| Top 40 Hits of May 1988 |
| 1 |
Wet Wet Wet / Billy Bragg With Cara Tivey | With A Little Help From My Friends / She's Leaving Home |
| 2 |
Fairground Attraction | Perfect |
| 3 |
S-Express | Theme From S-Express |
| 4 |
Kylie Minogue | Got To Be Certain |
| 5 |
New Order | Blue Monday 1988 |
| 6 |
Liverpool FC | Anfield Rap (Red Machine In Full Effect) |
| 7 |
Danny Wilson | Mary's Prayer |
| 8 |
Harry Enfield | Loadsamoney (Doin' Up The House) |
| 9 |
Bananarama | I Want You Back |
| 10 |
Belinda Carlisle | Circle in the Sand |
| 11 |
Hazell Dean | Who's Leaving Who |
| 12 |
Prefab Sprout | The King Of Rock 'N' Roll |
| 13 |
Narada | Divine Emotions |
| 14 |
Aztec Camera | Somewhere In My Heart |
| 15 |
Natalie Cole | Pink Cadillac |
| 16 |
Michael Jackson With The Jackson 5 | I Want You Back '88 |
| 17 |
Prince | Alphabet Street |
| 18 |
LA Mix | Check This Out |
| 19 |
Hothouse Flowers | Don't Go |
| 20 |
Mick & Pat | Let's All Chant |
| 21 |
Pet Shop Boys | Heart |
| 22 |
Heart | What About Love |
| 23 |
Mica Paris | My One Temptation |
| 24 |
Derek B | Bad Young Brother |
| 25 |
Star Turn On 45 (Pints) | Pump Up The Bitter |
| 26 |
George Michael | One More Try |
| 27 |
Ofra Haza | Im Nin'Alu |
| 28 |
Will Downing | A Love Supreme |
| 29 |
Scritti Politti | Oh Patti (Don't Feel Sorry For Loverboy) |
| 30 |
Adventures | Broken Land |
| 31 |
Debbie Gibson | Out of the Blue |
| 32 |
James Brown | The Payback Mix (Part One) |
| 33 |
Fleetwood Mac | Everywhere |
| 34 |
Whitney Houston | Love Will Save The Day |
| 35 |
Patrick Swayze featuring Wendy Fraser | She's Like The Wind |
| 36 |
Climie Fisher | Love Changes (Everything) |
| 37 |
Climie Fisher | This Is Me |
| 38 |
Magnum | Start Talking Love |
| 39 |
Desireless | Voyage Voyage |
| 40 |
Aswad | Give A Little Love |
