Music Charts Archive

Weekly national charts, as the trade papers printed them

Hot Stuff

48 chart weeks across 4 charts, peaking at No. 1
Chart Peak Weeks Bulleted Run
R&R CHR / Top 40 1 11 6 4/20/79 – 6/29/79
Billboard Hot 100 1 21 9 4/21/79 – 9/8/79
Billboard R&B Singles 3 14 7 4/28/79 – 7/28/79
R&R Adult Contemporary 36 2 0 5/25/79 – 6/1/79

R&R CHR / Top 40

11 weeks, 4/20/79 to 6/29/79. Each column is a published week — click one for that chart.

Billboard Hot 100

21 weeks, 4/21/79 to 9/8/79. Each column is a published week — click one for that chart.

Billboard R&B Singles

14 weeks, 4/28/79 to 7/28/79. Each column is a published week — click one for that chart.

R&R Adult Contemporary

2 weeks, 5/25/79 to 6/1/79. 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.