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Music Charts Archive

Weekly national charts, as the trade papers printed them

R&R CHR / Top 40 · September 23, 1988

40 positions ← 09/16 09/30 →
3W 2W LW TW Weeks Title Artist Peak
11 5 2 1 7 Love Bites DEF LEPPARD 1
7 4 1 2 8 Don't Worry, Be Happy BOBBY McFERRIN 1
22 15 8 3 10 Red Red Wine UB40 3
8 7 5 4 9 One Good Woman PETER CETERA 4
14 12 9 5 7 Don't Be Cruel CHEAP TRICK 5
10 8 6 6 12 I'll Always Love You TAYLOR DAYNE 6
12 10 7 7 9 If It Isn't Love NEW EDITION 7
36 26 16 8 4 Groovy Kind Of Love PHIL COLLINS 8
23 17 12 9 6 What's On Your Mind (Pure Energy) INFORMATION SOCIETY 9
15 13 11 10 9 Please Don't Go Girl NEW KIDS ON THE BLOCK 10
1 1 3 11 12 Sweet Child O' Mine GUNS N' ROSES 1
16 14 13 12 9 I Hate Myself For Loving You JOAN JETT AND THE BLACKHEARTS 12
29 24 18 13 5 Don't You Know What The Night Can Do? STEVE WINWOOD 13
3 3 4 14 12 Simply Irresistible ROBERT PALMER 3
24 19 17 15 7 Fallen Angel POISON 15
27 22 19 16 6 True Love GLENN FREY 16
30 27 21 17 5 Chains Of Love ERASURE 17
33 29 24 18 4 Never Tear Us Apart INXS 18
28 25 22 19 7 Forever Young ROD STEWART 19
40 34 26 20 4 Wild, Wild West THE ESCAPE CLUB 20
6 6 10 21 11 Nobody's Fool KENNY LOGGINS 6
39 33 28 22 4 Don't Be Cruel BOBBY BROWN 22
- 39 31 23 3 One Moment In Time WHITNEY HOUSTON 23
- 35 30 24 3 The Loco-Motion KYLIE MINOGUE 24
35 32 27 25 5 What You See Is What You Get BRENDA K. STARR 25
9 9 15 26 10 It Would Take A Strong Strong Man RICK ASTLEY 9
25 21 20 27 7 Staying Together DEBBIE GIBSON 20
- - 40 28 2 Kokomo THE BEACH BOYS 28
DEBUT 29 1 Bad Medicine BON JOVI 29
- 36 32 30 3 Superstitious EUROPE 30
- 37 33 31 3 Time And Tide BASIA 31
- - 36 32 2 Another Lover GIANT STEPS 32
2 2 14 33 11 Perfect World HUEY LEWIS & THE NEWS 2
5 11 23 34 12 When It's Love VAN HALEN 5
21 20 25 35 7 A Nightmare On My Street D.J. JAZZY JEFF & THE FRESH PRINCE 20
DEBUT 36 1 How Can I Fall? BREATHE 36
- - 39 37 2 Indestructible THE FOUR TOPS 37
DEBUT 38 1 Don't Know What You Got (Till It's Gone) CINDERELLA 38
4 16 29 39 13 Monkey GEORGE MICHAEL 1
DEBUT 40 1 Dance Little Sister TERENCE TRENT D'ARBY 40