Music Charts Archive

Weekly national charts, as the trade papers printed them

Hot Line

58 chart weeks across 4 charts, peaking at No. 3
Chart Peak Weeks Bulleted Run
Billboard R&B Singles 3 21 7 10/9/76 – 2/26/77
Billboard Hot 100 5 24 18 10/9/76 – 3/19/77
R&R Adult Contemporary 22 5 0 1/7/77 – 2/4/77
R&R CHR / Top 40 7 8 1 1/7/77 – 2/25/77

Billboard R&B Singles

21 weeks, 10/9/76 to 2/26/77. Each column is a published week — click one for that chart.

Billboard Hot 100

24 weeks, 10/9/76 to 3/19/77. Each column is a published week — click one for that chart.

R&R Adult Contemporary

5 weeks, 1/7/77 to 2/4/77. Each column is a published week — click one for that chart.

R&R CHR / Top 40

8 weeks, 1/7/77 to 2/25/77. 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.