Album
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Why this album mattered
Wish (1992) is a The Cure album in the RetroVerse archive. The RetroVerse catalog lists 10 tracks on this release. It reached #2 and charted for 26 weeks.
The music
- 1
Open
2 High
- 3
Apart
- 4
From the Edge of the Deep Green Sea
- 5
Wendy Time
- 6
Doing the Unstuck
- 7
Friday I’m in Love
- 8
Trust
- 9
A Letter to Elise
- 10
Cut
One bar, one chart week
The chart journey
Tap any week to open its place in the story.
Chart Journey
- May 9, 1992#2
An instant smash — it arrived near the top of the chart and never looked like a slow build. Entered at #2 at its peak, then spent 4 weeks inside the Top 10 and fell quickly across 26 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.
