Editing 1989 in music (section)

===July–September===
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!colspan="2" | Release
!Album
!Artist
!Notes
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| rowspan="16" valign="center" align="center" style="background:#FFA07A; textcolor:#000;" | '''J<br />U<br />L<br />Y'''
| valign="top" |4
| ''[[Ghetto Music: The Blueprint of Hip Hop]]'' || [[Boogie Down Productions]] ||-
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| valign="top" |7
| ''[[Tender Lover]]'' || [[Babyface (musician)|Babyface]] ||-
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| rowspan="5" valign="top" |10
| ''[[Heart of Stone (Cher album)|Heart of Stone]]'' || [[Cher]] ||-
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| ''[[Cuts Both Ways]]'' || [[Gloria Estefan]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Earth Moving]]'' || [[Mike Oldfield]] ||-
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|''[[Horrified]]'' || [[Repulsion (band)|Repulsion]] ||-
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| ''[[Waking Hours]]'' || [[Del Amitri]] ||-
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|  valign="top" |12
| ''[[Floating into the Night]]'' || [[Julee Cruise]] ||-
|-
| valign="top" | 17
| ''[[The Twelve Commandments of Dance]]'' || [[London Boys]] || Debut
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| valign="top" |18
| ''[[UHF – Original Motion Picture Soundtrack and Other Stuff]]'' || [["Weird Al" Yankovic]] || Soundtrack
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| rowspan="3" valign="top" |25
| ''[[Paul's Boutique]]'' || [[Beastie Boys]] ||-
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| ''[[Trash (Alice Cooper album)|Trash]]'' || [[Alice Cooper]] ||-
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| ''[[Unfinished Business (EPMD album)|Unfinished Business]]'' || [[EPMD]] ||-
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| valign="top" |31
| ''[[Can't Look Away]]'' || [[Trevor Rabin]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="3" valign="top" | ?
| ''[[Peace and Love (The Pogues album)|Peace and Love]]'' || [[The Pogues]] ||-
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| ''[[Blood, Sweat and No Tears]]'' || [[Sick of It All]] ||-
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| ''[[Tweez]]''|| [[Slint]] || Debut
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| rowspan="35" valign="center" align="center" style="background:#D8BFD8; textcolor:#000;" | '''A<br />U<br />G<br />U<br />S<br />T'''
| rowspan="2" valign="top" |1
| ''[[Self-Inflicted Aerial Nostalgia]]''|| [[Guided by Voices]] ||-
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| ''[[No One Can Do It Better]]'' || [[The D.O.C.]] || Debut
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| valign="top" |2
| ''[[The Cinderella Theory]]''|| [[George Clinton (funk musician)|George Clinton]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="1" valign="top" |7
| ''[[Mick Jones (album)|Mick Jones]]'' || [[Mick Jones (Foreigner)|Mick Jones]] ||-
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| rowspan="3" valign="top" |8
| ''[[Love Among the Cannibals]]''|| [[Starship (band)|Starship]] ||-
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| ''[[Practice What You Preach]]''|| [[Testament (band)|Testament]] ||-
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| ''[[Storms (Nanci Griffith album)|Storms]]'' || [[Nanci Griffith]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="2" valign="top" |14
| ''[[Kix Brooks (album)|Kix Brooks]]'' || [[Kix Brooks]] ||-
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| ''Now That's What I Call Music 15 (UK series)'' || Various Artists ||-
|-
| rowspan="2" valign="top" |15
| ''[[Christmas in America]]'' || [[Kenny Rogers]] || Christmas
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| ''[[No Blue Thing]]''|| [[Ray Lynch]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="2" valign="top" |16
| ''[[Mother's Milk (album)|Mother's Milk]]'' || [[Red Hot Chili Peppers]] ||-
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| ''[[Special (The Temptations album)|Special]]'' || [[The Temptations]] ||-
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| valign="top" |17
| ''[[The Death of a Dictionary]]''|| Public Affection || Band changed name to [[Live (band)|Live]]
|-
| rowspan="3" valign="top" |21
| ''[[Rock Island (Jethro Tull album)|Rock Island]]'' || [[Jethro Tull (band)|Jethro Tull]] ||-
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| ''[[Conspiracy (King Diamond album)|Conspiracy]]'' || [[King Diamond]] ||-
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| ''[[Sacred Heart (Shakespears Sister album)|Sacred Heart]]'' || [[Shakespear's Sister]] || Debut
|-
| rowspan="6" valign="top" |22
| ''[[After 7 (After 7 album)|After 7]]'' || [[After 7]] ||-
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| ''[[Cocked & Loaded]]'' || [[L.A. Guns]] ||-
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| ''[[Devil's Night Out]]'' || [[The Mighty Mighty Bosstones]] ||-
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| ''[[Enuff Z'nuff (album)|Enuff Z'nuff]]'' || [[Enuff Z'nuff]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Jefferson Airplane (album)|Jefferson Airplane]]'' || [[Jefferson Airplane]] ||-
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| ''[[Perfect Symmetry (Fates Warning album)|Perfect Symmetry]]''|| [[Fates Warning]] ||-
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| rowspan="2" valign="top" |24
| ''[[The Man Is Back!]]'' || [[Barry White]] ||-
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| ''[[Niki Nana]]'' || [[Yanni]] ||-
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| rowspan="3" valign="top" |28
| ''[[Dr. Feelgood (album)|Dr. Feelgood]]'' || [[Mötley Crüe]] ||-
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| ''[[Adeva!]]'' || [[Adeva]] ||-
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| ''[[Still Cruisin']]'' || [[The Beach Boys]] ||-
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| rowspan="5" valign="top" |29
| ''[[Steel Wheels]]'' || [[The Rolling Stones]] ||-
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| ''[[Lukather]]'' || [[Steve Lukather]] || Solo Debut
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| ''[[Different (Thomas Anders album)|Different]]'' || [[Thomas Anders]] || Debut; Germany
|-
| ''[[Escape from Havana]]'' || [[Mellow Man Ace]] || Debut
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| ''[[Last of the Runaways]]'' || [[Giant (band)|Giant]] ||Debut
|-
| rowspan="2" valign="top" |?
