Music Charts Archive

Weekly national charts, as the trade papers printed them

Boogie Child

34 chart weeks across 3 charts, peaking at No. 12
Chart Peak Weeks Bulleted Run
Billboard Hot 100 12 15 10 1/15/77 – 4/23/77
Billboard R&B Singles 31 12 4 1/29/77 – 4/16/77
R&R CHR / Top 40 17 7 0 2/4/77 – 3/18/77

Billboard Hot 100

15 weeks, 1/15/77 to 4/23/77. Each column is a published week — click one for that chart.

Billboard R&B Singles

12 weeks, 1/29/77 to 4/16/77. Each column is a published week — click one for that chart.

R&R CHR / Top 40

7 weeks, 2/4/77 to 3/18/77. Each column is a published week — click one for that chart.

Tallest is No. 1, and the height is scaled by how many places the chart ran to that week, so No. 30 on a top-30 is the floor and No. 30 on a top-50 is the middle. A green column is a bulleted week — on the airplay charts, airplay gained; on the Hot 100, among the week’s greatest airplay and sales gains — which is not the same as a rise, so a green column can sit lower than the one before it. Weeks at the peak carry their position in red. A run longer than the page scrolls sideways; no week is left out of the drawing.