Top 1987 Singles Ranked
|
Rank |
Artist |
Title |
|
1 |
Depeche Mode |
Strangelove [Blind Mix] |
|
2 |
George Michael |
Hard Day |
|
3 |
Jody Watley |
Looking for a New Love |
|
4 |
Bananarama |
I Heard a Rumour |
|
5 |
Debbie Harry |
In Love with Love |
|
6 |
M.A.R.R.S. |
Pump Up the Volume |
|
7 |
Prince |
Sign o' the Times |
|
8 |
The Art of Noise |
A Day at the Races |
|
9 |
New Order |
True Faith |
|
10 |
Rosie Flores |
Crying Over You |
|
11 |
The Railway Children |
Brighter |
|
12 |
Salt-n-Pepa |
Push It |
|
13 |
Minimal Compact |
Immigrant Song |
|
14 |
Wire |
Ahead |
|
15 |
Pretty Poison |
Catch Me (I'm Falling) |
|
16 |
Rosanne Cash |
Tennessee Flat Top Box |
|
17 |
Rick Astley |
Never Gonna Give You Up |
|
18 |
Nona Hendryx |
Why Should I Cry? |
|
19 |
INXS |
Need You Tonight |
|
20 |
The Cure |
Just Like Heaven |
|
21 |
Depeche Mode |
Never Let Me Down Again |
|
22 |
Echo & the Bunnymen |
Lips Like Sugar |
|
23 |
Eurythmics |
You Have Placed a Chill in My Heart |
|
24 |
10,000 Maniacs |
Hey Jack Kerouac |
|
25 |
Minimal Compact |
I Imagine |
|
26 |
The Railway Children |
Another Town |
|
27 |
k.d. lang and the Reclines |
Rose Garden |
|
28 |
Wire |
Ambitious |
|
29 |
The Railway Children |
A Gentle Sound |
|
30 |
Bananarama |
Some Girls |
|
31 |
Exposé |
Let Me Be the One |
|
32 |
Pet Shop Boys and Dusty Springfield |
What Have I Done to Deserve This |
|
33 |
Fleetwood Mac |
Big Love |
|
34 |
The Railway Children |
Careful |
|
35 |
The Replacements |
Alex Chilton |
|
36 |
Janet Jackson |
The Pleasure Principle |
|
37 |
The Smiths |
Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before |
|
38 |
The Railway Children |
Content |
|
39 |
George Harrison |
Got My Mind Set on You |
|
40 |
Madonna |
La Isla Bonita |
|
41 |
Duane Eddy |
Spies [Espionoise Mix] |
|
42 |
Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt, Emmylou Harris |
Those Memories of You |
|
43 |
Eurythmics |
Put the Blame on Me |
|
44 |
New Order |
1963 (Nineteen-sixty-three) |
|
45 |
The Dukes of Stratosphear |
Vanishing Girl |
|
46 |
Prince |
Housequake |
|
47 |
Minimal Compact |
This Scent of Love |
|
48 |
The Smiths |
Girlfriend in a Coma |
|
49 |
Jody Watley |
Don't You Want Me |
|
50 |
R.E.M. |
The One I Love |
|
51 |
Jody Watley |
Still a Thrill |
|
52 |
Sheila E. |
Koo Koo |
|
53 |
Cher |
I Found Someone |
|
54 |
Eurythmics |
Heaven |
|
55 |
ABC |
The Night You Murdered Love |
|
56 |
George Strait |
All My Ex's Live In Texas |
|
57 |
Minimal Compact |
New Clear Twist |
|
58 |
Chris Isaak |
Heart Full of Soul |
|
59 |
Suzanne Vega |
Gypsy |
|
60 |
Thrashing Doves |
Northern Civil War Party |
|
61 |
Sting |
We'll Be Together |
|
62 |
The Smiths |
I Won't Share You |
|
63 |
Bananarama |
Strike it Rich |
|
64 |
Siouxsie & The Banshees |
The Passenger |
|
65 |
Fleetwood Mac |
Little Lies |
|
66 |
The Mighty Lemon Drops |
Out of Hand |
|
67 |
George Strait |
Ocean Front Property |
|
68 |
Hoodoo Gurus |
What's My Scene |
|
69 |
Chris Isaak |
You Owe Me Some Kind of Love |
|
70 |
Suzanne Vega |
Luka |
|
71 |
Prince |
If I Was Your Girlfriend |
|
72 |
Bananarama |
Bad for Me |
|
73 |
The Whispers |
Rock Steady |
|
74 |
Fleetwood Mac |
Everywhere |
|
75 |
The Housemartins |
Five Get over Excited |
|
76 |
Minimal Compact |
Nil Nil |
|
77 |
Colourbox |
Hot Doggie |
|
78 |
U2 |
In God's Country |
|
79 |
ABC |
When Smokey Sings |
|
80 |
The Blow Monkeys |
It Doesn't Have to Be This Way |
|
81 |
The Railway Children |
Listen On |
|
82 |
Rosie Flores |
God May Forgive You (But I Won't) |
|
83 |
