Music Charts Archive

Weekly national charts, as the trade papers printed them

96 Tears

9 chart weeks across 2 charts, peaking at No. 23
Chart Peak Weeks Bulleted Run
Billboard R&B Singles 23 6 3 1/14/67 – 2/18/67
Billboard Hot 100 96 3 3 1/14/67 – 1/28/67

Billboard R&B Singles

6 weeks, 1/14/67 to 2/18/67. Each column is a published week — click one for that chart.

Billboard Hot 100

3 weeks, 1/14/67 to 1/28/67. 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.