List of top 25 albums for 1988 in Australia
# List of top 25 albums for 1988 in Australia

These are the top 50 albums of 1988 in Australia from the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) End of Year Albums Chart. These were the first End of Year album charts created by ARIA, it had started producing its own charts from mid-1988. ARIA had previously used the Kent Music Report, known from 1987 onwards as the Australian Music Report.

| # | Title | Artist | Highest pos. reached | weeks at No. 1 |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| 1. | Kick | INXS | 1 | 1 |
| 2. | Dirty Dancing | Motion Picture Soundtrack | 1 | 8 |
| 3. | Freight Train Heart | Jimmy Barnes | 1 | 5 |
| 4. | Whenever You Need Somebody | Rick Astley | 1 | 1 |
| 5. | The Lonesome Jubilee | John Cougar Mellencamp | 2 | |
| 6. | Man of Colours | Icehouse | 1 | 11 |
| 7. | Tracy Chapman | Tracy Chapman | 3 | |
| 8. | Introducing the Hardline According to Terence Trent D'Arby | Terence Trent D'Arby | 1 | 5 |
| 9. | Push | Bros | 4 | |
| 10. | Whispering Jack | John Farnham | 1 | 25 |
| 11. | Faith | George Michael | 3 | |
| 12. | Tour of Duty | TV Soundtrack | 3 | |
| 13. | Age of Reason | John Farnham | 1 | 9 |
| 14. | Temple of Low Men | Crowded House | 1 | 2 |
| 15. | Good Morning, Vietnam | Motion Picture Soundtrack | 2 | |
| 16. | Open Up and Say... Ahh! | Poison | 2 | |
| 17. | Kylie | Kylie Minogue | 2 | |
| 18. | A Momentary Lapse of Reason | Pink Floyd | 2 | |
| 19. | Bonk | Big Pig | 5 | |
| 20. | Lap of Luxury | Cheap Trick | 6 | |
| 21. | Big Bad Noise | The Choirboys | 11 | |
| 22. | Wow! | Bananarama | 1 | 1 |
| 23. | Heavy Nova | Robert Palmer | 2 | |
| 24. | Cloud Nine | George Harrison | 4 | |
| 25. | Wired World of Sports | The Twelfth Man | 1 | 3 |
| 26. | Noiseworks | Noiseworks | 2 | |
| 27. | Diesel and Dust | Midnight Oil | 1 | 6 |
| 28. | Tiffany | Tiffany | 6 | |
| 29. | Hit Pix '88 | Various Artists | 1 | 3 |
| 30. | '88 Kix On | Various Artists | 1 | 4 |
| 31. | Tales of the City | Rockmelons | 14 | |
| 32. | Live Line | The Angels | 2 | |
| 33. | Monsoon | Little River Band | 9 | |
| 34. | Richard Marx | Richard Marx | 7 | |
| 35. | You've Always Got the Blues | Kate Ceberano and Wendy Matthews | 7 | |
| 36. | Tango in the Night | Fleetwood Mac | 5 | |
| 37. | Tour of Duty II | TV Soundtrack | 5 | |
| 38. | Appetite for Destruction | Guns N' Roses | 7 | |
| 39. | Union | Toni Childs | 8 | |
| 40. | 88 the Winners | Various Artists | 1 | 4 |
| 41. | Chantoozies | Chantoozies | 8 | |
| 42. | Blow Up Your Video | AC/DC | 2 | |
| 43. | Bad | Michael Jackson | 2 | |
| 44. | Pump It Up '88 | Various Artists | 37 | |
| 45. | ...Nothing Like the Sun | Sting | 3 | |
| 46. | OU812 | Van Halen | 9 | |
| 47. | Boomerang Cafe | John Williamson | 10 | |
| 48. | Unchain My Heart | Joe Cocker | 24 | |
| 49. | Vital Idol | Billy Idol | 12 | |
| 50. | 1988 What's Hot | Various Artists | 2 | |

Peak chart positions from 1987 and early 1988 were calculated by David Kent for the Kent Music Report. Late 1988 peak chart positions are from the ARIA Charts. Overall position on the End of Year Chart is calculated by ARIA based on the number of weeks and position that the records reach within the Top 50 albums for each week during 1988.

