Renaissance in Rockport, MA, USA

I read somewhere that one of the reasons they stopped using the orchestra after this album was that the orchestra costs went through the roof around that time.  It always seemed odd to me that they would have had to cut the orchestra for economic reasons after the most successful album of their career but it was because of unionization apparently.

I recently stumbled upon an archive of the Canadian charts called RPM, a magazine that ran from 1964-2000.  The charts seems to have been based on some combination of radio play, sales and general popularity, and they also focus on English language audience, so any charts for Quebec would have been very different at that time, and local charts could be quite variable.  It has quite a few surprises, first being that ASFAS looks to have been the most popular Renaissance album overall in English Canada.  The only other ones that seem to have charted were Turn of the Cards and Live at Carnegie Hall, but in terms of time on the chart and peak position ASFAS was the most successful, peaking at #45.  But nothing on the singles chart.

edit - Live at Carnegie Hall was on Canadian album charts for 11 weeks in 1976 and peaked at 44;  that was its only week in the top 50

A Song for All Seasons was on Canadian album charts for 7 weeks in 1978 and peaked at 45;  it spent 3 weeks in the top 50

The only other album to chart in Canada was Turn of the Cards in 1974 for just 3 weeks, just scraping into the 90s.

right, and I think it's dubious for a number of reasons, one of which is I don't think it includes Quebec which is 25% of the population more or less, and they had their own tastes, often favoring UK prog at that time.