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Album
Black Gold
- Peak position
- #149
- Weeks on chart
- 12
Black Gold (1970) is a Nina Simone album in the RetroVerse archive.
Why this album mattered
Black Gold (1970) is a Nina Simone album in the RetroVerse archive. The RetroVerse catalog lists 10 tracks on this release. It reached #149 and charted for 12 weeks.
The music
- 1
Introduction
- 2
Black Is the Colour of My True Love’s Hair
- 3
Ain’t Got No, I Got Life
- 4
West Wind
- 5
Who Knows Where the Time Goes?
- 6
The Assignment Sequence
7 To Be Young, Gifted and Black
- 8
Suzanne
- 9
No Opportunity Necessary, No Experience Needed
- 10
The Other Woman
One bar, one chart week
The chart journey
Tap any week to open its place in the story.
Chart Journey
- Mar 14, 1970#189
A sleeper hit — it hung around for 12 weeks, peaking at #149 without ever dominating the Top 10. Entered at #189, exploded upward for 6 weeks to reach #149 and fell quickly across 12 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
- ArtistNina Simone
- Year1970