Album
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Why this album mattered
A Kind Of Magic (1986) is a Queen album in the RetroVerse archive. The RetroVerse catalog lists 10 tracks on this release. It reached #46 and charted for 13 weeks.
The music
1 One Vision
2 A Kind of Magic
- 3
One Year of Love
- 4
Pain Is So Close to Pleasure
- 5
Friends Will Be Friends
- 6
Who Wants to Live Forever
- 7
Gimme the Prize (Kurgan’s Theme)
- 8
Don’t Lose Your Head
- 9
Princes of the Universe
- 10
Forever
One bar, one chart week
The chart journey
Tap any week to open its place in the story.
Chart Journey
- Jul 19, 1986#125
A rocket up the chart — jumping 53 positions in a single week on its way to the top. Entered at #125, exploded upward for 4 weeks to reach #46 and fell quickly across 13 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.
