Album
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Album
Lives In The Balance
- Peak position
- #23
- Weeks on chart
- 31
Lives In The Balance (1986) is a Jackson Browne album in the RetroVerse archive.
Why this album mattered
Lives In The Balance (1986) is a Jackson Browne album in the RetroVerse archive. The RetroVerse catalog lists 8 tracks on this release. It reached #23 and charted for 31 weeks. Major singles from the album include "For America".
The music
1 For America
- 2
Soldier of Plenty
3 In the Shape of a Heart
- 4
Candy
- 5
Lawless Avenues
- 6
Lives in the Balance
- 7
Till I Go Down
- 8
Black and White
One bar, one chart week
The chart journey
Tap any week to open its place in the story.
Chart Journey
- Mar 22, 1986#39
A long tail — 31 weeks on the chart, outlasting most peers without ever claiming the summit. Entered at #39, exploded upward for 3 weeks to reach #23 and fell quickly across 31 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.
Album facts
- Singles"For America"
- ArtistJackson Browne
- Year1986