Album
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Why this album mattered
Labour Of Lust (1979) is a Nick Lowe album in the RetroVerse archive. The RetroVerse catalog lists 10 tracks on this release. It reached #31 and charted for 22 weeks. Major singles from the album include "Cruel To Be Kind".
The music
1 Cruel to Be Kind
- 2
Cracking Up
- 3
Big Kick, Plain Scrap
- 4
American Squirm
- 5
You Make Me
- 6
Skin Deep
- 7
Switchboard Susan
- 8
Dose of You
- 9
Without Love
- 10
Born Fighter
One bar, one chart week
The chart journey
Tap any week to open its place in the story.
Chart Journey
- Jul 14, 1979#115
A rocket up the chart — jumping 26 positions in a single week on its way to the top. Entered at #115, exploded upward for 11 weeks to reach #31 and fell quickly across 22 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.
