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Walk Like an Egyptian" by The Bangles was the number one song of 1987. Madonna had four songs on the Year-End Hot 100, the most of any artist in 1987. This is a list of Billboard magazine's Top Hot 100 songs of 1987. [1] [2]
Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles 1955-2008, 12 Edition (ISBN 0-89820-180-2) Joel Whitburn Presents the Billboard Hot 100 Charts: The Eighties (ISBN 0-89820-079-2) Additional information obtained can be verified within Billboard's online archive services and print editions of the magazine.
All three acts reached the top ten of the Hot 100 in 1987, with the latter two topping the chart with their respective singles "Here I Go Again" and "Livin' on a Prayer". [4] Urban contemporary music also reached a wider audience, with artists such as Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam and Exposé scoring several top ten hits. [4]
Michael Jackson had the highest number of top hits at the Billboard Hot 100 chart during the 1980s (9 songs). In addition, Jackson remained the longest at the top of the Billboard Hot 100 chart during the 1980s (27 weeks). Madonna ranked as the most successful female artist of the 1980s, with 7 songs and 15 weeks atop the chart.
Billboard magazine compiled the top-performing dance singles in the United States on the Hot Dance/Disco Club Play chart and the Hot Dance/Disco 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.
Lisa Lisa (pictured in 1987) gained her first number one, along with Cult Jam, with "Head to Toe". Billboard published a weekly chart in 1987 ranking the top-performing singles in the United States in African American-oriented genres ; the chart has undergone various name changes over the decades to reflect the evolution of black music and has been published as Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs since 2005 ...
A. A cause des garçons; À la vie, à l'amour (song) Absolutely Immune; Acuerdate de Mi; Addiction (Skinny Puppy song) Adultery (song) Again (Shizuka Kudo song)
During 1987, thirty-one different songs reached number one. Bruce Hornsby and the Range achieved the first number-one single of the year, "The Way It Is", while George Michael became the final musician to peak at the top spot during the year with "Faith".