21 January 1988

Pos	LW	Weeks	Song		Artist
1	1	16	Never Gonna Give You Up	–	Rick Astley
2	2	7	(I’ve Had) The Time of My Life	–	Bill Medley & Jennifer Warnes
3	3	15	You Win Again	–	Bee Gees
4	4	8	Faith	–	George Michael
5	8	10	Mony Mony	–	Billy Idol
6	6	20	La Bamba	–	Los Lobos
7	5	14	Bad	–	Michael Jackson
8	9	11	Paper in Fire	–	John Cougar
9	7	7	My Kind of Girl	–	Cinema
10	11	7	Barcelona	–	Freddie Mercury & Montserrat Caballé
11	10	16	Call Me	–	Spagna
12	14	13	Crazy	–	Icehouse
13	12	17	Funky Town	–	Pseudo Echo
14	16	10	Mary’s Prayer	–	Danny Wilson
15	15	22	It’s a Sin	–	Pet Shop Boys
16	27	9	What Have I Done to Deserve This	–	Pet Shop Boys & Dusty Springfield
17	13	23	I Just Can’t Stop Loving You	–	Michael Jackson
18	19	3	Always on My Mind	–	Pet Shop Boys
19	21	17	Wishing Well (A Tone Poem)	–	Terence Trent D’Arby
20	23	10	Heart and Soul	–	T’Pau
21	26	6	Come On, Let’s Go	–	Los Lobos
22	17	9	Causing a Commotion	–	Madonna
23	24	3	Whenever You Need Somebody	–	Rick Astley
24	25	5	Beethoven (I Love to Listen to)	–	Eurythmics
25	29	7	Brilliant Disguise	–	Bruce Springsteen
26	20	13	Scales of Justice	–	Living in a Box
27	30	12	My Pretty One	–	Cliff Richard
28	28	19	Always	–	Atlantic Starr
29	18	7	Persona Non Grata	–	Gino Vannelli
30	22	2	Little Lies	–	Fleetwood Mac

Of the 19 songs that had straddled a year end at number 1 so far, 6 had gone on to spend 3 or more weeks at the top of the charts in the new year. To that number we now added Rick Astley’s ‘Never Gonna Give You Up’ which spent its 5^th week at 1 overall and its 3^rd week there in 1988. ‘(I’ve Had) The Time Of My Life’ by Jennifer Warnes and Bill Medley lurked at 2 for a second week.

After dropping 7 places last week, the Pet Shop Boys and Dusty Springfield’s ‘What Have I Done To Deserve This’ bounced back with the biggest climb this week as it moved back up 11 places from 27 to 16. This was the second time the song had managed a climb of 10 or more places and this was the third song to manage this with The Commodores’ ‘Three Times A Lady’ (the only one to do it in the top 20 era) and Carly Simon’s ‘Coming Around Again’ being the previous ones to do so. The Pet Shop Boys and Dusty Springfield were the 15^th and 16^th acts to see 2 climbs of 10 or more in a week. Also making star rater climbs were Los Lobos’ ‘Come On Let’s Go’ (up 5 from 26 to 21) and Bruce Springsteen’s ‘Brilliant Disguise’ (up 4 from 29 to 25). Billy Idol’s ‘Mony Mony’ took the climber within the top 20 award as it moved up 3 from 8 to 5.

After making a good recovery last week, Gina Vannelli’s ‘Persona Non Grata’ ended up being the faller of the week this week as it dropped 11 from 18 to 29. This was the 20^th fall of 11 or more and it would be the last time a Canadian act would take the faller award. They had seen the award a total of 30 times and ‘Persona Non Grata’s 11 place fall would be the all-time biggest fall a song by a Canadian act would see, beating the 9 place fall by Paul Anka and Odia Coates’ ‘(I Believe) There’s Nothing Stronger Than Our Love’ and Anne Murray’s ‘You Needed Me’. We would see a 10 place fall by a Canadian song, although that would not be the biggest faller that week.

The biggest fall within the top 20 was Michael Jackson’s ‘I Just Can’t Stop Loving You’ which dropped 4 from 13 to 17. It and ‘It’s A Sin’ were still the oldest in the top 20, enjoying their 21^st week in that part of the chart and their 6^th as the oldest in the top 20. ‘I Just Can’t Stop Loving You’ also enjoyed its 3^rd week as the oldest in the overall chart as it moved on to 23 weeks.

Prior to this week, there had been 4 times we had seen 2 re-entries into the top 20 in a week, but this week set the all-time record of 3 with ‘What Have I Done To Deserve This’ (biggest climber discussed above) being joined in getting back into the top 20 by Terence Trent D’Arby’s ‘Wishing Well’ and T’Pau’s ‘Heart And Soul’. Apart from ‘Persona Non Grata’ we also saw Madonna’s ‘Causing A Commotion’ and Living In A Box’s ‘Scales Of Justice’ leave the top 20. ‘Scales Of Justice’ had spent just 1 week at 20 and it was the 6^th song in the top 30 era to have a top 20 run of just 1 week at the lowest position. In total 41 songs had spent 1 week at 20.

The week gave us the 35^th time there was no movement on or off the charts.

The Pet Shop Boys gave us the 57^th time we saw an act with hits in adjacent positions on the chart with ‘It’s A Sin’ sitting at 15 and ‘What Have I Done To Deserve This’ at 16. And they came desperately close to being the first act to have 3 songs in adjacent positions as their ‘Always On My Mind’ was at 18, separated from their other 2 hits by Michael Jackson’s ‘I Just Can’t Stop Loving You’ which sat at 17.

Madonna had now seen a run of 30 weeks in the chart. This run started with 9 weeks of ‘La Isla Bonita’, then this was joined by ‘Who’s That Girl’ for 4 weeks before ‘La Isla Bonita’ left the charts and we had 8 weeks of just ‘Who’s That Girl’. The arrival of ‘Causing A Commotion’ started a run of 7 weeks with these 2 in the charts and we had now had 2 weeks with just ‘Causing A Commotion’. This was Madonna’s 3^rd run of at least 30 consecutive weeks featuring in the chart and she would be the only act who would manage 3 such runs.

Michael Jackson moved into 6^th place on the top 20 weeks count as he leapfrogged Neil Diamond. His 2 songs in the top 20 moved him from 140 to 142 weeks, causing Diamond on 141 weeks to drop into 7^th place. Jackson was also enjoying his 14^th week with 2 in the top 20 and he was the 4^th act after Four Jacks & A Jill, Pussycat and The Bee Gees to reach this total.

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