Music Charts Archive

Weekly national charts, as the trade papers printed them

What You Won't Do For Love

64 chart weeks across 4 charts, peaking at No. 6
Chart Peak Weeks Bulleted Run
Billboard R&B Singles 6 23 13 10/14/78 – 3/17/79
Billboard Hot 100 9 20 15 12/23/78 – 5/5/79
R&R Adult Contemporary 7 13 5 2/9/79 – 5/4/79
R&R CHR / Top 40 15 8 4 2/16/79 – 4/6/79

Billboard R&B Singles

23 weeks, 10/14/78 to 3/17/79. Each column is a published week — click one for that chart.

Billboard Hot 100

20 weeks, 12/23/78 to 5/5/79. Each column is a published week — click one for that chart.

R&R Adult Contemporary

13 weeks, 2/9/79 to 5/4/79. Each column is a published week — click one for that chart.

R&R CHR / Top 40

8 weeks, 2/16/79 to 4/6/79. 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.