three Hearts in the Happy Ending Machine]]'' || [[Daryl Hall]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Camper Van Beethoven (album)|Camper Van Beethoven]]'' || [[Camper Van Beethoven]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Vinnie Vincent Invasion (album)|Vinnie Vincent Invasion]]'' || [[Vinnie Vincent Invasion]] ||-
|-
| ''High Priest of Love'' || [[Zodiac Mindwarp]] || EP
|-
| ''[[In the Pines (album)|In the Pines]]'' || [[The Triffids]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Nasty Nasty]]'' || [[Black 'N Blue]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="35" valign="center" align="center" style="background:#98FB98; textcolor:#000;" | '''S<br />E<br />P<br />T<br />E<br />M<br />B<br />E<br />R'''
| rowspan="2" style="vertical-align:top;"|1
| ''[[Gone to Earth (David Sylvian album)|Gone to Earth]]'' || [[David Sylvian]] ||-
|-
| ''Reivax au Bongo'' || [[Hector Zazou]] ||-
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;"|2
| ''[[Emotional (Jeffrey Osborne album)|Emotional]]'' || [[Jeffrey Osborne]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="1" style="vertical-align:top;"|5
| ''[[Mind: The Perpetual Intercourse]]'' || [[Skinny Puppy]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="3" style="vertical-align:top;"|8
| ''[[Break Every Rule]]'' || [[Tina Turner]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Bouncing off the Satellites]]'' || [[The B-52's]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Crash (The Human League album)|Crash]]'' || [[The Human League]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="5" style="vertical-align:top;"|15
| ''[[True Colors (Cyndi Lauper album)|True Colors]]'' || [[Cyndi Lauper]] ||-
|-
| ''[[True Stories (Talking Heads album)|True Stories]]'' || [[Talking Heads]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Blood & Chocolate]]'' || [[Elvis Costello and the Attractions]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Express (album)|Express]]'' || [[Love and Rockets (band)|Love and Rockets]] ||-
|-
| ''[[This Side of Paradise (album)|This Side of Paradise]]'' || [[Ric Ocasek]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="1" style="vertical-align:top;"|19
| ''[[Give Me the Reason (Luther Vandross album)|Give Me the Reason]]'' || [[Luther Vandross]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="2" style="vertical-align:top;"|22
| ''[[Blind Before I Stop]]'' || [[Meat Loaf]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Filigree & Shadow]]'' || [[This Mortal Coil]] ||-
|- 
| rowspan="3" style="vertical-align:top;"|24
| ''[[Third Stage]]'' || [[Boston (band)|Boston]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Constrictor (album)|Constrictor]]'' || [[Alice Cooper]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Dancing Undercover]]'' || [[Ratt]] ||-
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;"|25
| ''[[Peace Sells... but Who's Buying?]]'' || [[Megadeth]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="1" style="vertical-align:top;"|26
| ''[[Vigilante (Magnum album)|Vigilante]]'' || [[Magnum (band)|Magnum]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="5" style="vertical-align:top;"|29
| ''[[Somewhere in Time (Iron Maiden album)|Somewhere in Time]]'' || [[Iron Maiden]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Blah-Blah-Blah (Iggy Pop album)|Blah-Blah-Blah]]'' || [[Iggy Pop]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Brotherhood (New Order album)|Brotherhood]]'' || [[New Order (band)|New Order]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Chicago 18]]'' || [[Chicago (band)|Chicago]] ||-
|-
| ''[[The Pacific Age]]'' || [[Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="11" style="vertical-align:top;"|?
| ''[[Another View]]'' || [[The Velvet Underground]] || Outtakes compilation
|-
| ''[[Inside the Electric Circus]]'' || [[W.A.S.P. (band)|W.A.S.P.]] ||-
|-
| ''[[The Age of Quarrel]]'' || [[Cro-Mags]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Back to the Street]]'' || [[Petra]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Duotones]]'' || [[Kenny G]] ||-
|-
| ''Fields of Fire'' || [[Corey Hart (singer)|Corey Hart]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Forever Breathes the Lonely Word]]'' || [[Felt (band)|Felt]] ||-
|-
| ''Menace to Society'' || [[Lizzy Borden (band)|Lizzy Borden]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Talking with the Taxman About Poetry]]'' || [[Billy Bragg]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Music That You Can Dance To]]'' || [[Sparks (band)|Sparks]] ||-
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