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Walk Like an Egyptian" by The Bangles was the number one song of 1987. Madonna had four songs on the Year-End Hot 100, the most of any artist in 1987. This is a list of Billboard magazine's Top Hot 100 songs of 1987 .
These are the Billboard Hot 100 number-one hits of 1987. The longest running number-one singles of 1987 are " Livin' on a Prayer " by Bon Jovi and " Faith " by George Michael which each logged four weeks at number one.
All three acts reached the top ten of the Hot 100 in 1987, with the latter two topping the chart with their respective singles "Here I Go Again" and "Livin' on a Prayer". [4] Urban contemporary music also reached a wider audience, with artists such as Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam and Exposé scoring several top ten hits.
Hot Country Songs is a chart that ranks the top-performing country music songs in the United States, published by Billboard magazine. In 1987, 50 different songs topped the chart, then published under the title Hot Country Singles, in 52 issues of the magazine, based on playlists submitted by country music radio stations and sales reports ...
The 12-inch Singles Sales chart was launched in 1985 to compile the best-selling dance singles based on retail sales across the United States. The word "disco" was removed from the title of the section of both charts beginning on September 19, 1987. Billboard retitled the section Hot Dance Music on October 24, 1987. [1] [2]
During the 1980s the chart was based collectively on each single's weekly physical sales figures and airplay on American radio stations. George Michael was the only artist to achieve two year-end Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles in the 1980s. He achieved this with his songs "Faith" and "Careless Whisper".
Lisa Lisa (pictured in 1987) gained her first number one, along with Cult Jam, with "Head to Toe". Billboard published a weekly chart in 1987 ranking the top-performing singles in the United States in African American-oriented genres ; the chart has undergone various name changes over the decades to reflect the evolution of black music and has been published as Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs since 2005 ...
List of Billboard 200 number-one albums of 1987; List of Cash Box Top 100 number-one singles of 1987; List of Dutch Top 40 number-one singles of 1987; List of number-one singles of 1987 (France) List of Hot Adult Contemporary number ones of 1987; List of Hot Country Singles number ones of 1987; List of number-one dance singles of 1987 (U.S.)