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George Michael had five songs on the Year-End Hot 100, including the year's number one song, "Faith". This is a list of Billboard magazine's Top Hot 100 songs of 1988 . [ 1 ] [ 2 ]
George Michael's "Faith" was the best selling single of 1988 in the United States, despite most of its weeks at number one occurring in December 1987. (It carried over into 1988 at number one as the result of a frozen chart.) 1988 is tied with 1989 for the second most #1 hits with 32 songs going to number one.
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.
July 2 – Michael Jackson with fifth single from Bad, "Dirty Diana", he broke the record to have five consecutive charting singles from same album at the top of the Billboard Hot 100, is the first artist and only male in history to achieve this.
Michael Jackson had the highest number of top hits at the Billboard Hot 100 chart during the 1980s (9 songs). In addition, Jackson remained the longest at the top of the Billboard Hot 100 chart during the 1980s (27 weeks). Madonna ranked as the most successful female artist of the 1980s, with 7 songs and 15 weeks atop the chart.
Randy Travis spent four weeks at number one in 1988. Hot Country Songs is a chart that ranks the top-performing country music songs in the United States, published by Billboard magazine. In 1988, 49 different songs topped the chart, then published under the title Hot Country Singles, in 53 issues of the magazine, based on playlists submitted by ...
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.
It was also his seventh and most recent single to reach the US top 10. The song also peaked at no. 1 in seven other countries, including Canada, where it was the country's most successful single of 1988, and at no. 3 on the UK Singles Chart, making it Ocean's sixth and final top 10 hit there.