Music Charts Archive

Weekly national charts, as the trade papers printed them

Centerfold

65 chart weeks across 3 charts, peaking at No. 1
Chart Peak Weeks Bulleted Run
R&R CHR / Top 40 2 15 11 11/6/81 – 2/26/82
Billboard Hot 100 1 25 19 11/7/81 – 4/24/82
Billboard Mainstream Rock 1 25 0 11/14/81 – 5/1/82

R&R CHR / Top 40

15 weeks, 11/6/81 to 2/26/82. Each column is a published week — click one for that chart.

Billboard Hot 100

25 weeks, 11/7/81 to 4/24/82. Each column is a published week — click one for that chart.

Billboard Mainstream Rock

25 weeks, 11/14/81 to 5/1/82. 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.