| Pos | LW | Weeks | Song | Artist | |
| 1 | 1 | 8 | Boom Boom (Let’s Go Back to My Room) | – | Paul Lekakis |
| 2 | 2 | 11 | Sometimes | – | Erasure |
| 3 | 3 | 9 | All I Ask of You | – | Cliff Richard & Sarah Brightman |
| 4 | 6 | 8 | Is This Love? | – | Alison Moyet |
| 5 | 5 | 10 | (I Just) Died in Your Arms | – | Cutting Crew |
| 6 | 4 | 15 | The Final Countdown | – | Europe |
| 7 | 8 | 12 | Hi! Hi! Hi! | – | Sandra |
| 8 | 9 | 12 | Geronimo’s Cadillac | – | Modern Talking |
| 9 | 7 | 19 | Everybody Have Fun Tonight | – | Wang Chung |
| 10 | 10 | 8 | French Kissing in the U.S.A. | – | Debbie Harry |
| 11 | 11 | 21 | Two of Hearts | – | Stacey Q |
| 12 | 12 | 7 | Shake You Down | – | Gregory Abbott |
| 13 | 13 | 13 | Forever Live and Die | – | Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark |
| 14 | 18 | 3 | Everything I Own | – | Boy George |
| 15 | 16 | 6 | Caravan of Love | – | Lovemasters |
| 16 | 14 | 20 | A Matter of Trust | – | Billy Joel |
| 17 | 17 | 11 | I Knew You Were Waiting (for Me) | – | George Michael & Aretha Franklin |
| 18 | 15 | 10 | You Give Love a Bad Name | – | Bon Jovi |
| 19 | 20 | 5 | Cry Wolf | – | A-Ha |
| 20 | 22 | 4 | The Great Pretender | – | Freddie Mercury |
| 21 | 19 | 8 | Montego Bay | – | Amazulu |
| 22 | 23 | 4 | Hymn to Her | – | Pretenders |
| 23 | 24 | 3 | C’est La Vie | – | Robbie Nevil |
| 24 | 25 | 2 | Livin’ on a Prayer | – | Bon Jovi |
| 25 | 26 | 2 | Don’t Forget Me (When I’m Gone) | – | Glass Tiger |
| 26 | 21 | 15 | I’ll be Over You | – | Toto |
| 27 | 29 | 3 | Thorn in My Side | – | Eurythmics |
| 28 | New | 1 | Lady Soul | – | Temptations |
| 29 | 27 | 21 | Walk Like an Egyptian | – | Bangles |
| 30 | 28 | 25 | Oh L’Amour | – | Erasure |
Paul Lekakis enjoyed a 3rd week at 1 with ‘Boom Boom (Let’s Go Back To My Room)’ while Erasure’s ‘Sometimes’ spent a 6th consecutive week at 2. No song had every got to number 1 after spending 6 straight weeks at 2.
Boy George picked up the climber of the week award for a second week running as his ‘Everything I Own’ moved up a further 4 places from 18 to 14. This would be the climber in the top 20 and the top 30 and would also be the only star rater we would see this week.
The faller of the week was Toto’s ‘I’ll Be Over You’ which dropped 5 from 21 to 26. This was their 5th time with the award. So far 72 acts had seen 5 or more fallers. Within the top 20 it was Bon Jovi’s ‘You Give Love A Bad Name’ which had the biggest faller as it dropped 3 from 15 to 18.
Amazulu’s ‘Montego Bay’ dropped out of the top 20 giving way to Freddie Mercury’s ‘The Great Pretender’ which moved up from 22 to 20. This meant that Wang Chung’s ‘Everybody Have Fun Tonight’ and Stacey Q’s ‘Two Of Hearts’ continued their run as the oldest in the top 20. Both songs had been in the top 20 for 17 weeks.
We lost Huey Lewis & The News’ ‘Hip To Be Square’ from the top 30. It had seen a run of 10 weeks and peaked at 20. They still had 1 more hit to come. This was the only song leaving the charts this week so Erasure’s ‘Oh L’Amour’ enjoyed a second week as the oldest in the top 20 as it ticked over to 25 weeks.
The new entry was a 3rd chart hit for The Temptations in the form of ‘Lady Soul’ which arrived at number 28 this week. The song was written by an Australian guy called Mark Holden who would end up being one of the judges on the Australian Idol TV show. It would give The Temptations a number 47 hit in the US and at the time of writing this, was their last Billboard Hot 100 hit. It proved popular in Zimbabwe where it got to number 2. The Radio 5 DJs liked it as it got to 7 on their charts and the Capital 604 DJs sent it to 18 on their charts, but it did not make the 702 charts.
This week saw a record equalling 5 consecutive weeks where the number of hits by UK acts in the charts equalled those by US acts. The run began with both nations having 11 hits and then for 4 weeks running they both had 12. This was the 3rd time we had seen a 5 week run with the 2 nations both having the same number of hits.
Billy Joel’s ‘A Matter Of Trust’ became the 171st song to reach 20 week in the charts. This moved Joel on to 118 weeks in total and put him tied 18th overall, pulling level with Creedence Clearwater Revival.
Modern Talking moved on to 128 weeks and sat 13th, 2 weeks behind 12th placed Boney M. This meant that Olivia Newton-John, who had shared 13th place with Modern Talking last week, dropped to 14th. Meanwhile George Michael saw his total weeks count hit the 60 mark. He was the 82nd act to get to this total.
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