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Why this album mattered
Split Ends (1973) is a The Move album in the RetroVerse archive. The RetroVerse catalog lists 10 tracks on this release. It reached #172 and charted for 8 weeks.
The music
1 Do Ya
- 2
Message From the Country
- 3
Chinatown
- 4
The Minister
- 5
The Words of Aaron
- 6
Down on the Bay
- 7
California Man
- 8
No Time
- 9
Ella James
- 10
It Wasn’t My Idea to Dance
One bar, one chart week
The chart journey
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Chart Journey
- Mar 3, 1973#192
The chart run unfolded gradually — a patient climb rather than a flash moment. Entered at #192, climbed rapidly for 6 weeks to reach #172 and fell quickly over 2 more weeks across 8 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.
