POPHITS.ORG PRESENTING

HOT 100

FOR THE WEEK ENDING SEPTEMBER 3, 1988
1

Monkey

George Michael

—

Peak: 1 • 16 wks • Prev: 1

2

Sweet Child O' Mine

Guns N' Roses

↑ 2

Peak: 1 • 24 wks • Prev: 4

3

Simply Irresistible

Robert Palmer

↑ 2

Peak: 2 • 20 wks • Prev: 5

4

I Don't Wanna Go On With You Like That

Elton John

↓ 2

Peak: 2 • 18 wks • Prev: 2

5

I Don't Wanna Live Without Your Love

Chicago

↓ 2

Peak: 3 • 21 wks • Prev: 3

6

Perfect World

Huey Lewis & The News

↑ 2

Peak: 3 • 15 wks • Prev: 8

7

Fast Car

Tracy Chapman

↓ 1

Peak: 6 • 22 wks • Prev: 6

8

When It's Love

Van Halen

↑ 5

Peak: 5 • 19 wks • Prev: 13

9

If It Isn't Love

New Edition

↑ 6

Peak: 7 • 21 wks • Prev: 15

10

I'll Always Love You

Taylor Dayne

↑ 6

Peak: 3 • 30 wks • Prev: 16

11

Love Will Save The Day

Whitney Houston

↓ 2

Peak: 9 • 16 wks • Prev: 9

12

Another Part Of Me

Michael Jackson

↑ 5

Peak: 11 • 13 wks • Prev: 17

13

Nobody's Fool (Theme From "Caddyshack II")

Kenny Loggins

↑ 5

Peak: 8 • 18 wks • Prev: 18

14

It Would Take A Strong Strong Man

Rick Astley

↑ 6

Peak: 10 • 16 wks • Prev: 20

15

Don't Worry, Be Happy (From "Cocktail")

Bobby McFerrin

↑ 10

Peak: 1 • 26 wks • Prev: 25

16

Roll With It

Steve Winwood

↓ 9

Peak: 1 • 18 wks • Prev: 7

17

One Good Woman

Peter Cetera

↑ 5

Peak: 4 • 18 wks • Prev: 22

18

1-2-3

Gloria Estefan & Miami Sound Machine

↓ 8

Peak: 3 • 19 wks • Prev: 10

19

All Fired Up

Pat Benatar

—

Peak: 19 • 17 wks • Prev: 19

20

Hands To Heaven

Breathe

↓ 8

Peak: 2 • 29 wks • Prev: 12

21

I Hate Myself For Loving You

Joan Jett & the Blackhearts

↑ 5

Peak: 8 • 26 wks • Prev: 26

22

Make Me Lose Control

Eric Carmen

↓ 11

Peak: 3 • 20 wks • Prev: 11

23

Here With Me

REO Speedwagon

↑ 1

Peak: 20 • 19 wks • Prev: 24

24

Love Bites

Def Leppard

↑ 6

Peak: 1 • 23 wks • Prev: 30

25

Sign Your Name

Terence Trent D'Arby

↓ 11

Peak: 4 • 21 wks • Prev: 14

26

Don't Be Cruel

Cheap Trick

↑ 6

Peak: 4 • 17 wks • Prev: 32

27

Please Don't Go Girl

New Kids On The Block

↑ 1

Peak: 10 • 28 wks • Prev: 28

28

A Nightmare On My Street

D.J. Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince

↑ 6

Peak: 15 • 16 wks • Prev: 34

29

Don't Be Cruel

Bobby Brown

↑ 7

Peak: 8 • 26 wks • Prev: 36

30

Hold On To The Nights

Richard Marx

↓ 9

Peak: 1 • 21 wks • Prev: 21

31

I Don't Want To Be A Hero

Johnny Hates Jazz

—

Peak: 31 • 12 wks • Prev: 31

32

Fallen Angel

Poison

↑ 6

Peak: 12 • 16 wks • Prev: 38

33

What's On Your Mind (Pure Energy)

