This month marks the thirtieth anniversary of
Breaking Hearts, the eighteenth studio album from Elton John. This 1984 release went to number 54 in Japan, number 11 in Sweden, number 10 in Canada, number 7 in Norway, number 5 in Germany and Spain, number 4 in Austria, number 2 in New Zealand and the UK, and number 1 in Australia and Switzerland. Here in the US, it spent thirty-four weeks on the Billboard Album chart and peaked at number 20.
