Album
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Why this album mattered
The Distance (1983) is a Bob Seger album in the RetroVerse archive. The RetroVerse catalog lists 9 tracks on this release. It reached #5 and charted for 39 weeks. Major singles from the album include "Shame On The Moon", "Even Now", "Roll Me Away".
The music
1 Even Now
- 2
Makin’ Thunderbirds
- 3
Boomtown Blues
4 Shame on the Moon
- 5
Love’s the Last to Know
6 Roll Me Away
- 7
House Behind a House
- 8
Comin’ Home
- 9
Little Victories
One bar, one chart week
The chart journey
Tap any week to open its place in the story.
An album monster — 39 weeks on chart with a peak at #5, the kind of run that defines an era. Entered at #16, climbed steadily for 6 weeks to reach #5, then spent 14 weeks inside the Top 10 and fell quickly across 39 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.
