Music Charts Archive

Weekly national charts, as the trade papers printed them

Emotion In Motion

65 chart weeks across 5 charts, peaking at No. 1
Chart Peak Weeks Bulleted Run
R&R AOR Tracks 1 12 7 8/29/86 – 11/14/86
Billboard Mainstream Rock 1 12 5 9/6/86 – 11/22/86
Billboard Hot 100 15 19 10 9/6/86 – 1/10/87
R&R CHR / Top 40 16 10 8 9/19/86 – 11/21/86
R&R Adult Contemporary 4 12 7 10/17/86 – 1/9/87

R&R AOR Tracks

12 weeks, 8/29/86 to 11/14/86. Each column is a published week — click one for that chart.

Billboard Mainstream Rock

12 weeks, 9/6/86 to 11/22/86. Each column is a published week — click one for that chart.

Billboard Hot 100

19 weeks, 9/6/86 to 1/10/87. Each column is a published week — click one for that chart.

R&R CHR / Top 40

10 weeks, 9/19/86 to 11/21/86. Each column is a published week — click one for that chart.

R&R Adult Contemporary

12 weeks, 10/17/86 to 1/9/87. 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.