Information Society

↑ 7

Peak: 3 • 25 wks • Prev: 40

34

Staying Together

Debbie Gibson

↑ 8

Peak: 22 • 12 wks • Prev: 42

35

Look Out Any Window

Bruce Hornsby & The Range

↑ 4

Peak: 35 • 12 wks • Prev: 39

36

Red Red Wine

UB40

↑ 16

Peak: 1 • 40 wks • Prev: 52

37

Missed Opportunity

Daryl Hall & John Oates

↓ 8

Peak: 29 • 11 wks • Prev: 29

38

Sayin' Sorry (Don't Make It Right)

Denise Lopez

↓ 5

Peak: 31 • 17 wks • Prev: 33

39

Just Got Paid

Johnny Kemp

↓ 12

Peak: 10 • 21 wks • Prev: 27

40

What You See Is What You Get

Brenda K. Starr

↑ 7

Peak: 24 • 13 wks • Prev: 47

41

Forever Young

Rod Stewart

↑ 7

Peak: 12 • 24 wks • Prev: 48

42

Don't You Know What The Night Can Do?

Steve Winwood

↑ 9

Peak: 6 • 17 wks • Prev: 51

43

Rag Doll

Aerosmith

↓ 20

Peak: 17 • 17 wks • Prev: 23

44

True Love

Glenn Frey

↑ 5

Peak: 13 • 15 wks • Prev: 49

45

Chains Of Love

Erasure

↑ 8

Peak: 12 • 20 wks • Prev: 53

46

Pour Some Sugar On Me

Def Leppard

↓ 11

Peak: 2 • 24 wks • Prev: 35

47

Spring Love (Come Back To Me)

Stevie B

↓ 1

Peak: 43 • 18 wks • Prev: 46

48

The Right Stuff

Vanessa Williams

↓ 4

Peak: 44 • 10 wks • Prev: 44

49

Never Tear Us Apart

INXS

↑ 7

Peak: 7 • 23 wks • Prev: 56

50

Summergirls

Dino

—

Peak: 50 • 12 wks • Prev: 50

51

The Flame

Cheap Trick

↓ 6

Peak: 1 • 27 wks • Prev: 45

52

Groovy Kind Of Love

Phil Collins

★ NEW

Peak: 1 • 25 wks

53

Parents Just Don't Understand

D.J. Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince

↓ 10

Peak: 12 • 19 wks • Prev: 43

54

Time And Tide

Basia

↑ 4

Peak: 26 • 20 wks • Prev: 58

55

Off On Your Own (Girl)

Al B. Sure!

↑ 5

Peak: 45 • 12 wks • Prev: 60

56

Superstitious

Europe

↑ 5

Peak: 31 • 13 wks • Prev: 61

57

Inside Outside

The Cover Girls

↓ 2

Peak: 55 • 13 wks • Prev: 55

58

Wild, Wild West

The Escape Club

↑ 16

Peak: 1 • 27 wks • Prev: 74

59

Make It Last Forever

Keith Sweat (Duet With Jacci McGhee)

—

Peak: 59 • 11 wks • Prev: 59

60

Do You Love Me

The Contours

↓ 19

Peak: 3 • 34 wks • Prev: 41

61

The Dead Heart

Midnight Oil

↑ 1

Peak: 53 • 10 wks • Prev: 62

62

The Twist

Fat Boys

↓ 25

Peak: 16 • 15 wks • Prev: 37

63

Indestructible

Four Tops

↑ 5

Peak: 35 • 11 wks • Prev: 68

64

The Loco-Motion

Kylie Minogue

↑ 16

Peak: 3 • 27 wks • Prev: 80

65

Nice 'N' Slow

Freddie Jackson

↑ 7

Peak: 61 • 12 wks • Prev: 72

66

Another Lover

Giant Steps

↑ 12

Peak: 13 • 22 wks • Prev: 78

67

Jackie

Blue Zone U.K.

