Billboard began compiling sales and airplay into a single listing in 1958. Other veteran acts to appear at the top of the chart in 1987 included the Oak Ridge Boys, who achieved their fourteenth and fifteenth number ones, but their last to feature vocalist William Lee Golden, who was expelled from the group after more than 20 years during 1987. Crystal Gayle, one of the most successful chart acts of the preceding ten years, reached number one for the eighteenth and final time with "Straight to the Heart". Chart history See also 1987 in music List of artists who reached number one on the U.S. country chart References 1987 1987 record charts Country