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Music Charts Archive

Weekly national charts, as the trade papers printed them

R&R CHR / Top 40 · September 16, 1988

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