Top 1988 Singles Ranked
|
Rank |
Artist |
Title |
|
1 |
James Brown |
I'm Real |
|
2 |
Inner City |
Good Life |
|
3 |
Rob Base |
It Takes Two |
|
4 |
Debbie Harry |
Liar, Liar |
|
5 |
Ofra Haza |
Im Nin' Alu |
|
6 |
Act |
Snobbery and Decay |
|
7 |
Cocteau Twins |
The Itchy Glowbo Blow |
|
8 |
The House of Love |
Christine |
|
9 |
The Church |
Reptile |
|
10 |
Pet Shop Boys |
It's Alright |
|
11 |
Paula Abdul |
Knocked Out |
|
12 |
The Railway Children |
Monica's Light |
|
13 |
Pet Shop Boys |
Heart |
|
14 |
Morrissey |
Everyday Is Like Sunday |
|
15 |
Midnight Oil |
Beds Are Burning |
|
16 |
The Art of Noise with Tom Jones |
Kiss |
|
17 |
Danielle Dax |
Big Hollow Man |
|
18 |
Edie Brickell & The New Bohemians |
Little Miss S. |
|
19 |
Erasure |
A Little Respect |
|
20 |
Sade |
Paradise |
|
21 |
James Brown |
Static |
|
22 |
Tracy Chapman |
Fast Car |
|
23 |
Crowded House |
Never Be the Same |
|
24 |
Ofra Haza |
Galbi [The Sehoog Mix] |
|
25 |
The Go-Betweens |
Streets of Your Town |
|
26 |
Dwight Yoakam & Buck Owens |
Streets of Bakersfield |
|
27 |
Patty Loveless |
Timber, I'm Falling in Love |
|
28 |
Siouxsie & the Banshees |
Peek-A-Boo |
|
29 |
Duran Duran |
I Don't Want Your Love |
|
30 |
Rodney Crowell |
I Couldn't Leave You If I Tried |
|
31 |
Patty Loveless |
Chains |
|
32 |
Kirsty MacColl |
Complainte Pour Ste Catherine |
|
33 |
Enya |
Orinoco Flow (Sail Away) |
|
34 |
Cocteau Twins |
A Kissed Out Red Floatboat |
|
35 |
Information Society |
What's On Your Mind (Pure Energy) |
|
36 |
The Church |
Under The Milky Way |
|
37 |
The Go-Betweens |
Love Goes On! |
|
38 |
The House of Love |
Salome |
|
39 |
Vanessa Williams |
The Right Stuff |
|
40 |
Danielle Dax |
House-Cat |
|
41 |
Crowded House |
Sister Madly |
|
42 |
Cocteau Twins |
Carolyn's Fingers |
|
43 |
Edie Brickell & The New Bohemians |
What I Am |
|
44 |
The Go-Betweens |
Was There Anything I Could Do? |
|
45 |
The Jungle Brothers |
I'll House You |
|
46 |
Crowded House |
Mansion in the Slums |
|
47 |
Rodney Crowell |
Above and Beyond (The Call of Love) |
|
48 |
Tanya Tucker |
Strong Enough to Bend |
|
49 |
Randy Travis |
Deeper Than the Holler |
|
50 |
Crowded House |
Better Be Home Soon |
|
51 |
Cocteau Twins |
For Phoebe Still a Baby |
|
52 |
Rosanne Cash |
Runaway Train |
|
53 |
Sade |
Turn My Back on You |
|
54 |
The Ocean Blue |
Drifting, Falling |
|
55 |
Erasure |
Chains of Love |
|
56 |
D-Mob |
We Call It Acieed |
|
57 |
Earth, Wind, & Fire |
Thinking of You |
|
58 |
Rodney Crowell & Rosanne Cash |
It's Such a Small World |
|
59 |
Nanci Griffith |
Never Mind |
|
60 |
Kirsty MacColl |
Free World |
|
61 |
Sam Phillips |
I Don't Know How to Say Goodbye |
|
62 |
The Lilac Time |
And the Ship Sails On |
|
63 |
Uncle Green |
Red Tape |
|
64 |
Love & Money |
Strange Kind Of Love |
|
65 |
Kathy Mattea |
Eighteen Wheels and a Dozen Roses |
|
66 |
Samantha Fox |
