Album
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Why this album mattered
The Works (1984) is a Queen album in the RetroVerse archive. The RetroVerse catalog lists 10 tracks on this release. It reached #23 and charted for 20 weeks. Major singles from the album include "Radio Ga Ga".
The music
1 Radio Ga Ga
- 2
Tear It Up
- 3
It’s a Hard Life
- 4
Man on the Prowl
- 5
Machines (or ‘Back to Humans’)
6 I Want to Break Free
- 7
Keep Passing the Open Windows
- 8
Hammer to Fall
- 9
Is This the World We Created…?
- 10
I Go Crazy
One bar, one chart week
The chart journey
Tap any week to open its place in the story.
A rocket up the chart — jumping 24 positions in a single week on its way to the top. Entered at #58, exploded upward for 7 weeks to reach #23 and fell quickly across 20 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.
