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Top 100 Songs of 1988

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100
Will To Power
 - Say It's Gonna Rain
 
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99
Def Leppard
 - Hysteria
 
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98
Poison
 - Fallen Angel
 
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97
INXS
 - New Sensation
 
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96
Joan Jett
 - I Hate Myself 4 Loving U
 
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95
LL Cool J
 - Going Back To Cali
 
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94
Jody Watley
 - Some Kind Of Lover
 
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93
E.U.
 - Da Butt
 
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92
Rod Stewart
 - Forever Young
 
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91
Will To Power
 - Baby I Love Your Way/Freebird ...
 
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90
Foreigner
 - I Don't Want To Live Without Y...
 
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89
Duran Duran
 - I Don't Want Your Love
 
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88
Bobby Brown
 - Don't Be Cruel
 
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Pet Shop Boys
 - What Have I Done To Deserve Th...
 
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86
Cover Girls
 - Because Of You
 
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85
Lita Ford
 - Kiss Me Deadly
 
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Whitney Houston
 - So Emotional
 
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83
Cheap Trick
 - Don't Be Cruel
 
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82
Hall & Oates
 - Everything Your Heart Desires
 
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81
U2
 - Desire
 
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80
Johnny Hates Jazz
 - Shattered Dreams
 
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79
Eric Carmen
 - Make Me Lose Control
 
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78
New Kids On The Block
 - Please Don't Go Girl
 
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77
Bobby Brown
 - My Perogative
 
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Roger
 - I Want To Be Your Man
 
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75
Pebbles
 - Mercedes Boy
 
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74
Elton John
 - Candle In The Wind
 
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Stevie B
 - Dreaming of Love
 
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DJ Jazzy Jeff
 - Nightmare On My Street
 
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New Edition
 - If It Isn't Love
 
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70
Billy Ocean
 - Get Outta My Dreams, Get Into ...
 
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69
Van Halen
 - When It's Love
 
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68
Sa-Fire
 - Boy I've Been Told
 
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67
Richard Marx
 - Hold On To The Nights
 
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66
Miami Sound Machine
 - Can't Stay Away From You
 
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65
Al B. Sure
 - Night And Day
 
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64
Michael Jackson
 - Dirty Diana
 
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63
Rob Base
 - It Takes Two
 
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62
Whitesnake
 - Is This Love
 
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Information Society
 - What's On Your Mind
 
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Richard Marx
 - Endless Summer Nights
 
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Aerosmith
 - Angel
 
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George Harrison
 - Got My Mind Set On You
 
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Michael Jackson
 - The Way You Make Me Feel
 
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Belina Carlisle
 - I Get Weak
 
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Taylor Dayne
 - Tell It To My Heart
 
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54
Anita Baker
 - Giving You The Best
 
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JJ Fad
 - Supersonic
 
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Brenda Russell
 - Piano In The Dark
 
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Brenda K. Starr
 - I Still Believe
 
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