Music Charts Archive

Weekly national charts, as the trade papers printed them

Big Log

49 chart weeks across 3 charts, peaking at No. 6
Chart Peak Weeks Bulleted Run
Billboard Mainstream Rock 6 23 0 7/23/83 – 1/14/84
Billboard Hot 100 20 16 11 8/6/83 – 11/19/83
R&R CHR / Top 40 15 10 8 8/19/83 – 10/21/83

Billboard Mainstream Rock

23 weeks, 7/23/83 to 1/14/84. Each column is a published week — click one for that chart.

Billboard Hot 100

16 weeks, 8/6/83 to 11/19/83. Each column is a published week — click one for that chart.

R&R CHR / Top 40

10 weeks, 8/19/83 to 10/21/83. 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.