YEAR-END USA TOP 150 of 1988 (Singles)
Based on point-system (nr. 1 100 points, nr. 2 99 etc)
NR | TITLE | ARTIST | PNTS | WKS | HP |
1 | I'll always love you | Taylor Dayne | 1753 | 29 | 3 |
2 | Hands to heaven | Breathe | 1744 | 29 | 2 |
3 | Wishing well | Terence Trent D'Arby | 1662 | 25 | 1 |
4 | The flame | Cheap Trick | 1635 | 27 | 1 |
5 | Naughty girls | Samantha Fox | 1624 | 27 | 3 |
6 | Angel | Aerosmith | 1613 | 25 | 3 |
7 | Pour some sugar on me | Def Leppard | 1573 | 24 | 2 |
8 | Sweet child o' mine | Guns 'n Roses | 1562 | 24 | 1 |
9 | Anything for you | Gloria Estefan & Miami Sound Machine | 1544 | 23 | 1 |
10 | Never gonna give you up | Rick Astley | 1495 | 21 | 1 |
11 | Hold on to the nights | Richard Marx | 1479 | 21 | 1 |
12 | I still believe | Brenda K. Starr | 1469 | 26 | 13 |
13 | What's on your mind | Information Society | 1454 | 24 | 3 |
14 | Endless summer nights | Richard Marx | 1436 | 21 | 2 |
15 | I don't wanna live without your love | Chicago | 1433 | 21 | 3 |
16 | Simply irresistible | Robert Palmer | 1428 | 20 | 2 |
17 | Make me lose control | Eric Carmen | 1421 | 20 | 3 |
18 | Piano in the dark | Brenda Russell ft Joe Esposito | 1416 | 25 | 6 |
19 | Don't worry be happy | Bobby McFerrin | 1408 | 22 | 1 |
20 | Get outta my dreams get into my car | Billy Ocean | 1407 | 20 | 1 |
21 | Wild wild west | Ocean Club | 1403 | 19 | 1 |
22 | Please don't go girl | New Kids on the Block | 1388 | 27 | 10 |
23 | Don't be cruel | Bobby Brown | 1382 | 23 | 8 |
24 | Follish beat | Debbie Gibson | 1379 | 20 | 1 |
25 | I hate myself for loving you | Joan Jett & Blackhearts | 1375 | 26 | 8 |
26 | Sign your name | Terence Trent D'Arby | 1364 | 21 | 4 |
27 | Shattered dream | Johnny Hates Jazz | 1360 | 19 | 2 |
28 | Love bites | Def Leppard | 1359 | 20 | 1 |
29 | Rocket 2 u | Jets | 1357 | 22 | 6 |
30 | Red red wine | UB 40 | 1352 | 20 | 1 |
31 | Electric blue | Icehouse | 1352 | 21 | 7 |
32 | Roll with it | Steve Winwood | 1349 | 18 | 1 |
33 | Girlfriend | Pebbles | 1346 | 20 | 5 |
34 | A groovy kind of love | Phil Collins | 1332 | 17 | 1 |
35 | One more try | George Michael | 1330 | 18 | 1 |
36 | Make it real | Jets | 1327 | 20 | 4 |
37 | She's like the wind | Patrick Swayze | 1321 | 18 | 3 |
38 | If it isn't love | New Edition | 1315 | 21 | 7 |
39 | I don't want to go on with you like that | Elton John | 1312 | 18 | 2 |
40 | The locomotion | Kylie Minogue | 1310 | 18 | 3 |
41 | Where do broken hearts go | Whitney Houston | 1291 | 18 | 1 |
42 | I want her | Keith Sweat | 1290 | 20 | 5 |
43 | 1-2-3 | Gloria Estefan & Miami Sound Machine | 1285 | 19 | 3 |
44 | The man in the mirror | Michael Jackson | 1280 | 17 | 1 |
45 | Nite and day | Al B Sure | 1278 | 21 | 7 |
46 | Father figure | George Michael | 1267 | 17 | 1 |
47 | Together forever | Rick Astley | 1256 | 18 | 1 |
