Billboard Hot 100 #1 Hits of 1985

There were 27 different songs that reached the top of the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1985. Given the artist and their respective issue dates, can you name every song?

The weeks are listed as "issue date," meaning the song was at #1 when the list was published on that Saturday

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Issue Date	#1 Hit	Artist
January 5	Like A Virgin	Madonna
January 12
January 19
January 26
February 2	I Want To Know What Love Is	Foreigner
February 9
February 16	Careless Whisper	Wham!
February 23
March 2
March 9	Can't Fight This Feeling	REO Speedwagon
March 16
March 23
March 30	One More Night	Phil Collins
April 6
April 13	We Are The World	USA For Africa
April 20
April 27
May 4
May 11	Crazy For You	Madonna
May 18	Don't You (Forget About Me)	Simple Minds
May 25	Everything She Wants	Wham!
June 1
June 8	Everybody Wants To Rule The World	Tears For Fears
June 15
June 22	Heaven	Bryan Adams
June 29
July 6	Sussudio	Phil Collins
July 13	A View To A Kill	Duran Duran
July 20
July 27	Everytime You Go Away	Paul Young
August 3	Shout	Tears For Fears
August 10
August 17
August 24	The Power Of Love	Huey Lewis and the News
August 31
September 7	St. Elmo's Fire (Man In Motion)	John Parr
September 14
September 21	Money For Nothing	Dire Straits
September 28
October 5
October 12	Oh Sheila	Ready for the World
October 19	Take On Me	a-ha
October 26	Saving All My Love For You	Whitney Houston
November 2	Part-Time Lover	Stevie Wonder
November 9	Miami Vice Theme	Jan Hammer
November 16	We Built This City	Starship
November 23
November 30	Separate Lives	Phil Collins & Marilyn Martin
December 7	Broken Wings	Mr. Mister
December 14
December 21	Say You, Say Me	Lionel Richie
December 28