List of RPM number-one dance singles of 1988

These are the RPM magazine dance number-one hits of 1988. No chart was published from January 1980 until September 3, 1988.^[1]

Chart history

Issue date	Song	Artist	Reference(s)
September 3	"I Don't Wanna Go on with You Like That"	Elton John	^[2]
September 10	"Theme from S-Express"	S'Express	^[3]
September 17	"Heart"	Pet Shop Boys	^[4]
September 24	"Supersonic"	J. J. Fad	^[5]
October 1	"Chains of Love"	Erasure	^[6]
October 8	"The Loco-Motion"	Kylie Minogue	^[7]
October 15			^[8]
October 22			^[9]
October 29	"Strokin'"	Clarence Carter	^[10]
November 5	"Strokin'"	Clarence Carter	^[11]
November 12	"You Came"	Kim Wilde	^[12]
November 19	"Wild, Wild West"	The Escape Club	^[13]
November 26			^[14]
December 3			^[15]
December 10	"Big Fun"	Inner City	^[16]
December 17			^[17]
December 24			^[18]

^ "RPM: Top 20 Dance Singles, September 3, 1988". Archived from the original on September 11, 2016. Retrieved January 11, 2013.
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