The Colourfield |
Running Away |
|
84 |
Cher |
We All Sleep Alone |
|
85 |
Depeche Mode |
Behind the Wheel |
|
86 |
Prince |
Hot Thing |
|
87 |
Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt, Emmylou Harris |
Wildflowers |
|
88 |
Alexander O'Neal |
Fake |
|
89 |
Bryan Ferry |
Kiss and Tell |
|
90 |
Fetchin' Bones |
Stray |
|
91 |
Siouxsie & The Banshees |
This Wheel's on Fire |
|
92 |
Anna Domino |
Please Don't |
|
93 |
BoDeans |
Pick Up the Pieces |
|
94 |
Nitzer Ebb |
Murderous |
|
95 |
The Sisters of Mercy |
This Corrosion |
|
96 |
Swing Out Sister |
Breakout |
|
97 |
Eurythmics |
Do You Want to Break Up? |
|
98 |
Sinéad O'Connor |
I Want Your (Hands On Me) |
|
99 |
The Bangles |
A Hazy Shade of Winter |
|
100 |
The Cure |
Why Can't I Be You? |
|
101 |
Tanya Tucker |
Love Me Like You Used To |
|
102 |
10,000 Maniacs |
Like the Weather |
|
103 |
Los Lobos |
La Bamba |
|
104 |
The Smiths |
You Just Haven't Earned It Yet, Baby |
|
105 |
Foster & Lloyd |
Sure Thing |
|
106 |
Natalie Cole |
Jump Start |
|
107 |
Chris Isaak |
Blue Hotel |
|
108 |
Belinda Carlisle |
Heaven Is a Place on Earth |
|
109 |
Rosanne Cash |
Way We Make a Broken Heart |
|
110 |
The Colourfield |
Monkey in Winter |
|
111 |
Dwight Yoakam |
Please, Please Baby |
|
112 |
k.d. lang and the Reclines |
Diet of Strange Places |
|
113 |
Thrashing Doves |
Jesus on the Payroll |
|
114 |
Nanci Griffith |
Lone Star State of Mind |
|
115 |
Rosanne Cash |
The Real Me |
|
116 |
Alexander O'Neal |
(What Can I Say) To Make You Love Me |
|
117 |
The Housemartins |
Build |
|
118 |
Dwight Yoakam |
Little Ways |
|
119 |
Minimal Compact |
Inner Station |
|
120 |
Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt, Emmylou Harris |
Making Plans |
|
121 |
The Cucumbers |
My Boyfriend |
|
122 |
10,000 Maniacs |
What's the Matter Here? |
|
123 |
Nina Hagen and Lene Lovich |
Don't Kill the Animals |
|
124 |
Rosanne Cash |
Rosie Strike Back |
|
125 |
Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt, Emmylou Harris |
The Pain of Loving You |
|
126 |
Wet Wet Wet |
Wishing I Was Lucky |
|
127 |
Dwight Yoakam |
Always Late With Your Kisses |
|
128 |
Fleetwood Mac |
Seven Wonders |
|
129 |
The Colourfield |
From Dawn to Distraction |
|
130 |
Eurythmics |
I Need You |
|
131 |
Rosie Flores |
I Gotta Know |
|
132 |
George Michael |
Monkey |
|
133 |
Jody Watley |
Some Kind of Lover |
|
134 |
George Michael |
Faith |
|
135 |
The Cucumbers |
Don't Drop the Baby |
|
136 |
Roy Orbison & k.d. lang |
Crying |
|
137 |
Whitney Houston |
So Emotional |
|
138 |
Sinéad O'Connor |
Mandinka |
|
139 |
Yello |
Si Senor, the Hairy Grill |
|
140 |
Bourgeois Tagg |
I Don't Mind at All |
|
141 |
Black |
Finder |
|
142 |
Nanci Griffith |
Trouble in the Fields |
|
143 |
The Smiths |
Unhappy Birthday |
|
144 |
The Railway Children |
Railroad Side |
|
145 |
Rosie Flores |
Somebody Loses, Somebody Wins |
|
146 |
The Silencers |
Taxi to Disneyland |
|
147 |
Cabaret Voltaire |
Sex, Money, Freaks |
|
148 |
George Michael |
Hand to Mouth |
|
149 |
Julian Cope |
World Shut Your Mouth |
|
150 |
Sybil |
Don't Make Me Over |
|
151 |
The Cure |
Hot Hot Hot!!! |
|
152 |
The Railway Children |
First Notebook |
|
153 |
Jody Watley |
Love Injection |
|
154 |
INXS |
New Sensation |
|
155 |
The Art of Noise |
Dragnet [Art Of Noise 12 Inch Mix] |
|
156 |
Cabaret Voltaire |
Trouble (Won't Stop) |
|
157 |
Steve Winwood |
Valerie |
|
158 |
Natalie Cole |
Pink Cadillac |
|
159 |
The Silencers |
I Ought to Know |
|
160 |
10,000 Maniacs |
City of Angels |
|
161 |
The Replacements |
