List of number-one dance singles of 1987 (U.S.)

These are the Billboard Hot Dance/Disco Club Play and 12 Inch Singles Sales number-one hits of 1987.

Issue date	Club Play Song	Artist	12-Inch Singles Sales	Artist	Reference(s)
January 3	"Control"	Janet Jackson	"Brand New Lover"	Dead or Alive	[1] [2]
January 10	"Musique Non Stop"	Kraftwerk			[3] [4]
January 17	"Someone like You"	Sylvester			[5] [6]
January 24	"Come Go with Me"	Exposé			[7] [8]
January 31			"Someone like You"	Sylvester	[9] [10]
February 7	"C'est La Vie"	Robbie Nevil			[11]
February 14	"Open Your Heart"	Madonna	"We Connect"(Remix)	Stacy Q	[12] [13]
February 21	"Showing Out (Get Fresh at the Weekend)"/ "System"	Mel and Kim			[14] [15]
February 28	"One Look (One Look Was Enough)"	Paul Parker	"Showing Out (Get Fresh at the Weekend)"/ "System"	Mel and Kim	[16] [17]
March 7	"Fascinated"	Company B			[18] [19]
March 14			"Fascinated"	Company B	[20] [21]
March 21					[22] [23]
March 28					[24] [25]
April 4	"Looking for a New Love"	Jody Watley			[26] [27]
April 11			"Lean on Me"	Club Nouveau	[28] [29]
April 18	"Lean on Me"	Club Nouveau			[30] [31]
April 25	"The Telephone Call"	Kraftwerk	"Looking for a New Love"	Jody Watley	[32] [33]
May 2			"Sign 'O' The Times"	Prince	[34] [35]
May 9	"Certain Things Are Likely"	KTP			[36] [37]
May 16			"La Isla Bonita" (Remix)	Madonna	[38] [39]
May 23			"Something in My House" (Remix)	Dead Or Alive	[40] [41]
May 30	"Head to Toe"	Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam	"Head to Toe"	Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam	[42] [43]
June 6	"The Pleasure Principle"	Janet Jackson			[44] [45]
June 13					[46] [47]
June 20	"Diamonds"	Herb Alpert			[48] [49]
June 27					[50] [51]
July 4	"Respectable"	Mel and Kim	"Diamonds" (Remix)	Herb Alpert	[52] [53]
July 11	"In Love with Love"	Debbie Harry			[54] [55]
July 18	"I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)"	Whitney Houston	"Funky Town" (Remix)	Pseudo Echo	[56] [57]
July 25			"Respectable"	Mel and Kim	[58] [59]
August 1	"Strangelove"	Depeche Mode	"I Want Your Sex" / "Hard Day"	George Michael	[60] [61]
August 8			"Insecurity"	Stacy Q	[62] [63]
August 15			"I Want Your Sex" / "Hard Day"	George Michael	[64] [65]
August 22	"Tina Cherry"	Georgio			[66] [67]
August 29	"When Smokey Sings"/ "Chicago"	ABC	"Fake"	Alexander O'Neal	[68] [69]
September 5			"Who Found Who"	Jellybean Featuring Elisa Fiorillo	[70] [71]
September 12	"How Soon We Forget"	Colonel Abrams			[72] [73]
September 19			"Dreamin'" (Remix)	Will To Power	[74] [75]
September 26	"Catch Me (I'm Falling)"	Pretty Poison			[76] [77]
October 3	"Victim of Love"	Erasure	"Casanova"	LeVert	[78] [79]
October 10	"Don't You Want Me"	Jody Watley	"Full Circle" (Remix)	Company B	[80] [81]
October 17					[82] [83]
October 24	"The Real Thing"	Jellybean featuring Steven Dante	"Causing a Commotion" (Remix)	Madonna	[84] [85]
October 31	"Causing a Commotion"	Madonna	"Bad" (Remix)	Michael Jackson	[86] [87]
November 7	"Bad"	Michael Jackson			[88] [89]
November 14					[90] [91]
November 21	"System of Survival"	Earth, Wind & Fire			[92] [93]
November 28					[94] [95]
December 5			"Shake Your Love" (Remix)	Debbie Gibson	[96] [97]
December 12	"Pump Up the Volume"	M|A|R|R|S			[98] [99]
December 19			"System of Survival" (Remix)	Earth, Wind & Fire	[100] [101]
December 26	"So Emotional"	Whitney Houston			[102] [103]

See also

• 1987 in music
• List of number-one dance hits (United States)
• List of artists who reached number one on the U.S. Dance chart

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