I love 1988 is dedicated to the best year in music.
The best year for pop.
The best year for hip-hop.
The best year for house, acid and dance.
The best year for hair, heavy and thrash metal.
The best year for adult orientated, classic, soft and hard rock.
The best year ever for the UK charts with more hits that year than any year previously.
The days when a song entered the chart at number 39 and slowly climbed its way to number 1.
The days when you take a bus to the record shop on a Monday after school to get that new limited edition Pet Shop Boys 7 inch.
The days when singles had to have a B side even if it was just an instrumental version.
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SMASH HITS 28 December 1988 - 10 January 1989 (hey!)
Last issue of 1988
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Freiheit ‘Keeping The Dream Alive’
25 December 1988
Highest new entry at number 27 - Freiheit ‘Keeping The Dream Alive’
- Date entered top 75 17 December 1988
- Highest position reached 14
- Weeks on chart 9
Last new entry of 1988 and a proper Christmassy tune to boot.
This Beatlesque song was in fact performed by a German group called Munchener Freiheit or Freiheit when abroad.
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Enya ‘Evening Falls…’
25 December 1989
Second highest new entry at 36 - Enya ‘Evening Falls…’
- Date entered top 75 25 December 1988
- Highest position reached 20
- Weeks on chart 4
This was the follow-up to massive number one single ‘Orinoco Flow’.
This was a weird choice of single a quiet minimalist song that didn’t replicate the bombastic sound of ‘Orinoco Flow’.
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25 December 1988
Gloria Estefan And Miami Sound Machine ‘Rhythm Is Gonna Get You’
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Gloria Estefan And Miami Sound Machine ‘Rhythm Is Gonna Get You’
25 December 1988
New entry at 38 - Gloria Estefan And Miami Sound Machine ‘Rhythm Is Gonna Get You’
- Date entered top 75 18 December 1988
- Highest position reached 16
- Weeks on chart 9
Third hit of the year for Gloria and Miami Sound Machine in the UK charts.
This song was originally released in early 1987 where it reached number 5 in the US but failed to chart in the UK.
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A Tribe Of Toffs ‘John Kettley (Is A Weatherman)’
25 December 1988
Second new entry at 39 - A Tribe Of Toffs ‘John Kettley (Is A Weatherman)’
- Date entered top 75 25 December 1988
- Highest position reached 21
- Weeks on chart 5
A Tribe of Toffs were a novelty pop band from Sunderland, England. They only ever had one hit.
John Kettley was a weatherman on the BBC and the song mentions lots of other minor TV personalities from 1988.