Can't Hardly Wait |
|
162 |
Thrashing Doves |
Beautiful Imbalance |
|
163 |
Eurythmics |
Beethoven (I Love to Listen To) |
|
164 |
Chris Isaak |
Waiting for the Rain to Fall |
|
165 |
Rosie Flores |
Heartbreak Train |
|
166 |
Swing Out Sister |
Twilight World |
|
167 |
The Blow Monkeys |
Celebrate (The Day After You) |
|
168 |
Whitney Houston |
I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me) |
|
169 |
Paul King |
One Too Many Heartaches |
|
170 |
Eurythmics |
Brand New Day |
|
171 |
George Michael |
I Want Your Sex (Parts 1&2) |
|
172 |
Duane Eddy |
Lost Innocence |
|
173 |
John Mellencamp |
Cherry Bomb |
|
174 |
Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt, Emmylou Harris |
Rosewood Casket |
|
175 |
Young Fresh Fellows |
Amy Grant |
|
176 |
The Art of Noise |
Action Art |
|
177 |
Robbie Robertson |
Somewhere Down the Crazy River |
|
178 |
Siouxsie & The Banshees |
You're Lost Little Girl |
|
179 |
Rosie Flores |
Midnight To Moonlight |
|
180 |
Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt, Emmylou Harris |
My Dear Companion |
|
181 |
Prince |
The Ballad Of Dorothy Parker |
|
182 |
The Smiths |
Half a Person |
|
183 |
Rainbirds |
Blueprint |
|
184 |
The Art of Noise |
Roller 1 |
|
185 |
Voice of the Beehive |
I Say Nothing |
|
186 |
T'Pau |
Heart and Soul |
|
187 |
Gladys Knight & The Pips |
Love Overboard |
|
188 |
Alexander O'Neal |
Criticize |
|
189 |
The Art of Noise |
Opus for Four |
|
190 |
Eurythmics |
I Need a Man |
|
191 |
Chris Isaak |
Lie to Me |
|
192 |
R.E.M. |
On the Other Hand |
|
193 |
Living in a Box |
Living in a Box |
|
194 |
Cabaret Voltaire |
Thank You America |
|
195 |
Indigo Girls |
Land of Canaan |
|
196 |
Marshall Crenshaw |
This Is Easy |
|
197 |
Oingo Boingo |
Not My Slave |
|
198 |
The Psychedelic Furs |
Heartbreak Beat |
|
199 |
ABC |
King Without a Crown |
|
200 |
The Dead Milkmen |
Instant Club Hit |
|
201 |
Prince |
U Got the Look |
|
202 |
Yello |
Goldrush |
|
203 |
Rosie Flores |
The Blue Side of Town |
|
204 |
Bryan Ferry |
The Right Stuff |
|
205 |
Bananarama |
Love in the First Degree |
|
206 |
John Mellencamp |
Check It Out |
|
207 |
Paul Simon |
You Can Call Me Al |
|
208 |
Randy Travis |
Forever And Ever, Amen |
|
209 |
k.d. lang and the Reclines |
Tune into My Wave |
|
210 |
Exposé |
Come Go With Me |
|
211 |
Gloria Estefan |
Rhythm Is Gonna Get You |
|
212 |
Rosanne Cash |
If You Change Your Mind |
|
213 |
Bryan Ferry |
New Town |
|
214 |
Alexander O'Neal |
The Lovers |
|
215 |
The Judds |
Change of Heart |
|
216 |
Rainbirds |
Apparently |
|
217 |
The Housemartins |
You Better Be Doubtful |
|
218 |
Chris Stamey |
Cara Lee |
|
219 |
Paul King |
I Know |
|
220 |
The Rave-Ups |
Sue & Sonny |
|
221 |
Cabaret Voltaire |
Here to Go |
|
222 |
The Silencers |
A Letter from St Paul |
|
223 |
Nanci Griffith |
Beacon Street |
|
224 |
John Mellencamp |
Paper In Fire |
|
225 |
The Smiths |
Sheila Take a Bow |
|
226 |
The Housemartins |
Me and the Farmer |
|
227 |
Exposé |
Point of No Return |
|
228 |
Thrashing Doves |
Rochdale House |
|
229 |
The Judds |
Give a Little Love |
|
230 |
Black |
Wonderful Life |
|
231 |
Thrashing Doves |
The Grinding Stone (Let Me Climb Your Ladder) |
|
232 |
Rainbirds |
Dancer |
|
233 |
R.E.M. |
Finest Worksong |
|
234 |
Nanci Griffith |
There's A Light Beyond These Woods |
|
235 |
Black |
Everything's Coming Up Roses |
|
236 |
Rainbirds |
On the Balcony |
|
237 |
Yello |
La Habanera |
|
238 |
Cabaret Voltaire |
Don't Argue |
|
239 |
Madonna |
Who's That Girl? |
|
240 |
Yello |
Call It Love |
