Music Charts Archive

Weekly national charts, as the trade papers printed them

Blow Away

38 chart weeks across 3 charts, peaking at No. 2
Chart Peak Weeks Bulleted Run
Billboard Hot 100 16 14 11 3/3/79 – 6/2/79
R&R Adult Contemporary 2 13 4 3/16/79 – 6/8/79
R&R CHR / Top 40 4 11 3 3/16/79 – 5/25/79

Billboard Hot 100

14 weeks, 3/3/79 to 6/2/79. Each column is a published week — click one for that chart.

R&R Adult Contemporary

13 weeks, 3/16/79 to 6/8/79. Each column is a published week — click one for that chart.

R&R CHR / Top 40

11 weeks, 3/16/79 to 5/25/79. 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.