Country Singer, Actor, TV host, Sausage man
JIMMY DEAN, 1928-2010
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1988 Top 40 Songs Of The Year

1988 Number One Song Calendar
1988 Number One Song Tune Timeline with weekly chart links,
song links and samples at Tunecaster music encyclopedia

What was the number one song when...?
If you were born, married, graduated, etc., after December 24, 1959, your top song is here -- all the number one songs, year by year, in exact tune timeline order.
Tunecaster samples, full song or video links, downloads, extras, below each song in green.
Stream amazon samples, click play to the right.
Over 50 years of top hits, each year on a single page.
SEARCH and find a song at bottom of page. Want to find a song by song title? Go to the
.1980s alphabetical song index
Complete
MUSIC CHART
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Click on a blue pop peak number or a
reddish rock peak number to go to directly to the full weekly music chart where any song peaked.
1-02-88
1
1
 
 
1-09-88
1
2
 
 
1-16-88
1
3
Seasons Change
Expose
 
 
1-23-88
1
4
Could've Been
Tiffany
 
 
2-06-88
4
5
Hungry Eyes
Eric Carmen
 
 
2-13-88
2
6
What Have I Done To Deserve This?
Pet Shop Boys And Dusty Springfield
 
 
2-20-88
1
7
Father Figure
George Michael
 
 
3-05-88
1
8
Never Gonna Give You Up
Rick Astley
 
 
3-12-88
1
9
Man In The Mirror
Michael Jackson
 
 
3-26-88
1
10
Get Outta My Dreams, Get Into My Car
Billy Ocean
 
 
4-02-88
2
11
Devil Inside
INXS
 
 
4-09-88
1
12
Where Do Broken Hearts Go
Whitney Houston
 
 
4-16-88
3
13
Angel
Aerosmith
 
 
 
4-23-88
1
14
Wishing Well
Terence Trent D'Arby
 
 
4-30-88
1
15
 
 
5-07-88
2
16
Shattered Dreams
Johnny Hates Jazz
 
 
5-14-88
1
17
 
 
6-04-88
1
18
Together Forever
Rick Astley
 
 
6-11-88
1
19
Foolish Beat
Debbie Gibson
 
 
6-25-88
1
20
Dirty Diana
Michael Jackson
 
 
7-02-88
1
21
The Flame
Cheap Trick
 
 
7-09-88
1
22
Hold On To The Nights
Richard Marx
 
 
7-16-88
2
23
Pour Some Sugar On Me
Def Leppard
 
 
7-23-88
1
24
 
 
7-30-88
2
25
Hands To Heaven
Breathe
 
 
8-13-88
2
26
I Don't Wanna Go On With You Like That
Elton John
 
 
8-20-88
1
27
 
 
8-27-88
2
28
Simply Irresistible
Robert Palmer
 
 
9-03-88
1
29
Sweet Child O' Mine
Guns N' Roses
 
 
9-17-88
1
30
Don't Worry Be Happy
Bobby McFerrin
 
 
10-01-88
1
31
Love Bites
Def Leppard
 
 
10-08-88
1
32
 
 
10-15-88
1
33
A Groovy Kind Of Love
Phil Collins
 
10-22-88
1
34
Wild, Wild West
The Escape Club
 
 
11-05-88
1
35
 
 
11-12-88
1
36
Bad Medicine
Bon Jovi
 
 
11-19-88
1
37
Baby, I Love Your Way/Freebird Medley
(Free Baby)
Will To Power
 
 
11-26-88
1
38
Look Away
Chicago
 
 
 
12-17-88
1
39
Every Rose Has Its Thorn
Poison
 
 
12-24-88
1
40
My Prerogative
Bobby Brown
 
 
12-31-88
1
41
Two Hearts
Phil Collins
 
 
 




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