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| Song title | Release date | Singer - Band | Singer-Band picture | Album | Country | Musical genre | Remarks | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Need You Tonight | Oct. 1987 | INXS | Kick | Australia | ROCK song | |||
| Il changeait la vie | Nov. 1987 | JEAN-JACQUES GOLDMAN |  | Entre gris clair et gris foncé | France | Various music | ||
| Free | Nov. 1987 | STEVIE WONDER | Characters | USA | R&B | When first released, it had only a limited success. It was only after being used for an advertisement for a bank in 1993 that the single saw its sales take off | ||
| John | 1988 | DESIRELESS | François | France | POP | |||
| Gimme Hope Jo'anna | 1988 | EDDY GRANT | File Under Rock | England | Reggae | |||
| Amor de mis amores | 1988 | PACO | Amor de mis amores | France | Latin | Derived from the Peruvian waltz "Que nadie sepa mi sufrir", which was also adapted by Edith Piaf with "La foule" | ||
| Soleil d'hiver | Apr. 1988 | NIAGARA | Quel enfer ! | France | POP song | |||
| Don't Know What You Got (Till It's Gone) | May 1988 | CINDERELLA | Long Cold Winter | USA | ROCK ballad | |||
| Stop! | Jun. 1988 | SAM BROWN | Stop! | England | Slow | |||
| Eungenio Salvador Dali | Jul. 1988 | MECANO | Descanso dominical | Spain | POP song | |||
| Mujer Contra Mujer | Jul. 1988 | MECANO | Descanso Dominical | Spain | Various music | |||
| Twist in My Sobriety | Sept. 1988 | TANITA TIKARAM | Ancient Heart | England | POP | |||
| Mala Vida | Oct. 1988 | MANO NEGRA | Patchanka | France | Latin | Written for the first time in 1984 with the former group of Manu Chao "les Hot Pants". This success allowed the Mano Negra to become a famous French rock band | ||
| Maldòn (la musique dans la peau) | 1989 | ZOUK MACHINE | Maldòn | France | Zouk | |||
| Black Velvet | Mar. 1989 | ALANNAH MYLES | Alannah Myles | Canada | Blues ROCK | A tribute to Elvis Presley. There is also a country version by Robin Lee | ||
| Right Here Waiting | Apr. 1989 | RICHARD MARX | Repeat Offender | USA | Soft ROCK | It was a kind of love letter to his wife Cynthia Rhodes | ||
| Goodbye Marylou | Jun. 1989 | MICHEL POLNAREFF |  | Kâmâ Sutrâ | France | POP | It speaks about sentimental relations on the Minitel, the Internet's french ancestor! | |
| Wicked Game | Jun. 1989 | CHRIS ISAAK | Heart Shaped World | USA | Soft ROCK | |||
| Pure | Jun. 1989 | THE LIGHTNING SEEDS | Cloudcuckooland | United Kingdom | ROCK | |||
| Lambada | Jul. 1989 | KAOMA | Lambada | France | Latin | Its lyrics and music are an unauthorized translation of the song "Llorando se fue", originally composed, performed and recorded by the Bolivian Andean group Los Kjarkas in 1981 | ||
| Song for Whoever | Jul. 1989 | THE BEAUTIFUL SOUTH | Wellcome to the Beautiful South | England | POP | It is sung from the point of view of a cynical songwriter who romances women solely to get material for love songs ... | ||
| Hearts for Sale | Aug. 1989 | THE ROLLING STONES | Steel Wheels | England | ROCK | |||
| Don't Ask Me Why | Sept. 1989 | EURYTHMICS |  | We Too Are One | United Kingdom | POP | ||
| The Road to Hell | Oct. 1989 | CHRIS REA | The Road to Hell | England | ROCK song | It was inspired by the frustrations of a motorway peak-hour traffic | ||
| Les Valses de Vienne | Nov. 1989 | FRANÇOIS FELDMAN | Une présence | France | Various |
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