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No. Title Artist(s) 1 "Faith" George Michael: 2 "Need You Tonight" INXS: 3 "Got My Mind Set on You" George Harrison: 4 "Never Gonna Give You Up" Rick Astley: 5 "Sweet Child o' Mine" Guns N' Roses
These are the Billboard magazine Hot 100 number one hits of 1988. The Billboard Hot 100 is a chart that ranks the best-performing singles of the United States. Published by Billboard magazine, the data are based collectively on each single's weekly physical sales, and airplay.
This is a list of singles that have peaked in the top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100 during 1988.. 122 songs were in the top ten in 1988, only 113 of them peaked in 1988 (the other nine peaked in either 1987 or 1989). 33 singles hit number one that year, tying with 1989 with the second most number one songs in a year.
Terence Trent D'Arby (pictured in 2003) was one of many artists to top the chart for the first time in 1988.. Billboard published a weekly chart in 1988 ranking the top-performing singles in the United States in African American–oriented genres; the chart's name has changed over the decades to reflect the evolution of black music and has been published as Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs since 2005. [1]
George Michael has topped the Billboard Year-End of 1988 charts in the U.S. with his album Faith and single of the same title. According to RIAA, he was the top-selling artist of the year 1988 in the United States. The highest-selling albums and EPs in the United States are ranked in the Billboard 200, which is published by Billboard magazine.
When introduced by Billboard in March 1981, the Mainstream Rock chart was entitled Top Tracks and designed to measure the airplay of songs being played on album-oriented rock radio stations. The chart has undergone several name changes over the years, first to Top Rock Tracks in September 1984 and then to Album Rock Tracks in April 1986.
In 1988, Billboard magazine published a chart ranking the top-performing songs in the United States in the adult contemporary music (AC) market. The chart, which in 1988 was published under the title Hot Adult Contemporary, has undergone various name changes during its history but has been published as Adult Contemporary since 1996. [1]
The Modern Rock Tracks chart debuted in the September 10, 1988, issue of Billboard, with the inaugural number-one song being "Peek-a-Boo" by the English band Siouxsie and the Banshees. [1] Upon its debut, several publications noted the presence of more independent artists on Modern Rock Tracks compared to its companion chart, Album Rock Tracks.