Music Charts Archive

Weekly national charts, as the trade papers printed them

I Want To Be Your Man

58 chart weeks across 4 charts, peaking at No. 1
Chart Peak Weeks Bulleted Run
Billboard R&B Singles 1 19 12 10/3/87 – 2/6/88
Billboard Hot 100 3 21 13 11/14/87 – 4/2/88
R&R CHR / Top 40 5 12 8 12/4/87 – 2/26/88
R&R Adult Contemporary 17 6 5 1/15/88 – 2/19/88

Billboard R&B Singles

19 weeks, 10/3/87 to 2/6/88. Each column is a published week — click one for that chart.

Billboard Hot 100

21 weeks, 11/14/87 to 4/2/88. Each column is a published week — click one for that chart.

R&R CHR / Top 40

12 weeks, 12/4/87 to 2/26/88. Each column is a published week — click one for that chart.

R&R Adult Contemporary

6 weeks, 1/15/88 to 2/19/88. 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.