List of Billboard number-one R&B albums of 1988

These are the Billboard magazine R&B albums that reached number one in 1988.

Chart history

Issue date Album Artist
January 2 Bad Michael Jackson
January 9
January 16
January 23 Characters Stevie Wonder
January 30
February 6
February 13
February 20
February 27 All Our Love Gladys Knight & the Pips
March 5
March 12 Characters Stevie Wonder
March 19 Make It Last Forever Keith Sweat
March 26
April 2
April 9 Bad Michael Jackson
April 16
April 23
April 30 Introducing the Hardline According to Terence Trent D'Arby Terence Trent D'Arby
May 7
May 14
May 21 Faith George Michael
May 28
June 4
June 11
June 18
June 25
July 2 In Effect Mode Al B. Sure!
July 9
July 16
July 23
July 30
August 6
August 13
August 20 Strictly Business EPMD
August 27
September 3
September 10 Don't Be Cruel Bobby Brown
September 17
September 24 It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back Public Enemy
October 1 Don't Be Cruel Bobby Brown
October 8
October 15 Don't Let Love Slip Away Freddie Jackson
October 22 Don't Be Cruel Bobby Brown
October 29
November 5
November 12
November 19 Giving You the Best That I Got Anita Baker
November 26 Any Love Luther Vandross
December 3
December 10 Giving You the Best That I Got Anita Baker
December 17
December 24
December 31

See also