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Why this album mattered
Fair Warning (1981) is a Van Halen album in the RetroVerse archive. The RetroVerse catalog lists 9 tracks on this release. It reached #5 and charted for 23 weeks.
The music
- 1
Mean Street
- 2
"Dirty Movies"
- 3
Sinner's Swing!
- 4
Hear About It Later
5 Unchained
- 6
Push Comes to Shove
- 7
So This Is Love?
- 8
Sunday Afternoon in the Park
- 9
One Foot out the Door
One bar, one chart week
The chart journey
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Chart Journey
- May 30, 1981#26
A rocket up the chart — jumping 20 positions in a single week on its way to the top. Entered at #26, exploded upward for 3 weeks to reach #5, then spent 5 weeks inside the Top 10 and fell quickly across 23 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.
