List of Billboard Hot 100 number ones of 1987

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.

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.

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An asterisk (*) by a date indicates an unpublished, "frozen" week, due to the special double issues that Billboard published in print at the end of the year for their year-end charts.

No.Issue dateSongArtist(s)Ref.
617January 3*"Walk Like an Egyptian"†The Bangles[1]
January 10[2][3]
618January 17"Shake You Down"Gregory Abbott[4][5]
619January 24"At This Moment"Billy Vera and the Beaters[6][7]
January 31[8][9]
620February 7"Open Your Heart"Madonna[10][11]
621February 14"Livin' on a Prayer"Bon Jovi[12][13]
February 21[14][15]
February 28[16][17]
March 7[18][19]
622March 14"Jacob's Ladder"Huey Lewis and the News[20][21]
623March 21"Lean on Me"Club Nouveau[22][23]
March 28[24][25]
624April 4"Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now"Starship[26][27]
April 11[28][29]
625April 18"I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me)"Aretha Franklin and George Michael[30][31]
April 25[32]
626May 2"(I Just) Died in Your Arms"Cutting Crew[33][34]
May 9[35][36]
627May 16"With or Without You"U2[37][38]
May 23[39][40]
May 30[41][42]
628June 6"You Keep Me Hangin' On"Kim Wilde[43][44]
629June 13"Always"Atlantic Starr[45][46][47]
630June 20"Head to Toe"Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam[48][49][50]
631June 27"I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)"Whitney Houston[51][52][53]
July 4[54][55][56]
632July 11"Alone"Heart[57][58][59]
July 18[60][61]
July 25[62][63]
633August 1"Shakedown"Bob Seger[64][65]
634August 8"I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For"U2[66][67]
August 15[68][69]
635August 22"Who's That Girl"Madonna[70][71]
636August 29"La Bamba"Los Lobos[72][73]
September 5[74][75]
September 12[76][77]
637September 19"I Just Can't Stop Loving You"Michael Jackson with Siedah Garrett[78][79]
638September 26"Didn't We Almost Have It All"Whitney Houston[80][81]
October 3[82][83]
639October 10"Here I Go Again"Whitesnake[84][85]
640October 17"Lost in Emotion"Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam[86][87]
641October 24"Bad"Michael Jackson[88][89]
October 31[90][91]
642November 7"I Think We're Alone Now"Tiffany[92][93]
November 14[94][95]
643November 21"Mony Mony"Billy Idol[96][97]
644November 28"(I've Had) The Time of My Life"Bill Medley and Jennifer Warnes[98][99]
645December 5"Heaven Is a Place on Earth"Belinda Carlisle[100][101]
646December 12"Faith"George Michael[102][103]
December 19[104][105]
December 26[106][107]

Number-one artists

List of number-one artists by total weeks at number one
PositionArtistWeeks at No. 1
1George Michael5
U2
3Bon Jovi4
Whitney Houston
5Heart3
Los Lobos
Michael Jackson
8The Bangles2
Billy Vera and the Beaters
Madonna
Club Nouveau
Starship
Aretha Franklin
Cutting Crew
Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam
Tiffany
17Gregory Abbott1
Huey Lewis and the News
Kim Wilde
Atlantic Starr
Bob Seger
Siedah Garrett
Whitesnake
Billy Idol
Bill Medley
Jennifer Warnes
Belinda Carlisle

See also

References

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