PLAYBACK.FM (Website) TOP SINGLES FOR 1988*

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=HsC_SARyPzk

https://playback.fm/year/1988

No. Song-Artist-Peak Month
  1 A GROOVY KIND OF LOVE-PHIL COLLINS-NOVEMBER
  2 DON'T WORRY BE HAPPY-BOBBY McFERRIN-September
  3 SWEET CHILD 'O MINE-GUNS & ROSES-September
  4 DESIRE-U2-November
  5 GET OUTTA MY DREAMS,GET INTO MY CAR-BILLY OCEAN-April
  6 NEED YOU TONIGHT-INXS-January
  7 I THINK WE'RE ALONE NOW-TIFFANY-January
  8 HEAVEN IS A PLACE ON EARTH-Belinda Carlisle-January
  9 KOKOMO-Beach Boys-December
 10 THE LOCO-MOTION-Kylie Minogue-December
 11 Two Hearts-Phil Collins-December
 12 One More Try-George Michael-June
 13 Always On My Mind-The Pet Shop Boys-May 
 14 Got My Mind Set On You-George Harrison-January
 15 I Should Be So Lucky-Kylie Minogue-December
 16 Fast Car-Tracy Chapman-August
 17 Girl You Know It's True-Milli Vanilli-November 
 18 Orinoco Flow-Enya-November
 19 Together Forever-Rick Astley-June
 20 Roll With It-Steve Winwood-August
 21 The Only Way Is Up-Yazz & The Plastic Population-October
 22 Beds Are Burning-Midnight Oil-April
 23 The Way You Make Me Feel-Michael Jackson-January
 24 One Moment In Time-Whitney Houston-November
 25 Heart-Pet Shop Boys-April
 26 Tell It To My Heart-Taylor Dayne-January 
 27 The Flame-Cheap Trick-July
 28 Wild Wild West-The Escape Club-November
 29 Father Figure-George Michael-Columbia-March
 30 Dirty Diana-Michael Jackson-July
 31 She Wants To Dance With Me-Rick Astley-October
 32 Could've Been-Tiffany-February
 33 Perfect-Fairground Attraction-August
 34 Man In The Mirror-Michael Jackson-March
 35 The First Time-Robin Beck-November
 36 Push It-Salt-N-Pepa-February
 37 Domino Dancing-The Pet Shop Boys-November
 38 Sign Your Name-Terence Trent D'Arby-August
 39 Simply Irresistible-Robert Palmer-September
 40 Welcome To The Jungle-Guns n' Roses-December
 41 Teardrops-Womack & Womack-December
 42 I Don't Want To Go On With You Like That-Elton John-August
 43 I'll Always Love You-Taylor Dayne-September
 44 Love Bites-Def Leppard-October
 45 Bad Medicine-Bon Jovi-November
 46 Pour Some Sugar On Me-Def Leppard-July
 47 Monkey-George Michael-September
 48 Anything For You-Gloria Estefan & Miami Sound Machine-May
 49 Smooth Criminal-Michael Jackson-December
 50 The Twist (Yo,Twist)-Fat Boys & Chubby Checker-July
 51 Foolish Beat-Debbie Gibson-June
 52 Kiss-Tom Jones & Art of Noise-November 	
 53 Theme From S-express-S-express-September
 54 Devil Inside-Inxs-April
 55 New Sensation-Inxs-Atlantic-June
 56 Kissing A Fool-George Michael-November
 57 I Don't Want Your Love-Duran Duran-December
 58 Giving You The Best That I Got-Anita Baker-December
 59 Pink Cadillac-Natalie Cole-April
 60 You Came-Kim Wilde-August 	
 61 A Little Respect-Erasure-October
 62 I Get Weak-Belinda Carlisle-March
 63 What's On Your Mind (Pure Energy)-Information Society-October 
 64 Where Do Broken Hearts Go-Whitney Houston-May
 65 1-2-3-Gloria Estefan & Miami Sound Machine-September
 66 When Will I Be Famous?-Bros-May
 67 She's Like The Wind-Patrick Swayze-March
 68 Im Nin'Alu-Ofra Haza-January
 69 Seasons Change-Expose-February
 70 Hands To Heaven-Breathe-August
 71 Stop!-Sam Brown-December
 72 Alphabet Street-Prince-July
 73 Waiting For A Star To Fall-Boy Meets Girl-December
 74 In Your Room-The Bangles-December
 75 A Hazy Shade Of Winter-The Bangles-February
 76 Yeke Yeke-Mory Kante-January	
 77 Perfect World-Huey Lewis & The News-September
 78 Never Tear Us Apart-Inxs-November 
 79 Endless Summer Nights-Richard Marx-March
 80 Angel-Aerosmith-April 
 81 Hungry Eyes-Eric Carmen-RCA-February
 82 Doctorin' The Tardis-Timelords-June
 83 Shake Your Love-Debbie Gibson-January	
 84 Love Changes Everything-Climie Fisher-August
 85 Don't Be Cruel-Bobby Brown-October
 86 Drop The Boy-Bros-July
 87 How Can I Fall?-Breathe-December
 88 The Race-Yello-September
 89 Stand Up For Your Love Rights-Yazz & The Plastic Population-December
 90 Piano In The Dark-Brenda Russell-June 
 91 Superstitious-Europe-September
 92 Electric Blue-Icehouse-May
 93 Everywhere-Fleetwood Mac-February
 94 The Promise-When In Rome-December 
 95 Got To Be Certain-Kylie Minogue
 96 Forever Young-Rod Stewart-October
 97 Stay On These Roads-A-ha-March
 98 Don't Turn Around-Aswad-June
 99 Chains Of Love-Erasure-October
100 Hold On To The Nights-Richard Marx-July

*This list was compiled with charts from various 
western industrialized  nations (primarily the USA,UK and Australia).