Music Charts Archive

Weekly national charts, as the trade papers printed them

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7 chart weeks across 2 charts, peaking at No. 49
Chart Peak Weeks Bulleted Run
Billboard Hot 100 81 4 3 8/19/72 – 9/9/72
Billboard R&B Singles 49 3 1 9/2/72 – 9/16/72

Billboard Hot 100

4 weeks, 8/19/72 to 9/9/72. Each column is a published week — click one for that chart.

Billboard R&B Singles

3 weeks, 9/2/72 to 9/16/72. 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.