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Dirty Dancing
Soundtrack

Last week
1Weeks at no. 1
18Weeks on chart
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Billboard 200
Week of May 7, 1988
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Dirty Dancing
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More Dirty Dancing
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Indtroducing The Hardline According To Terence Trent D'Arby
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Now And Zen
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Appetite For Destruction
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Hysteria
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Permanent Vacation
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Kingdom Come
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Let It Loose
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Out Of The Blue
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Make It Last Forever
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Pebbles
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Tear Down These Walls
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Naked
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Whenever You Need Somebody
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Richard Marx
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Good Morning, Vietnam
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Skyscraper
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Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son
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Tunnel Of Love
Bruce Springsteen - 25
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Whitney
Whitney Houston - 23
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Arista
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The Lonesome Jubilee
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Heaven On Earth
Belinda Carlisle - 28
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Surfing With The Alien
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Blow Up Your Video
AC/DC - 27
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Diesel And Dust
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Savage Amusement
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Jody Watley
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Lita
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The Lion And The Cobra
Sinead O'Connor - 36
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How Ya Like Me Now
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Never Die Young
James Taylor - 30
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The Joshua Tree
U2 - 33
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Hot, Cool And Vicious
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. . .Nothing Like The Sun
Sting - 31
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In My Tribe
10,000 Maniacs -
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