Music Charts Archive

Weekly national charts, as the trade papers printed them

Just Like Jesse James

38 chart weeks across 3 charts, peaking at No. 5
Chart Peak Weeks Bulleted Run
Billboard Hot 100 8 18 12 10/21/89 – 2/17/90
R&R CHR / Top 40 9 11 7 11/3/89 – 1/19/90
R&R Adult Contemporary 5 9 7 11/24/89 – 1/26/90

Billboard Hot 100

18 weeks, 10/21/89 to 2/17/90. Each column is a published week — click one for that chart.

R&R CHR / Top 40

11 weeks, 11/3/89 to 1/19/90. Each column is a published week — click one for that chart.

R&R Adult Contemporary

9 weeks, 11/24/89 to 1/26/90. 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.