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'''Chic''', sometimes fully capitalized as CHIC) is an [[United States|American]] [[disco]]/[[funk music|funk]] band that was formed in 1976 by [[guitar]]ist [[Nile Rodgers]] and [[bass guitar|bassist]] [[Bernard Edwards]]. They are best known for their commercially successful [[disco]] songs, including "Dance Dance Dance (Yowsah, Yowsah, Yowsah)" (1977), "Everybody Dance" (1977), "[[Le Freak]]" (1978), "[[I Want Your Love (song)|I Want Your Love]]" (1978), "[[Good Times (Chic song)|Good Times]]" (1979), and "[[My Forbidden Lover]]" (1979). '''Chic''', sometimes fully capitalized as CHIC) is an [[United States|American]] [[disco]]/[[funk music|funk]] band that was formed in 1976 by [[guitar]]ist [[Nile Rodgers]] and [[bass guitar|bassist]] [[Bernard Edwards]]. They are best known for their commercially successful [[disco]] songs, including "Dance Dance Dance (Yowsah, Yowsah, Yowsah)" (1977), "Everybody Dance" (1977), "[[Le Freak]]" (1978), "[[I Want Your Love (song)|I Want Your Love]]" (1978), "[[Good Times (Chic song)|Good Times]]" (1979), and "[[My Forbidden Lover]]" (1979).
 +==Albums==
 +
 +===Studio albums===
 +{| class="wikitable" style=text-align:center;
 +!rowspan="2"| Year
 +!rowspan="2"| Album details
 +!colspan="11"| Peak chart positions
 +!rowspan="2"| [[Music recording sales certification|Certifications]]<br /><small>([[List of music recording sales certifications|sales thresholds]])</small>
 +|- style="font-size:smaller;"
 +!width="25"| [[Billboard 200|US]]<br><ref name="allmusic albums">{{cite web|url={{Allmusic|class=artist|id=p3884/charts-awards/billboard-singles|pure_url=yes}}|title=US Albums Charts > Chic|publisher=''[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]''|accessdate=2012-05-17}}</ref>
 +!width="25"| [[Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums|US R&B]]<br><ref name="allmusic albums"/>
 +!width="25"| [[Kent Music Report|AUS]]<br /><ref name="kent">{{cite book|title=Australian Charts Book 1970—1992|author=David Kent|isbn=0-646-11917-6|year=1993|publisher=Australian Chart Book Pty Ltd, Turramurra, N.S.W.}}</ref>
 +!width="25"| [[Ö3 Austria Top 40|AUT]]<br><ref name="aut">{{cite web|url=http://austriancharts.at/showinterpret.asp?interpret=Chic|title=AUT Charts > Chic|publisher=[[Ö3 Austria Top 40]]|accessdate=2012-05-17}}</ref>
 +!width="25"| [[RPM (magazine)|CAN]]<br><ref name="can">{{cite web|url=http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/rpm/028020-110.01-e.php?PHPSESSID=ocv31cubjsh5l1e3bukj3tl923&q1=Chic&q2=&interval=20|title=CAN Charts > Chic|publisher=''[[RPM (magazine)|RPM]]''|accessdate=2012-01-20}}</ref>
 +!width="25"| [[Media Control Charts|GER]]<br><ref name=ger>{{cite web|url=http://www.charts.de/suche.asp?search=Chic&x=6&y=6&country=de&kategorie=alles|title=GER Charts > Chic|publisher=[[Media Control Charts]]|accessdate=2012-05-14}}</ref>
 +!width="25"| [[MegaCharts|NL]]<br><ref name="nl">{{cite web|url=http://dutchcharts.nl/showinterpret.asp?interpret=Chic|title=NL Charts > Chic|publisher=[[MegaCharts]]|accessdate=2012-05-17}}</ref>
 +!width="25"| [[VG-lista|NOR]]<br><ref name="nor">{{cite web|url=http://norwegiancharts.com/showinterpret.asp?interpret=Chic|title=NOR Charts > Chic|publisher=[[VG-lista]]|accessdate=2012-05-17}}</ref>
