AUSTRALIAN CHART BOOK’S (AMR) TOP SINGLES FOR 1988
No. Song-Artist-Peak Month 1 SIMPLY IRRESISTIBLE-ROBERT PALMER-SEPTEMBER 2 (I'VE HAD) THE TIME OF My LIFE-BILL MEDLEY & JENNIFER WARNES-February 3 THE FLAME-Cheap Trick-CHEAP TRICK-May 4 GET OUTTA MY DREAMS,GET INTO MY CAR-BILLY OCEAN-April 5 NEVER GONNA GIVE YOU UP-RICK ASTLEY-January 6 PERFECT-FAIRGROUND ATTRACTION-August 7 I SHOULD BE SO LUCKY-KYLIE MINOGUE-March 8 WHAT A WONDERFUL WORLD-Louis Armstrong-June 9 BETTER BE HOME SOON-Crowded House-July 10 HEAVEN IS A PLACE ON EARTH-Belinda Carlisle-February 11 Age Of Reason/When The War Is Over-John Farnham-August 12 Whenever You Need Somebody-Rick Astley-March 13 Don't Be Cruel-Cheap Trick-September 14 Love In The First Degree-Bananarama-April 15 All Fired Up-Pat Benatar-October 16 Faith-George Michael-January 17 Stutter Rap-Morris Minor & The Majors-May 18 Push It-Salt-n-pepa-October 19 Doctorin' The Tardis-Timelords-September 20 When Will I Be Famous?-Bros-May 21 The Only Way Is Up-Yazz & The Plastic Population-October 22 Run To Paradise-The Choirboys-January 23 A Groovy Kind Of Love-Phil Collins-November 24 Sign Your Name-Terence Trent D'Arby-May 25 Got To Be Certain-Kylie Minogue-July 26 Wanna Be Up-Chantoozies-August 27 Got My Mind Set On You-George Harrison-January 28 Underneath The Radar-Underworld-August 29 I Want You Back-Bananarama-June 30 (Sittin'on) The Dock Of The Bay-Michael Bolton-May 31 I Think We're Alone Now-Tiffany-January 32 Desire-U2-October 33 I Found Someone-Cher-May 34 Don't Worry,Be Happy-Bobby McFerrinNovember 35 Nothing's Gonna Change My Love For You-Glenn Medeiros-February 36 Could've Been-Tiffany-June 37 That's When I Think Of You-1927-October 38 Pink Cadillac-Natalie Cole-June 39 Always On My Mind-Pet Shop Boys-March 40 Tell It To My Heart-Taylor Dayne-May 41 Breakaway-Big Pig-May 42 Hungry Eyes-Eric Carmen-March 43 Fast Car-Tracy Chapman-July 44 Hazy Shade Of Winter (From'less Than Zero')-Bangles-April 45 Wild,wild West-Escape Club-November 46 Pump Up The Volume-M.a.r.s.-January 47 Motor's Too Fast-James Reyne-August 48 Drop The Boy-Bros-July 49 Make Me Lose Control-Eric Carmen-October 50 Theme From S-express-S-express-September 51 Love Is A Bridge-Little River Band-June 52 Nothing Can Divide Us-Jason Donovan-November 53 Bad Medicine-Bon Jovi-October 54 Two Strong Hearts-John Farnham-October 55 Boys Will Be Boys-Choirboys-April 56 Anything For You-Gloria Estefan & The Miami Sound Machine-September 57 Boys (Summertime Love)-Sabrina-July 58 Blue Monday 1988-New Order-June 59 Rev It Up-Jerry Harrison & The Casual Gods-May 60 I Owe You Nothing-Bros-August 61 Sweet Child O' Mine-Guns N' Roses-October 62 I Want Your Love-Transvision Vamp-November 63 Say You Will-Foreigner-February 64 New Sensation-Inxs-June 65 Father Figure-George Michael-March 66 Oh Yeah-Yello-October 67 The Perfect Day-Fischer 2-August 68 Nothin' But A Good Time-Poison-August 69 Wild World-Maxi Priest-September 70 As The Day Goes By-Daryl Braithwaite-October 71 Stop Your Fussin'-Toni Childs-October 72 Walk The Dinosaur-Was Not Was-February 73 Wonderful Life-Black-May 74 Hold Me Now-Johnny Logan-January 75 Mony Mony-Billy Idol-January 76 When I Fall In Love/My Arms Keep Missing You-Rick Astley-May 77 Endless Summer Nights-Richard Marx-June 78 Some People-Cliff Richard-April 79 When A Man Loves A Woman-Jimmy Barnes-November 80 She's Like The Wind-Patrick Swayze-April 81 Should've Known Better-Richard Marx-March 82 Groove-Eurogliders-April 83 Never Tear Us Apart-Inxs-September 84 Don't Tell Me The Time-Martha Davis-April 85 Never Can Say Goodbye-Communards-February 86 The Way You Make Me Feel-Michael Jackson-January 87 Am I Ever Gonna See Your Face Again-Angels-March 88 For You-John Denver-May 89 Hole In My Heart (All The Way To China)-Cyndi Lauper-September 90 Devil Inside-Inxs-March 91 Bring Me Some Water-Melissa Etheridge-December 92 Celebration-Dragon-February 93 If I Could-1927-December 94 Driving Wheels-Jimmy Barnes-February 95 Kokomo-The Beach Boys-December 96 Cherry Bomb-John Cougar Mellencamp-January 97 I Don't Wanna Go On With You Like That-Elton John 98 Heatseeker-Ac/dc-February-January 99 Too Much Ain't Enough Love-Jimmy Barnes 100 Fat-'weird Al' Yankovic-August 101 Don't Need Love-Johnny Diesel & The Injectors-December 102 I Still Love You (Je Na Sais Pas Pourquoi)-Kylie Minogue-December 103 So Excellent-Kylie Mole-November 104 Duke Of Earl-Dukes Of Earlwood-September 105 Touch-Noiseworks-November 106 I Saw Him Standing There-Tiffany-June 107 Monkey-George Michael-September 108 Is This Love-Whitesnake-January 109 I Quit-Bros-November 110 Just Like Paradise-David Lee Roth-March 111 She Wants To Dance With Me-Rick Astley-October