List of number-one singles of 1988 (Canada)

This is a list of the weekly Canadian RPM magazine^{[n 1]} number one Top Singles chart of 1988.^{[n 2]}^{[n 3]}
identifies Canadian musical acts.

Volume:Issue	Issue Date(s)	Weeks on Top	Song	Artist
47:11-12	19 December 1987 - 9 January 1988 §	4	"Faith"	George Michael
47:13-15	16-30 January	3	"Got My Mind Set on You"	George Harrison
47:16-18	6-20 February	3	"Could've Been"	Tiffany
47:19-21	27 February - 12 March	3	"Pump Up the Volume"	M/A/R/R/S
47:22-24	19 March - 2 April	3	"Never Gonna Give You Up"	Rick Astley
47:25-26, 48:1-2	9-30 April	4	"Get Outta My Dreams, Get into My Car"	Billy Ocean
48:3-4	7-14 May	2	"Wishing Well"	Terence Trent D'Arby
48:5-6	21-28 May	2	"Always on My Mind"	Pet Shop Boys
48:7	4 June	1	"Beds Are Burning"	Midnight Oil
48:8-9	11-18 June	2	"One More Try"	George Michael
48:10-13	25 June - 16 July	4	"Together Forever"	Rick Astley
48:14	23 July	1	"New Sensation"	INXS
48:15	30 July	1	"The Flame"	Cheap Trick
48:16	6 August	1	"Roll With It"	Steve Winwood
48:17-19	13-27 August	3	"I Don't Wanna Go on with You Like That"	Elton John
48:20	3 September	1	"Fast Car"	Tracy Chapman
48:21	10 September	1	"Perfect World"	Huey Lewis and the News
48:22-23	17-24 September	2	"Monkey"	George Michael
48:24	1 October	1	"It Would Take a Strong Strong Man"	Rick Astley
48:25	8 October	1	"One Good Woman"	Peter Cetera
48:26, 49:1	15-22 October	2	"Don't Worry, Be Happy"	Bobby McFerrin
49:2-5	29 October - 12 November	3	"A Groovy Kind of Love"	Phil Collins
49:6-8†	19 November - 10 December	4	"Desire"	U2
49:9	17 December	1	"Kissing a Fool"	George Michael
49:10	24 December 1988 – 7 January 1989 ‡	3	"Look Away"	Chicago

Notes:

§ - RPM did not publish issues for the first two weeks of January 1988; weeks are implied.

† - The 26 November 1988 issue appears to be a number "6A" within volume 49.

‡ - RPM did not publish from 14 December 1988 to 14 January 1989; weeks are implied.

References

↑ The magazine's weekly record charts were digitized by the AV Trust. The collection is archived by Library and Archives Canada here.
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↑ A collection of all the .pdf files cited is available here.
↑ On 21 March 1966, the chart became the RPM 100, as expanded to the top 100 singles.

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