 +!width="25"| [[Sverigetopplistan|SWE]]<br><ref name="swe">{{cite web|url=http://swedishcharts.com/showinterpret.asp?interpret=Chic|title=Swedish Charts > Chic|publisher=[[Sverigetopplistan]]|accessdate=2012-05-17}}</ref>
 +!width="25"| [[Swiss Music Charts|SWI]]<br><ref name="swi">{{cite web|url=http://hitparade.ch/showitem.asp?interpret=Chic&titel=Chic+Mystique&cat=s|title=Swiss Charts > Chic|publisher=[[Swiss Music Charts]]|accessdate=2012-05-17}}</ref>
 +!width="25"| [[UK Album Chart|UK]]<br><ref name="uk">{{cite web|url=http://www.theofficialcharts.com/artist/_/chic/|title=UK Charts > Chic|publisher=[[Official Charts Company]]|accessdate=2010-09-11}}</ref>
 +|-
 +| 1977
 +|align=left| ''[[Chic (album)|Chic]]''
 +<small>
 +* Released: November 22, 1977
 +* Label: [[Atlantic Records|Atlantic]]</small>
 +| 27
 +| 12
 +| 67
 +| —
 +| 25
 +| —
 +| —
 +| —
 +| —
 +| —
 +| —
 +|align=left| <small>
 +* US: Gold <ref name="riaa">{{cite web|url=http://www.riaa.com/goldandplatinumdata.php?table=SEARCH_RESULTS&artist=%22Chic%22&format=Album&go=Search&perPage=25|title=US Certifications > Chic|publisher=[[Recording Industry Association of America]]|accessdate=2012-02-08}}</ref></small>
 +|-
 +| 1978
 +|align=left| ''[[C'est Chic]]''
 +<small>
 +* Released: August 11, 1978
 +* Label: Atlantic</small>
 +| 4
 +| 1
 +| 18
 +| 21
 +| 5
 +| 10
 +| 9
 +| 20
 +| 16
 +| —
 +| 2
 +|align=left| <small>
 +* US: Platinum <ref name="riaa"/>
 +* CAN: Platinum <ref name="mc">{{cite web|url=http://www.musiccanada.com/GPSearchResult.aspx?st=&ica=False&sa=Chic&sl=&smt=0&sat=-1&ssb=Artist|title=CAN Certifications > Chic|publisher=[[Music Canada]]|accessdate=2012-02-08}}</ref>
 +* UK: Gold <ref name="bpi">{{cite web|url=http://www.bpi.co.uk/certifiedawards/search.aspx|title=UK Certified Awards Search > Chic|publisher=[[British Phonographic Industry]]|accessdate=2012-02-08}}</ref></small>
 +|-
 +| 1979
 +|align=left| ''[[Risqué (album)|Risqué]]''
 +<small>
 +* Released: July 30, 1979
 +* Label: Atlantic</small>
 +| 5
 +| 2
 +| 75
 +| —
 +| 15
 +| —
 +| —
 +| —
 +| 37
 +| —
 +| 29
 +|align=left| <small>
 +* US: Platinum <ref name="riaa"/>
 +* UK: Silver <ref name="bpi"/></small>
 +|-
 +| 1980
 +|align=left| ''[[Real People (album)|Real People]]''
 +<small>
 +* Released: June 30, 1980
 +* Label: Atlantic</small>
 +| 30
 +| 8
 +| —
 +| —
 +| —
 +| —
 +| —
 +| 33
 +| 19
 +| —
 +| —
 +| —
 +|-
 +| 1981
 +|align=left| ''[[Take It Off (album)|Take It Off]]''
 +<small>
 +* Released: November 16, 1981
 +* Label: Atlantic<small>
 +| 124
 +| 36
 +| —
 +| —
 +| —
 +| —
 +| —
 +| —
 +| —
 +| —
 +| —
 +| —
 +|-
 +| 1982
 +|align=left| ''[[Tongue in Chic]]''
 +<small>
 +* Released: November 1, 1982
 +* Label: Atlantic</small>
 +| 173
 +| 47
 +| —
 +| —
 +| —
 +| —
 +| —
 +| —
 +| —
 +| —
 +| —
 +| —
 +|-
 +| 1983
 +|align=left| ''[[Believer (Chic album)|Believer]]''
 +<small>
 +* Released: November 14, 1983
 +* Label: Atlantic</small>
 +| —
 +| —
 +| —
 +| —
 +| —
 +| —
 +| 14
 +| —
 +| —
 +| —
 +| —
 +| —
 +|-
 +| 1992
 +|align=left| ''[[Chic-Ism]]''
 +<small>
 +* Released: March 3, 1992
 +* Label: [[Warner Bros. Records|Warner Bros.]]</small>
 +| —
 +| 39
 +| —
 +| —
 +| —
 +| 55
 +| 44
 +| —
 +| 42
 +| 40
 +| —
 +| —
 +|-
 +|}
 +
 +===Live albums===
 +*''[[Live at the Budokan (Chic album)|Live at the Budokan]]'' (1999)
 +*''[[A Night in Amsterdam]]'' (2006)
 +
 +===Compilation albums===
 +;Charting compilations
 +{| class="wikitable" style=text-align:center;
 +!rowspan="2"| Year
 +!rowspan="2"| Album details
