List of top 25 albums for 1988 in Australia

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These are the top 50 albums of 1988 in Australia from the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) End of Year Albums Chart. These were the first End of Year album charts created by ARIA, it had started producing its own charts from mid-1988. ARIA had previously used the Kent Music Report, known from 1987 onwards as the Australian Music Report.

# Title Artist Highest pos. reached weeks at No. 1
1. Kick INXS 1 1
2. Dirty Dancing Motion Picture Soundtrack 1 8
3. Freight Train Heart Jimmy Barnes 1 5
4. Whenever You Need Somebody Rick Astley 1 1
5. The Lonesome Jubilee John Cougar Mellencamp 2
6. Man of Colours Icehouse 1 11
7. Tracy Chapman Tracy Chapman 3
8. Introducing the Hardline According to Terence Trent D'Arby Terence Trent D'Arby 1 5
9. Push Bros 4
10. Whispering Jack John Farnham 1 25
11. Faith George Michael 3
12. Tour of Duty TV Soundtrack 3
13. Age of Reason John Farnham 1 9
14. Temple of Low Men Crowded House 1 2
15. Good Morning, Vietnam Motion Picture Soundtrack 2
16. Open Up and Say... Ahh! Poison 2
17. Kylie Kylie Minogue 2
18. A Momentary Lapse of Reason Pink Floyd 2
19. Bonk Big Pig 5
20. Lap of Luxury Cheap Trick 6
21. Big Bad Noise The Choirboys 11
22. Wow! Bananarama 1 1
23. Heavy Nova Robert Palmer 2
24. Cloud Nine George Harrison 4
25. Wired World of Sports The Twelfth Man 1 3
26. Noiseworks Noiseworks 2
27. Diesel and Dust Midnight Oil 1 6
28. Tiffany Tiffany 6
29. Hit Pix '88 Various Artists 1 3
30. '88 Kix On Various Artists 1 4
31. Tales of the City Rockmelons 14
32. Live Line The Angels 2
33. Monsoon Little River Band 9
34. Richard Marx Richard Marx 7
35. You've Always Got the Blues Kate Ceberano and Wendy Matthews 7
36. Tango in the Night Fleetwood Mac 5
37. Tour of Duty II TV Soundtrack 5
38. Appetite for Destruction Guns N' Roses 7
39. Union Toni Childs 8
40. 88 the Winners Various Artists 1 4
41. Chantoozies Chantoozies 8
42. Blow Up Your Video AC/DC 2
43. Bad Michael Jackson 2
44. Pump It Up '88 Various Artists 37
45. ...Nothing Like the Sun Sting 3
46. OU812 Van Halen 9
47. Boomerang Cafe John Williamson 10
48. Unchain My Heart Joe Cocker 24
49. Vital Idol Billy Idol 12
50. 1988 What's Hot Various Artists 2

Peak chart positions from 1987 and early 1988 were calculated by David Kent for the Kent Music Report. Late 1988 peak chart positions are from the ARIA Charts. Overall position on the End of Year Chart is calculated by ARIA based on the number of weeks and position that the records reach within the Top 50 albums for each week during 1988.


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