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Album
First Take
- Peak position
- #1
- Weeks on chart
- 54
- Weeks at #1
- 5
First Take (1970) is a Roberta Flack album in the RetroVerse archive.
Why this album mattered
First Take (1970) is a Roberta Flack album in the RetroVerse archive. The RetroVerse catalog lists 8 tracks on this release. It peaked at #1 and spent 5 weeks at #1 across 54 total chart weeks. Major singles from the album include "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face".
The music
- 1
Compared to What
- 2
Angelitos Negros
- 3
Our Ages or Our Hearts
- 4
I Told Jesus
- 5
Hey, That's No Way to Say Goodbye
6 The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face
- 7
Tryin' Times
- 8
Ballad of the Sad Young Men
One bar, one chart week
The chart journey
Tap any week to open its place in the story.
Chart Journey
- Jan 31, 1970#195
- Feb 7#195
- May 30#184
- Jun 6#191
- Jun 13#191
- 1972
- Mar 18, 1972#106
- Mar 25#31
- Apr 1#22
- Apr 8#8
- Apr 15#6
- Apr 22#3
- Apr 29#1
- May 6#1
- May 13#1
- May 20#1
- May 27#1
- Jun 3#2
- Jun 10#2
- Jun 17#3
- Jun 24#3
- Jul 1#3
- Jul 8#9
- Jul 15#14
- Jul 22#19
- Jul 29#21
- Aug 5#23
- Aug 12#27
- Aug 19#27
- Aug 26#28
- Sep 2#28
- Sep 9#30
- Sep 16#37
- Sep 23#48
- Sep 30#51
- Oct 7#59
- Oct 14#65
- Oct 21#69
- Oct 28#70
- Nov 4#74
- Nov 11#83
- Nov 18#104
- Nov 25#105
- Dec 2#108
- Dec 9#108
- Dec 16#122
- Dec 23#144
- Dec 30#149
- 1973
- Jan 6, 1973#153
- Jan 13#160
- Jan 20#168
- Jan 27#181
- Feb 3#186
- Feb 10#198
- Feb 17#199
A chart re-entry — the song disappeared, then returned 2 times. Entered at #195 at its peak and drifted down the chart over 1 more week across 2 weeks on the chart. Returned after 15 weeks off the chart at #184, charting 3 more weeks at that level. Returned after 91 weeks off the chart at #106, reaching #1 over 49 more weeks. 54 total weeks on 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"The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face"
- ArtistRoberta Flack
- Year1970