 +!colspan="4"| Peak chart positions
 +|- style="font-size:smaller;"
 +!width="25"| [[Billboard 200|US]]<br><ref name="allmusic albums"/>
 +!width="25"| [[Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums|US R&B]]<br><ref name="allmusic albums"/>
 +!width="25"| [[MegaCharts|NL]]<br><ref name="nl"/>
 +!width="25"| [[UK Album Chart|UK]]<br><ref name="uk"/>
 +|-
 +| 1979
 +|align=left| ''[[Les Plus Grands Succès De Chic: Chic's Greatest Hits]]''
 +<small>
 +* Released: December 1979
 +* Label: [[Atlantic Records|Atlantic]]</small>
 +| 88
 +| 44
 +| 47
 +| 30
 +|-
 +| 1988
 +|align=left| ''[[Freak Out: The Greatest Hits of Chic and Sister Sledge]]''
 +<small>
 +* Released: 1988
 +* Label: Atlantic/[[Warner Music Group|WEA]]</small>
 +| —
 +| —
 +| —
 +| 72
 +|-
 +| 2013
 +|align=left| ''[[Up All Night (The Chic Organization album)|Nile Rodgers presents The Chic Organization: Up All Night]]''
 +<small>
 +* Released: 2013
 +* Label: [[Rhino Records]]</small>
 +| —
 +| —
 +| —
 +| 2*
 +|-
 +|}
 +
 +<nowiki>*</nowiki> Compilation albums chart.
 +
 +;Complete list
 +*''[[Les Plus Grands Succès De Chic: Chic's Greatest Hits]]'' (1979, [[Atlantic Records]])
 +*''[[Freak Out: The Greatest Hits of Chic and Sister Sledge]]'' (1988, [[Atlantic Records]]/[[Warner Music Group|WEA]])
 +*''[[Megachic: Best of Chic]]'' (1990, [[Warner Music]]/[[Atlantic Records]])
 +*''[[Dance, Dance, Dance: The Best of Chic]]'' (1991, [[Atlantic Records]]/[[Rhino Records]]/[[Warner Music]])
 +*''[[The Best of Chic, Volume 2]]'' (1992, [[Atlantic Records]]/[[Rhino Records]]/[[Warner Music]])
 +*''[[Everybody Dance (album)|Everybody Dance]]'' (1995, [[Rhino Records]]/[[Warner Music]])
 +*''[[Chic Freak and More Treats]]'' (1996, A440 Music Group)
 +*''[[Dance, Dance, Dance & Other Hits]]'' (1997, [[Rhino Records]]/[[Warner Music]])
 +*''[[The Very Best of Chic & Sister Sledge]]'' (1999, [[Rhino Records]]/[[Warner Music]])
 +*''[[The Very Best of Chic]]'' (2000, [[Rhino Records]]/[[Warner Music]])
 +*''[[Good Times: The Very Best of the Hits & the Remixes]]'' (Chic & Sister Sledge) (2005, [[Warner Music]])
 +*''[[The Definitive Groove Collection]]'' (2006, [[Rhino Records]]/[[Warner Music]])
 +*''Nile Rodgers presents The Chic Organization: Vol.1 Savoir Faire'' ([[box set]], 2010, [[Rhino Records]], reissued 2013)
 +*''Original Album Series: Chic + C'est Chic + Risqué + Real People + Take It Off'' (2011, [[Rhino Records]]/[[Atlantic Records]])
 +*''Magnifique: The Very Best of Chic'' (2011, Music Club Deluxe)
 +*''[[Up All Night (The Chic Organization album)|Nile Rodgers presents The Chic Organization: Up All Night]]'' (2013, [[Rhino Records]])
 +
 +All of the combined Chic and Sister Sledge compilations also contain some Sister Sledge material without Chic's involvement. The two "Nile Rodgers presents The Chic Organization" collections contain "Chic Organization" productions for other artists alongside Chic's own material.
 +
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Chic, sometimes fully capitalized as CHIC) is an American disco/funk band that was formed in 1976 by guitarist Nile Rodgers and bassist Bernard Edwards. They are best known for their commercially successful disco songs, including "Dance Dance Dance (Yowsah, Yowsah, Yowsah)" (1977), "Everybody Dance" (1977), "Le Freak" (1978), "I Want Your Love" (1978), "Good Times" (1979), and "My Forbidden Lover" (1979).

