List of number-one albums in Australia during the 1980s
1988

List of number-one albums in Australia during the 1980s

Section Title: 1988
Table Section Text: None

Date	Artist	Album	Weeks at number one

4 January	Jimmy Barnes	Freight Train Heart	5 weeks

11 January

18 January

25 January	The Twelfth Man	Wired World of Sports	3 weeks

1 February

8 February

15 February	Soundtrack	Dirty Dancing	8 weeks

22 February

29 February

7 March

14 March

21 March

28 March

4 April

11 April	Rick Astley	Whenever You Need Somebody	1 week

18 April	Various Artists	Hit Pix '88	2 weeks

25 April

2 May	Terence Trent D'Arby	Introducing the Hardline According to Terence Trent D'Arby	5 weeks

9 May

16 May

23 May

30 May

6 June	Soundtrack	Good Morning, Vietnam	2 weeks

13 June

20 June	Bananarama	Wow!	1 week

27 June	Various Artists	'88 Kix On	4 weeks

4 July

11 July

18 July

25 July	Crowded House	Temple of Low Men	1 week

1 August	John Farnham	Age of Reason	8 weeks

8 August

15 August

22 August

29 August

5 September

12 September

19 September

26 September	Various Artists	88 the Winners	4 weeks

3 October

10 October

17 October	Bon Jovi	New Jersey	1 week

24 October	Various Artists	88 the Winners	4 weeks

31 October	U2	Rattle and Hum	5 weeks

7 November

14 November

21 November

28 November

5 December	Jimmy Barnes	Barnestorming	3 weeks

12 December

19 December

26 December	Various Artists	Summer '89	2 weeks

Sentence(s)

Barnestorming was released in December and went to number one on the Australian albums chart for three weeks.

final_sentence: Barnestorming was released in December and went to number one on the Australian albums chart for three weeks.