Editing 1989 in music (section)

===January–March===
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! colspan="2" | Release
!Album
!Artist
!Notes
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| rowspan="22" valign="center" align="center" style="background:#FFA07A; textcolor:#000;" | '''J<br />A<br />N<br />U<br />A<br />R<br />Y'''
| valign="top" |1
| ''[[Petra Means Rock]]'' || [[Petra (band)|Petra]] || Compilation
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| valign="top" |9
| ''[[A Show of Hands]]'' || [[Rush (band)|Rush]] || Live album
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| rowspan="2" valign="top" |10
| ''[[New York (album)|New York]]'' || [[Lou Reed]] ||-
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| ''[[Skeletons in the Closet (Oingo Boingo album)|Skeletons in the Closet]]'' || [[Oingo Boingo]] || Compilation
|-
| valign="top" |13
| ''[[The Raw & the Cooked (album)|The Raw and the Cooked]]'' || [[Fine Young Cannibals]] ||-
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| valign="top" |16
| ''[[Desert Wind (album)|Desert Wind]]'' || [[Ofra Haza]] ||-
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| valign="top" |18
| ''[[The Whitey Album]]'' || [[Sonic Youth|Ciccone Youth]] ||-
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| rowspan="4" valign="top" |23
| ''[[After the War (Gary Moore album)|After the War]]'' || [[Gary Moore]] ||-
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| ''[[Hunkpapa (album)|Hunkpapa]]'' || [[Throwing Muses]] ||-
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| ''[[Lōc-ed After Dark]]'' || [[Tone Lōc]] ||-
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| ''[[Oh Yes I Can]]'' || [[David Crosby]] ||-
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| rowspan="2" valign="top" |24
| ''[[Electric Youth (album)|Electric Youth]]'' || [[Debbie Gibson]] ||-
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| ''[[Skid Row (Skid Row album)|Skid Row]]'' || [[Skid Row (American band)|Skid Row]] || Debut
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| valign="top" |25
| ''[[Straight Outta Compton]]'' || [[N.W.A]] ||-
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| valign="top" |27
| ''[[Cosmic Thing]]'' || [[B-52's]] ||-
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| valign="top" |29
| ''[[Veuillez rendre l'âme (à qui elle appartient)]]'' || [[Noir Désir]] || France
|-
| rowspan="2" valign="top" |30
| ''[[Fabulous Disaster]]'' || [[Exodus (band)|Exodus]] || US version (originally released in Europe in 1988)<ref>According to [http://metal-archives.com/release.php?id=732 Encyclopaedia Metallum], [[Exodus (band)|Exodus]]' album ''[[Fabulous Disaster]]'' was released in Europe in 1988 by UK label [[Music for Nations]], but not in the US until January 1989.</ref>
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| ''[[Technique (album)|Technique]]'' || [[New Order (band)|New Order]] ||-
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| rowspan="3" valign="top" |31
| ''[[Dirty Rotten Filthy Stinking Rich]]'' || [[Warrant (American band)|Warrant]] ||Debut
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| ''[[Life Is...Too Short]]'' || [[Too Short]] ||-
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| ''[[Triumphant Return]]'' || [[Whitecross (band)|Whitecross]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="4" valign="top" |?