Naughty Girls (Need Love Too) |
|
67 |
Al B. Sure! |
Nite and Day |
|
68 |
Joan Jett & The Blackhearts |
I Hate Myself For Loving You |
|
69 |
Jody Watley |
Most of All |
|
70 |
Colin Newman |
Better Late Than Never |
|
71 |
Michelle Shocked |
Anchorage |
|
72 |
Johnny Hates Jazz |
Shattered Dreams |
|
73 |
Kathy Mattea |
Untold Stories |
|
74 |
Sade |
Love Is Stronger Than Pride |
|
75 |
The Railway Children |
In the Meantime |
|
76 |
Cocteau Twins |
Blue Bell Knoll |
|
77 |
The Go-Betweens |
The Devil's Eye |
|
78 |
Information Society |
Something in the Air |
|
79 |
Morrissey |
Suedehead |
|
80 |
Sam Phillips |
What Do I Do |
|
81 |
The Primitives |
Out of Reach |
|
82 |
Everything But The Girl |
Apron Strings |
|
83 |
The Sugarcubes |
Motorcrash |
|
84 |
Thomas Dolby |
Hot Sauce |
|
85 |
Colin Newman |
Rite of Life |
|
86 |
Peter Murphy |
Indigo Eyes |
|
87 |
Uncle Green |
That Must Be the Way |
|
88 |
The Speech |
I Have a Dream |
|
89 |
Sade |
Nothing Can Come Between Us |
|
90 |
Colin Newman |
Quite Unrehearsed |
|
91 |
Edie Brickell & The New Bohemians |
Love Like We Do |
|
92 |
Taylor Dayne |
Tell it to My Heart |
|
93 |
Uncle Green |
Brute Force |
|
94 |
Morrissey |
Hairdresser on Fire |
|
95 |
Colin Newman |
Convolutions |
|
96 |
The Primitives |
Crash |
|
97 |
Sade |
Keep Looking |
|
98 |
Big Pig |
I Can’t Break Away |
|
99 |
Toni Childs |
Don't Walk Away |
|
100 |
Pet Shop Boys |
Domino Dancing |
|
101 |
Act |
Absolutely Immune |
|
102 |
Tracy Chapman |
Talkin' Bout A Revolution |
|
103 |
Pebbles |
Mercedes Boy |
|
104 |
Duran Duran |
All She Wants Is |
|
105 |
The Proclaimers |
Come On Nature |
|
106 |
Dwight Yoakam |
What I Don't Know |
|
107 |
The Sugarcubes |
Blue-Eyed Pop |
|
108 |
Bananarama |
Nathan Jones |
|
109 |
Talking Heads |
Nothing But Flowers |
|
110 |
The Railway Children |
Over and Over |
|
111 |
Colin Newman |
Can't Help Being |
|
112 |
Nanci Griffith |
Outbound Plane |
|
113 |
The Adventures |
Broken Land |
|
114 |
Fairground Attraction |
A Smile In A Whisper |
|
115 |
Uncle Green |
Wash Day |
|
116 |
Morrissey |
I Don't Mind If You Forget Me |
|
117 |
The Smithereens |
Only A Memory |
|
118 |
Ziggy Marley and the Melody Makers |
Tumblin' Down |
|
119 |
The Sisters of Mercy |
Dominion/Mother Russia |
|
120 |
The Jams |
Doctorin' the Tardis |
|
121 |
Midnight Oil |
The Dead Heart |
|
122 |
Dreams So Real |
Bearing Witness |
|
123 |
Fairground Attraction |
Perfect |
|
124 |
Love Tractor |
Themes from Venus |
|
125 |
Tracy Chapman |
For My Lover |
|
126 |
The O'Kanes |
One True Love |
|
127 |
Wild Swans |
Young Manhood |
|
128 |
Ziggy Marley and the Melody Makers |
A Who A Say |
|
129 |
Nanci Griffith |
Anyone Can Be Somebody's Fool |
|
130 |
Ziggy Marley and the Melody Makers |
Tomorrow People |
|
131 |
The Proclaimers |
I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles) |
|
132 |
