This is a list of notable events in country music that took place in the year 1987.
| US | CAN | Single | Artist |
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| 7 | 4 | 80's Ladies | K. T. Oslin |
| 86 | 17 | Ain't No Cure for Love | Jennifer Warnes |
| 1 | 1 | All My Ex's Live in Texas | George Strait |
| 1 | 1 | Am I Blue | George Strait |
| 16 | 35 | American Me | S-K-O |
| 4 | — | Another World | Crystal Gayle and Gary Morris |
| 2 | 2 | Baby's Got a Hold on Me | Nitty Gritty Dirt Band |
| 1 | — | Baby's Got a New Baby | S-K-O |
| 4 | 8 | The Bed You Made for Me | Highway 101 |
| 10 | 9 | Bonnie Jean (Little Sister) | David Lynn Jones |
| 1 | 1 | Born to Boogie | Hank Williams, Jr. |
| 9 | 4 | Brilliant Conversationalist | T. Graham Brown |
| 1 | 1 | Can't Stop My Heart from Loving You | The O'Kanes |
| 6 | 1 | The Carpenter | John Conlee |
| 4 | 7 | Chains of Gold | Sweethearts of the Rodeo |
| 16 | 30 | Changin' Partners | Larry Gatlin and the Gatlin Brothers |
| 13 | 14 | Child Support | Barbara Mandrell |
| 5 | 3 | Cinderella | Vince Gill |
| 10 | 23 | Cowboy Man | Lyle Lovett |
| 3 | 7 | Crazy from the Heart | The Bellamy Brothers |
| 4 | — | Crazy Over You | Foster & Lloyd |
| 7 | 5 | Crime of Passion | Ricky Van Shelton |
| 1 | 2 | Cry Myself to Sleep | The Judds |
| 9 | 12 | Daddies Need to Grow Up Too | The O'Kanes |
| 10 | 10 | Deep River Woman | Lionel Richie with Alabama |
| 85 | 17 | Didn't You Go and Leave Me | Rosemary Sharp |
| 1 | 3 | Do Ya | K. T. Oslin |
| 4 | 5 | Domestic Life | John Conlee |
| 10 | 4 | Don't Be Cruel | The Judds |
| 1 | 1 | Don't Go to Strangers | T. Graham Brown |
| 20 | 19 | Don't Touch Me There | Charly McClain |
| 4 | 7 | A Face in the Crowd | Michael Martin Murphey and Holly Dunn |
| 2 | 2 | Fallin' for You for Years | Conway Twitty |
| 8 | 11 | Fallin' Out | Waylon Jennings |
| 7 | 5 | Fire in the Sky | Nitty Gritty Dirt Band |
| 1 | 1 | Fishin' in the Dark | Nitty Gritty Dirt Band |
| 7 | 11 | Forever | The Statler Brothers |
| 1 | 1 | Forever and Ever, Amen | Randy Travis |
| 16 | 18 | Full Grown Fool | Mickey Gilley |
| 7 | 10 | Girls Ride Horses Too | Judy Rodman |
| 13 | 18 | Give Back My Heart | Lyle Lovett |
| 1 | 3 | Give Me Wings | Michael Johnson |
| 18 | 23 | God Will | Lyle Lovett |
| 8 | 10 | Goodbye's All We've Got Left | Steve Earle |
| 10 | 11 | Gotta Get Away | Sweethearts of the Rodeo |
| 9 | 6 | Gotta Have You | Eddie Rabbitt |
| 2 | 3 | Half Past Forever (Till I'm Blue in the Heart) | T. G. Sheppard |
| 6 | 6 | The Hand That Rocks the Cradle | Glen Campbell (with Steve Wariner) |
| 10 | — | Hard Livin' | Keith Whitley |
| 14 | 50 | Have I Got Some Blues for You | Charley Pride |
| 18 | 39 | He's Letting Go | Baillie & the Boys |
| 9 | 25 | Homecoming '63 | Keith Whitley |
| 17 | 12 | House of Blue Lights | Asleep at the Wheel |
| 1 | 1 | How Do I Turn You On | Ronnie Milsap |
| 1 | 3 | I Can't Win for Losin' You | Earl Thomas Conley |
| 1 | 1 | I Know Where I'm Going | The Judds |
| 14 | 19 | I Only Wanted You | Marie Osmond |
| 2 | 2 | I Prefer the Moonlight | Kenny Rogers |
| 2 | 2 | I Want to Know You Before We Make Love | Conway Twitty |
| 1 | 1 | I Will Be There | Dan Seals |
| 1 | 1 | I Won't Need You Anymore (Always and Forever) | Randy Travis |
| 10 | 24 | I'll Be the One | The Statler Brothers |
| 5 | 9 | I'll Be Your Baby Tonight | Judy Rodman |
| 2 | 1 | I'll Come Back as Another Woman | Tanya Tucker |
| 4 | 15 | I'll Never Be in Love Again | Don Williams |
| 1 | 1 | I'll Still Be Loving You | Restless Heart |
| 9 | 24 | If There's Any Justice | Lee Greenwood |
| 1 | 1 | It Takes a Little Rain (To Make Love Grow) | The Oak Ridge Boys |
| 31 | 7 | It Won't Hurt | Dwight Yoakam |
| 8 | 12 | It's Only Over for You | Tanya Tucker |
| 2 | 3 | Julia | Conway Twitty |
| 1 | 3 | Kids of the Baby Boom | The Bellamy Brothers |
| 37 | 20 | Killbilly Hill | Southern Pacific |
| 1 | 2 | The Last One to Know | Reba McEntire |
| 1 | 1 | Leave Me Lonely | Gary Morris |
