Weekly Rock Top 20 for August 27, 1988 |
| LW | TW | peaks: |
rock | pop |
| 1 | 1 | Hate To Lose Your Lovin' | ▲ |
| Little Feat |
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| 7 | 2 | Love Bites | 1 | 1 |
| Def Leppard |
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| 2 | 3 | Finish What Ya Started | 1 | 11 |
| Van Halen |
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| 6 | 4 | Don't You Know What The Night Can Do? | 1 | 4 |
| Steve Winwood |
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| 3 | 5 | Powerful Stuff | 3 |
| The Fabulous Thunderbirds |
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| 4 | 6 | Don't Be Afraid Of The Dark | 4 |
| The Robert Cray Band |
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| 9 | 7 | Common Ground | 3 |
| Rhythm Corps. |
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| 11 | 8 | Don't Be Cruel | ▲ | 3 |
| Cheap Trick |
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| 10 | 9 | Superstitious | ▲ |
| Europe |
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| 14 | 10 | I'm Not Your Man | 1 |
| Tommy Conwell And The Young Rumblers |
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| 13 | 11 | Never Tear Us Apart | 2 | 5 |
| INXS |
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| 15 | 12 | Bring Me Some Water | 7 |
| Melissa Etheridge |
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| 12 | 13 | Astronomy | 10 |
| Blue Oyster Cult |
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| 17 | 14 | Chains Of Love | ▲ | 7 |
| Erasure |
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| - | 15 | Defenders Of The Flag | 10 |
| Bruce Hornsby And The Range |
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| - | 16 | No Smoke Without A Fire | 3 |
| Bad Company |
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| - | 17 | Let It Roll | 3 |
| Little Feat |
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| - | 18 | Fallen Angel | ▲ | 11 |
| Poison |
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| 18 | 19 | Peek-A-Boo | 12 |
| Siouxsie And The Banshees |
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| - | 20 | Just Play Music! | 14 |
| Big Audio Dynamite |
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