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| 2 Jan 1988 | Somewhere Tonight (Highway 101) |
| 9 Jan 1988 | I Can't Get Close Enough (Exile) |
| 16 Jan 1988 | One friend (Dan Seals) |
| 23 Jan 1988 | Where Do the Nights Go (Ronnie Milsap) |
| 30 Jan 1988 | Goin' Gone (Kathy Mattea) |
| 6 Feb 1988 | Wheels (Restless Heart) |
| 13 Feb 1988 | Tennessee Flat Top Box (Rosanne Cash) |
| 20 Feb 1988 | Twinkle, Twinkle Lucky Star (Merle Haggard) |
| 27 Feb 1988 | I Won't Take Less Than Your Love (Tanya Tucker, Paul Davis and Paul Overstreet) |
| 5 Mar 1988 | Face to face (Alabama) |
| 12 Mar 1988 | Too Gone Too Long (Randy Travis) |
| 19 Mar 198 | Life Turned Her That Way (Ricky Van Shelton) |
| 26 Mar 1988 | Turn It Loose (The Judds) |
| 2 Apr 1988 | Love Will Find Its Way to You (Reba McEntire) |
| 9 Apr 1988 | Famous Last Words of a Fool (George Strait) |
| 16 Apr 1988 | I Wanna Dance with You (Eddie Rabbit) |
| 23 Apr 1988 | I'll Always Come Back (K.T. Oslin) |
| 30 Apr 1988 | It's Such a Small World (Rodney Crowell with Rosanne Cash) |
| 7 May 1988 | Cry cry cry (Higway 101) |
| 14 May 1988 | I'm Gonna Get You (Eddy Raven) |
| 21 May 1988 | Eighteen Wheels and a Dozen Roses (Kathy Mattea) |
| 28 May 1988 | Eighteen Wheels and a Dozen Roses (Kathy Mattea) |
| 4 Jun 1988 | What She Is (Is a Woman in Love) (Earl Thomas Conley) |
| 11 Jun 1988 | I Told You So (Randy Travis) |
| 18 Jun 1988 | I Told You So (Randy Travis) |
| 25 Jun 1988 | He's Back and I'm Blue (The Desert Rose Band) |
| 2 Jul 1988 | If It Don't Come Easy (Tanya Tucker) |
| 9 Jul 1988 | Fallin' Again (Alabama) |
| 16 Jul 1988 | If You Change Your Mind (Rosanne Cash) |
| 23 Jul 1988 | Set 'Em Up, Joe (Vern Gosdin) |
| 30 Jul 1988 | Don't We All Have the Right (Ricky Van Shelton) |
| 6 Aug 1988 | Baby Blue (George Strait) |
| 13 Aug 1988 | Don't Close Your Eyes (Keith Whitley) |
| 20 Aug 1988 | The bluest Eyes in Texas (Restless Heart) |
| 27 Aug 1988 | The Wanderer (Eddie Rabbitt) |
| 3 Sep 1988 | I Couldn't Leave You If I Tried (Rodney Crowell) |
| 10 Sep 1988 | (Do You Love Me) Just Say Yes (Highway 101) |
| 17 Sep 1988 | Joe Knows How to Live (Eddy Raven) |
| 24 Sep 198 | Addicted (Dan Seals) |
| 1 Oct 1988 | We Believe in Happy Endings (Earl Thomas Conley with Emmylou Harris) |
| 8 Oct 1988 | Honky Tonk Moon (Randy Travis) |
| 15 Oct 1988 | Streets of Bakersfield (Dwight Yoakam with Buck Owens) |
| 22 Oct 198 | Strong Enough to Bend (Tanya Tucker) |
| 29 Oct 1988 | Gonna Take a Lot of River (Mississippi, Monongahela, Ohio) (The Oak Ridge Boys) |
| 5 Nov 1988 | Darlene (T. Graham Brown) |
| 12 Nov 1988 | Runaway Train (Rosanne Cash) |
| 19 Nov 1988 | I'll Leave This World Loving You (Ricky Van Shelton) |
| 26 Nov 1988 | I'll Leave This World Loving You (Ricky Van Shelton) |
| 3 Dez 1988 | I Know How He Feels (Reba McEntire) |
| 10 Dez 1988 | If You Ain't Lovin' (You Ain't Livin') (George Strait) |
| 17 Dez 1988 | A Tender Lie (Restless Heart) |
| 24 Dez 1988 | When You Say Nothing at All (Keith Whitley) |
| 31 Dez 1988 | When You Say Nothing at All (Keith Whitley) |