Music Charts Archive

Weekly national charts, as the trade papers printed them

Gonna Fly Now

20 chart weeks across 3 charts, peaking at No. 28
Chart Peak Weeks Bulleted Run
Billboard Hot 100 28 13 10 4/23/77 – 7/16/77
R&R Adult Contemporary 30 5 1 5/13/77 – 6/10/77
Billboard R&B Singles 97 2 0 7/9/77 – 7/16/77

Billboard Hot 100

13 weeks, 4/23/77 to 7/16/77. Each column is a published week — click one for that chart.

R&R Adult Contemporary

5 weeks, 5/13/77 to 6/10/77. Each column is a published week — click one for that chart.

Billboard R&B Singles

2 weeks, 7/9/77 to 7/16/77. 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.