Year End Charts

for Thursday, December 31, 1987

1. U2 · The Joshua Tree
2. New Order · Substance
3. R.E.M. · Document
4. Depeche Mode · Music For The Masses
5. The Cult · Electric
6. The Smiths · Strangeways, Here We Come
7. Sting · ...Nothing But The Sun
8. The Cure · Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me
9. Echo & The Bunnymen · Echo & The Bunnymen
10. Blue Rodeo · Outskirts
11. Pink Floyd · Momentary Lapse Of Reason
12. INXS · Kick
13. Pet Shop Boys · Actually
14. The Northern Pikes · Big Blue Sky
15. The Housemartins · The People Who Grinned Themselves To Death
16. 54.40 · Show Me
17. Billy Idol · Vital Idol
18. Chalk Circle · Mending Wall
19. Level 42 · Running In The Family
20. Various Artists · La Bamba (soundtrack)
21. Suzanne Vega · Solitude Standing
22. Eurythmics · Savage
23. The Northern Pikes · Big Blue Sky
24. The Alarm · Eye of the Hurricane
25. David Bowie · Never Let Me Down
26. Sinead O'Connor · The Lion & The Cobra
27. The Box · Closer Together
28. Men Without Hats · Pop Goes The World
29. ABC · Alphabet City
30. Icehouse · Man of Colours
31. Bryan Ferry · Bete Noire
32. Erasure · Circus
33. Prince · Sign O' The Times
34. Love & Rockets · Earth-Sun-Moon
35. Yes · Big Generator
36. The Jesus & Mary Chain · Darklands
37. The Sisters of Mercy · Floodland
38. Rock & Hyde · Under the Volcano
39. Gene Love Jezebel · House of Dolls
40. Gowan · Great Dirty World
41. The Grapes of Wrath · Treehouse
42. FM · Tonight
43. Crowded House · Crowded House
44. The Smiths · Louder Than Bombs
45. George Harrison · Cloud Nine
46. The Silencers · A Letter From St. Paul
47. The Grateful Dead · In The Dark
48. Simply Red · Men & Women
49. That Petrol Emotion · Babble
50. Rush · Hold Your Fire
51. Squeeze · Babylon And On
52. 10,000 Maniacs · In My Tribe
53. Roger Waters · Radio K.A.O.S.
54. Hoodoo Gurus · Blow Your Cool
55. Hugh Marsh · Shaking The Pumpkin
56. Skinny Puppy · Cleanse, Fold & Manipulate
57. The Style Council · The Cost of Loving
58. Flesh For Lulu · Long Live The New Flesh
59. Gino Vannelli · Big Dreamers Never Sleep
60. The Proclaimers · This Is The Story
61. Public Image Ltd. · Happy?
62. The Screaming Blue Messiahs · Bikini Red
63. Yello · One Second
64. Van Morrison · Poetic Champions Compose
65. The Nylons · Happy Together
66. The Psychedelic Furs · Midnight to Midnight
67. Swing Out Sister · It's Better To Travel
68. Julian Cope · Saint Julian
69. David Sylvian · Secrets of the Beehive
70. The Cars · Door To Door
71. The Dead Milkmen · Bucky Fellini
72. The Mighty Lemon Drops · Out of Hand
73. Alison Moyet · Raindancing
74. M/A/R/R/S · Pump Up The Volume
75. Hunters & Collectors · Living Daylight
76. The Blow Monkeys · She Was Only A Grocer's Daughter
77. Thrashing Doves · Bedrock Vice
78. Run DMC · Raisin' Hell
79. Manteca · Fire Me Up
80. Various Artists · In Demand
81. Bruce Cockburn · Waiting For A Miracle
82. The Big Supreme · Don't Walk
83. Wire · The Ideal Copy
84. Mojo Nixon & Skid Roper · Bodashus
85. The Bodeans · Outside Looking In
86. The Dolphin Brothers · Catch the Fall
87. The Call · Into The Woods