Music Charts Archive

Weekly national charts, as the trade papers printed them

New Song

23 chart weeks across 3 charts, peaking at No. 22
Chart Peak Weeks Bulleted Run
Billboard Hot 100 27 15 10 1/21/84 – 4/28/84
R&R CHR / Top 40 22 7 5 2/17/84 – 3/30/84
Billboard Mainstream Rock 58 1 0 3/31/84 – 3/31/84

Billboard Hot 100

15 weeks, 1/21/84 to 4/28/84. Each column is a published week — click one for that chart.

R&R CHR / Top 40

7 weeks, 2/17/84 to 3/30/84. Each column is a published week — click one for that chart.

Billboard Mainstream Rock

1 week, 3/31/84 to 3/31/84. 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.