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Why this album mattered
No Protection (1987) is a Starship album in the RetroVerse archive. The RetroVerse catalog lists 10 tracks on this release. It reached #12 and charted for 25 weeks.
The music
1 
Beat Patrol
- 2
Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us Now
- 3
It’s Not Over (’til It’s Over)
- 4
Girls Like You
- 5
Wings of a Lie
- 6
The Children
- 7
I Don’t Know Why
- 8
Transatlantic
- 9
Say When
- 10
Babylon
One bar, one chart week
The chart journey
Tap any week to open its place in the story.
Chart Journey
- Jul 25, 1987#79
- Aug 1#16
- Aug 8#14
- Aug 15#12
- Aug 22#16
- Aug 29#17
- Sep 5#20
- Sep 12#20
- Sep 19#23
- Sep 26#31
- Oct 3#44
- Oct 10#51
- Oct 17#56
- Oct 24#75
- Oct 31#76
- Nov 7#84
- Nov 14#99
- Nov 21#123
- Nov 28#126
- Dec 5#151
- Dec 12#163
- Dec 19#181
- Dec 26#186
- 1988
- Jan 2, 1988#186
- Jan 9#190
A rocket up the chart — jumping 63 positions in a single week on its way to the top. Entered at #79, exploded upward for 4 weeks to reach #12 and fell quickly across 25 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.