| 4 | 5 | Let the Music Lift You Up | Reba McEntire |
| 16 | 17 | Let's Do Something | Vince Gill |
| 7 | 3 | Little Sister | Dwight Yoakam |
| 8 | 1 | Little Ways | Dwight Yoakam |
| 1 | 1 | A Long Line of Love | Michael Martin Murphey |
| 10 | 7 | Love Can't Ever Get Better Than This | Ricky Skaggs & Sharon White |
| 2 | 3 | Love Me Like You Used To | Tanya Tucker |
| 6 | 5 | Love Reunited | The Desert Rose Band |
| 2 | 2 | Love Someone Like Me | Holly Dunn |
| 6 | 4 | Love, You Ain't Seen the Last of Me | John Schneider |
| 1 | 1 | Lynda | Steve Wariner |
| 1 | 1 | Make No Mistake, She's Mine | Kenny Rogers and Ronnie Milsap |
| 11 | 7 | Mama's Rockin' Chair | John Conlee |
| 1 | 1 | Maybe Your Baby's Got the Blues | The Judds |
| 4 | 6 | Midnight Girl/Sunset Town | Sweethearts of the Rodeo |
| 1 | 2 | The Moon Is Still Over Her Shoulder | Michael Johnson |
| 1 | 1 | Mornin' Ride | Lee Greenwood |
| 19 | 37 | No Easy Horses | S-K-B |
| 2 | 1 | No Place Like Home | Randy Travis |
| 20 | 7 | Nowhere Road | Steve Earle |
| 1 | 1 | Ocean Front Property | George Strait |
| 9 | 17 | Oh Heart | Baillie & the Boys |
| 11 | — | Old Bridges Burn Slow | Billy Joe Royal |
| 2 | 2 | One for the Money | T. G. Sheppard |
| 1 | 1 | One Promise Too Late | Reba McEntire |
| 4 | 7 | Only When I Love | Holly Dunn |
| 9 | 9 | Plain Brown Wrapper | Gary Morris |
| 76 | 17 | Real Good Heartache | Rosemary Sharp |
| 1 | 1 | Right from the Start | Earl Thomas Conley |
| 3 | 5 | Right Hand Man | Eddy Raven |
| 8 | 6 | The Right Left Hand | George Jones |
| 16 | 14 | The Rock and Roll of Love | Tom Wopat |
| 1 | 1 | Rose in Paradise | Waylon Jennings |
| 6 | 18 | Rough and Rowdy Days | Waylon Jennings |
| 9 | 12 | Señorita | Don Williams |
| 4 | 3 | She Couldn't Love Me Anymore | T. Graham Brown |
| 9 | — | She Thinks That She'll Marry | Judy Rodman |
| 1 | 1 | She's Too Good to Be True | Exile |
| 1 | 1 | Shine, Shine, Shine | Eddy Raven |
| 1 | 1 | Small Town Girl | Steve Wariner |
| 1 | 1 | Snap Your Fingers | Ronnie Milsap |
| 1 | 5 | Somebody Lied | Ricky Van Shelton |
| 5 | 3 | Someone | Lee Greenwood |
| 1 | 1 | Somewhere Tonight | Highway 101 |
| 1 | 2 | Straight to the Heart | Crystal Gayle |
| 20 | — | Susannah | Tom Wopat |
| 37 | 19 | Sweet Little '66 | Steve Earle |
| 10 | 7 | Take the Long Way Home | John Schneider |
| 4 | 3 | Talkin' to the Moon | Larry Gatlin & the Gatlin Brothers |
| 7 | 4 | Tar Top | Alabama |
| 3 | 6 | Telling Me Lies | Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt, Emmylou Harris |
| 1 | 2 | That Was a Close One | Earl Thomas Conley |
| 3 | 4 | Then It's Love | Don Williams |
| 1 | 2 | This Crazy Love | The Oak Ridge Boys |
| 5 | 1 | Those Memories of You | Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt, Emmylou Harris |
| 1 | 1 | Three Time Loser | Dan Seals |
| 6 | 10 | Till I'm Too Old to Die Young | Moe Bandy |
| 17 | 35 | Time In | The Oak Ridge Boys |
| 1 | 1 | To Know Him Is to Love Him | Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt, Emmylou Harris |
| 5 | 4 | Too Many Rivers | The Forester Sisters |
| 6 | 15 | Train of Memories | Kathy Mattea |
| 2 | 2 | Twenty Years Ago | Kenny Rogers |
| 1 | 1 | The Way We Make a Broken Heart | Rosanne Cash |
| 1 | 1 | The Weekend | Steve Wariner |
| 1 | 1 | What Am I Gonna Do About You | Reba McEntire |
| 9 | 7 | What Can I Do with My Heart | Juice Newton |
| 20 | 10 | When a Woman Cries | Janie Fricke |
| 2 | 1 | Whiskey, If You Were a Woman | Highway 101 |
| 1 | 1 | Why Does It Have to Be (Wrong or Right) | Restless Heart |
| 15 | 24 | Why I Don't Know | Lyle Lovett |
| 1 | 3 | You Again | The Forester Sisters |
| 11 | — | You Haven't Heard the Last of Me | Moe Bandy |
| 1 | 1 | You Still Move Me | Dan Seals |
| 2 | 5 | You're My First Lady | T. G. Sheppard |
| 3 | 6 | You're Never Too Old for Young Love | Eddy Raven |
| 5 | — | You're the Power | Kathy Mattea |
| 1 | 1 | "You've Got" the Touch | Alabama |
| 12 | 13 | Your Love | Tammy Wynette | |
