Weekly Rock Top 20 for August 20, 1988 |
| LW | TW | peaks: | rock | pop |
| 2 | 1 | Hate To Lose Your Lovin' | ▲ |
| Little Feat |
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| 1 | 2 | Finish What Ya Started | 1 | 11 |
| Van Halen |
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| 7 | 3 | Powerful Stuff | ▲ |
| The Fabulous Thunderbirds |
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| 5 | 4 | Don't Be Afraid Of The Dark | ▲ |
| The Robert Cray Band |
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| 4 | 5 | Holding On | 2 | 10 |
| Steve Winwood |
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| 13 | 6 | Don't You Know What The Night Can Do? | 1 | 4 |
| Steve Winwood |
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| 11 | 7 | Love Bites | 1 | 1 |
| Def Leppard |
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| 6 | 8 | Can't Get Over You | 3 |
| The Gregg Allman Band |
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| 3 | 9 | Common Ground | 3 |
| Rhythm Corps. |
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| 18 | 10 | Superstitious | 9 |
| Europe |
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| 12 | 11 | Don't Be Cruel | 8 | 3 |
| Cheap Trick |
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| 10 | 12 | Astronomy | 10 |
| Blue Oyster Cult |
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| 16 | 13 | Never Tear Us Apart | 2 | 5 |
| INXS |
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| 17 | 14 | I'm Not Your Man | 1 |
| Tommy Conwell And The Young Rumblers |
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| 14 | 15 | Bring Me Some Water | 7 |
| Melissa Etheridge |
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| 9 | 16 | Sweet Child O' Mine | 2 | 1 |
| Guns N' Roses |
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| - | 17 | Chains Of Love | 14 | 7 |
| Erasure |
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| - | 18 | Peek-A-Boo | 12 |
| Siouxsie And The Banshees |
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| - | 19 | Crash | 17 |
| The Primitives |
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| 15 | 20 | Talkin' Bout A Revolution | 15 |
| Tracy Chapman |
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