| ''[[3 (Violent Femmes album)|3]]'' || [[Violent Femmes]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="22" valign="center" align="center" style="background:#D8BFD8; textcolor:#000;" | '''F<br />E<br />B<br />R<br />U<br />A<br />R<br />Y''
|-
| rowspan="3" valign="top" |1
| ''[[Don't Tell a Soul]]'' || [[The Replacements (band)]] ||-
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| ''[[Force Majeure (Doro album)]]'' || [[Doro (musician)]] ||Solo Debut
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| ''[[The Great Radio Controversy]]'' || [[Tesla (band)]] ||-
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| valign="top" |3
| ''[[Meshuggah (EP)|Meshuggah]]'' || [[Meshuggah]] || Debut/EP
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| rowspan="2" valign="top" |6
| ''[[Beyond the Blue Neon]]'' || [[George Strait]] ||-
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| ''[[Dylan & the Dead]]'' || [[Bob Dylan]] and [[Grateful Dead]] || Live album
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| rowspan="4" valign="top" |7
| ''[[As Nasty As They Wanna Be]]'' || [[2 Live Crew]] ||-
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| ''[[Blessing in Disguise (Metal Church album)|Blessing in Disguise]]'' || [[Metal Church]] ||-
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| ''[[Mystery Girl]]'' || [[Roy Orbison]] ||-
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| ''[[Spike (Elvis Costello album)|Spike]]'' || [[Elvis Costello]] ||-
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| valign="top" |13
| ''[[A New Flame]]'' || [[Simply Red]] ||-
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| valign="top" |20
| ''[[Storm the Studio]]'' || [[Meat Beat Manifesto]] ||-
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| rowspan="2" valign="top" |21
| ''Animotion'' || [[Animotion]] ||-
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| ''[[Intuition (TNT album)|Intuition]]'' || [[TNT (Norwegian band)|TNT]] ||-
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| valign="top" |22
| ''[[Jed (album)|Jed]]'' || [[Goo Goo Dolls]] ||-
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| valign="top" |27
| ''[[Oranges & Lemons (album)|Oranges & Lemons]]'' || [[XTC]] ||-
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| valign="top" |27
| ''[[Playing with Fire (Spacemen 3 album)|Playing With Fire]]'' || [[Spacemen 3]] ||-
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| valign="top" |28
| ''[[Indigo Girls (album)|Indigo Girls]]'' || [[Indigo Girls]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="23" valign="center" align="center" style="background:#98FB98; textcolor:#000;" |'''M<br />A<br />R<br />C<br />H'''
| valign="top" |1
| ''[[Best of Ozz]]'' || [[Ozzy Osbourne]] || Compilation; Japan
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| valign="top" |3
| ''[[3 Feet High and Rising]]'' || [[De La Soul]] ||-
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| valign="top" |6
| ''[[When Dream and Day Unite]]'' || [[Dream Theater]] || Debut
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| valign="top" |7
| ''[[Girl You Know It's True (album)|Girl You Know It's True]]'' || [[Milli Vanilli]] || U.S. version of ''[[All or Nothing (Milli Vanilli album)|All or Nothing]]'' 
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| valign="top" |12
| ''[[Grip It! On That Other Level]]'' || [[Geto Boys]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="2" valling="top" |13
| ''[[101 (album)|101]]'' || [[Depeche Mode]] || Live double album
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| ''[[Another Place and Time]]'' || [[Donna Summer]] ||UK
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| rowspan="3" valign="top" |14
| ''[[Extreme (Extreme album)|Extreme]]'' || [[Extreme (band)|Extreme]] || Debut
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| ''[[Road to the Riches]]'' || [[Kool G Rap]] & DJ Polo ||-
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| ''[[Spell (album)|Spell]]'' || [[Deon Estus]] ||-
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| rowspan="3" valign="top" |20
| ''[[Cross That Line]]'' || [[Howard Jones (British musician)|Howard Jones]] ||-
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| ''Saraya'' || [[Saraya (band)|Saraya]] ||-
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| ''[[Shine (Mother Love Bone EP)|Shine]]'' || [[Mother Love Bone]] || Debut/EP
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| rowspan="3" valign="top" |21
| ''[[Like a Prayer (album)|Like a Prayer]]'' || [[Madonna]] ||-
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| ''[[Nick of Time (album)|Nick of Time]]'' || [[Bonnie Raitt]] ||-
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| ''[[Somewhere Between (album)|Somewhere Between]]'' || [[Suzy Bogguss]] || Debut
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| valign="top" |22
| ''[[Make Them Die Slowly (album)|Make Them Die Slowly]]'' || [[White Zombie (band)|White Zombie]] ||-
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| valign="top" |24
| ''[[Wide-Eyed Wonder]]'' || [[The Choir (alternative rock band)|The Choir]] ||-
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| valign="top" |27
| ''[[Larger than Life (Jody Watley album)|Larger than Life]]'' || [[Jody Watley]] ||-
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| valign="top" |28
| ''[[Alannah Myles (album)|Alannah Myles]]'' || [[Alannah Myles]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="3" valign="top" |?
| ''[[Mr. Jordan]]'' || [[Julian Lennon]] ||-
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| ''[[Something Real (Phoebe Snow album)|Something Real]]'' || [[Phoebe Snow]] ||-
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| ''[[Yellow Moon (Neville Brothers album)|Yellow Moon]]'' || [[The Neville Brothers]] ||-
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