1987 Year End Charts

Top Songs of 1987
Rank	Song	Artist	Plays
1	Livin' On a Prayer	Bon Jovi	121
2	Welcome to the Jungle	Guns N' Roses	119
3	La Bamba	Los Lobos	113
4	With or Without You	U2	113
5	Just Like Heaven	The Cure	111
6	Never Let Me Down Again	Depeche Mode	108
7	La Isla Bonita	Madonna	107
8	The Way You Make Me Feel	Michael Jackson	102
9	Pour Some Sugar on Me	Def Leppard	101
10	Where the Streets Have No Name	U2	99
11	It's the End of the World As We Know It	R.E.M.	96
12	Permanent Vacation	Aerosmith	94
13	Everywhere	Fleetwood Mac	93
14	Alone	Heart	90
15	Wanted Dead or Alive	Bon Jovi	87
16	Speed Demon	Michael Jackson	86
17	In Too Deep	Genesis	85
18	Little Lies	Fleetwood Mac	83
19	Somewhere Out There	Linda Ronstadt, James Ingram	81
20	I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For	U2	81
21	No Sleep Till Brooklyn	Beastie Boys	80
22	Animal	Def Leppard	80
23	You Got It All	The Jets	79
24	The Way It Is	Bruce Hornsby and the Range	76
25	(I Just) Died In Your Arms	Cutting Crew	74
26	Don't Dream It's Over	Crowded House	73
27	Troy	Sinead O'Connor	73
28	The One I Love	R.E.M.	72
29	Bullet the Blue Sky	U2	72
30	A Question of Lust	Depeche Mode	70
31	Throwing It All Away	Genesis	69
32	One Slip	Pink Floyd	69
33	I Just Can’t Stop Loving You	Michael Jackson, Siedah Garrett	68
34	Paul Revere	Beastie Boys	68
35	Jackie	Sinead O'Connor	68
36	Girlfriend in a Coma	The Smiths	67
37	Love Is You	Santana	67
38	Didn't We Almost Have It All	Whitney Houston	65
39	Summoning of the Muse	Dead Can Dance	65
40	Dude (Looks Like A Lady)	Aerosmith	64
41	Strangelove	Depeche Mode	64
42	Bad	Michael Jackson	62
43	City of Lights	Van Dyke Parks (The Brave Little Toaster)	62
44	Everlasting Love	Sandra	59
45	All My Ex's Live in Texas	George Strait	59
46	Girls, Girls, Girls	Motley Crue	58
47	Learning to Fly	Pink Floyd	57
48	Housequake	Prince	57
49	Heart's Done Time	Aerosmith	57
50	Little 15	Depeche Mode	56
1987
Top Albums
Rank	Album	Artist	Units (M)
1	The Joshua Tree	U2	8.0
2	Bad	Michael Jackson	7.8
3	Hysteria	Def Leppard	7.2
4	Slippery When Wet	Bon Jovi	7.1
5	Licensed to Ill	Beastie Boys	6.9
6	A Momentary Lapse of Reason	Pink Floyd	5.4
7	Permanent Vacation	Aerosmith	4.9
8	Music for the Masses	Depeche Mode	4.8
9	Sign O' the Times	Prince	4.5
10	Invisible Touch	Genesis	4.2
Top Books
Rank	Book	Author	Units (M)
1	The Eyes of the Dragon	Stephen King	2.9
2	The Great Cosmic Mother	Monica Sjoo	2.6
3	Eva Luna	Isabel Allende	2.3
4	The Prince of Tides	Pat Conroy	2.3
5	Presumed Innocent	Scott Turow	2.2
6	The Tommyknockers	Stephen King	2.0
7	Lonesome Dove	Larry McMurtry	1.7
8	The Making of the Atomic Bomb	Richard Rhodes	1.6
9	Beloved	Toni Morrisson	1.4
10	Chaos	James Gleick	1.4
Top Movies
Rank	Movie		Units (M)
1	The Princess Bride		13.2
2	Platoon		12.7
3	Blue Velvet		10.8
4	The Brave Little Toaster		10.4
5	The Untouchables		9.7
6	Full Metal Jacket		9.2
7	An American Tail		8.6
8	Children of a Lesser God		7.9
9	Fatal Attraction		7.7
10	Down by Law		7.3