Top 40 Hits of Early September 1988
 | 1 | Yazz & The Plastic Population | The Only Way Is Up |
 | 2 | Brother Beyond | The Harder I Try |
 | 3 | Phil Collins | Groovy Kind Of Love |
 | 4 | Kylie Minogue | The Loco-Motion |
 | 5 | Womack & Womack | Teardrops |
 | 6 | Julio Iglesias | My Love |
 | 7 | Bomb The Bass | Megablast / Don't Make Me Wait |
 | 8 | Breathe | Hands To Heaven |
 | 9 | The Hollies | He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother |
 | 10 | BVSMP | I Need You |
 | 11 | Yello | The Race |
 | 12 | A-ha | Touchy! |
 | 13 | Fairground Attraction | Find My Love |
 | 14 | Tanita Tikaram | Good Tradition |
 | 15 | Jane Wiedlin | Rush Hour |
 | 16 | Level 42 | Heaven In My Hands |
 | 17 | Gloria Estefan & Miami Sound Machine | Anything For You |
 | 18 | Kim Wilde | You Came |
 | 19 | Robbie Robertson | Somewhere Down The Crazy River |
 | 20 | Status Quo | Running All Over The World |
 | 21 | Spagna | Every Girl And Boy |
 | 22 | Guns N' Roses | Sweet Child O' Mine |
 | 23 | The Proclaimers | I'm Gonna Be |
 | 24 | Metallica | Harvester Of Sorrow |
 | 25 | UB40 | Where Did I Go Wrong |
 | 26 | Big Country | King Of Emotion |
 | 27 | The Commodores | Easy |
 | 28 | Bill Medley | He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother |
 | 29 | Chris Rea | On The Beach |
 | 30 | Salt-N-Pepa | Push It / Tramp |
 | 31 | Iron Maiden | The Evil That Men Do |
 | 32 | Marc Almond | Tears Run Rings |
 | 33 | S-Express | Superfly Guy |
 | 34 | Donny Osmond | Soldier Of Love |
 | 35 | Michael Jackson | Another Part Of Me |
 | 36 | Mory Kante | Yeke Yeke |
 | 37 | The Four Tops | Reach Out I'll Be There |
 | 38 | Natalie Cole | Jump Start |
 | 39 | Salt-N-Pepa featuring EU | Shake Your Thang (It's Your Thing) |
 | 40 | The Primitives | Way Behind Me |