Album
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Why this album mattered
Permanent Waves (1980) is a Rush album in the RetroVerse archive. The RetroVerse catalog lists 10 tracks on this release. It reached #4 and charted for 36 weeks.
The music
1 The Spirit of Radio
- 2
Freewill
- 3
Jacob’s Ladder
- 4
Entre nous
- 5
Different Strings
- 6
Natural Science
- 7
Beneath, Between & Behind (live in Manchester)
- 8
By‐Tor & the Snow Dog (live in London)
- 9
Xanadu (live in London)
- 10
The Spirit of Radio (live in Manchester)
One bar, one chart week
The chart journey
Tap any week to open its place in the story.
Chart Journey
- Feb 2, 1980#134
A chart re-entry — it fell off, then found its way back. Entered at #134, exploded upward for 6 weeks to reach #4, then spent 5 weeks inside the Top 10 and fell quickly across 28 weeks on the chart. Returned after 33 weeks off the chart at #185, charting 8 more weeks at that level. 36 total weeks on 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.
