These are the top 100 songs of 1988. Within the top 100 there are a total of 69 different bands or artists.
George Michael achieved the most entries with five of the top songs of 1988.
The song title is at the top in gray with the artist below in red.
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Top Songs of 1988
1
Faith
George Michael
2
Need You Tonight
INXS
3
Got My Mind Set on You
George Harrison
4
Never Gonna Give You Up
Rick Astley
5
Sweet Child o’ Mine
Guns N’ Roses
6
So Emotional
Whitney Houston
7
Heaven Is a Place on Earth
Belinda Carlisle
8
Could’ve Been
Tiffany
9
Hands to Heaven
Breathe
10
Roll with It
Steve Winwood
11
One More Try
George Michael
12
Wishing Well
Terence Trent D’Arby
13
Anything for You
Gloria Estefan and Miami Sound Machine
14
The Flame
Cheap Trick
15
Get Outta My Dreams, Get into My Car
Billy Ocean
16
Seasons Change
Exposé
17
Is This Love
Whitesnake
18
Wild, Wild West
The Escape Club
19
Pour Some Sugar on Me
Def Leppard
20
I’ll Always Love You
Taylor Dayne
21
Man in the Mirror
Michael Jackson
22
Shake Your Love
Debbie Gibson
23
Simply Irresistible
Robert Palmer
24
Hold On to the Nights
Richard Marx
25
Hungry Eyes
Eric Carmen
26
Shattered Dreams
Johnny Hates Jazz
27
Father Figure
George Michael
28
Naughty Girls (Need Love Too)
Samantha Fox
29
A Groovy Kind of Love
Phil Collins
30
Love Bites
Def Leppard
31
Endless Summer Nights
Richard Marx
32
Foolish Beat
Debbie Gibson
33
Where Do Broken Hearts Go
Whitney Houston
34
Angel
Aerosmith
35
A Hazy Shade of Winter
The Bangles
36
The Way You Make Me Feel
Michael Jackson
37
Don’t Worry, Be Happy
Bobby McFerrin
38
Make Me Lose Control
Eric Carmen
39
Red Red Wine
UB40
40
She’s Like the Wind
Patrick Swayze featuring Wendy Fraser
41
Bad Medicine
Bon Jovi
42
Kokomo
The Beach Boys
43
I Don’t Wanna Go on with You Like That
Elton John
44
Together Forever
Rick Astley
45
Monkey
George Michael
46
Devil Inside
INXS
47
Should’ve Known Better
Richard Marx
48
I Don’t Wanna Live Without Your Love
Chicago
49
The Loco-Motion
Kylie Minogue
50
What Have I Done to Deserve This?
Pet Shop Boys with Dusty Springfield
51
Make It Real
The Jets
52
What’s On Your Mind (Pure Energy)
Information Society
53
Tell It to My Heart
Taylor Dayne
54
Out of the Blue
Debbie Gibson
55
Don’t You Want Me
Jody Watley
56
Desire
U2
57
I Get Weak
Belinda Carlisle
58
Sign Your Name
Terence Trent D’Arby
59
I Want to Be Your Man
Roger Troutman
60
Girlfriend
Pebbles
61
Dirty Diana
Michael Jackson
62
1-2-2003
Gloria Estefan and Miami Sound Machine
63
Mercedes Boy
Pebbles
64
Perfect World
Huey Lewis and the News
65
New Sensation
INXS
66
Catch Me (I’m Falling)
Pretty Poison
67
If It Isn’t Love
New Edition
68
Rocket 2 U
The Jets
69
One Good Woman
Peter Cetera
70
Don’t Be Cruel
Cheap Trick
71
Candle in the Wind
Elton John
72
Everything Your Heart Desires
Daryl Hall & John Oates
73
Say You Will
Foreigner
74
I Want Her
Keith Sweat
75
Pink Cadillac
Natalie Cole
76
Fast Car
Tracy Chapman
77
Electric Blue
Icehouse
78
The Valley Road
Bruce Hornsby and the Range
79
Don’t Be Cruel
Bobby Brown
80
Always on My Mind
Pet Shop Boys
81
Piano in the Dark
Brenda Russell featuring Joe Esposito
82
When It’s Love
Van Halen
83
Don’t Shed a Tear
Paul Carrack
84
We’ll Be Together
Sting
85
I Hate Myself for Loving You
Joan Jett and the Blackhearts
86
I Don’t Want to Live Without You
Foreigner
87
Nite and Day
Al B. Sure!
88
Don’t You Know What the Night Can Do?
Steve Winwood
89
One Moment in Time
Whitney Houston
90
Can’t Stay Away from You
Gloria Estefan and Miami Sound Machine
91
Kissing a Fool
George Michael
92
Cherry Bomb
John Cougar Mellencamp
93
I Still Believe
Brenda K. Starr
94
I Found Someone
Cher
95
Never Tear Us Apart
INXS
96
Valerie
Steve Winwood
97
Just Like Paradise
David Lee Roth
98
Nothin’ but a Good Time
Poison
99
Wait
White Lion
100
Prove Your Love
Taylor Dayne