# Keep Your Distance

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For the Richard Thompson song, see [Rumor and Sigh](/source/Rumor_and_Sigh).

***Keep Your Distance*** is the debut album by the British band [Curiosity Killed the Cat](/source/Curiosity_Killed_the_Cat), released in April 1987. It debuted at #1 on the [UK Albums Chart](/source/UK_Albums_Chart), and is their only album to chart on the [*Billboard* 200](/source/Billboard_200), reaching #55.[4][5]

## Charts

### Weekly charts

Chart (1987) Peak position Australian Albums (Kent Music Report)[6] 47 Icelandic Albums (Tónlist)[7] 7 Italian Albums (FIMI)[8] 8

### Year-end charts

Chart (1987) Peak position Dutch Albums (Album Top 100)[9] 63 Italian Albums (FIMI)[10] 26 UK Albums (OCC)[11] 24

## References

1. ["Billboard"](https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-Billboard/80s/1987/Billboard-1987-08-01.pdf). Vol. 99, no. 31. 1 August 1987. p. 82.

1. Inskeep, Thomas & Soto, Alfred. ["The Bluffer's Guide – Sophisti-Pop"](https://web.archive.org/web/20160314172451/http://www.stylusmagazine.com/articles/bluffer/sophisti-pop.htm). *[Stylus](/source/Stylus_Magazine)*. Archived from [the original](http://www.stylusmagazine.com/articles/bluffer/sophisti-pop.htm) on 14 March 2016. Retrieved 28 April 2016.

1. ["Top 15 Sophisti-Pop Albums"](https://www.classicpopmag.com/2021/08/top-sophisti-pop-albums/). *[Classic Pop](/source/Classic_Pop_(magazine))*. 2021-08-25. [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20240530103441/https://www.classicpopmag.com/2021/08/top-sophisti-pop-albums/) 30 May 2024 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 2024-10-14.

1. UK

1. Billboard

1. Kent, David (1993). *Australian Chart Book 1970–1992*. illustrated ed. St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. p. 80. ISBN 0-646-11917-6.

1. ["Tonlist Top 40"](http://timarit.is/files/32360559.jpg). DV. Retrieved 2017-02-09.

1. ["Hit Parade Italia – Gli album più venduti del 1987"](http://www.hitparadeitalia.it/hp_yenda/lpe1987.htm) (in Italian). hitparadeitalia.it. Retrieved 11 June 2020.

1. ["Dutch Charts - dutchcharts.nl"](http://dutchcharts.nl/jaaroverzichten.asp?year=1987&cat=a)

1. ["Hit Parade Italia - ALBUM 1987"](http://www.hitparadeitalia.it/hp_yenda/lpe1987.htm)

1. "Gallup Year End Charts 1987: Albums". *Record Mirror*. London, England: Spotlight Publications. 23 January 1988.

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