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Album
Beginnings
- Peak position
- #35
- Weeks on chart
- 17
Beginnings (1972) is a Rick Springfield album in the RetroVerse archive.
Why this album mattered
Beginnings (1972) is a Rick Springfield album in the RetroVerse archive. The RetroVerse catalog lists 10 tracks on this release. It reached #35 and charted for 17 weeks. Major singles from the album include "Speak To The Sky".
The music
- 1
Mother Can You Carry Me
2 Speak to the Sky
3 What Would the Children Think
- 4
1000 Years
- 5
The Unhappy Ending
- 6
Hooky Jo
- 7
I Didn't Mean to Love You
- 8
Come on Everybody
- 9
Why
- 10
The Ballad of Annie Goodbody
One bar, one chart week
The chart journey
Tap any week to open its place in the story.
A rocket up the chart — jumping 69 positions in a single week on its way to the top. Entered at #195, exploded upward for 10 weeks to reach #35 and fell quickly across 17 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"Speak To The Sky"
- ArtistRick Springfield
- Year1972