Chic discography

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This is the discography for the band Chic.

[edit] Chic albums

Title
Billboard magazine peak position
RIAA Certification
Chic LP (Atlantic 1977)
  1. "Dance, Dance, Dance (Yowsah, Yowsah, Yowsah)"
  2. "São Paulo"
  3. "You Can Get By"
  4. "Everybody Dance"
  5. "Est-ce Que (C'est Chic)"
  6. "Falling In Love With You"
  7. "Strike Up The Band"
 Pop Albums: #27
R&B: #12		 Gold
C'est Chic album (Atlantic, 1978)
  1. "Chic Cheer"
  2. "Le Freak"
  3. "Savoir Faire"
  4. "Happy Man"
  5. "I Want Your Love"
  6. "At Last I Am Free"
  7. "Sometimes You Win"
  8. "(Funny) Bone"
 Pop Albums: #4
R&B: #1
UK Albums Chart: #2		 Platinum
Risqué album (Atlantic, 1979)
  1. "Good Times"
  2. "A Warm Summer Night"
  3. "My Feet Keep Dancing"
  4. "My Forbidden Lover"
  5. "Can't Stand To Love You"
  6. "Will You Cry"
  7. "What About Me"
 Pop Albums: #5
R&B: #2
UK Albums Chart: #29		 Platinum
Real People album (Atlantic, 1980)
  1. "Open Up"
  2. "Real People"
  3. "I Loved You More"
  4. "I Got Protection"
  5. "Rebels Are We"
  6. "Chip Off The Old Block"
  7. "26"
  8. "You Can't Do It Alone"
 Pop Albums: #30
R&B: #8		 None
Take It Off album (Atlantic, 1981)
  1. "Stage Fright"
  2. "Burn Hard"
  3. "So Fine"
  4. "Flash Back"
  5. "Telling Lies"
  6. "Your Love Is Cancelled"
  7. "Would You Be My Baby"
  8. "Take It Off"
  9. "Just Out Of Reach"
  10. "Baby Doll"
 Pop Albums: #124
R&B: #36		 None
Tongue in Chic album (Atlantic, 1982)
  1. "Hangin'"
  2. "I Feel Your Love Comin' On"
  3. "When You Love Someone"
  4. "Chic (Everybody Say)"
  5. "Hey Fool"
  6. "Sharing Love"
  7. "City Lights"
 Pop Albums: #173
R&B: #47		 None
Believer album (Atlantic, 1983)
  1. "Believer"
  2. "You Are Beautiful"
  3. "Take A Closer Look"
  4. "Give Me The Lovin'"
  5. "Show Me Your Light"
  6. "You Got Some Love For Me"
  7. "In Love With Music"
  8. "Party Everybody"
 Failed to chart on the U.S.

Pop Albums chart or in the UK

 None
Chic-Ism album (Warner Bros., 1992)
  1. "Chic Mystique"
  2. "Your Love"
  3. "Jusagroove"
  4. "Something You Can Feel"
  5. "One And Only One"
  6. "Doin' That Thing To Me"
  7. "Chic-ism"
  8. "In It To Win It"
  9. "My Love's For Real"
  10. "Take My Love"
  11. "High"
  12. "M.M.F.T.C.F."
  13. "Chic Mystique (Reprise)"
 Pop Albums: Failed to chart
R&B: #39		 None
Live at the Budokan (Chic) CD (Sumthing Distribution 1999)
  1. "Bernard introduction"
  2. "Band introduction"
  3. "Le Freak"
  4. "Dance, Dance, Dance (Intro)"
  5. "Dance, Dance, Dance"
  6. "I Want Your Love"
  7. "Sister Sledge (Intro)"
  8. "He's The Greatest Dancer"
  9. "We are family (Intro)"
  10. "We Are Family"
  11. "Do That Dance"
  12. "Good Times (Intro)"
  13. "Good Times/Rappers Delight"
  14. "Stone Free (Intro)"
  15. "Stone Free"
  16. "Chic Cheer"
  17. "Backstage"
  18. "Bernard #2"
 None

NOTE:

