Music Charts Archive

Weekly national charts, as the trade papers printed them

Dreaming

48 chart weeks across 3 charts, peaking at No. 3
Chart Peak Weeks Bulleted Run
R&R CHR / Top 40 3 15 9 9/12/80 – 12/19/80
Billboard Hot 100 10 22 12 9/13/80 – 2/7/81
R&R Adult Contemporary 10 11 6 10/3/80 – 12/12/80

R&R CHR / Top 40

15 weeks, 9/12/80 to 12/19/80. Each column is a published week — click one for that chart.

Billboard Hot 100

22 weeks, 9/13/80 to 2/7/81. Each column is a published week — click one for that chart.

R&R Adult Contemporary

11 weeks, 10/3/80 to 12/12/80. 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.