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Escape
Studio album by Journey
Released	July 31, 1981
Recorded	1981
Genre	Rock
Length	42:46
Label	Columbia
Producer	Kevin Elson, Mike Stone
Professional reviews
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Journey chronology
Captured (1981) Escape (1981) Frontiers (1983)

Journey's seventh studio album (and eighth overall), Escape, was released in July 1981.

Escape was the band's first album with new keyboardist Jonathan Cain who had replaced founding keyboardist Gregg Rolie who had left the band at the end of 1980. The album was co-produced by Kevin Elson and one-time Queen engineer Mike Stone, who also engineered the album.

With three hit singles out of "Don't Stop Believing", "Who's Crying Now" and "Open Arms" plus rock radio staples like "Stone in Love" and the album's title cut, Escape became Journey's biggest selling album yet, and remains one of their most popular and best-reviewed works to date.

The album has been certified 9x Platinum by RIAA since its July 31, 1981 release^* (11/14/94; only Greatest Hits, at 14x, has sold more copies).

• Highest chart position: #1 on the Billboard album chart where it stayed for a week dethroning Stevie Nicks' Bella Donna from #1 in September of 1981.

An Atari 2600 game, Journey Escape, was made based on the album.

All tracks written by Jonathan Cain, Steve Perry, and Neal Schon, except as noted †, written by Cain and Perry, and ‡ written by Matthew Schon, Neal Schon, Perry, and Cain.

1. "Don't Stop Believing" – 4:10
2. "Stone in Love" – 4:25
3. "Who's Crying Now" – 5:01 †
4. "Keep on Runnin'" – 3:39
5. "Still They Ride" – 3:49
6. "Escape" – 5:16
7. "Lay it Down" – 4:13
8. "Dead or Alive" – 3:20
9. "Mother, Father" – 5:28 ‡
10. "Open Arms" – 3:18 †
11. "La Raza del Sol" – 3:26 †
12. "Don't Stop Believing" (live) – 4:19
13. "Who's Crying Now" (live) – 5:43 †
14. "Open Arms" (live) – 3:22 †

• Tracks 11-14 are bonus tracks on the 2006 CD reissue.

• Steve Perry - Lead Vocals
• Neal Schon - Guitar, Vocals
• Steve Smith - Drums
• Jonathan Cain - Guitar, Keyboards, Vocals
• Ross Valory - Bass, Vocals
• Wally Buck - Engineer, Assistant Engineer
• Jon-Erik Birchenough - Management
• Bob Ludwig - Mastering, Remastering
• Jim Welch - Photography, Package Design, Cover Design, Visual Concept
• Brian Lee - Remastering
• Stanley Mouse - Illustrations

Billboard Music Charts (North America) - album

1981   Pop Albums                      No.   1
1983   The Billboard 200               No. 139
1984   The Billboard 200               No. 156

Billboard (North America) - singles

1981   Don't Stop Believin'    Mainstream Rock              No.  8
1981   Don't Stop Believin'    Pop Singles                  No.  9
1981   Stone In Love           Mainstream Rock              No. 13
1981   Who's Crying Now        Mainstream Rock              No.  4
1981   Who's Crying Now        Pop Singles                  No.  4
1982   Open Arms               Pop Singles                  No.  2
1982   Open Arms               Adult Contemporary           No.  7
1982   Open Arms               Mainstream Rock              No. 35
1982   Still They Ride         Pop Singles                  No. 19
1982   Still They Ride         Adult Contemporary           No. 37
1982   Still They Ride         Mainstream Rock              No. 47

UK Album Chart

1982   Album Chart                     No.  32

UK Singles Chart

1982   Don't Stop Believin'    UK Top 75 Singles            No. 62
1982   Who's Crying Now        UK Top 75 Singles            No. 46

• (*) Recording Industry Association of America