1988 Year End Charts

Top Songs of 1988
Rank	Song	Artist	Plays
1	Sweet Child O' Mine	Guns N' Roses	137
2	Heaven is a Place on Earth	Belinda Carlisle	111
3	Man in the Mirror	Michael Jackson	108
4	Kokomo	The Beach Boys	103
5	Paradise City	Guns N' Roses	102
6	If We Hold On Together	Diana Ross	96
7	Toy Soldiers	Martika	94
8	Father Figure	George Michael	92
9	The Look	Roxette	87
10	Smooth Criminal	Michael Jackson	86
11	Orinoco Flow	Enya	83
12	Love Bites	Def Leppard	81
13	As Long as You Follow	Fleetwood Mac	79
14	Cabo Wabo	Van Halen	79
15	Goodbye Horses	Psyche	78
16	The Promise	When in Rome	78
17	Never Die Young	James Taylor	75
18	Red Red Wine	UB40	74
19	Wind Beneath My Wings	Bette Midler	74
20	Think About You	Guns N' Roses	73
21	Routte 66	Depeche Mode	72
22	Just Good Frields	Michael Jackson, Stevie Wonder	72
23	Listen to Your Heart	Roxette	70
24	Walk the Dinosaur	Was (Not Was)	69
25	If You're Tarzan, I'm Jane	Martika	69
26	Nightrain	Guns N' Roses	69
27	Shattered Dreams	Johnny Hates Jazz	67
28	Dirty Diana	Michael Jackson	67
29	Cristofori's Dream	David Lanz	64
30	No Questions Asked	Fleetwood Mac	63
31	Talkin 'Bout a Revolution	Tracy Chapman	62
32	Leave Me Alone	Michael Jackson	61
33	Jane Says	Jane's Addiction	59
34	Push It	Salt-N-Pepa	58
35	Got My Mind Set on You	George Harrison	58
36	You're Crazy	Guns N' Roses	58
37	Under the Milky Way	The Church	57
38	Bad Medicine	Bon Jovi	56
39	Another Part of Me	Michael Jackson	56
40	Need You Tonight	INXS	54
41	Rag Doll	Aerosmith	54
42	Glamour Boys	Living Colour	53
43	Fuck Tha Police	N.W.A.	52
44	Monkey	George Michael	52
45	Don't Worry Be Happy	Bobby McFerrin	51
46	Walk on Water	Eddie Money	49
47	I Hate Myself for Loving You	Joan Jett & the Blackhearts	48
48	I Don't Wanna Live Without Your Love	Chicago	46
49	Express Yourself	N.W.A.	46
50	Mistletoe and Wine	Cliff Richard	44
1988
Top Albums
Rank	Album	Artist	Units (M)
1	Appetite for Destruction	Guns N' Roses	8.3
2	Straight Outta Compton	N.W.A.	6.0
3	Faith	George Michael	5.6
4	OU812	Van Halen	5.5
5	New Jersey	Bon Jovi	4.8
6	Watermark	Enya	4.0
7	Nothing's Shocking	Jane's Addiction	3.7
8	Look Sharp!	Roxette	3.6
9	Tracy Chapman	Tracy Chapman	3.3
10	Kick	INXS	3.2
Top Books
Rank	Book	Author	Units (M)
1	Alaska	James Michener	5.0
2	The Power of Myth	Joseph Campbell	3.5
3	Swan Song	Robert McCammon	3.1
4	The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People	Stephen R. Covey	2.7
5	Foucalt's Pendulum	Umberto Eco	2.6
6	The Drawing of the Three	Stephen King	2.4
7	The Satanic Verses	Salman Rushdie	2.4
8	Communion	Whitley Strieber	2.0
9	Reconstruction	Eric Foner	1.6
10	The Bonfire of the Vanities	Tom Wolfe	1.6
Top Movies
Rank	Movie		Units (M)
1	Wings of Desire		12.3
2	Empire of the Sun		12.1
3	The Land Before Time		11.7
4	Die Hard		11.6
5	Grave of the Fireflies		11.4
6	Wall Street		10.9
7	Dangerous Liasions		10.3
8	Akira		10.1
9	Who Framed Roger Rabbit		8.5
10	The Accused		8.2