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List of Billboard number-one dance singles of 1988

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Billboard magazine compiled the top-performing dance singles in the United States on the Hot Dance Music Club Play chart and the Hot Dance Music 12-inch Singles Sales chart. Premiered in 1976, the Club Play chart ranked the most-played singles on dance club based on reports from a national sample of club DJs. The 12-inch Singles Sales chart was launched in 1985 to compile the best-selling dance singles based on retail sales across the United States.

Charts history

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Chart history
Issue date Hot Dance Music Club Play Hot Dance Music 12-inch Singles Sales Ref.
Title Artist(s) Title Artist(s)
January 2 "So Emotional" Whitney Houston "System of Survival" (Remix) Earth, Wind & Fire [1][2]
January 9 "I'm Beggin' You" Supertramp [3][4]
January 16 "Never Gonna Give You Up" Rick Astley "Never Gonna Give You Up" Rick Astley [5][6]
January 23 "What Have I Done to Deserve This?" Pet Shop Boys and Dusty Springfield [7][8]
January 30 "The Way You Make Me Feel" Michael Jackson [9][10]
February 6 You Can Dance (all cuts) Madonna [11][12]
February 13 "Some Kind of Lover" Jody Watley "Some Kind of Lover" (Remix) Jody Watley [13][14]
February 20 "I Want to Be Your Property" Blue Mercedes [15][16]
February 27 [17][18]
March 5 "Tramp" / "Push It" Salt-N-Pepa [19][20]
March 12 [21][22]
March 19 "Thinking of You" Earth, Wind & Fire "Girlfriend" Pebbles [23][24]
March 26 "Perfect Lover" Company B [25][26]
April 2 "Don't Look Any Further" Kane Gang "Father Figure" George Michael [27][28]
April 9 "Pink Cadillac" Natalie Cole "Thinking of You" (Remix) Earth, Wind & Fire [29][30]
April 16 "Don't Make a Fool of Yourself" (Remix) Stacey Q [31][32]
April 23 "Prove Your Love" Taylor Dayne "Out of the Blue" (Remix) Debbie Gibson [33][34]
April 30 "Blue Monday 1988"/
"Touched by the Hand of God"		 New Order "Nightime" (Remix) Pretty Poison [35][36]
May 7 "Adventure" Eleanor [37][38]
May 14 "Instinctual" Imagination "Naughty Girls" (Remix) / "I Surrender (To the Spirit of the Night)" Samantha Fox [39][40]
May 21 "Like a Child" Noel "Nite and Day" Al B. Sure! [41][42]
May 28 "Together Forever" Rick Astley "Just Got Paid" Johnny Kemp [43][44]
June 4 "Divine Emotions" Narada [45][46]
June 11 "The Promise" When in Rome [47][48]
June 18 "Just Got Paid" Johnny Kemp "Mercedes Boy" Pebbles [49][50]
June 25 "Trouble" Nia Peeples [51][52]
July 2 "Theme from S-Express" S'Express "Supersonic" J.J. Fad [53][54]
July 9 [55][56]
July 16 "What's on Your Mind (Pure Energy)" Information Society "Sayin' Sorry (Don't Make It Right)" Denise Lopez [57][58]
July 23 [59][60]
July 30 "Beat Dis" Bomb the Bass "The Right Stuff" Vanessa Williams [61][62]
August 6 "K.I.S.S.I.N.G." Siedah Garrett [63][64]
August 13 "The Right Stuff" Vanessa Williams "K.I.S.S.I.N.G." Siedah Garrett [65][66]
August 20 "Love Will Save the Day" Whitney Houston "Shake Your Thang" Salt-N-Pepa [67][68]
August 27 "Say It's Gonna Rain" Will to Power [69][70]
September 3 "Monkey" (Remix) George Michael [71][72]
September 10 "Never Let You Go" Sweet Sensation [73][74]
September 17 "Monkey" George Michael [75][76]
September 24 "Never Let You Go" Sweet Sensation [77][78]
October 1 "Sendin' All My Love" The Jets [79][80]
October 8 "Got a New Love" Good Question [81][82]
October 15 "Big Fun" Inner City [83][84]
October 22 "Spy in the House of Love" Was (Not Was) "Chains of Love" Erasure [85][86]
October 29 "Big Fun" Inner City [87][88]
November 5 "In the Name of Love '88" Thompson Twins [89][90]
November 12 "Break 4 Love" Raze [91][92]
November 19 "Just Wanna Dance"/"Weekend" The Todd Terry Project "Break 4 Love" Raze [93][94]
November 26 "Out of Time" Noel [95][96]
December 3 "I Don't Want Your Love" Duran Duran "The Way You Love Me" Karyn White [97][98]
December 10 "The Great Commandment" Camouflage [99][100]
December 17 "Hustle! (To the Music...)" The Funky Worm "Don't Rock The Boat" Midnight Star [101][102]
December 24 "The Great Commandment" Camouflage "Tumblin' Down" Ziggy Marley & The Melody Makers [103][104]
December 31 [105][106]
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