Music Charts Archive

Weekly national charts, as the trade papers printed them

You Don't Have To Be A Star (To Be In My Show)

60 chart weeks across 4 charts, peaking at No. 1
Chart Peak Weeks Bulleted Run
Billboard Hot 100 1 26 18 9/11/76 – 3/5/77
Billboard R&B Singles 1 21 9 9/18/76 – 2/5/77
R&R Adult Contemporary 4 8 0 1/7/77 – 2/25/77
R&R CHR / Top 40 5 5 0 1/7/77 – 2/4/77

Billboard Hot 100

26 weeks, 9/11/76 to 3/5/77. Each column is a published week — click one for that chart.

Billboard R&B Singles

21 weeks, 9/18/76 to 2/5/77. Each column is a published week — click one for that chart.

R&R Adult Contemporary

8 weeks, 1/7/77 to 2/25/77. Each column is a published week — click one for that chart.

R&R CHR / Top 40

5 weeks, 1/7/77 to 2/4/77. 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.