Music Charts Archive

Weekly national charts, as the trade papers printed them

Shake You Down

77 chart weeks across 4 charts, peaking at No. 1
Chart Peak Weeks Bulleted Run
Billboard R&B Singles 1 27 12 8/16/86 – 2/14/87
Billboard Hot 100 1 22 14 10/18/86 – 3/14/87
R&R Adult Contemporary 2 16 9 10/31/86 – 2/20/87
R&R CHR / Top 40 1 12 8 11/14/86 – 2/6/87

Billboard R&B Singles

27 weeks, 8/16/86 to 2/14/87. Each column is a published week — click one for that chart.

Billboard Hot 100

22 weeks, 10/18/86 to 3/14/87. Each column is a published week — click one for that chart.

R&R Adult Contemporary

16 weeks, 10/31/86 to 2/20/87. Each column is a published week — click one for that chart.

R&R CHR / Top 40

12 weeks, 11/14/86 to 2/6/87. 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.