Album
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Why this album mattered
Promise (1985) is a Sade album in the RetroVerse archive. The RetroVerse catalog lists 10 tracks on this release. It peaked at #1 and spent 2 weeks at #1 across 46 total chart weeks. Major singles from the album include "The Sweetest Taboo", "Never As Good As The First Time".
The music
1 
Is It a Crime
2 The Sweetest Taboo
- 3
War of the Hearts
- 4
You’re Not the Man
5 Jezebel
- 6
Mr. Wrong
- 7
Punch Drunk
8 Never as Good as the First Time
9 Fear
- 10
Tar Baby
One bar, one chart week
The chart journey
Tap any week to open its place in the story.
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.
