Music Charts Archive

Weekly national charts, as the trade papers printed them

He Wants My Body

22 chart weeks across 2 charts, peaking at No. 8
Chart Peak Weeks Bulleted Run
Billboard R&B Singles 8 15 9 2/7/87 – 5/16/87
Billboard Hot 100 89 7 1 3/14/87 – 4/25/87

Billboard R&B Singles

15 weeks, 2/7/87 to 5/16/87. Each column is a published week — click one for that chart.

Billboard Hot 100

7 weeks, 3/14/87 to 4/25/87. 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.