According to RPM Magazine, the biggest song of 1985 in Canada was Corey Hart’s “Never Surrender”. This was the first time since 1974 when a Canadian artist had the year’s biggest song. It won the JUNO Award for Song of the Year and helped Corey’s album Boy in the Box go diamond for sales in excess of one million copies in Canada. Fourteen songs from the year-end top 100 chart below involve Canadian artists which have been bolded in red. The Canadian charts are an accurate reflection of Canadian tastes in music, and the Top 100 songs were determined both from radio airplay and nationwide sales data. The drawback with year-end charts is that songs charting from the end of one year through beginning of the next will have their chart performance split between the two years. More year-end and other Canadian charts can be found here.
| RANK | TITLE | ARTIST |
| 1 | Never Surrender | Corey Hart |
| 2 | Careless Whisper | Wham |
| 3 | I Want to Know What Love Is | Foreigner |
| 4 | Easy Lover | P. Bailey w/ P. Collins |
| 5 | Crying Over You | Platinum Blonde |
| 6 | Cherish | Kool & The Gang |
| 7 | Crazy For You | Madonna |
| 8 | Shout | Tears For Fears |
| 9 | Part Time Lover | Stevie Wonder |
| 10 | Separate Lives | P. Collins/M. Martin |
| 11 | The Power of Love | Huey Lewis & The News |
| 12 | We Don’t Need Another Hero | Tina Turner |
| 13 | Neutron Dance | Pointer Sisters |
| 14 | St. Elmo’s Fire | John Parr |
| 15 | Tears Are Not Enough | Northern Lights |
| 16 | You Spin Me Round | Dead or Alive |
| 17 | One Night in Bangkok | Murray Head |
| 18 | Walking On Sunshine | Katrina & The Waves |
| 19 | Everybody Wants To Rule… | Tears For Fears |
| 20 | Every Time You Go Away | Paul Young |
| 21 | Don’t You (Forget About Me) | Simple Minds |
| 22 | One More Night | Phil Collins |
| 23 | We Are the World | USA For Africa |
| 24 | A View To a Kill | Duran Duran |
| 25 | We Built This City | Starship |
| 26 | Dancing In the Street | M. Jagger/D. Bowie |
| 27 | Oh Sheila | Ready For the World |
| 28 | Rhythm of the Night | DeBarge |
| 29 | Take On Me | a-ha |
| 30 | Axel F | Harold Faltermeyer |
| 31 | You’re the Inspiration | Chicago |
| 32 | Everything She Wants | Wham |
| 33 | Can’t Fight This Feeling | REO Speedwagon |
| 34 | Money For Nothing | Dire Straits |
| 35 | Like a Virgin | Madonna |
| 36 | Miami Vice Theme | Jan Hammer |
| 37 | Broken Wings | Mr. Mister |
| 38 | 19 | Paul Hardcastle |
| 39 | All I Need | Jack Wagner |
| 40 | Do They Know It’s Christmas | Band Aid |
| 41 | If You Love Somebody | Sting |
| 42 | Say You Say Me | Lionel Richie |
| 43 | Alive and Kicking | Simple Minds |
| 44 | Run To You | Bryan Adams |
| 45 | Would I Lie To You | Eurythmics |
| 46 | Material Girl | Madonna |
| 47 | Freeway of Love | Aretha Franklin |
| 48 | Black Cars | Gino Vannelli |
| 49 | Nightshift | Commodores |
| 50 | A Criminal Mind | Gowan |
| 51 | I Got You Babe | UB40 |
| 52 | Solid | Ashford & Simpson |
| 53 | Tarzan Boy | Baltimora |
| 54 | Cry | Godley & Creme |
| 55 | Suddenly | Billy Ocean |
| 56 | Angel | Madonna |
| 57 | You Belong to the City | Glenn Frey |
| 58 | Sea of Love | Huey Lewis & The News |
| 59 | Obsession | Animotion |
| 60 | Gigolo/I Ain’t Got Nobody | David Lee Roth |
| 61 | Loverboy | Billy Ocean |
| 62 | I Feel For You | Chaka Khan |
| 63 | California Girls | David Lee Roth |
| 64 | In My House | Mary Jane Girls |
| 65 | The Heat Is On | Glenn Frey |
| 66 | Invincible | Pat Benatar |
| 67 | Too Late For Goodbye | Julian Lennon |
| 68 | Everything In My Heart | Corey Hart |
| 69 | Method of Modern Love | Hall & Oates |
| 70 | Neverending Story | Limahl |
| 71 | Smooth Operator | Sade |
| 72 | Saving All My Love For You | Whitney Houston |
| 73 | Lay Your Hands On Me | Thompson Twins |
| 74 | Ti Amo | Laura Branigan |
| 75 | What About Love | Heart |
| 76 | You Give Good Love | Whitney Houston |
| 77 | Boy in the Box | Corey Hart |
| 78 | Lonely Ol’ Night | John Cougar Mellencamp |
| 79 | Walk Of Life | Dire Straits |
| 80 | Some Like It Hot | Power Station |
| 81 | Head Over Heels | Tears For Fears |
| 82 | Live Is Life | Opus |
| 83 | St. Elmo’s Fire Love Theme | David Foster |
| 84 | Fresh | Kool & The Gang |
| 85 | The Goonies ‘R’ Good Enough | Cyndi Lauper |
| 86 | Smalltown Boy | Bronski Beat |
| 87 | There Must Be an Angel | Eurythmics |
| 88 | The Wild Boys | Duran Duran |
| 89 | Things Can Only Get Better | Howard Jones |
| 90 | I’m On Fire | Bruce Springsteen |
| 91 | Invisible | Alison Moyet |
| 92 | Election Day | Arcadia |
| 93 | Situation Critical | Platinum Blonde |
| 94 | Who’s Holding Donna Now | DeBarge |
| 95 | Born in the USA | Bruce Springsteen |
| 96 | At the Feet of the Moon | Parachute Club |
| 97 | Sussudio | Phil Collins |
| 98 | (You’re A) Strange Animal | Gowan |
| 99 | Summer of ’69 | Bryan Adams |
| 100 | Hurts To Be In Love | Gino Vannelli |
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