Sade |
Give It Up |
|
133 |
Midnight Oil |
Warakurna |
|
134 |
Tracy Chapman |
Why? |
|
135 |
Fairground Attraction |
Fairground Attraction |
|
136 |
Toni Childs |
Tin Drum |
|
137 |
Colin Newman |
Round and Round |
|
138 |
The Sugarcubes |
Cat |
|
139 |
Uncle Green |
Make Something Happen |
|
140 |
Act |
I Can't Escape from You |
|
141 |
Samantha Fox |
I Wanna Have Some Fun |
|
142 |
Peter Murphy |
All Night Long |
|
143 |
Prefab Sprout |
Cars and Girls |
|
144 |
The Ocean Blue |
Ask Me Jon |
|
145 |
Kirsty MacColl |
What Do Pretty Girls Do? |
|
146 |
Love & Money |
Halleluiah Man |
|
147 |
The Railway Children |
Somewhere South |
|
148 |
Sam Phillips |
I Don't Want to Fall in Love |
|
149 |
The Go-Betweens |
Love Is a Sign |
|
150 |
Love & Money |
Jocelyn Square |
|
151 |
Prefab Sprout |
The King of Rock & Roll |
|
152 |
Crowded House |
Into Temptation |
|
153 |
Pet Shop Boys |
Always on My Mind |
|
154 |
Bananarama |
I Want You Back |
|
155 |
Dreams So Real |
Distance |
|
156 |
Edie Brickell & The New Bohemians |
Nothing |
|
157 |
Act |
Gestures |
|
158 |
Colin Newman |
It Seems |
|
159 |
Cocteau Twins |
Ella Megablast Burls Forever |
|
160 |
Yello |
Tied Up |
|
161 |
Moev |
Yeah Whatever |
|
162 |
The Go-Betweens |
Quiet Heart |
|
163 |
The Railway Children |
A Pleasure |
|
164 |
Cocteau Twins |
Suckling the Mender |
|
165 |
Anita Baker |
Good Love |
|
166 |
Robert Palmer |
Simply Irresistible |
|
167 |
Kirsty MacColl |
You Just Haven't Earned It Yet, Baby |
|
168 |
The Adventures |
Drowning in the Sea of Love |
|
169 |
Michelle Shocked |
When I Grow Up |
|
170 |
Danielle Dax |
Cat-House |
|
171 |
Dwight Yoakam |
I Got You |
|
172 |
Emmylou Harris |
Heartbreak Hill |
|
173 |
Front 242 |
Welcome to Paradise |
|
174 |
Shriekback |
Get Down Tonight |
|
175 |
Midnight Oil |
Bullroarer |
|
176 |
Nanci Griffith |
I Wish It Would Rain |
|
177 |
Kirsty MacColl |
Fifteen Minutes |
|
178 |
Enya |
River |
|
179 |
Love & Money |
Avalanche |
|
180 |
Marc Almond |
Tears Run Rings |
|
181 |
Pet Shop Boys |
Left to My Own Devices |
|
182 |
Pat Benatar |
All Fired Up |
|
183 |
Anita Baker |
Giving You the Best That I Got |
|
184 |
Edie Brickell & The New Bohemians |
Circle |
|
185 |
The Ocean Blue |
Between Something and Nothing |
|
186 |
Was (Not Was) |
Spy in the House of Love |
|
187 |
Q. Lazzarus |
Goodbye Horses |
|
188 |
Steve Winwood |
Roll with It |
|
189 |
The Ocean Blue |
Vanity Fair |
|
190 |
Julian Cope |
5 O'Clock World |
|
191 |
Galaxie 500 |
Flowers |
|
192 |
Love Tractor |
I Broke My Saw |
|
193 |
Love & Money |
Axis Of Love |
|
194 |
Kirsty MacColl |
Dancing in Limbo |
|
195 |
Rod Stewart |
Forever Young |
|
196 |
Midnight Oil |
Sell My Soul |
|
197 |
Marti Jones |
You Can't Take Love For Granted |
|
198 |
Scritti Politti |
Boom! There She Was |
|
199 |
Cheap Trick |
The Flame |
|
200 |
Was (Not Was) |
Walk the Dinosaur |
