Music Charts Archive

Weekly national charts, as the trade papers printed them

Rapture

44 chart weeks across 4 charts, peaking at No. 1
Chart Peak Weeks Bulleted Run
R&R CHR / Top 40 8 12 8 1/30/81 – 4/17/81
Billboard Hot 100 1 20 10 1/31/81 – 6/13/81
Billboard R&B Singles 33 10 7 2/21/81 – 4/25/81
Billboard Mainstream Rock 35 2 0 3/21/81 – 4/4/81

R&R CHR / Top 40

12 weeks, 1/30/81 to 4/17/81. Each column is a published week — click one for that chart.

Billboard Hot 100

20 weeks, 1/31/81 to 6/13/81. Each column is a published week — click one for that chart.

Billboard R&B Singles

10 weeks, 2/21/81 to 4/25/81. Each column is a published week — click one for that chart.

Billboard Mainstream Rock

2 weeks, 3/21/81 to 4/4/81. 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.