Music Charts Archive

Weekly national charts, as the trade papers printed them

Lately

76 chart weeks across 3 charts, peaking at No. 1
Chart Peak Weeks Bulleted Run
Billboard R&B Singles 2 23 13 9/12/98 – 2/13/99
Billboard Hot 100 1 27 14 9/12/98 – 3/13/99
R&R Pop CHR 11 26 14 10/23/98 – 4/30/99

Billboard R&B Singles

23 weeks, 9/12/98 to 2/13/99. Each column is a published week — click one for that chart.

Billboard Hot 100

27 weeks, 9/12/98 to 3/13/99. Each column is a published week — click one for that chart.

R&R Pop CHR

26 weeks, 10/23/98 to 4/30/99. 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.