Album
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Why this album mattered
Tales From Topographic Oceans (1974) is a Yes album in the RetroVerse archive. The RetroVerse catalog lists 6 tracks on this release. It reached #6 and charted for 27 weeks.
The music
- 1
The Revealing Science of God: Dance of the Dawn
- 2
The Remembering: High the Memory
- 3
"The Ancient": Giants Under the Sun
- 4
Ritual: Nous sommes du soleil
- 5
The Revealing Science of God: Dance of the Dawn (studio run-through)
- 6
"The Ancient": Giants Under the Sun (studio run-through)
One bar, one chart week
The chart journey
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Chart Journey
- Feb 2, 1974#43
A rocket up the chart — jumping 30 positions in a single week on its way to the top. Entered at #43, exploded upward for 6 weeks to reach #6, then spent 6 weeks inside the Top 10 and fell quickly across 27 weeks on the chart.
Similar chart journeys
Albums with similar chart journeys share comparable chart arcs — how they climbed, peaked, and endured on the chart.
