Madonna's "Papa Don't Preach"

  August 16, 1986, Madonna's "Papa Don't Preach" reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100, where it stayed for two weeks.

The song appeared on Madonna's third studio album, True Blue, and was written by Brian Elliot with additional lyrics from Madonna, who co-produced the track with Stephen Bray. Its lyrics, about a pregnant teenager telling her father she intends to keep her baby, sparked immediate controversy, drawing criticism from women's organizations who felt it romanticized teen pregnancy while conservative and pro-life groups praised its message. The accompanying video, directed by James Foley and starring Danny Aiello as her father, introduced a more mature, toned down image for Madonna and became one of her most iconic visuals of the decade.

The song became Madonna's fourth number one hit on the Hot 100, part of a run of seven chart toppers she notched in the 1980s alone, and also topped the charts in the United Kingdom, Canada, and Australia.