BILLBOARD MAGAZINE'S (MAGAZINE'S CHART) TOP 100 ALBUMS OF 1989*
No.-Album-Artist-Label 1 DON'T BE CRUEL-BOBBY BROWN-MCA 2 HANGIN' TOUGH-NEW KIDS ON THE BLOCK-Columbia 3 FOREVER YOUR GIRL-PAULA ABDUL-Virgin 4 NEW JERSEY-BON JOVI-Mercury 5 APPETITE FOR DESTRUCTION-GUNS 'N ROSES-Geffen 6 THE RAW & THE COOKED-FINE YOUNG CANNIBALS-I.R.S. 7 G N'R LIES-GUNS 'N ROSES-Geffen 8 TRAVELING WILBURYS VOL.I-WB 9 HYSTERIA-DEF LEPPARD-Mercury 10 GIRL YOU KNOW IT'S TRUE-Milli Vanilli-Arista 11 Skid Row-Skid Row-Atlantic 12 Like A Prayer-Madonna-Sire 13 Vivid-Living Colour-Epic 14 Beaches-Soundtrack-Atlantic 15 Winger-Winger-Atlantic 16 Electric Youth-Debbie Gibson-Atlantic 17 Giving You The Best That I Got-Anita Baker-Elektra 18 Shooting Rubberbands At The Stars-Edie Brickell & New Bohemians-Geffen 19 Full Moon Fever-Tom Petty-MCA 20 Open Up And Say...Ahh!-Poison-Enigma 21 Silhouette-Kenny G.-Arista 22 Green-R.E.M.-WB 23 Loc-Ed After Dark-Tone Loc-Delicious Vinyl 24 Out Of Order-Rod Stewart-WB 25 ...And Justice For All-Metallica-Elektra 26 Repeat Offender-Richard Marx-EMI 27 Long Cold Winter-Cinderella-Mercury 28 Dirty Rotten Filthy Stinking Rich-Warrant-Columbia 29 Rattle And Hum-U2-Island 30 Karyn White-Karyn White-WB 31 Twice Shy-Great White-Capitol 32 Cocktail-Soundtrack-Elektra 33 Everything-The Bangles-Columbia 34 Guy-Guy-Uptown 35 Disintegration-The Cure-Elektra 36 It Takes Two-Rob Base and DJ E-Z Rock-Profile 37 Let's Get It Started-M.C. Hammer-Capitol 38 Sonic Temple-The Cult-Sire 39 Journey's Greatest Hits-Columbia 40 Batman Soundtrack-Prince-WB 41 Tracy Chapman-Tracy Chapman-Elektra 42 Mystery Girl-Roy Orbison-Virgin 43 Faith-George Michael-Columbia 44 A New Flame-Simply Red-Elektra 45 Eazy Duz-It-Eazy-E-Ruthless 46 Melissa Etheridge-Melissa Etheridge-Island 47 Blind Man's Zoo-10,000 Maniacs-Elektra 48 Hold On To An Old Friend's Hand-Tiffany-MCA 49 Straight Out Of Compton-N.W.A.-Ruthless 50 Heartbreak-New Edition-MCA 51 Larger Than Life-Jody Watley-MCA 52 Any Love-Luther Vandross-Epic 53 Life Is...Too Short-Too Short-Jive 54 Living Years-Mike & Mechanics-Atlantic 55 Nick Of Time-Bonnie Raitt-Capitol 56 Love And Rockets-Love And Rockets-Big Time 57 The End Of The Innocence-Don Henley-Geffen 58 Big Daddy-John Cougar Mellencamp-Polygram 59 Till I Loved You-Barbara Streisand-Columbia 60 Watermark-Enya-Geffen 61 Walking With A Panther-L.L. Cool J-Def Jam 62 Keep On Movin'-Soul//Soul-Virgin 63 Martika-Martika-Columbia 64 Tell It To My Heart-Taylor Dayne-Arista 65 Indigo Girls-Indigo Girls-Epic 66 Reach For The Sky-Ratt-Atlantic 67 See The Light-Jeff Healy Band-Arista 68 Kick-INXS-Atlantic 69 Cuts Both Ways-Gloria Estefan-Epic 70 The Great Adventures Of Slick Rick-Slick Rick-Def Jam 71 OU812-Van Halen-WB 72 Greatest Hits-Fleetwood Mac-WB 73 The Great Radio Controversy-Tesla-Geffen 74 Big Game-White Lion-Atlantic 75 Live:Delicate Sound Of Thunder-Columbia 76 American Dream-Crosby,Stills,Nash & Young-Atlantic 77 Big Tyme-Heavy D & The Boyz-MCA 78 Bulletboys-Bulletboys-WB 79 Smashes,Thrashes & Hits-Kiss-Mercury 80 Heart Of Stone-Cher-Geffen 81 Look Sharp!-Roxette-EMI 82 Spike-Elvis Costello-WB 83 Big Thing-Duran Duran-Capitol 84 The Trinity Session-Cowboy Junkies-RCA 85 The Other Side Of The Mirror-Stevie Nicks-Modern 86 5 Feet High And Rising-De La Soul-Tommy Boy 87 Roll With It-Steve Winwood-Island 88 All That Jazz-Breathe-A&M 89 Messages From The Boys-Boys-Motown 90 Cycles-The Doobie Brothers-WB 91 Vixen-Vixen-EMI 92 Time And Tide-Basia-Epic 93 No Rest For The Wicked-Ozzy Osbourne-CBS Associated 94 Hold Me In Your Arms-Rick Astley-RCA 95 Pride-White Lion-Atlantic 96 I Wanna Have Some Fun-Samantha Fox-Jive 97 Wild,Wild West-Escape Club-Arlantic 98 Ghostbusters II-Soundtrack-MCA 99 Up Your Alley-Joan Jett & Blackhearts-CBS Associated 100 What You Don't Know-Expose-Arista * As published in the December 23,1989 edition of Billboard Magazine.