POPHITS.ORG PRESENTING

HOT 100

FOR THE WEEK ENDING SEPTEMBER 17, 1988
1

Sweet Child O' Mine

Guns N' Roses

—

Peak: 1 • 24 wks • Prev: 1

2

Simply Irresistible

Robert Palmer

—

Peak: 2 • 20 wks • Prev: 2

3

Perfect World

Huey Lewis & The News

—

Peak: 3 • 15 wks • Prev: 3

4

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

Bobby McFerrin

↑ 5

Peak: 1 • 26 wks • Prev: 9

5

I'll Always Love You

Taylor Dayne

↑ 2

Peak: 3 • 30 wks • Prev: 7

6

When It's Love

Van Halen

↓ 1

Peak: 5 • 19 wks • Prev: 5

7

If It Isn't Love

New Edition

↑ 1

Peak: 7 • 21 wks • Prev: 8

8

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

Kenny Loggins

↑ 2

Peak: 8 • 18 wks • Prev: 10

9

Love Bites

Def Leppard

↑ 7

Peak: 1 • 23 wks • Prev: 16

10

It Would Take A Strong Strong Man

Rick Astley

↑ 3

Peak: 10 • 16 wks • Prev: 13

11

One Good Woman

Peter Cetera

↑ 3

Peak: 4 • 18 wks • Prev: 14

12

Another Part Of Me

Michael Jackson

↓ 1

Peak: 11 • 13 wks • Prev: 11

13

Monkey

George Michael

↓ 9

Peak: 1 • 16 wks • Prev: 4

14

I Hate Myself For Loving You

Joan Jett & the Blackhearts

↑ 3

Peak: 8 • 26 wks • Prev: 17

15

Don't Be Cruel

Cheap Trick

↑ 3

Peak: 4 • 17 wks • Prev: 18

16

Fast Car

Tracy Chapman

↓ 10

Peak: 6 • 22 wks • Prev: 6

17

A Nightmare On My Street

D.J. Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince

↑ 2

Peak: 15 • 16 wks • Prev: 19

18

Please Don't Go Girl

New Kids On The Block

↑ 3

Peak: 10 • 28 wks • Prev: 21

19

Red Red Wine

UB40

↑ 9

Peak: 1 • 40 wks • Prev: 28

20

Don't Be Cruel

Bobby Brown

↑ 3

Peak: 8 • 26 wks • Prev: 23

21

Fallen Angel

Poison

↑ 4

Peak: 12 • 16 wks • Prev: 25

22

What's On Your Mind (Pure Energy)

Information Society

↑ 4

Peak: 3 • 25 wks • Prev: 26

23

I Don't Wanna Live Without Your Love

Chicago

↓ 8

Peak: 3 • 21 wks • Prev: 15

24

I Don't Wanna Go On With You Like That

Elton John

↓ 12

Peak: 2 • 18 wks • Prev: 12

25

Here With Me

REO Speedwagon

↓ 5

Peak: 20 • 19 wks • Prev: 20

26

Staying Together

Debbie Gibson

↑ 4

Peak: 22 • 12 wks • Prev: 30

27

Don't You Know What The Night Can Do?

