Album
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Album
Royal Scam
- Peak position
- #15
- Weeks on chart
- 29
Royal Scam (1976) is a Steely Dan album in the RetroVerse archive.
Why this album mattered
Royal Scam (1976) is a Steely Dan album in the RetroVerse archive. The RetroVerse catalog lists 9 tracks on this release. It reached #15 and charted for 29 weeks.
The music
- 1
Everything You Did
2 The Fez
- 3
Don't Take Me Alive
- 4
The Royal Scam
- 5
Green Earrings
- 6
Sign In Stranger
7 Kid Charlemagne
- 8
The Caves Of Altamira
- 9
Haitian Divorce
One bar, one chart week
The chart journey
Tap any week to open its place in the story.
Chart Journey
- May 22, 1976#96
A chart re-entry — it fell off, then found its way back. Entered at #96, exploded upward for 8 weeks to reach #15 and fell quickly across 27 weeks on the chart. Returned after 217 weeks off the chart at #174, charting 2 more weeks at that level. 29 total weeks on 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.
Album facts
- ArtistSteely Dan
- Year1976