Weekly Rock Top 20 for December 23, 1989 |
| LW | TW | peaks: | rock | pop |
| 2 | 1 | Peace In Our Time | ▲ | 6 |
| Eddie Money |
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| 3 | 2 | Show Don't Tell | 1 |
| Rush |
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| 6 | 3 | Bad Love | 1 |
| Eric Clapton |
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| 1 | 4 | I Can't Explain | 1 |
| Scorpions |
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| 12 | 5 | We Didn't Start The Fire | 4 | 1 |
| Billy Joel |
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| 10 | 6 | If Dirt Were Dollars | ▲ |
| Don Henley |
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| 9 | 7 | Terrifying | 2 |
| The Rolling Stones |
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| 7 | 8 | F.I.N.E. | 7 |
| Aerosmith |
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| 5 | 9 | Love Song | 2 | 6 |
| Tesla |
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| 14 | 10 | Anytime | 1 |
| McAuley Schenker Group |
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| 4 | 11 | Pretending | 1 |
| Eric Clapton |
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| 11 | 12 | Downtown Train | 4 | 1 |
| Rod Stewart |
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| 16 | 13 | Blues From A Gun | ▲ |
| The Jesus And Mary Chain |
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| - | 14 | Proud To Fall | ▲ |
| Ian McCulloch |
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| 13 | 15 | Let Me Go | 11 |
| Melissa Etheridge |
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| - | 16 | Figure Of Eight | 10 |
| Paul McCartney |
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| 17 | 17 | Devolution Workin' Man's Blues | 7 |
| The Alarm |
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| - | 18 | Too Hot | ▲ |
| Loverboy |
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| 8 | 19 | A Girl Like You | 2 | 11 |
| The Smithereens |
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| - | 20 | Merry Christmas (I Don't Want To Fight Tonight) | ▲ |
| Joey Ramone |
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