ArtistSphere Top 100

Songs that defined 1988.

Our chart ranks up to 100 catalog recordings by supported estimated Spotify earnings, giving familiar hits and rediscovered favorites one clear measure.

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Rank 27

Cheap Trick

The Flame

1988
Estimated all-time Spotify gross royalties to rightsholders$611,000Explore
Rank 28

Def Leppard

Love Bites

1988
Estimated all-time Spotify gross royalties to rightsholders$590,000Explore
Rank 29

George Frideric Handel, Joseph Haydn, Robert Schumann, Franz Schubert, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Camille Saint-Saëns, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Emanuel Gruber, Herut Israeli

Carnival of the Animals: "The Swan"

1988
Estimated all-time Spotify gross royalties to rightsholders$528,000Explore
Rank 38

Fine Young Cannibals

Good Thing

1988
Estimated all-time Spotify gross royalties to rightsholders$385,000Explore
Rank 49

Die Ärzte

Westerland

1988
Estimated all-time Spotify gross royalties to rightsholders$250,000Explore
ArtistSphere Top 100: songs from 1988 | ArtistSphere