BILLBOARD MAGAZINE'S (MAGAZINE'S CHART) TOP 100 ALBUMS OF 1988*
No.-Album-Artist-Label 1 FAITH-GEORGE MICHAEL-COLUMBIA 2 DIRTY DANCING SOUNDTRACK-RCA 3 HYSTERIA-DEF LEPPARD-Mercury 4 KICK-INXS-Atlanric 5 BAD-MICHAEL JACKSON-Epic 6 APPETITE FOR DESTRUCTION-GUNS 'N ROSES-Geffen 7 OUT OF THE BLUE-DEBBIE GINSON-Atlantic 8 RICHARD MARX-Richard Marx-EMI 9 TIFFANY-Tiffany-MCA 10 PERMANENT VACATION-Aerosmith-Geffen 11 Introducing The Hard Line...To Terence Trent D'Arby-Columbia 12 Whitney-Whitney Houston-Arista 13 Let It Loose-Gloria Estefan-Epic 14 The Lonesome Jubilee-John Cougar Mellencamp-Mercury 15 Whenever You Need Somebody-Rick Astley-RCA 16 Tunnel Of Love-Bruce Springsteen-Columbia 17 Heaven On Earth-Belinda Carlisle-MCA 18 More Dirty Dancing-Various Artists-RCA 19 Whitesnake-Whitesnake-Geffen 20 Now And Zen-Robert Plant-Es Paranza 21 Tracy Chapman-Tracy Chapman-Elektra 22 Make It Last Forever-Keith Sweat-Vintertainment 23 Open Up And Say...Ahh!-Poison-Enigma 24 ...Nothing Like The Sun-Sting-A&M 25 A Momentary Lapse Of Reason-Pink Floyd-Columbia 26 The Joshua Tree-U2-Island 27 He's The DJ I'm The Rapper-DJ Jazzy & The Fresh Prince-Jive 28 OU812-Van Halen-Warner Brothers 29 Pride-White Lion-Atlantic 30 Diesel And Dust-Midnight Oil-Columbia 31 Cloud Nine-George Harrison-Dark Horse 32 Lap Of Luxury-Cheap Trick-Epic 33 Savage Amusement-Scorpions-Mercury 34 Roll With It-Steve Winwood-Virgin 35 Jody Watley-Jody Watley-MCA 36 Pebbles-Pebbles-MCA 37 Stronger Than Pride-Sade-Epic 38 Scenes From The Southside-Bruce Hornsby & The Range-RCA 39 Exposure-Expose-Arista 40 In Effect Mode-Al B. Sure!-Warner Brothers 41 Tell It To Your Heart-Taylor Dayne-Arista 42 Skyscraper-David Lee Roth-Warner Brothers 43 Surfing With Aliens-Joe Satriani-Relativity 44 Actually-Pet Shop Boys-EMI 45 Magic-The Jets-MCA 46 Always & Forever-Randy Travis-Warner Brothers 47 Inside Information-Foreigner-Atlantic 48 In My Tribe-10,000 Maniacs-Elektra 49 Tango In The Night-Fleetwood Mac-Warner Brothers 50 Lita-Lita Ford-RCA 51 Rapture-Anita Baker-Elektra 52 Conscious Party-Ziggy Marley & The Melody Makers-Virgin 53 Ouit Of Order-Rod Stewart-Warner Brothers 54 Long Cold Winter-Cinderella-Mercury 55 Back For The Attack-Dokken-Elektra 56 Once Bitten-Great White-Capitol 57 Hot,Cool And Vicious-Salt 'n Pepa-Next Plateau 58 Simple Pleasures-Bobby McFerrin-EMI 59 Duotones-Kenny G.-Arista 60 Heart Break-New Edition-MCA 61 Kingdom Come-Polydor 62 Good Morning,Vietnam-Soundtrack-A&M 63 Tear Down These Walls-Billy Ocean-Jive 64 Characters-Stevie Wonder-Motown 65 Reg Strikes Back-Elton John-MCA 66 Bad Animals-Heart-Capitol 67 Cher-Cher-Geffen 68 Document-R.E.M.-I.R.S. 69 Heavy Nova-Robert Palmer-EMI 70 Tougher Than Leather-Run D.M.C.-Profile 71 Vital Idol-Billy Idol-Chrysalis 72 Big Generator-Yes-Atco 73 Don't Be Cruel-Bobby Brown-MCA 74 Cocktail-Soundtrack-Elektra 75 Crazy Nights-Kiss-Mercury 76 How Ya Like Me Now-Kool Moe Doe-Jive 77 Everlasting-Natalie Cole-EMI 78 Blow Up Your Video-AC/DC-Atlantic 79 Up Your Alley-Joan Jett & the Blackhearts-CBS Associated 80 It's Better To Travel-Swing Out Sister-Mercury 81 Substance-New Order-Qwest 82 You Can Dance-Madonna-Sire 83 Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son-Iron Maiden-Capitol 84 Never Die Young-James Taylor-Columbia 85 Man Of Colours-Icehouse-Chrysalis 86 Starfish-The Church-Arista 87 Live In Australia With The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra-Elton John-MCA 88 Small World-Huey Lewis & The News-Chrysalis 89 Look What The Cat Dragged In-Poison-Enigma 90 Music For The Masses-Depeche Mode-Sire 91 Chronicles-Steve Winwood-Island 92 Robbie Robertson-Robbie Robertson-Geffen 93 Don Yeah!-Daryl Hall & John Oates-RCA 94 Naked-Talking Heads-Sire 95 The Lion And The Cobra-Sinead O'Connor-Enigma 96 Touch The World-Earth,Wind & Fire-Columbia 97 Wide Awake In Dreamland-Pat Benatar-Chrysalis 98 Slippery When Wet-Bon Jovi-Mercury 99 Even Worse-Weird Al Yankovic 100 Lovesexy-Prince-Paisley Park * As published in the December 24,1988 edition of Billboard Magazine.