Music Charts Archive

Weekly national charts, as the trade papers printed them

Black Hole Sun

110 chart weeks across 5 charts, peaking at No. 1
Chart Peak Weeks Bulleted Run
R&R AOR Tracks 1 32 17 4/15/94 – 11/18/94
Billboard Modern Rock / Alternative 2 25 11 4/23/94 – 10/29/94
Billboard Mainstream Rock 1 26 12 5/14/94 – 11/5/94
R&R Pop CHR 13 14 11 7/8/94 – 10/7/94
R&R CHR / Top 40 18 13 10 7/15/94 – 10/7/94

R&R AOR Tracks

32 weeks, 4/15/94 to 11/18/94. Each column is a published week — click one for that chart.

Billboard Modern Rock / Alternative

25 weeks, 4/23/94 to 10/29/94. Each column is a published week — click one for that chart.

Billboard Mainstream Rock

26 weeks, 5/14/94 to 11/5/94. Each column is a published week — click one for that chart.

R&R Pop CHR

14 weeks, 7/8/94 to 10/7/94. Each column is a published week — click one for that chart.

R&R CHR / Top 40

13 weeks, 7/15/94 to 10/7/94. 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.