Music Charts Archive

Weekly national charts, as the trade papers printed them

Ebony & Ivory

69 chart weeks across 4 charts, peaking at No. 1
Chart Peak Weeks Bulleted Run
R&R Adult Contemporary 1 17 7 4/2/82 – 7/23/82
R&R CHR / Top 40 1 14 9 4/2/82 – 7/2/82
Billboard Hot 100 1 19 10 4/10/82 – 8/14/82
Billboard R&B Singles 8 19 10 4/17/82 – 8/21/82

R&R Adult Contemporary

17 weeks, 4/2/82 to 7/23/82. Each column is a published week — click one for that chart.

R&R CHR / Top 40

14 weeks, 4/2/82 to 7/2/82. Each column is a published week — click one for that chart.

Billboard Hot 100

19 weeks, 4/10/82 to 8/14/82. Each column is a published week — click one for that chart.

Billboard R&B Singles

19 weeks, 4/17/82 to 8/21/82. 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.