48 | Fast car | Tracy Chapman | 1254 | 21 | 6 |
49 | Two occasions | Deele | 1251 | 21 | 10 |
50 | Kokomo | Beach Boys | 1240 | 17 | 1 |
51 | Out of the blue | Debbie Gibson | 1239 | 17 | 2 |
52 | Never tear us apart | INXS | 1235 | 20 | 7 |
53 | When it's love | Van Halen | 1234 | 19 | 5 |
54 | One good woman | Peter Cetera | 1226 | 18 | 4 |
55 | Wait | White Lion | 1226 | 21 | 8 |
56 | Devil inside | INXS | 1223 | 17 | 2 |
57 | How can I fall | Breathe | 1223 | 16 | 3 |
58 | Forever young | Rod Stewart | 1219 | 21 | 12 |
59 | Just got paid | Johnny Kemp | 1213 | 21 | 10 |
60 | I found someone | Cher | 1210 | 19 | 10 |
61 | I get weak | Belinda Carlisle | 1196 | 16 | 2 |
62 | Monkey | George Michael | 1195 | 16 | 1 |
63 | Kiss me deadly | Lita Ford | 1195 | 23 | 12 |
64 | Mercedes boy | Pebbles | 1191 | 18 | 2 |
65 | New sensation | INXS | 1188 | 17 | 3 |
66 | Pink cadillac | Natalie Cole | 1182 | 17 | 5 |
67 | Don't be cruel | Cheap Trick | 1168 | 17 | 4 |
68 | Hungry eyes | Eric Carmen | 1167 | 16 | 4 |
69 | Bad medicine | Bon Jovi | 1161 | 14 | 1 |
70 | Baby I love your way | Will to Power | 1156 | 16 | 1 |
71 | Nobody's fool | Kenny Loggins | 1154 | 18 | 8 |
72 | Don't you know what the night can do | Steve Winwood | 1149 | 17 | 6 |
73 | Parents just don't understood | DJ Jazzy Jeff & Fresh Prince | 1148 | 19 | 12 |
74 | Nothing but a good time | Posion | 1142 | 19 | 6 |
75 | Perfect world | Huey Lewis & the News | 1131 | 15 | 3 |
76 | I don't want to live without you | Foreigner | 1129 | 17 | 5 |
77 | Prove your love | Taylor Dayne | 1129 | 18 | 7 |
78 | Don't know what you got | Cinderella | 1124 | 17 | 12 |
79 | Another lover | Giant Steps | 1119 | 19 | 13 |
80 | Chains of love | Erasure | 1118 | 20 | 12 |
81 | Just like paradise | David Lee Roth | 1113 | 16 | 6 |
82 | The valley road | Bruce Hornsby & the Range | 1111 | 16 | 5 |
83 | Waiting for a star to fall | Boy Meets Girl | 1111 | 16 | 5 |
84 | Everything your hearts desire | Hall & Oates | 1104 | 16 | 3 |
85 | Rush hour | Jane Wiedlin | 1104 | 19 | 9 |
86 | Look away | Chicago | 1100 | 14 | 1 |
87 | One moment in time | Whitney Houston | 1095 | 16 | 5 |
88 | Circle in the sand | Belinda Carlisle | 1092 | 17 | 7 |
89 | Can't stay away from you | Gloria Estefan & Miami Sound Machine | 1085 | 16 | 6 |
90 | Pump up the volume | MARRS | 1079 | 17 | 13 |
91 | What have I done to deserve this | Pet Shop Boys & Dusty Springfield | 1078 | 14 | 2 |
92 | The promise | When in Rome | 1076 | 17 | 11 |
93 | Beds are burning | Midnight Oil | 1076 | 22 | 17 |
94 | Desire | U2 | 1073 | 13 | 3 |
95 | Dirty Diana | Michael Jackson | 1070 | 14 | 1 |
96 | Some kind of lover | Jody Watley | 1066 | 17 | 10 |
97 | Push it | Salt 'n Pepa | 1061 | 18 | 19 |
98 | The dock of the bay | Michael Bolton | 1058 | 17 | 11 |
99 | Seasons change | Expose | 1055 | 14 | 1 |
