Music Charts Archive

Weekly national charts, as the trade papers printed them

Never Gonna Let You Go

73 chart weeks across 4 charts, peaking at No. 1
Chart Peak Weeks Bulleted Run
R&R Adult Contemporary 1 19 9 4/15/83 – 8/19/83
Billboard Hot 100 4 23 16 4/16/83 – 9/17/83
Billboard R&B Singles 28 19 10 4/23/83 – 8/27/83
R&R CHR / Top 40 7 12 8 5/13/83 – 7/29/83

R&R Adult Contemporary

19 weeks, 4/15/83 to 8/19/83. Each column is a published week — click one for that chart.

Billboard Hot 100

23 weeks, 4/16/83 to 9/17/83. Each column is a published week — click one for that chart.

Billboard R&B Singles

19 weeks, 4/23/83 to 8/27/83. Each column is a published week — click one for that chart.

R&R CHR / Top 40

12 weeks, 5/13/83 to 7/29/83. 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.