| Artist | Song | Album | Company | |
| 1 | Buzzcocks | Operator's Manual | Love Bites | EMI |
| 2 | Beck | Blackhole | Mellow Gold | David Geffen Company |
| 3 | Bauhaus | Mask | Mask | Beggars Banquet |
| 4 | Bel Canto | White-out Conditions | White-out Conditions | Crammed Discs |
| 5 | Belly | Slow Dog | Star | Sire |
| 6 | Pat Benatar | We Belong | Best Shots | Chrysalis Records Inc. |
| 7 | Big Black | Kerosene | Atomizer | Homestead Records |
| 8 | Big Catholic Guilt | Silence | Judgement EP | Cherrydisc Records |
| 9 | Blue in Heaven | Close Your Eyes | Explicit Material | Island Records, Inc. |
| 10 | Billy Bragg | She's Got a New Spell | Workers Playtime | Go! Discs |
| 11 | The Breeders | Do You Love Me Now? | Last Splash | 4AD |
| 12 | Kate Bush | The Fog | The Sensual World | Columbia Records |
| 13 | The B-52's | Cake | Party Mix/Mesopotamia | Reprise Records |
| 14 | Berlin | No More Words | Best of Berlin 1979 - 1988 | Geffen Records |
| 15 | Bush | Bomb | Sixteen Stone | Trauma Records |
| 16 | Björk | Enjoy | Post | Elektra Entertainment Group |
| 17 | Boredoms | B for Boredoms | Chocolate Synthesizer | Reprise |
| 18 | Babes in Toyland | Sweet '69 | Nemesister | Reprise |
| 19 | Blondie | One Way or Another | ||
| 20 | Black 47 | Different Drummer | Home of the Brave | SBK / EMI |
| 21 | Better Than Ezra | Good | Deluxe | Elektra |
| 22 | Beastie Boys | Root Down (LP Clean) | Root Down EP | Capitol Records, Inc. |
| 23 | Breathless | Let's Make a Night of It | Three Times and Waving | Rough Trade |
| 24 | Bongwater | Talent Is a Vampire | Too Much Sleep | Shimmy Disc |
| 25 | Bow Wow Wow | Jungle Boy | I Want Candy | RCA |
| 26 | The Buckners | At the Sea | Betty | Bubblewrap Records |
| 27 | Béla Bartók (BBC National Orchestra of Wales) | Duke Bluebeard's Castle : Sixth Door: the Lake of Tears | BBC Music Volume II Number 2 | BBC Music |