[edit] Produced by Chic

Title
Billboard magazine peak position
RIAA Certification
Norma Jean Wright - Norma Jean album (Bearsville/Warner Bros., 1978)
  1. "Saturday"
  2. "Having a Party"
  3. "I Believe in You"
  4. "Sorcerer"
  5. "So I Get Hurt Again"
  6. "This is the Love"
  7. "I Like Love"
Norma Jean Wright 7-inch single (Bearsville/Warner Bros., 1979)
  1. High Society"
  2. "Hold Me, Lonely Boy"
Sister Sledge - We Are Family album (Cotillion/Atlantic, 1979)
  1. "He's The Greatest Dancer"
  2. "Lost In Music"
  3. "Somebody Loves Me"
  4. "Thinking of You"
  5. "We are Family"
  6. "Easier to Love"
  7. "You're a Friend to Me"
  8. "One More Time"
Sheila & B. Devotion - King of the World album (Mirage/Atco/Atlantic, 1980)
  1. "Spacer"
  2. "Mayday"
  3. "Charge Plates and Credit Cards"
  4. "Misery"
  5. "King of the World"
  6. "Cover Girl"
  7. "Your Love is Good"
  8. "Don't Go"
Sister Sledge - Love Somebody Today album (Cotillion/Atlantic, 1980)
  1. "Got to Love Somebody"
  2. "You Fooled Around"
  3. "I'm a Good Girl"
  4. "Easy Street"
  5. "Reach Your Peak"
  6. "Pretty Baby"
  7. "How to Love"
  8. "Let's Go on a Vacation"
Diana Ross - diana album (Motown/MCA, 1980)
  1. "Upside Down"
  2. "Tenderness"
  3. "Friend to Friend"
  4. "I'm Coming Out"
  5. "Have Fun (Again)"
  6. "My Old Piano"
  7. "Now That You're Gone"
  8. "Give Up"
Debbie Harry - Koo Koo LP (Chrysalis/CBS, 1981)
  1. "Jump Jump"
  2. "The Jam Was Moving"
  3. "Chrome"
  4. "Surrender"
  5. "Inner-City Spillover"
  6. "Backfired"
  7. "Now I Know You Know"
  8. "Under Arrest"
  9. "Military Rap"
  10. "Oasis"
Johnny Mathis - I Love My Lady album (UNRELEASED Columbia/CBS, 1981)
  1. "I Love My Lady"
  2. "I Want to Fall in Love"
  3. "It's All Right to Love Me"
  4. "Judy'"
  5. "Love and be Loved"
  6. "Sing"
  7. "Take Me"
  8. "Go With the Flow"
Fonzi Thornton - Untitled album (UNRELEASED 1982)

Probably containing

  1. "I Work for a Living"
  2. "Riding"
Various Artists - Soup for One soundtrack album (Warner Bros., 1982)
  1. "Soup for One" by Chic
  2. "Why" by Carly Simon
  3. "Dream Girl" by Teddy Pendergrass
  4. "I Work for a Living" by Fonzi Thornton
  5. "I Want Your Love" by Chic
  6. "Let's Go on Vacation" by Sister Sledge
  7. "Tavern on the Green" by Chic
  8. "Jump Jump" by Deborah Harry

[edit] Singles

Year Title Chart positions Album
US Hot 100 US R&B US Club Play US A/C UK
1977 Chic - Dance, Dance, Dance (Yowsah, Yowsah, Yowsah) 6 6 1 - 6 Chic
1977 Chic - Everybody Dance 38 12 1 - 9 Chic
1978 Norma Jean Wright - Saturday - - 10 - - Norma Jean
1978 Chic - Le Freak 1 1 1 48 7 C'est Chic
1978 Chic - I Want Your Love 7 5 1 9 4 C'est Chic
1979 Sister Sledge - He's The Greatest Dancer 9 1 1 - 6 We Are Family
1979 Sister Sledge - We Are Family 2 1 1 30 7 We Are Family
1979 Sister Sledge - Lost In Music - 35 - - 17 We Are Family
1979 Norma Jean Wright - High Society - - 92 - - -
1979 Chic - Good Times 1 1 1 26 5 Risqué
1979 Chic - My Forbidden Lover 43 33 3 - 15 Risqué
1979 Chic - My Feet Keep Dancing - 42 - - 21 Risqué
1980 Sheila & B. Devotion - Spacer - 28 44 - 18 King of the World
1980 Sister Sledge - Got To Love Somebody 64 6 34 - 34 Love Somebody Today
1980 Sister Sledge - Reach Your Peak - 21 34 - - Love Somebody Today
1980 Sister Sledge - Let's Go On Vacation - 63 - - - Love Somebody Today
1980 Diana Ross - Upside Down 1 1 1 18 2 diana
1980 Diana Ross - I'm Coming Out 5 5 1 - 13 diana
1980 Chic - Rebels Are We 61 8 29 - - Real People
1980 Chic - Real People/Chip Off The Old Block 79 51 - - - Real People
1981 Debbie Harry - Backfired 43 71 29 - 32 Koo Koo
1981 Debbie Harry - The Jam Was Moving 82 - - - - Koo Koo
1981 Chic - Stage Fright - 34 - - - Take It Off
1982 Chic - Soup For One 80 14 - - - Soup For One (soundtrack)
1982 Carly Simon - Why - - - - 10 Soup For One (soundtrack)
1982 Chic - Hangin' - 48 - - 64 Tongue in Chic
1983 Chic - Give Me The Lovin' - 57 - - - Believer
1984 Chic - Chic Cheer - - - - 81
1987 Chic - Jack Le Freak - - 15 - 19
1992 Chic - Chic Mystique - 48 1 - 48 Chic-Ism
1992 Chic - Your Love - - 3 - - Chic-Ism

NOTE:

  • A second Chic medley (after "Jack Le Freak"), titled "MegaChic - Chic Medley," reached #58 UK in July 1990.
  • Sister Sledge's "We Are Family" and "Lost In Music" re-charted in the UK in 1984 (#33 and #4, respectively) and in 1993 (#5 and #14, respectively).



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Chic
Main albums
Chic (1977) · C'est Chic (1978) · Risqué (1979) · Les Plus Grands Succès De Chic: Chic's Greatest Hits (1979) · Real People (1980) · Take It Off (1981) · Soup For One (soundtrack) (1982) · Tongue in Chic (1982) · Believer (1983) · Chic-Ism (1992) · Chic Freak and More Treats (1996) · Live at the Budokan (1999) · A Night in Amsterdam (2006)
Produced by Chic
Main compilations