Weekly Pop Top 30 for September 24, 1988 |
| LW | TW | peaks: |
rock | pop |
| 1 | 1 | Don't Worry Be Happy | ▲ |
| Bobby McFerrin |
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| 2 | 2 | I'll Always Love You | ▲ |
| Taylor Dayne |
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| 4 | 3 | Love Bites | 1 | 1 |
| Def Leppard |
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| 5 | 4 | One Good Woman | ▲ |
| Peter Cetera |
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| 15 | 5 | Red Red Wine | 1 |
| UB40 |
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| 8 | 6 | I Hate Myself For Loving You | 18 | ▲ |
| Joan Jett And The Blackhearts |
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| 14 | 7 | Don't Be Cruel | 8 | 3 |
| Cheap Trick |
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| 6 | 8 | Please Don't Go Girl | 6 |
| New Kids On The Block |
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| 3 | 9 | Sweet Child O' Mine | 2 | 1 |
| Guns N' Roses |
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| 13 | 10 | Don't Be Cruel | 5 |
| Bobby Brown |
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| 16 | 11 | Forever Young | 7 |
| Rod Stewart |
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| 19 | 12 | Don't You Know What The Night Can Do? | 1 | 4 |
| Steve Winwood |
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| 7 | 13 | Perfect World | 7 | 2 |
| Huey Lewis And The News |
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| 18 | 14 | Fallen Angel | 18 | 11 |
| Poison |
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| 11 | 15 | A Nightmare On My Street | 11 |
| DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince |
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| 24 | 16 | A Groovy Kind Of Love | 1 |
| Phil Collins |
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| 22 | 17 | Time And Tide | ▲ |
| Basia |
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| 12 | 18 | Simply Irresistible | 1 | 1 |
| Robert Palmer |
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| - | 19 | Wild, Wild West | 1 |
| The Escape Club |
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| 23 | 20 | Chains Of Love | 14 | 7 |
| Erasure |
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| 25 | 21 | True Love | 7 |
| Glenn Frey |
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| 27 | 22 | Never Tear Us Apart | 2 | 5 |
| INXS |
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| 26 | 23 | What's On Your Mind (Pure Energy) | 2 |
| Information Society |
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| 29 | 24 | It Takes Two | 23 |
| Rob Base & D.J. E-Z Rock |
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| 10 | 25 | It Would Take A Strong Strong Man | 5 |
| Rick Astley |
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| 28 | 26 | What You See Is What You Get | ▲ |
| Brenda K. Starr |
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| 20 | 27 | When It's Love | 1 | 3 |
| Van Halen |
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| - | 28 | Strangelove | 17 | 19 |
| Depeche Mode |
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| 30 | 29 | Indestructible | ▲ |
| The Four Tops |
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| - | 30 | The Loco-Motion | 2 |
| Kylie Minogue |
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