List of RPM number-one country singles of 1988

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These are the Canadian number-one country songs of 1988, per the RPM Country Tracks chart.

Contents

Issue dateTitleArtistRef.
January 16 Somewhere Tonight Highway 101
January 23 I Can't Get Close Enough Exile
January 30 One Friend Dan Seals
February 6 Where Do the Nights Go Ronnie Milsap
February 13 Wheels Restless Heart
February 20 Tennessee Flat Top Box Rosanne Cash
February 27 Twinkle, Twinkle Lucky Star Merle Haggard
March 5 Face to Face Alabama
March 12 Too Gone Too Long Randy Travis
March 19 This Missin' You Heart of Mine Sawyer Brown
March 26
April 2 Life Turned Her That Way Ricky Van Shelton
April 9 Love Will Find Its Way to You Reba McEntire
April 16 Famous Last Words of a Fool George Strait
April 23 I Wanna Dance with You Eddie Rabbitt
April 30 I'll Always Come Back K. T. Oslin
May 7 It's Such a Small World Rodney Crowell with Rosanne Cash
May 14 I'm Gonna Get You Eddy Raven
May 21 Cry, Cry, Cry Highway 101
May 28 Baby I'm Yours Steve Wariner
June 4 Eighteen Wheels and a Dozen Roses Kathy Mattea
June 11 I Told You So Randy Travis
June 18
June 25
July 2 If You Change Your Mind Rosanne Cash
July 9 He's Back and I'm Blue The Desert Rose Band
July 16 Fallin' Again Alabama
July 23 Til I Find My Love Family Brown
July 30 Talkin' to the Wrong Man Michael Martin Murphey with Ryan Murphey
August 6 Don't We All Have the Right Ricky Van Shelton
August 13 The Wanderer Eddie Rabbitt
August 20
August 27 Give a Little Love The Judds
September 3 Addicted Dan Seals
September 10
September 17 I Couldn't Leave You If I Tried Rodney Crowell
September 24 (Do You Love Me) Just Say Yes Highway 101
October 1 Joe Knows How to Live Eddy Raven
October 8 I Should Be with You Steve Wariner
October 15 We Believe in Happy Endings Earl Thomas Conley with Emmylou Harris
October 22 Honky Tonk Moon Randy Travis [1]
October 29 Streets of Bakersfield Dwight Yoakam with Buck Owens [2]
November 5 Gonna Take a Lot of River The Oak Ridge Boys [3]
November 12 Darlene T. Graham Brown [4]
November 19 New Shade of Blue Southern Pacific [5]
November 26 I'll Leave This World Loving You Ricky Van Shelton [6]
December 3 I've Been Lookin' The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band [7]
December 10 I Know How He Feels Reba McEntire [8]
December 17 When You Say Nothing at All Keith Whitley [9]
December 24 If You Ain't Lovin' (You Ain't Livin') George Strait [10]

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References

  1. "RPM 100 Country Singles" (PDF). RPM. October 22, 1988.
  2. "RPM 100 Country Singles" (PDF). RPM. October 29, 1988.
  3. "RPM 100 Country Singles" (PDF). RPM. November 5, 1988.
  4. "RPM 100 Country Singles" (PDF). RPM. November 12, 1988.
  5. "RPM 100 Country Singles" (PDF). RPM. November 19, 1988.
  6. "RPM 100 Country Singles" (PDF). RPM. November 26, 1988.
  7. "RPM 100 Country Singles" (PDF). RPM. December 3, 1988.
  8. "RPM 100 Country Singles" (PDF). RPM. December 10, 1988.
  9. "RPM 100 Country Singles" (PDF). RPM. December 17, 1988.
  10. "RPM 100 Country Singles" (PDF). RPM. December 24, 1988.