↑ 6

Peak: 54 • 9 wks • Prev: 73

68

The Rumour

Olivia Newton-John

↑ 16

Peak: 62 • 6 wks • Prev: 84

69

It Takes Two

Rob Base & D.J. E-Z Rock

↑ 13

Peak: 36 • 16 wks • Prev: 82

70

Knocked Out

Paula Abdul

↓ 13

Peak: 41 • 13 wks • Prev: 57

71

Better Be Home Soon

Crowded House

↓ 17

Peak: 42 • 11 wks • Prev: 54

72

Say It's Gonna Rain

Will To Power

↓ 7

Peak: 49 • 14 wks • Prev: 65

73

She's On The Left

Jeffrey Osborne

↑ 16

Peak: 48 • 11 wks • Prev: 89

74

Don't Know What You Got (Till It's Gone)

Cinderella

★ NEW

Peak: 12 • 22 wks

75

Long And Lasting Love (Once In A Lifetime)

Glenn Medeiros

↑ 13

Peak: 68 • 10 wks • Prev: 88

76

Don't Walk Away

Toni Childs

↑ 5

Peak: 72 • 7 wks • Prev: 81

77

I Still Believe

Brenda K. Starr

↓ 10

Peak: 13 • 26 wks • Prev: 67

78

The Colour Of Love

Billy Ocean

↓ 9

Peak: 17 • 16 wks • Prev: 69

79

Powerful Stuff (From "Cocktail")

The Fabulous Thunderbirds

↑ 14

Peak: 65 • 7 wks • Prev: 93

80

Heart Turns To Stone

Foreigner

↓ 5

Peak: 56 • 10 wks • Prev: 75

81

I Know You're Out There Somewhere

The Moody Blues

↓ 18

Peak: 30 • 16 wks • Prev: 63

82

Tell Me

White Lion

↓ 18

Peak: 58 • 11 wks • Prev: 64

83

Always There For You

Stryper

↓ 12

Peak: 71 • 8 wks • Prev: 71

84

Ship Of Fools

Robert Plant

↑ 7

Peak: 84 • 4 wks • Prev: 91

85

Love Changes (Everything)

Climie Fisher

↓ 8

Peak: 23 • 18 wks • Prev: 77

86

Inside A Dream

Jane Wiedlin

★ NEW

Peak: 57 • 7 wks

87

The Promise

When In Rome

★ NEW

Peak: 11 • 25 wks

88

Supersonic

J.J. Fad

↓ 5

Peak: 30 • 22 wks • Prev: 83

89

Rush Hour

Jane Wiedlin

↓ 19

Peak: 9 • 19 wks • Prev: 70

90

Pretty Boys And Pretty Girls

Book Of Love

★ NEW

Peak: 90 • 4 wks

91

Sendin' All My Love

The Jets

↓ 1

Peak: 88 • 4 wks • Prev: 90

92

New Sensation

INXS

↓ 26

Peak: 3 • 17 wks • Prev: 66

93

Heart Don't Fail Me Now

Holly Knight

★ NEW

Peak: 59 • 9 wks

94

What's The Matter Here?

10,000 Maniacs

★ NEW

Peak: 80 • 8 wks

95

Foolish Beat

Debbie Gibson

↓ 16

Peak: 1 • 20 wks • Prev: 79

96

Kokomo (From"Cocktail" )

The Beach Boys

★ NEW

Peak: 1 • 28 wks

97

Lost In You

Rod Stewart

↓ 5

Peak: 12 • 18 wks • Prev: 92

98

Mercedes Boy

Pebbles

↓ 22

Peak: 2 • 18 wks • Prev: 76

99

Kiss Me Deadly

Lita Ford

↓ 13

Peak: 12 • 23 wks • Prev: 86

100

Mary, Mary

Run-D.M.C.

↓ 13

Peak: 75 • 6 wks • Prev: 87

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