From Journey‘s early fusion-driven days to modern-era LPs with long-standing frontman Arnel Pineda, the band clearly aimed to set a tone with album-opening songs. More often than not, these ...

Journey were already on the upswing as they entered the 1980s. But they took off into the stratosphere with Escape, the 1981 album that represented a peak moment in the history of arena rock. In ...

Journey’s set went heavy on selections from “Escape,” their most successful studio release, which topped the Billboard album charts in 1981 and was certified Diamond for U.S. sales in excess ...

Overall, the Bay Area native band has sold more than 101.5 million records in the U.S. alone, including more than 9 million copies of Escape. Seven of its albums have sold at least a million units.