Music Charts Archive

Weekly national charts, as the trade papers printed them

Rock On

34 chart weeks across 2 charts, peaking at No. 1
Chart Peak Weeks Bulleted Run
Billboard Hot 100 1 21 12 3/18/89 – 8/5/89
R&R CHR / Top 40 1 13 9 3/31/89 – 6/23/89

Billboard Hot 100

21 weeks, 3/18/89 to 8/5/89. Each column is a published week — click one for that chart.

R&R CHR / Top 40

13 weeks, 3/31/89 to 6/23/89. 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.