| ''[[Penikufesin]]'' || [[Anthrax (American band)|Anthrax]] || EP
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| ''[[Return of the Ugly]]'' || [[Bad Manners]] ||-
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| rowspan="39" valign="center" align="center" style="background:#98FB98; textcolor:#000;" | '''S<br />E<br />P<br />T<br />E<br />M<br />B<br />E<br />R'''
| rowspan="3" valign="top" |1
| ''[[13 Songs (Fugazi album)|13 Songs]]'' || [[Fugazi (band)|Fugazi]] || Compilation
|-
| ''Jaya'' || [[Jaya (singer)|Jaya]] || Debut
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| ''[[Water in Time and Space]]'' || [[Susumu Hirasawa]] || Debut
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| rowspan="2" valign="top" |4
| ''[[Sleeping with the Past]]'' || [[Elton John]] ||
|-
| ''[[Love and Rockets (album)|Love and Rockets]]'' || [[Love and Rockets (band)|Love and Rockets]] ||-
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| rowspan="8" valign="top" |5
| ''[[Alice in Hell]]'' || [[Annihilator (band)|Annihilator]] ||-
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| ''[[Key Lime Pie (album)|Key Lime Pie]]'' || [[Camper Van Beethoven]] ||-
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| ''[[Louder Than Love]]'' || [[Soundgarden]] ||-
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| ''[[Megatop Phoenix]]'' || [[Big Audio Dynamite]] ||-
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| ''[[S&M Airlines]]'' || [[NOFX]] ||-
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| ''[[Stone Cold Rhymin']]'' || [[Young MC]] ||-
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| ''[[Up to Here]]'' || [[The Tragically Hip]] ||-
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| ''[[Wake Me When It's Over]]'' || [[Faster Pussycat]] ||-
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| rowspan="4" valign="top" |11
| ''[[We Too Are One]]'' || [[Eurythmics]] || UK
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| ''[[Pump (album)|Pump]]'' || [[Aerosmith]] ||-
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| ''[[Results (Liza Minnelli album)|Results]]'' || [[Liza Minnelli]] ||-
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| ''[[Brave and Crazy]]'' || [[Melissa Etheridge]] ||-
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| rowspan="1" valign="top" |12
| ''[[Floating into the Night]]'' || [[Julee Cruise]] ||-
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| ''[[Bound By the Beauty]]'' || [[Jane Siberry]] ||-
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| valign="top" |14
| ''[[Quickness]]'' || [[Bad Brains]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="6" valign="top" |18
| ''[[Foreign Affair (Tina Turner album)|Foreign Affair]]'' || [[Tina Turner]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Janet Jackson's Rhythm Nation 1814]]'' || [[Janet Jackson]] ||-
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| ''[[Heart Like a Sky]]'' || [[Spandau Ballet]] ||-
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| ''[[No More Color]]'' || [[Coroner (band)|Coroner]] ||-
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| ''[[Oh Mercy]]'' || [[Bob Dylan]] ||-
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| ''[[Allroy's Revenge]]'' || [[All (band)|ALL]] ||-
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| rowspan="3" valign="top" |19
| ''[[Sound + Vision (box set)|Sound + Vision]]'' || [[David Bowie]] || Box Set
|-
| ''[[Let Love Rule (Lenny Kravitz album)|Let Love Rule]]'' || [[Lenny Kravitz]] ||-
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| ''[[Merry, Merry Christmas]]'' || [[New Kids on the Block]] || Christmas
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| rowspan="3" valign="top" |25
| ''[[Here Today, Tomorrow Next Week!]]'' || [[The Sugarcubes]] ||-
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| ''[[Seasons End (album)|Seasons End]]'' || [[Marillion]] ||-
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| ''[[The Seeds of Love]]'' || [[Tears for Fears]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="5" valign="top" |26
| ''[[Big Trash]]'' || [[Thompson Twins]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Def, Dumb and Blonde]]'' || [[Debbie Harry|Deborah Harry]] || US
|-
| ''[[Flying Cowboys]]'' || [[Rickie Lee Jones]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Laughter (The Mighty Lemon Drops album)|Laughter]]'' || [[The Mighty Lemon Drops]] ||-
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| ''[[No Holdin' Back]]'' || [[Randy Travis]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="3" valign="top" |?
| ''[[Soldier of Fortune (Loudness album)|Soldier of Fortune]]'' || [[Loudness (band)|Loudness]] ||-
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| ''[[The Healer (John Lee Hooker album)|The Healer]]'' || [[John Lee Hooker]] ||-
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| ''[[Tempted and Tried]]'' || [[Steeleye Span]] ||-
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