1987 Top Ten Music Charts

1987’s Biggest Artists and Songs

Bruce Hornsby and the Range (1986 Best New Artist Grammy Winner, presented in 1987)
Paul Simon (Grammy for Album of the Year)
Higher Love – Steve Winwood (Grammy for Record of the Year)
New Artists in the Pop Charts Included:
LL Cool J, Patty Smyth, Pepsi and Shirlie, New Order, Will ToPower, The Fat Boys, The Beastie Boys, Poison, Samantha Fox, SuzanneVega and Tiffany

1987’s Retro Top 10 Hits

1. Oh Yeah – Yello
2. At This Moment – Billy Vera and the Beaters
3. Shake You Down – Gregory Abbott
4. The Lady In Red – Chris DeBurgh
5. Catch Me (I’m Falling) – Pretty Poison
6. Shake Your Love – Debbie Gibson
7. Lost In Emotion – Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam
8. I Want Your Sex – George Michael
9. La Isla Bonita – Madonna
10. Sign ‘O’ The Times – Prince

1987’s ‘One Hit Wonders’

1. Oh Yeah – Yello
2. Heat and Soul – T’Pau
3. Boom Boom Boom (Let’s Go Back to My Room) – Paul Lekakis
4. Serious – Donna Allen
5. The Honeythief – Hipsway
6. Keep Your Hands To Yourself – Georgia Satellites
7. Fascinated – Company B
8. Don’t Leave Me This Way – The Communards
9. Right on Track – The Breakfast Club
10. Montego Bay – Amazulu

1987’s Dance Top 10 Hit List

1. I Wanna Dance With Somebody Who Loves Me – Whitney Houston
2. It’s Tricky – Run-D.M.C.
3. Bad – Michael Jackson
4. Fascinated – Company B
5. Lean On Me – Club Nouveau
6. Come Go With Me – Expose
7. Brass Monkey – Beastie Boys
8. Serious – Donna Allen
9. Looking For A New Love – Jodi Watley
10. Boom Boom Boom (Let’s Go Back To My Room) – Paul Lekakis

More of 1987’s Dance Top Hits

Living In A Box – Living In A Box
Show Me – Cover Girls

1987’s Pop Rock Top 10 Hit List

1. Living On A Prayer – Bon Jovi
2. You Gotta Fight For Your Right (To Party) – Beastie Boys
3. I Still haven’t Found What I Was Looking For – U2
4. Wanted Dead Or Alive – Bon Jovi
5. Keep Our hands To Yourself – Georgia Satellites
6. Faith – George Michael
7. Brilliant Disguise – Bruce Springsteen
8. Midnight Blue – Lou Gramm
9. La Bamba – Los Lobos
10. Right On Track – The Breakfast Club

1987’s Alternative Pop Rock Top 10 Hit List

1. True Faith – New Order
2. The One I Love – R.E.M.
3. Don’t Give Up – Peter Gabriel and Kate Bush
4. Why Can’t I Be You? – The Cure
5. Funky Town – Pseudo Echo
6. Heart and Soul – T’Pau
7. Since You’ve Been Gone – The Outfield
8. Luka – Suzanne Vega
9. Don’t Leave Me This Way – The Communards
10. World Shut Your Mouth – Julian Cope

More of 1987’s Alternative Pop Songs

I’m Not Perfect But I’m Perfect For You – Grace Jones

1987’s Album Rock Top 10 Hit List

1. Girls, Girls, Girls – Motley Crue
2. Talk Dirty To Me – Poison
3. Where The Streets Have No Name – U2
4. I’m No Angel – Gregg Allman Band
5. Touch of Grey – Grateful Dead
6. Here I Go Again – Whitesnake
7. Back In The High Life Again – Steve Winwood
8. Tonight, Tonight, Tonight – Genesis
9. The Final Countdown – Europe
10. Land of Confusion – Genesis

More of 1987’s Album Rock Hits

Rock Me – Great White
Smoking Gun – The Robert Cray Band
The Boy In The Bubble – Paul Simon

1987’s Bubblegum Pop Music Top Ten

1. Lean On Me – Club Nouveau
2. Only In My Dreams – Debbie Gibson
3. I Think We’re Alone Now – Tiffany
4. Faith – George Michael
5. C’est La Vie – Robbie Neille
6. You Got It All – The Jets
7. We Connect – Stacy Q
8. You Can Call Me Al – Paul Simon
9. Head To Toe – Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam
10. Somewhere Out There – Linda Ronstadt and James Ingram

PCM’s 1987 Top 10 Hit List

1. Living On A Prayer – Bon Jovi
2. Mony Mony – Billy Idol (1st released in 1981)
3. (I’ve Had) The Time Of My Life – Bill Medley and Jennifer Warnes
4. Lean On Me – Club Nouveau
5. Songbird – Kenny G
6. Always – Atlantic Starr
7. Oh Yeah – Yello
8. La Bamba – Los Lobos
9. You Can Call Me Al – Paul Simon
10. With Or Without You – U2