List of Billboard Hot 100 number ones of 1987

Bon Jovi (pictured) earned their second Hot 100 number-one single with "Livin' on a Prayer", which stayed at the top position for four straight weeks.

These are the Billboard Hot 100 number-one hits of 1987. The longest running number-one singles of 1987 are "Livin' on a Prayer" by Bon Jovi and "Faith" by George Michael which each logged four weeks at number one. "Walk Like an Egyptian" was number one for the last two weeks of 1986 and the first two of 1987, and "Faith" attained three weeks at number one in 1987 and one week in 1988, giving both songs four weeks at the top.

That year, 16 acts earned their first number one song, such as Gregory Abbott, Billy Vera and the Beaters, Club Nouveau, Cutting Crew, U2, Kim Wilde, Atlantic Starr, Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam, Bob Seger, Los Lobos, Siedah Garrett, Whitesnake, Tiffany, Billy Idol, Bill Medley (his first as a solo artist after recording with The Righteous Brothers), and Belinda Carlisle. Madonna, George Michael, U2, Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam, Whitney Houston, and Michael Jackson were the only acts to hit number one more than once, with each of them hitting twice.

Chart history

Key

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Indicates best-performing single of 1987

An asterisk (*) by a date indicates an unpublished, "frozen" week, due to the special double issues that Billboard published in print at the end of the year for their year-end charts.

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617	January 3*	"Walk Like an Egyptian"Template:Dagger	The Bangles	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
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618	January 17	"Shake You Down"	Gregory Abbott	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
619	January 24	"At This Moment"	Billy Vera and the Beaters	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>Template:Cite newsTemplate:Dead linkTemplate:Cbignore</ref>
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620	February 7	"Open Your Heart"	Madonna	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>Template:Cite newsTemplate:Dead linkTemplate:Cbignore</ref>
621	February 14	"Livin' on a Prayer"	Bon Jovi	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>Template:Cite newsTemplate:Dead linkTemplate:Cbignore</ref>
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622	March 14	"Jacob's Ladder"	Huey Lewis and the News	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>Template:Cite newsTemplate:Dead linkTemplate:Cbignore</ref>
623	March 21	"Lean on Me"	Club Nouveau	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
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624	April 4	"Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now"	Starship	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>Template:Cite newsTemplate:Dead linkTemplate:Cbignore</ref>
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625	April 18	"I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me)"	Aretha Franklin and George Michael	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>Template:Cite newsTemplate:Dead linkTemplate:Cbignore</ref>
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626	May 2	"(I Just) Died in Your Arms"	Cutting Crew	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>Template:Cite newsTemplate:Dead linkTemplate:Cbignore</ref>
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627	May 16	"With or Without You"	U2	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
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628	June 6	"You Keep Me Hangin' On"	Kim Wilde	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
629	June 13	"Always"	Atlantic Starr	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref>
630	June 20	"Head to Toe"	Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>Template:Cite newsTemplate:Dead linkTemplate:Cbignore</ref><ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref>
631	June 27	"I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)"	Whitney Houston	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>Template:Cite newsTemplate:Dead linkTemplate:Cbignore</ref><ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref>
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632	July 11	"Alone"	Heart	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref>
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633	August 1	"Shakedown"	Bob Seger	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>Template:Cite newsTemplate:Dead linkTemplate:Cbignore</ref>
634	August 8	"I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For"	U2	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>Template:Cite newsTemplate:Dead linkTemplate:Cbignore</ref>
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635	August 22	"Who's That Girl"	Madonna	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
636	August 29	"La Bamba"	Los Lobos	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>Template:Cite newsTemplate:Dead linkTemplate:Cbignore</ref>
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637	September 19	"I Just Can't Stop Loving You"	Michael Jackson with Siedah Garrett	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
638	September 26	"Didn't We Almost Have It All"	Whitney Houston	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
	October 3			<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>Template:Cite newsTemplate:Dead linkTemplate:Cbignore</ref>
639	October 10	"Here I Go Again"	Whitesnake	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
640	October 17	"Lost in Emotion"	Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>Template:Cite newsTemplate:Dead linkTemplate:Cbignore</ref>
641	October 24	"Bad"	Michael Jackson	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>Template:Cite newsTemplate:Dead linkTemplate:Cbignore</ref>
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642	November 7	"I Think We're Alone Now"	Tiffany	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>Template:Cite newsTemplate:Dead linkTemplate:Cbignore</ref>
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643	November 21	"Mony Mony"	Billy Idol	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>Template:Cite newsTemplate:Dead linkTemplate:Cbignore</ref>
644	November 28	"(I've Had) The Time of My Life"	Bill Medley and Jennifer Warnes	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
645	December 5	"Heaven Is a Place on Earth"	Belinda Carlisle	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
646	December 12	"Faith"	George Michael	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>Template:Cite newsTemplate:Dead linkTemplate:Cbignore</ref>
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Number-one artists

List of number-one artists by total weeks at number one

Position	Artist	Weeks at No. 1
1	George Michael	5
	U2
3	Bon Jovi	4
	Whitney Houston
5	Heart	3
	Los Lobos
	Michael Jackson
8	The Bangles	2
	Billy Vera and the Beaters
	Madonna
	Club Nouveau
	Starship
	Aretha Franklin
	Cutting Crew
	Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam
	Tiffany
17	Gregory Abbott	1
	Huey Lewis and the News
	Kim Wilde
	Atlantic Starr
	Bob Seger
	Siedah Garrett
	Whitesnake
	Billy Idol
	Bill Medley
	Jennifer Warnes
	Belinda Carlisle

See also

• 1987 in music
• List of Billboard number-one singles
• List of Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles of the 1980s

Additional sources

• Fred Bronson's Billboard Book of Number 1 Hits, 5th Edition (Template:ISBN)
• Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles 1955-2008, 12 Edition (Template:ISBN)
• Joel Whitburn Presents the Billboard Hot 100 Charts: The Eighties (Template:ISBN)
• Additional information obtained can be verified within Billboard's online archive services and print editions of the magazine.