Album
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Why this album mattered
The Luxury Gap (1983) is a Heaven 17 album in the RetroVerse archive. The RetroVerse catalog lists 10 tracks on this release. It reached #72 and charted for 13 weeks.
The music
1 Crushed By The Wheels of Industry
- 2
Who'll Stop The rain
3 Let Me Go
- 4
Key To The World
5 Temptation
6 Come Live With Me
- 7
Lady Ice and Mr Hex
- 8
We Live So Fast
- 9
The Best Kept Secret
- 10
Let Me Go (Extended Mix)
One bar, one chart week
The chart journey
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Chart Journey
- Jun 4, 1983#161
A rocket up the chart — jumping 45 positions in a single week on its way to the top. Entered at #161, exploded upward for 7 weeks to reach #72 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.
