Music Charts Archive

Weekly national charts, as the trade papers printed them

Sausalito Summernight

44 chart weeks across 3 charts, peaking at No. 15
Chart Peak Weeks Bulleted Run
Billboard Mainstream Rock 27 19 0 7/18/81 – 11/21/81
Billboard Hot 100 25 18 10 9/12/81 – 1/9/82
R&R CHR / Top 40 15 7 6 10/2/81 – 11/13/81

Billboard Mainstream Rock

19 weeks, 7/18/81 to 11/21/81. Each column is a published week — click one for that chart.

Billboard Hot 100

18 weeks, 9/12/81 to 1/9/82. Each column is a published week — click one for that chart.

R&R CHR / Top 40

7 weeks, 10/2/81 to 11/13/81. 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.