Album
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Album
A Ship Arriving Too Late To Save A Drowning Witch
- Peak position
- #23
- Weeks on chart
- 22
A Ship Arriving Too Late To Save A Drowning Witch (1982) is a Frank Zappa album in the RetroVerse archive.
Why this album mattered
A Ship Arriving Too Late To Save A Drowning Witch (1982) is a Frank Zappa album in the RetroVerse archive. The RetroVerse catalog lists 6 tracks on this release. It reached #23 and charted for 22 weeks. Major singles from the album include "Valley Girl".
The music
- 1
Teen-age Prostitute
- 2
Envelopes
3 Valley Girl
- 4
No Not Now
- 5
I Come From Nowhere
- 6
Drowning Witch
One bar, one chart week
The chart journey
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Chart Journey
- Jun 12, 1982#172
A rocket up the chart — jumping 101 positions in a single week on its way to the top. Entered at #172, exploded upward for 11 weeks to reach #23 and fell quickly across 22 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"Valley Girl"
- ArtistFrank Zappa
- Year1982
