Tag Archives: 1988

Billboard’s Hot 100 of 1988

100. “Prove Your Love” – Taylor Dayne: We’re starting off a new year with one of the big names of the late 80s/early 90s pop scene! One thing that first comes out at me is how huge this song is, both … Continue reading

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Every Hot 100 Number-One Single: “Every Rose Has Its Thorn” (1988) by Poison

Time for yet another entry in my project to listen to and review every Hot 100 number-one single! At the rate I’m currently going, though, I doubt I’ll be able to cut my queue down to a reasonable level. It … Continue reading

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Every Hot 100 Number-One Single: “Dirty Diana” (1988) by Michael Jackson

Interesting. This is my second review on a Michael Jackson song for my Every Number-One Single challenge – the first was “Ben”, which peaked near the beginning of Jackson’s prominence, and now it’s “Dirty Diana”, which came by around the … Continue reading

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Every Hot 100 Number-One Single: “Wild, Wild West” (1988) The Escape Club

This song has become so obscured by the passage of time that it wasn’t even the first song to come up with I typed “wild wild west” into Spotify. Instead, the first result was Will Smith’s number-one song of the … Continue reading

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One Random Single a Day #36: “Crusades” (1988) by Axemaster

And now here’s a single from a metal band, a genre that I am close to completely uninformed about. Now, I did get into a bit of a metal phase in high school (I mean, who didn’t?), and I’m pretty … Continue reading

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