Music Charts Archive

Weekly national charts, as the trade papers printed them

P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing)

33 chart weeks across 3 charts, peaking at No. 10
Chart Peak Weeks Bulleted Run
Billboard Hot 100 10 16 8 10/8/83 – 1/21/84
R&R CHR / Top 40 10 9 6 10/14/83 – 12/9/83
Billboard R&B Singles 46 8 4 10/29/83 – 12/17/83

Billboard Hot 100

16 weeks, 10/8/83 to 1/21/84. Each column is a published week — click one for that chart.

R&R CHR / Top 40

9 weeks, 10/14/83 to 12/9/83. Each column is a published week — click one for that chart.

Billboard R&B Singles

8 weeks, 10/29/83 to 12/17/83. 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.