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Why this album mattered
Mellow Yellow (1967) is a Donovan album in the RetroVerse archive. The RetroVerse catalog lists 10 tracks on this release. It reached #14 and charted for 21 weeks. Major singles from the album include "Mellow Yellow".
The music
1 Mellow Yellow
- 2
Writer in the Sun
- 3
Sand and Foam
- 4
The Observation
- 5
Bleak City Woman
- 6
House of Jansch
- 7
Young Girl Blues
- 8
Museum
- 9
Hampstead Incident
- 10
Sunny South Kensington
One bar, one chart week
The chart journey
Tap any week to open its place in the story.
Chart Journey
A rocket up the chart — jumping 85 positions in a single week on its way to the top. Entered at #139, exploded upward for 6 weeks to reach #14 and fell quickly across 21 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.
