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Music Charts Archive

Weekly national charts, as the trade papers printed them

R&R CHR / Top 40 · September 9, 1988

40 positions ← 09/02 09/16 →
3W 2W LW TW Weeks Title Artist Peak
5 3 1 1 10 Sweet Child O' Mine GUNS N' ROSES 1
4 2 2 2 9 Perfect World HUEY LEWIS & THE NEWS 2
6 4 3 3 10 Simply Irresistible ROBERT PALMER 3
21 15 7 4 6 Don't Worry, Be Happy BOBBY McFERRIN 4
26 17 11 5 5 Love Bites DEF LEPPARD 5
11 9 6 6 9 Nobody's Fool KENNY LOGGINS 6
16 13 8 7 7 One Good Woman PETER CETERA 7
15 12 10 8 10 I'll Always Love You TAYLOR DAYNE 8
14 11 9 9 8 It Would Take A Strong Strong Man RICK ASTLEY 9
20 14 12 10 7 If It Isn't Love NEW EDITION 10
9 7 5 11 10 When It's Love VAN HALEN 5
28 22 14 12 5 Don't Be Cruel CHEAP TRICK 12
22 18 15 13 7 Please Don't Go Girl NEW KIDS ON THE BLOCK 13
23 19 16 14 7 I Hate Myself For Loving You JOAN JETT AND THE BLACKHEARTS 14
- 35 22 15 8 Red Red Wine UB40 15
1 1 4 16 11 Monkey GEORGE MICHAEL 1
38 29 23 17 4 What's On Your Mind (Pure Energy) INFORMATION SOCIETY 17
12 10 13 18 8 Another Part Of Me MICHAEL JACKSON 10
32 28 24 19 5 Fallen Angel POISON 19
31 27 21 20 5 A Nightmare On My Street D.J. JAZZY JEFF & THE FRESH PRINCE 20
33 30 25 21 5 Staying Together DEBBIE GIBSON 21
40 36 27 22 4 True Love GLENN FREY 22
3 5 17 23 14 I Don't Wanna Live Without Your Love CHICAGO 3
- 38 29 24 3 Don't You Know What The Night Can Do? STEVE WINWOOD 24
36 33 28 25 5 Forever Young ROD STEWART 25
- - 36 26 2 Groovy Kind Of Love PHIL COLLINS 26
- 39 30 27 3 Chains Of Love ERASURE 27
8 8 19 28 11 Fast Car TRACY CHAPMAN 8
- - 33 29 2 Never Tear Us Apart INXS 29
2 6 18 30 13 I Don't Wanna Go On With You Like That ELTON JOHN 2
17 16 20 31 10 Here With Me REO SPEEDWAGON 16
- 40 35 32 3 What You See Is What You Get BRENDA K. STARR 32
- - 39 33 2 Don't Be Cruel BOBBY BROWN 33
- - 40 34 2 Wild, Wild West THE ESCAPE CLUB 34
DEBUT 35 1 The Loco-Motion KYLIE MINOGUE 35
DEBUT 36 1 Superstitious EUROPE 36
DEBUT 37 1 Time And Tide BASIA 37
18 25 32 38 17 Hands To Heaven BREATHE 3
DEBUT 39 1 One Moment In Time WHITNEY HOUSTON 39
19 26 34 40 14 1-2-3 GLORIA ESTEFAN & MIAMI SOUND MACHINE 5