Weekly Pop Top 30 for September 5, 1987 |
| LW | TW | peaks: |
rock | pop |
| 2 | 1 | Can't We Try | ▲ |
| Dan Hill with Vonda Shepard |
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| 1 | 2 | La Bamba | 20 | 1 |
| Los Lobos |
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| 3 | 3 | I Just Can't Stop Loving You | 1 |
| Michael Jackson |
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| 5 | 4 | Here I Go Again | 2 | 1 |
| Whitesnake |
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| 7 | 5 | Didn't We Almost Have It All | 1 |
| Whitney Houston |
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| 9 | 6 | Touch Of Grey | 1 | 4 |
| Grateful Dead |
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| 8 | 7 | When Smokey Sings | ▲ |
| ABC |
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| 6 | 8 | Only In My Dreams | 3 |
| Debbie Gibson |
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| 15 | 9 | U Got The Look | 2 |
| Prince |
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| 10 | 10 | Doing It All For My Baby | 6 |
| Huey Lewis And The News |
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| 4 | 11 | Who's That Girl | 1 |
| Madonna |
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| 17 | 12 | Wipeout | ▲ |
| Fat Boys And The Beach Boys |
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| 12 | 13 | Luka | 5 | 1 |
| Suzanne Vega |
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| 18 | 14 | It's Not Over ('Til It's Over) | 12 | 13 |
| Starship |
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| 21 | 15 | I Heard A Rumour | 3 |
| Bananarama |
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| 13 | 16 | Mary's Prayer | 19 | 13 |
| Danny Wilson |
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| 20 | 17 | One Heartbeat | 6 |
| Smokey Robinson |
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| 24 | 18 | Carrie | 2 |
| Europe |
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| 16 | 19 | I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For | 1 | 1 |
| U2 |
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| - | 20 | Lost In Emotion | 1 |
| Lisa Lisa And Cult Jam |
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| 11 | 21 | Don't Mean Nothing | 3 | 3 |
| Richard Marx |
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| 23 | 22 | Who Found Who | 12 |
| Jellybean Featuring Elisa Fiorillo |
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| 29 | 23 | Love Power | ▲ |
| Dionne Warwick & Jeffrey Osborne |
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| - | 24 | Paper In Fire | 1 | 8 |
| John Cougar Mellencamp |
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| - | 25 | Who Will You Run To | 2 | 5 |
| Heart |
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| 14 | 26 | Rock Steady | 6 |
| The Whispers |
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| 25 | 27 | I Need Love | 23 |
| LL Cool J |
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| - | 28 | Casanova | 3 |
| Levert |
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| - | 29 | Let Me Be The One | 4 |
| Expose |
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| - | 30 | Fake | ▲ |
| Alexander O'Neal |
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