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Music Charts Archive

Weekly national charts, as the trade papers printed them

R&R CHR / Top 40 · October 7, 1988

40 positions ← 09/30 10/14 →
3W 2W LW TW Weeks Title Artist Peak
8 3 2 1 12 Red Red Wine UB40 1
16 8 3 2 6 Groovy Kind Of Love PHIL COLLINS 2
2 1 1 3 9 Love Bites DEF LEPPARD 1
12 9 5 4 8 What's On Your Mind (Pure Energy) INFORMATION SOCIETY 4
9 5 4 5 9 Don't Be Cruel CHEAP TRICK 4
18 13 9 6 7 Don't You Know What The Night Can Do? STEVE WINWOOD 6
26 20 11 7 6 Wild, Wild West THE ESCAPE CLUB 7
40 28 18 8 4 Kokomo THE BEACH BOYS 8
24 18 12 9 6 Never Tear Us Apart INXS 9
21 17 13 10 7 Chains Of Love ERASURE 10
30 24 21 11 5 The Loco-Motion KYLIE MINOGUE 11
31 23 20 12 5 One Moment In Time WHITNEY HOUSTON 12
19 16 14 13 8 True Love GLENN FREY 13
5 4 6 14 11 One Good Woman PETER CETERA 4
22 19 17 15 9 Forever Young ROD STEWART 15
28 22 19 16 6 Don't Be Cruel BOBBY BROWN 16
- 29 23 17 3 Bad Medicine BON JOVI 17
6 6 8 18 14 I'll Always Love You TAYLOR DAYNE 6
1 2 7 19 10 Don't Worry, Be Happy BOBBY McFERRIN 1
7 7 10 20 11 If It Isn't Love NEW EDITION 7
36 32 27 21 4 Another Lover GIANT STEPS 21
- 36 28 22 3 How Can I Fall? BREATHE 22
11 10 15 23 11 Please Don't Go Girl NEW KIDS ON THE BLOCK 10
13 12 16 24 11 I Hate Myself For Loving You JOAN JETT AND THE BLACKHEARTS 12
- - 33 25 2 Desire U2 25
17 15 22 26 9 Fallen Angel POISON 15
33 31 29 27 5 Time And Tide BASIA 27
- 38 32 28 3 Don't Know What You Got (Till It's Gone) CINDERELLA 28
DEBUT 29 1 Kissing A Fool GEORGE MICHAEL 29
- - 38 30 2 Baby, I Love Your Way/Freebird Medley WILL TO POWER 30
- 40 34 31 3 Dance Little Sister TERENCE TRENT D'ARBY 31
- - 39 32 2 Look Away CHICAGO 32
3 11 24 33 14 Sweet Child O' Mine GUNS N' ROSES 1
4 14 26 34 14 Simply Irresistible ROBERT PALMER 3
27 25 25 35 7 What You See Is What You Get BRENDA K. STARR 25
- - 40 36 2 Waiting For A Star To Fall BOY MEETS GIRL 36
DEBUT 37 1 A Word In Spanish ELTON JOHN 37
DEBUT 38 1 The Promise WHEN IN ROME 38
DEBUT 39 1 Walk On Water EDDIE MONEY 39
DEBUT 40 1 Giving You The Best That I Got ANITA BAKER 40