Album
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Why this album mattered
World Machine (1986) is a Level 42 album in the RetroVerse archive. The RetroVerse catalog lists 10 tracks on this release. It reached #18 and charted for 36 weeks. Major singles from the album include "Something About You".
The music
1 World Machine
- 2
Physical Presence
3 Something About You
- 4
Leaving Me Now
- 5
I Sleep on My Heart
- 6
It’s Not the Same for Us
- 7
Dream Crazy (Bonus Track)
- 8
Good Man in a Storm
- 9
Coup d’etat
- 10
Lying Still
One bar, one chart week
The chart journey
Tap any week to open its place in the story.
A rocket up the chart — jumping 49 positions in a single week on its way to the top. Entered at #152, exploded upward for 14 weeks to reach #18 and fell quickly across 36 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.
