This is a list of the weekly Canadian RPM magazine number one Top Singles chart of 1988.
identifies Canadian musical acts.
| Volume:Issue | Issue Date(s) | Weeks on Top | Song | Artist |
| 47:11-12 | 19 December 1987 - 9 January 1988 § | 4 | "Faith" | George Michael |
| 47:13-15 | 16-30 January | 3 | "Got My Mind Set on You" | George Harrison |
| 47:16-18 | 6-20 February | 3 | "Could've Been" | Tiffany |
| 47:19-21 | 27 February - 12 March | 3 | "Pump Up the Volume" | M/A/R/R/S |
| 47:22-24 | 19 March - 2 April | 3 | "Never Gonna Give You Up" | Rick Astley |
| 47:25-26, 48:1-2 | 9-30 April | 4 | "Get Outta My Dreams, Get into My Car" | Billy Ocean |
| 48:3-4 | 7-14 May | 2 | "Wishing Well" | Terence Trent D'Arby |
| 48:5-6 | 21-28 May | 2 | "Always on My Mind" | Pet Shop Boys |
| 48:7 | 4 June | 1 | "Beds Are Burning" | Midnight Oil |
| 48:8-9 | 11-18 June | 2 | "One More Try" | George Michael |
| 48:10-13 | 25 June - 16 July | 4 | "Together Forever" | Rick Astley |
| 48:14 | 23 July | 1 | "New Sensation" | INXS |
| 48:15 | 30 July | 1 | "The Flame" | Cheap Trick |
| 48:16 | 6 August | 1 | "Roll With It" | Steve Winwood |
| 48:17-19 | 13-27 August | 3 | "I Don't Wanna Go on with You Like That" | Elton John |
| 48:20 | 3 September | 1 | "Fast Car" | Tracy Chapman |
| 48:21 | 10 September | 1 | "Perfect World" | Huey Lewis and the News |
| 48:22-23 | 17-24 September | 2 | "Monkey" | George Michael |
| 48:24 | 1 October | 1 | "It Would Take a Strong Strong Man" | Rick Astley |
| 48:25 | 8 October | 1 | "One Good Woman" | Peter Cetera |
| 48:26, 49:1 | 15-22 October | 2 | "Don't Worry, Be Happy" | Bobby McFerrin |
| 49:2-5 | 29 October - 12 November | 3 | "A Groovy Kind of Love" | Phil Collins |
| 49:6-8† | 19 November - 10 December | 4 | "Desire" | U2 |
| 49:9 | 17 December | 1 | "Kissing a Fool" | George Michael |
| 49:10 | 24 December 1988 - 7 January 1989 ‡ | 3 | "Look Away" | Chicago |
Notes:
- § - RPM did not publish issues for the first two weeks of January 1988; weeks are implied.
- † - The 26 November 1988 issue appears to be a number "6A" within volume 49.
- ‡ - RPM did not publish from 14 December 1988 to 14 January 1989; weeks are implied.
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