List of Billboard Hot 100 number ones of 1987

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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.

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.

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An asterisk (*) by a date indicates an unpublished, "frozen" week, due to the special double issues that Billboard published in print at the end of the year for their year-end charts.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 date Song Artist(s) Ref.
617 January 3* "Walk Like an Egyptian"† The Bangles
January 10
618 January 17 "Shake You Down" Gregory Abbott
619 January 24 "At This Moment" Billy Vera and the Beaters
January 31
620 February 7 "Open Your Heart" Madonna
621 February 14 "Livin' on a Prayer" Bon Jovi
February 21
February 28
March 7
622 March 14 "Jacob's Ladder" Huey Lewis and the News
623 March 21 "Lean on Me" Club Nouveau
March 28
624 April 4 "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now" Starship
April 11
625 April 18 "I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me)" Aretha Franklin and George Michael
April 25
626 May 2 "(I Just) Died in Your Arms" Cutting Crew
May 9
627 May 16 "With or Without You" U2
May 23
May 30
628 June 6 "You Keep Me Hangin' On" Kim Wilde
629 June 13 "Always" Atlantic Starr
630 June 20 "Head to Toe" Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam
631 June 27 "I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)" Whitney Houston
July 4
632 July 11 "Alone" Heart
July 18
July 25
633 August 1 "Shakedown" Bob Seger
634 August 8 "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For" U2
August 15
635 August 22 "Who's That Girl" Madonna
636 August 29 "La Bamba" Los Lobos
September 5
September 12
637 September 19 "I Just Can't Stop Loving You" Michael Jackson with Siedah Garrett
638 September 26 "Didn't We Almost Have It All" Whitney Houston
October 3
639 October 10 "Here I Go Again" Whitesnake
640 October 17 "Lost in Emotion" Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam
641 October 24 "Bad" Michael Jackson
October 31
642 November 7 "I Think We're Alone Now" Tiffany
November 14
643 November 21 "Mony Mony" Billy Idol
644 November 28 "(I've Had) The Time of My Life" Bill Medley and Jennifer Warnes
645 December 5 "Heaven Is a Place on Earth" Belinda Carlisle
646 December 12 "Faith" George Michael
December 19
December 26

Number-one artists

List of number-one artists by total weeks at number one
Position Artist Weeks at No. 1
1 George Michael 5
U2
3 Bon Jovi 4
Whitney Houston
5 Heart 3
Los Lobos
Michael Jackson
8 The Bangles 2
Billy Vera and the Beaters
Madonna
Club Nouveau
Starship
Aretha Franklin
Cutting Crew
Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam
Tiffany
17 Gregory Abbott 1
Huey Lewis and the News
Kim Wilde
Atlantic Starr
Bob Seger
Siedah Garrett
Whitesnake
Billy Idol
Bill Medley
Jennifer Warnes
Belinda Carlisle

See also

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