Steve Winwood

↑ 9

Peak: 6 • 17 wks • Prev: 36

28

True Love

Glenn Frey

↑ 9

Peak: 13 • 15 wks • Prev: 37

29

What You See Is What You Get

Brenda K. Starr

↑ 5

Peak: 24 • 13 wks • Prev: 34

30

Forever Young

Rod Stewart

↑ 5

Peak: 12 • 24 wks • Prev: 35

31

Groovy Kind Of Love

Phil Collins

↑ 11

Peak: 1 • 25 wks • Prev: 42

32

Chains Of Love

Erasure

↑ 6

Peak: 12 • 20 wks • Prev: 38

33

Never Tear Us Apart

INXS

↑ 10

Peak: 7 • 23 wks • Prev: 43

34

All Fired Up

Pat Benatar

↓ 12

Peak: 19 • 17 wks • Prev: 22

35

Hands To Heaven

Breathe

↓ 8

Peak: 2 • 29 wks • Prev: 27

36

Wild, Wild West

The Escape Club

↑ 9

Peak: 1 • 27 wks • Prev: 45

37

1-2-3

Gloria Estefan & Miami Sound Machine

↓ 6

Peak: 3 • 19 wks • Prev: 31

38

Love Will Save The Day

Whitney Houston

↓ 14

Peak: 9 • 16 wks • Prev: 24

39

Roll With It

Steve Winwood

↓ 10

Peak: 1 • 18 wks • Prev: 29

40

The Loco-Motion

Kylie Minogue

↑ 10

Peak: 3 • 27 wks • Prev: 50

41

Make Me Lose Control

Eric Carmen

↓ 8

Peak: 3 • 20 wks • Prev: 33

42

One Moment In Time

Whitney Houston

↑ 15

Peak: 5 • 17 wks • Prev: 57

43

Sign Your Name

Terence Trent D'Arby

↓ 4

Peak: 4 • 21 wks • Prev: 39

44

Time And Tide

Basia

↑ 2

Peak: 26 • 20 wks • Prev: 46

45

Hold On To The Nights

Richard Marx

↓ 5

Peak: 1 • 21 wks • Prev: 40

46

Superstitious

Europe

↑ 6

Peak: 31 • 13 wks • Prev: 52

47

I Don't Want To Be A Hero

Johnny Hates Jazz

↓ 15

Peak: 31 • 12 wks • Prev: 32

48

Spring Love (Come Back To Me)

Stevie B

↓ 4

Peak: 43 • 18 wks • Prev: 44

49

Indestructible

Four Tops

↑ 5

Peak: 35 • 11 wks • Prev: 54

50

Off On Your Own (Girl)

Al B. Sure!

↓ 1

Peak: 45 • 12 wks • Prev: 49

51

Look Out Any Window

Bruce Hornsby & The Range

↓ 10

Peak: 35 • 12 wks • Prev: 41

52

Another Lover

Giant Steps

↑ 7

Peak: 13 • 22 wks • Prev: 59

53

The Dead Heart

Midnight Oil

↑ 3

Peak: 53 • 10 wks • Prev: 56

54

Jackie

Blue Zone U.K.

↑ 9

Peak: 54 • 9 wks • Prev: 63

55

It Takes Two

Rob Base & D.J. E-Z Rock

↑ 3

Peak: 36 • 16 wks • Prev: 58

56

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

Cinderella

↑ 13

Peak: 12 • 22 wks • Prev: 69

57

Summergirls

Dino

↓ 4

Peak: 50 • 12 wks • Prev: 53

58

Kokomo (From"Cocktail" )

The Beach Boys

↑ 20

Peak: 1 • 28 wks • Prev: 78

59

How Can I Fall?

Breathe

↑ 20

Peak: 3 • 22 wks • Prev: 79

60

Sayin' Sorry (Don't Make It Right)

Denise Lopez

↓ 12

Peak: 31 • 17 wks • Prev: 48

61

Nice 'N' Slow

Freddie Jackson

↑ 3

Peak: 61 • 12 wks • Prev: 64

62

Pour Some Sugar On Me

Def Leppard

↓ 11

Peak: 2 • 24 wks • Prev: 51

63

The Rumour

Olivia Newton-John

↓ 1

Peak: 62 • 6 wks • Prev: 62

64

Dance Little Sister

Terence Trent D'Arby

↑ 17

Peak: 30 • 11 wks • Prev: 81

65

She's On The Left

Jeffrey Osborne

↑ 5

Peak: 48 • 11 wks • Prev: 70

66

Just Got Paid

Johnny Kemp

↓ 19

Peak: 10 • 21 wks • Prev: 47

67

Inside Outside

The Cover Girls

↓ 7

Peak: 55 • 13 wks • Prev: 60

68

Rag Doll

Aerosmith

↓ 13

Peak: 17 • 17 wks • Prev: 55

69

Powerful Stuff (From "Cocktail")

