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Music Charts Archive

Weekly national charts, as the trade papers printed them

Orinoco Flow (Sail Away)

45 chart weeks across 4 charts, peaking at No. 5

Chart	Peak	Weeks	Bulleted	Run
Billboard Modern Rock / Alternative	6	12	0	1/7/89 – 3/25/89
Billboard Hot 100	24	17	13	1/21/89 – 5/13/89
R&R CHR / Top 40	25	6	5	3/10/89 – 4/14/89
R&R Adult Contemporary	5	10	7	3/17/89 – 5/19/89

Billboard Modern Rock / Alternative

12 weeks, 1/7/89 to 3/25/89. Each column is a published week — click one for that chart.

281/7/89 201/14/89 121/21/89 61/28/89 72/4/89 82/11/89 102/18/89 112/25/89 123/4/89 163/11/89 123/18/89 243/25/89

Billboard Hot 100

17 weeks, 1/21/89 to 5/13/89. Each column is a published week — click one for that chart.

931/21/89 811/28/89 712/4/89 622/11/89 542/18/89 502/25/89 453/4/89 393/11/89 393/18/89 363/25/89 314/1/89 254/8/89 244/15/89 264/22/89 384/29/89 595/6/89 835/13/89

R&R CHR / Top 40

6 weeks, 3/10/89 to 4/14/89. Each column is a published week — click one for that chart.

383/10/89 333/17/89 283/24/89 263/31/89 254/7/89 344/14/89

R&R Adult Contemporary

10 weeks, 3/17/89 to 5/19/89. Each column is a published week — click one for that chart.

303/17/89 273/24/89 223/31/89 144/7/89 104/14/89 74/21/89 54/28/89 55/5/89 155/12/89 305/19/89

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.