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  • Released: November 22, 1977
  • Label: Atlantic

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  • Released: August 11, 1978
  • Label: Atlantic

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  • Released: July 30, 1979
  • Label: Atlantic

| 5 | 2 | 75 | — | 15 | — | — | — | 37 | — | 29 |align=left|

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|- | 1980 |align=left| Real People

  • Released: June 30, 1980
  • Label: Atlantic

| 30 | 8 | — | — | — | — | — | 33 | 19 | — | — | — |- | 1981 |align=left| Take It Off

  • Released: November 16, 1981
  • Label: Atlantic

| 124 | 36 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |- | 1982 |align=left| Tongue in Chic

  • Released: November 1, 1982
  • Label: Atlantic

| 173 | 47 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |- | 1983 |align=left| Believer

  • Released: November 14, 1983
  • Label: Atlantic

| — | — | — | — | — | — | 14 | — | — | — | — | — |- | 1992 |align=left| Chic-Ism

| — | 39 | — | — | — | 55 | 44 | — | 42 | 40 | — | — |- |}

Live albums

Compilation albums

Charting compilations
Year Album details Peak chart positions
US
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1979 Les Plus Grands Succès De Chic: Chic's Greatest Hits

  • Released: December 1979
  • Label: Atlantic
88 44 47 30
1988 Freak Out: The Greatest Hits of Chic and Sister Sledge

  • Released: 1988
  • Label: Atlantic/WEA
72
2013 Nile Rodgers presents The Chic Organization: Up All Night

2*

* Compilation albums chart.

Complete list

All of the combined Chic and Sister Sledge compilations also contain some Sister Sledge material without Chic's involvement. The two "Nile Rodgers presents The Chic Organization" collections contain "Chic Organization" productions for other artists alongside Chic's own material.




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