The Fabulous Thunderbirds

↑ 6

Peak: 65 • 7 wks • Prev: 75

70

Inside A Dream

Jane Wiedlin

↑ 6

Peak: 57 • 7 wks • Prev: 76

71

The Promise

When In Rome

↑ 2

Peak: 11 • 25 wks • Prev: 73

72

Make It Last Forever

Keith Sweat (Duet With Jacci McGhee)

↓ 5

Peak: 59 • 11 wks • Prev: 67

73

The Flame

Cheap Trick

↓ 5

Peak: 1 • 27 wks • Prev: 68

74

Long And Lasting Love (Once In A Lifetime)

Glenn Medeiros

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Peak: 68 • 10 wks • Prev: 74

75

Waiting For A Star To Fall

Boy Meets Girl

↑ 8

Peak: 5 • 25 wks • Prev: 83

76

Parents Just Don't Understand

D.J. Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince

↓ 11

Peak: 12 • 19 wks • Prev: 65

77

Don't Walk Away

Toni Childs

↓ 5

Peak: 72 • 7 wks • Prev: 72

78

Baby, I Love Your Way/Freebird Medley

Will To Power

↑ 19

Peak: 1 • 24 wks • Prev: 97

79

Heart Don't Fail Me Now

Holly Knight

↑ 7

Peak: 59 • 9 wks • Prev: 86

80

The Right Stuff

Vanessa Williams

↓ 19

Peak: 44 • 10 wks • Prev: 61

81

Strangelove

Depeche Mode

↑ 14

Peak: 50 • 15 wks • Prev: 95

82

Missed Opportunity

Daryl Hall & John Oates

↓ 16

Peak: 29 • 11 wks • Prev: 66

83

What's The Matter Here?

10,000 Maniacs

↑ 5

Peak: 80 • 8 wks • Prev: 88

84

You Came

Kim Wilde

★ NEW

Peak: 41 • 10 wks

85

Hands On The Radio

Henry Lee Summer

★ NEW

Peak: 85 • 3 wks

86

A Word In Spanish

Elton John

★ NEW

Peak: 19 • 13 wks

87

Do You Love Me

The Contours

↓ 16

Peak: 3 • 34 wks • Prev: 71

88

Say It's Gonna Rain

Will To Power

↓ 4

Peak: 49 • 14 wks • Prev: 84

89

Ship Of Fools

Robert Plant

↓ 4

Peak: 84 • 4 wks • Prev: 85

90

Pretty Boys And Pretty Girls

Book Of Love

↑ 3

Peak: 90 • 4 wks • Prev: 93

91

I Still Believe

Brenda K. Starr

↓ 11

Peak: 13 • 26 wks • Prev: 80

92

Never Let You Go

Sweet Sensation

★ NEW

Peak: 58 • 10 wks

93

The Twist

Fat Boys

↓ 16

Peak: 16 • 15 wks • Prev: 77

94

Supersonic

J.J. Fad

↓ 5

Peak: 30 • 22 wks • Prev: 89

95

I Know You're Out There Somewhere

The Moody Blues

↓ 4

Peak: 30 • 16 wks • Prev: 91

96

Edge Of A Broken Heart

Vixen

★ NEW

Peak: 26 • 21 wks

97

Button Off My Shirt

Paul Carrack

↑ 1

Peak: 91 • 3 wks • Prev: 98

98

Way Out

J.J. Fad

★ NEW

Peak: 61 • 9 wks

99

Heart Turns To Stone

Foreigner

↓ 12

Peak: 56 • 10 wks • Prev: 87

100

Better Be Home Soon

Crowded House

↓ 18

Peak: 42 • 11 wks • Prev: 82

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