Weekly Rock Top 20 for August 15, 1987 |
| LW | TW | peaks: |
rock | pop |
| 5 | 1 | Paper In Fire | ▲ | 8 |
| John Cougar Mellencamp |
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| 8 | 2 | Hell In A Bucket | ▲ |
| Grateful Dead |
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| 4 | 3 | Johnny B | ▲ |
| Hooters |
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| 2 | 4 | Women | 2 |
| Def Leppard |
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| 9 | 5 | Rock Me | 4 |
| Great White |
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| 1 | 6 | Touch Of Grey | 1 | 4 |
| Grateful Dead |
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| 6 | 7 | Jane's Getting Serious | 3 |
| Jon Astley |
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| 12 | 8 | Where The Streets Have No Name | 7 | 11 |
| U2 |
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| 3 | 9 | Bed Of Lies | 3 |
| Cruzados |
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| 7 | 10 | Good Times | 1 |
| INXS And Jimmy Barnes |
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| 10 | 11 | Back To Paradise | 4 |
| 38 Special |
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| - | 12 | Sunset Strip | ▲ |
| Roger Waters |
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| 11 | 13 | Who Will You Run To | 2 | 5 |
| Heart |
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| - | 14 | You Are The Girl | 2 | 22 |
| The Cars |
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| 18 | 15 | Here I Go Again | 2 | 1 |
| Whitesnake |
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| - | 16 | Ghost On The Beach | 7 |
| The Insiders |
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| - | 17 | Lips Like Sugar | 12 |
| Echo & The Bunnymen |
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| - | 18 | Never Let Me Down | 12 | 29 |
| David Bowie |
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| - | 19 | Solitude Standing | ▲ |
| Suzanne Vega |
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| - | 20 | Where Has Everybody Gone | 13 |
| The Pretenders |
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