Music Charts Archive

Weekly national charts, as the trade papers printed them

You Make My Dreams

36 chart weeks across 3 charts, peaking at No. 4
Chart Peak Weeks Bulleted Run
Billboard Hot 100 5 21 11 5/2/81 – 9/19/81
R&R CHR / Top 40 4 12 7 5/8/81 – 7/24/81
Billboard Mainstream Rock 35 3 0 7/18/81 – 8/1/81

Billboard Hot 100

21 weeks, 5/2/81 to 9/19/81. Each column is a published week — click one for that chart.

R&R CHR / Top 40

12 weeks, 5/8/81 to 7/24/81. Each column is a published week — click one for that chart.

Billboard Mainstream Rock

3 weeks, 7/18/81 to 8/1/81. 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.