Chart Codes:
Various charts are referenced throughout Dave’s Music Database. Here are what the codes mean:
- AA: Billboard adult alternative charts (1996-present)
- AC: Billboard adult contemporary charts (1961-present)
- AR: Billboard album rock charts (1981-present)
- AU: Australia's pop charts (1966-present)
- BA: Billboard pop airplay (1984-present)
- BB: Billboard pop charts (1890-present)
- BS: Billboard best-sellers chart (1940-1958)
- CA: Cashbox (1950-1996). U.S. sales-based chart
- CN: Canada's pop charts (1964-present)
- CO: college rock, DMDB-created charts to pre-date Billboard’s modern rock chart (1965-1988)
- CR: classic rock, from the DMDB book Charting the Classic Rock Hits, DMDB-created charts to pre-date Billboard’s album rock chart (1962-1981)
- CW: Billboard country charts (1944-present)
- DF: Dave's Faves personal chart peak
- DG: Billboard digital chart (2005-present)
- DJ: Billboard disc jockey hits (1944-1958)
- GA: Edward Foote Gardner Popular Songs of the Twentieth Century (1900-1949)
- GR: The Gavin Report (pop, 1958-2000), U.S. pop chart
- HP: Your Hit Parade (pop, 1931-1955), U.S. pop chart
- HR: Hit Records (1954-82), U.S. pop chart
- JB: Billboard juke box hits (1940-1957)
- MR: Billboard modern rock (or alternative rock) charts (1988-present)
- PM: Joel Whitburn Pop Memories (1890-1954), U.S. pop chart
- RB: Billboard R&B/rap charts (1942-present)
- RR: Radio & Records/Mediabase (1973-2015), U.S. pop chart
- SM: Sharon Mawer Charts (1900-1968), U.S. pop chart
- ST: Billboard streaming (2013-present)
- UK: United Kingdom/British pop charts (1952-present)
- US: Billboard pop charts (1890-present)
If a code is followed by --, then it was a non-charting single or was never released as a single, but has become a classic nonetheless.