100 | Could've been | Tiffany | 1051 | 14 | 1 |
101 | It would take a strong strong man | Rick Astley | 1043 | 16 | 10 |
102 | Giving you the best that I got | Anita Baker | 1032 | 14 | 3 |
103 | Always on my mind | Pet Shop Boys | 1030 | 15 | 4 |
104 | Need you tonight | INXS | 1027 | 14 | 1 |
105 | Hysteria | Def Leppard | 1019 | 16 | 10 |
106 | Here with me | REO Speedwagon | 1017 | 19 | 20 |
107 | Say you will | Foreigner | 1009 | 14 | 6 |
108 | Don't shed a tear | Paul Carrack | 998 | 16 | 9 |
109 | Lost in you | Rod Stewart | 988 | 18 | 12 |
110 | Love will save the day | Whitney Houston | 982 | 16 | 9 |
111 | I saw him standing there | Tiffany | 980 | 14 | 7 |
112 | Dreaming | Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark | 979 | 17 | 16 |
113 | Rag doll | Aerosmith | 959 | 17 | 17 |
114 | Walk on water | Eddie Money | 958 | 13 | 9 |
115 | Fallen angel | Posion | 951 | 16 | 12 |
116 | Check it out | John Cougar Mellencamp | 938 | 15 | 14 |
117 | Pamela | Toto | 937 | 19 | 22 |
118 | Supersonic | J.J. Fad | 933 | 22 | 30 |
119 | True love | Glenn Frey | 926 | 15 | 13 |
120 | Kissing a fool | George Michael | 925 | 12 | 5 |
121 | Alphabet Street | Prince | 924 | 13 | 8 |
122 | Do you love me | Contours | 923 | 16 | 11 |
123 | You don't know | Scarlett & Black | 919 | 18 | 20 |
124 | All fired up | Pat Benatar | 918 | 17 | 19 |
125 | I want to be your man | Roger | 915 | 13 | 3 |
126 | I don't want your love | Duran Duran | 914 | 11 | 4 |
127 | I wish I had a girl | Henry Lee Summer | 910 | 18 | 20 |
128 | The colour of love | Billy Ocean | 909 | 16 | 17 |
129 | One step up | Bruce Springsteen | 902 | 15 | 13 |
130 | A hazy shade of winter | Bangles | 901 | 13 | 2 |
131 | A nightmare on my street | DJ Jazzy Jeff & Fresh Prince | 896 | 16 | 15 |
132 | Strange but true | Times Two | 888 | 17 | 21 |
133 | Time and tide | Basia | 886 | 20 | 26 |
134 | We all sleep alone | Cher | 880 | 15 | 14 |
135 | Be still my beating heart | Sting | 869 | 14 | 15 |
136 | Love overboard | Gladys Knight & the Pips | 860 | 14 | 13 |
137 | Tall cool one | Robert Plant | 849 | 18 | 25 |
138 | Finish what ya started | Van Halen | 848 | 13 | 13 |
139 | Another part of me | Michael Jackson | 834 | 13 | 11 |
140 | Paradise | Sade | 828 | 15 | 16 |
141 | Because of you | Cover Girls | 828 | 14 | 27 |
142 | I live for your love | Natalie Cole | 817 | 13 | 13 |
143 | Love changes everything | Climie Fisher | 816 | 18 | 23 |
144 | The twist | Fat Boys | 815 | 15 | 16 |
145 | Welcome to the jungle | Guns 'n Roses | 783 | 10 | 7 |
146 | My girl | Suave | 782 | 15 | 20 |
147 | Spy in the house of love | Was Not Was | 776 | 13 | 16 |
148 | Rock of life | Rick Springfield | 770 | 15 | 22 |
149 | Promise me | Cover Girls | 762 | 19 | 40 |
150 | Spring love | Stevie B | 757 | 18 | 43 |
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