Album
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Why this album mattered
Mercury Falling (1996) is a Sting album in the RetroVerse archive. The RetroVerse catalog lists 10 tracks on this release. It reached #5 and charted for 34 weeks.
The music
1 The Hounds of Winter
- 2
I Hung My Head
3 Let Your Soul Be Your Pilot
- 4
I Was Brought to My Senses
5 You Still Touch Me
- 6
I’m So Happy I Can’t Stop Crying
- 7
All Four Seasons
- 8
Twenty Five to Midnight
- 9
La belle dame sans regrets
- 10
Valparaiso
One bar, one chart week
The chart journey
Tap any week to open its place in the story.
Chart Journey
- Mar 30, 1996#5
An instant smash — it arrived near the top of the chart and never looked like a slow build. Entered at #5 at its peak, then spent 2 weeks inside the Top 10 and fell quickly across 34 weeks on the chart.
The songs behind the run
Breakout songs
The album’s tracks with chart history. Open a song to follow its full journey.
Similar chart journeys
Albums with similar chart journeys share comparable chart arcs — how they climbed, peaked, and endured on the chart.
