Billboard magazine compiled the top-performing dance singles in the United States on the Hot Dance/Disco Club Play chart and the Hot Dance/Disco 12-inch Singles Sales chart. Premiered in 1976, the Club Play chart ranked the most-played singles on dance club based on reports from a national sample of club DJs. The 12-inch Singles Sales chart was launched in 1985 to compile the best-selling dance singles based on retail sales across the United States. The word "disco" was removed from the title of the section of both charts beginning on September 19, 1987. Billboard retitled the section Hot Dance Music on October 24, 1987.
Charts history
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!scope=col rowspan=2|Issue date
!scope=colgroup colspan=2|Hot Dance/Disco Club Play
!scope=colgroup colspan=2|Hot Dance/Disco 12-inch Singles Sales
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!scope=col|Title
!scope=col|Artist(s)
!scope=col|Title
!scope=col|Artist(s)
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|January 3
|"Control"
|Janet Jackson
|rowspan="4"|"Brand New Lover"
|rowspan="4"|Dead or Alive
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|January 10
|"Musique Non Stop"
|Kraftwerk
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|January 17
|"Someone like You"
|Sylvester
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|January 24
|rowspan="2"|"Come Go with Me"
|rowspan="2"|Exposé
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|January 31
|rowspan="2"|"Someone like You"
|rowspan="2"|Sylvester
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|February 7
|"C'est La Vie"
|Robbie Nevil
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|February 14
|"Open Your Heart"
|Madonna
|rowspan="2"|"We Connect"(Remix)
|rowspan="2"|Stacy Q
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|February 21
|"Showing Out (Get Fresh at the Weekend)"/<br>"System"
|Mel and Kim
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|February 28
|"One Look (One Look Was Enough)"
|Paul Parker
|rowspan="2"|"Showing Out (Get Fresh at the Weekend)"/<br>"System"
|rowspan="2"|Mel and Kim
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|March 7
|rowspan="4"|"Fascinated"
|rowspan="4"|Company B
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|March 14
|rowspan="4"|"Fascinated"
|rowspan="4"|Company B
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|March 21
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|March 28
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|April 4
|rowspan="2"|"Looking for a New Love"
|rowspan="2"|Jody Watley
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|April 11
|rowspan="2"|"Lean on Me"
|rowspan="2"|Club Nouveau
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|April 18
|"Lean on Me"
|Club Nouveau
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|April 25
|rowspan="2"|"The Telephone Call"
|rowspan="2"|Kraftwerk
|"Looking for a New Love"
|Jody Watley
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|May 2
|rowspan="2|"Sign 'O' The Times"
|rowspan="2|Prince
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|May 9
|rowspan="3"|"Certain Things Are Likely"
|rowspan="3"|KTP
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|May 16
|"La Isla Bonita" (Remix)
|Madonna
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|May 23
|"Something in My House" (Remix)
|Dead Or Alive
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|May 30
|"Head to Toe"
|Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam
|rowspan="5"|"Head to Toe"
|rowspan="5"|Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam
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|June 6
|rowspan="2"|"The Pleasure Principle"
|rowspan="2"|Janet Jackson
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|June 13
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|June 20
|rowspan="2"|"Diamonds"
|rowspan="2"|Herb Alpert
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|June 27
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|July 4
|"Respectable"
|Mel and Kim
|rowspan="2"|"Diamonds" (Remix)
|rowspan="2"|Herb Alpert
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|July 11
|"In Love with Love"
|Debbie Harry
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|July 18
|rowspan="2"|"I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)"
|rowspan="2"|Whitney Houston
|"Funky Town" (Remix)
|Pseudo Echo
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|July 25
|"Respectable"
|Mel and Kim
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|August 1
|rowspan="3"|"Strangelove"
|rowspan="3"|Depeche Mode
|"I Want Your Sex" / "Hard Day"
|George Michael
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|August 8
|"Insecurity"
|Stacy Q
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|August 15
|rowspan="2"|"I Want Your Sex" / "Hard Day"
|rowspan="2"|George Michael
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|August 22
|"Tina Cherry"
|Georgio
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|August 29
|rowspan="2"|"When Smokey Sings"/<br>"Chicago"
|rowspan="2"|ABC
|"Fake"
|Alexander O'Neal
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|September 5
|rowspan="2"|"Who Found Who"
|rowspan="2"|Jellybean Featuring Elisa Fiorillo
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|September 12
|rowspan="2"|"How Soon We Forget"
|rowspan="2"|Colonel Abrams
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|September 19
|rowspan="2"|"Dreamin'" (Remix)
|rowspan="2"|Will To Power
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|September 26
|"Catch Me (I'm Falling)"
|Pretty Poison
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|October 3
|"Victim of Love"
|Erasure
|"Casanova"
|LeVert
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|October 10
|rowspan="2"|"Don't You Want Me"
|rowspan="2"|Jody Watley
|rowspan="2"|"Full Circle" (Remix)
|rowspan="2"|Company B
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|October 17
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|October 24
|"The Real Thing"
|Jellybean featuring Steven Dante
|"Causing a Commotion" (Remix)
|Madonna
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|October 31
|"Causing a Commotion"
|Madonna
|rowspan="5"|"Bad" (Remix)
|rowspan="5"|Michael Jackson
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|November 7
|rowspan="2"|"Bad"
|rowspan="2"|Michael Jackson
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|November 14
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|November 21
|rowspan="3"|"System of Survival"
|rowspan="3"|Earth, Wind & Fire
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|November 28
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|December 5
|rowspan="2"|"Shake Your Love" (Remix)
|rowspan="2"|Debbie Gibson
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|December 12
|rowspan="2"|"Pump Up the Volume"
|rowspan="2"|<nowiki>M|A|R|R|S</nowiki>
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|December 19
|rowspan="2"|"System of Survival" (Remix)
|rowspan="2"|Earth, Wind & Fire
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|December 26
|"So Emotional"
|Whitney Houston
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See also
- 1987 in music
- List of artists who reached number one on the U.S. Dance chart