Weekly Pop Top 30 for August 29, 1987 |
| LW | TW | peaks: |
rock | pop |
| 1 | 1 | La Bamba | 20 | ▲ |
| Los Lobos |
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| 5 | 2 | Can't We Try | 1 |
| Dan Hill with Vonda Shepard |
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| 7 | 3 | I Just Can't Stop Loving You | 1 |
| Michael Jackson |
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| 2 | 4 | Who's That Girl | 1 |
| Madonna |
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| 10 | 5 | Here I Go Again | 2 | 1 |
| Whitesnake |
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| 3 | 6 | Only In My Dreams | 3 |
| Debbie Gibson |
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| 12 | 7 | Didn't We Almost Have It All | 1 |
| Whitney Houston |
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| 11 | 8 | When Smokey Sings | 7 |
| ABC |
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| 17 | 9 | Touch Of Grey | 1 | 4 |
| Grateful Dead |
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| 14 | 10 | Doing It All For My Baby | 6 |
| Huey Lewis And The News |
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| 4 | 11 | Don't Mean Nothing | 3 | 3 |
| Richard Marx |
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| 8 | 12 | Luka | 5 | 1 |
| Suzanne Vega |
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| 18 | 13 | Mary's Prayer | 19 | ▲ |
| Danny Wilson |
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| 6 | 14 | Rock Steady | 6 |
| The Whispers |
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| 24 | 15 | U Got The Look | 2 |
| Prince |
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| 9 | 16 | I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For | 1 | 1 |
| U2 |
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| 20 | 17 | Wipeout | 12 |
| Fat Boys And The Beach Boys |
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| 15 | 18 | It's Not Over ('Til It's Over) | 12 | 13 |
| Starship |
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| 13 | 19 | Rhythm Is Gonna Get You | 2 |
| Gloria Estefan And Miami Sound Machine |
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| 22 | 20 | One Heartbeat | 6 |
| Smokey Robinson |
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| 25 | 21 | I Heard A Rumour | 3 |
| Bananarama |
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| 16 | 22 | Back In The High Life Again | 7 | 3 |
| Steve Winwood |
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| 27 | 23 | Who Found Who | 12 |
| Jellybean Featuring Elisa Fiorillo |
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| - | 24 | Carrie | 2 |
| Europe |
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| 30 | 25 | I Need Love | 23 |
| LL Cool J |
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| 21 | 26 | Alone | 1 | 1 |
| Heart |
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| 19 | 27 | Living In A Box | 16 |
| Living In A Box |
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| 26 | 28 | Give To Live | 1 | 26 |
| Sammy Hagar |
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| - | 29 | Love Power | 23 |
| Dionne Warwick & Jeffrey Osborne |
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| - | 30 | Shattered Glass | ▲ |
| Laura Branigan |
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