Music Charts Archive

Weekly national charts, as the trade papers printed them

Girls Just Want To Have Fun

53 chart weeks across 4 charts, peaking at No. 2
Chart Peak Weeks Bulleted Run
Billboard Hot 100 2 25 14 12/17/83 – 6/2/84
R&R CHR / Top 40 2 13 7 1/20/84 – 4/13/84
Billboard Mainstream Rock 16 10 0 1/21/84 – 3/24/84
Billboard R&B Singles 80 5 2 4/7/84 – 5/5/84

Billboard Hot 100

25 weeks, 12/17/83 to 6/2/84. Each column is a published week — click one for that chart.

R&R CHR / Top 40

13 weeks, 1/20/84 to 4/13/84. Each column is a published week — click one for that chart.

Billboard Mainstream Rock

10 weeks, 1/21/84 to 3/24/84. Each column is a published week — click one for that chart.

Billboard R&B Singles

5 weeks, 4/7/84 to 5/5/84. 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.