Bruce Springsteen’s Tracks II: The Lost Albums debuts on Billboard’s charts dated July 12, including in the top 10 on both Top Album Sales and Americana/Folk Albums, launching at No. 7 on each list.
Released June 27, the collection boasts 83 songs via seven previously unreleased Springsteen albums, with 74 of the songs available in any form for the first time. “The Lost Albums were full records, some of them even to the point of being mixed and not released,” Springsteen notes per promotion by Columbia Records/Legacy Recordings. “I’ve played this music to myself and often close friends for years now. I’m glad you’ll get a chance to finally hear them.”
Tracks II: The Lost Albums starts with 14,000 equivalent album units earned in the United States in the week ending July 3, according to Luminate, led by 10,000 in album sales.
The album was released in nine-LP and seven-CD physical editions. They sold for $349.98 and $299.99, respectively, on Springsteen’s website.
Additionally, Springsteen’s Lost and Found: Selections From the Lost Albums debuts at No. 22 on Americana/Folk Albums (5,000 units). The release contains 20 songs from Tracks II: The Lost Albums.
The seven distinct albums on Tracks II: The Lost Albums, recorded between 1983 and 2018, are LA Garage Sessions ’83, Streets of Philadelphia Sessions, Faithless, Somewhere North of Nashville, Inyo, Twilight Hours and Perfect World.
Erik Flannigan, essayist for Tracks II: The Lost Albums, describes the album’s content in an in-depth behind-the-scenes video as “what for someone else would be their entire career.”
Tracks II: The Lost Albums follows Springsteen’s 1998 project Tracks, which contains 66 songs, most of which were previously unreleased. As with Lost and Found: Selections From the Lost Albums, the abridged 18 Tracks accompanied Tracks (with 15 of its songs from the latter set).
Tracks II: The Lost Albums enters the all-genre Billboard 200 at No. 68, marking Springsteen’s 44th career entry. He expands his history on the chart to two weeks shy of 50 years — his first two studio LPs, Greetings From Asbury Park, N.J. and The Wild, The Innocent and the E Street Shuffle, each released in 1973, marked his first appearances on the chart, or any Billboard ranking, in the issue dated July 26, 1975.
