Weekly Rock Top 20 for August 22, 1987 |
| LW | TW | peaks: | rock | pop |
| 1 | 1 | Paper In Fire | ▲ | 8 |
| John Cougar Mellencamp |
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| 2 | 2 | Hell In A Bucket | ▲ |
| Grateful Dead |
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| 7 | 3 | Jane's Getting Serious | ▲ |
| Jon Astley |
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| 5 | 4 | Rock Me | ▲ |
| Great White |
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| 4 | 5 | Women | 2 |
| Def Leppard |
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| 14 | 6 | You Are The Girl | 2 | 22 |
| The Cars |
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| 3 | 7 | Johnny B | 3 |
| Hooters |
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| 6 | 8 | Touch Of Grey | 1 | 4 |
| Grateful Dead |
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| 8 | 9 | Where The Streets Have No Name | 7 | 11 |
| U2 |
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| 16 | 10 | Ghost On The Beach | 7 |
| The Insiders |
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| - | 11 | Learning To Fly | 1 |
| Pink Floyd |
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| 18 | 12 | Never Let Me Down | ▲ | 29 |
| David Bowie |
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| 20 | 13 | Where Has Everybody Gone | ▲ |
| The Pretenders |
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| - | 14 | Animal | 3 | 11 |
| Def Leppard |
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| - | 15 | Dude (Looks Like A Lady) | 1 | 8 |
| Aerosmith |
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| - | 16 | Darling It Hurts | ▲ |
| Paul Kelly & The Messengers |
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| 17 | 17 | Lips Like Sugar | 12 |
| Echo & The Bunnymen |
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| - | 18 | When Push Comes To Shove | ▲ |
| Grateful Dead |
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| - | 19 | Should've Known Better | ▲ | 2 |
| Richard Marx |
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| - | 20 | I've Been In Love Before | ▲ | 6 |
| Cutting Crew |
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