| Weekly Rock Top 20 for August 29, 1987 | 
| LW | TW | peaks:    | rock | pop | 
| 15 | 1 | Dude (Looks Like A Lady) | ▲ | 8 | 
| Aerosmith | 
|  |  | 
| 11 | 2 | Learning To Fly | 1 | 
| Pink Floyd | 
|  |  | 
| 1 | 3 | Paper In Fire | 1 | 8 | 
| John Cougar Mellencamp | 
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| 2 | 4 | Hell In A Bucket | 2 | 
| Grateful Dead | 
|  |  | 
| 6 | 5 | You Are The Girl | 2 | 22 | 
| The Cars | 
|  |  | 
| 14 | 6 | Animal | 3 | 11 | 
| Def Leppard | 
|  |  | 
| 9 | 7 | Where The Streets Have No Name | ▲ | 11 | 
| U2 | 
|  |  | 
| 3 | 8 | Jane's Getting Serious | 3 | 
| Jon Astley | 
|  |  | 
| - | 9 | Force Ten | 5 | 
| Rush | 
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| 10 | 10 | Ghost On The Beach | 7 | 
| The Insiders | 
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| 4 | 11 | Rock Me | 4 | 
| Great White | 
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| 12 | 12 | Never Let Me Down | ▲ | 29 | 
| David Bowie | 
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| 17 | 13 | Lips Like Sugar | 12 | 
| Echo & The Bunnymen | 
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| - | 14 | Notorious | 9 | 
| Loverboy | 
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| - | 15 | The One I Love | 1 | 3 | 
| R.E.M. | 
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| - | 16 | Let's Work | 8 | 
| Mick Jagger | 
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| - | 17 | Victim Of Love | ▲ | 30 | 
| Bryan Adams | 
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| - | 18 | Strangelove | 17 | 19 | 
| Depeche Mode | 
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| - | 19 | How Do You Spell Love | ▲ | 
| The Fabulous Thunderbirds | 
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| - | 20 | Little Lies | 12 | 2 | 
| Fleetwood Mac | 
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