C'est Chic | ||||
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Released | August 11, 1978 | |||
Recorded | 1978 | |||
Studio | Power Station, New York City | |||
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Length | 41:23 | |||
Label | Atlantic | |||
Producer | Nile Rodgers, Bernard Edwards | |||
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Cover of Très Chic | ||||
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Singles from C'est Chic | ||||
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C'est Chic is the second studio album by American band Chic,released on Atlantic Records in 1978. [3]
C'est Chic includes the band's signature hit "Le Freak",which topped the US Hot 100 chart,US R&B,and US Club Play in October 1978, [4] selling six million copies in the US. The album also contains the hit single "I Want Your Love" (number 5 R&B, [4] number 7 Pop, [4] number 4 UK [5] ).
C'est Chic was the band's most commercially successful album,reaching number 4 on Billboard's album chart and topping the US R&B chart for eleven weeks. [6] C'est Chic was Billboard's 1979 R&B Album of the Year,claiming the number one spot on Billboard's Year End Review. The album was certified platinum by the RIAA, [7] selling over a million copies. In the UK it peaked at number 2 [5] and has been certified Gold by the BPI. [8]
The European version was originally called Très Chic,with the cover featuring a woman wrapped around a neon light tube. It was withdrawn and replaced with the C'est Chic version with a less risquécover. Très Chic had a different track listing.
C'est Chic was released on compact disc by Atlantic Records/Warner in 1991 (catalogue number 7567-81552-2). The album has been digitally remastered and re-issued twice:first in 2011 by Warner Music Japan and then in 2018 at Abbey Road Studios by Atlantic.
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Christgau's Record Guide | B [10] |
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Pitchfork | 8.4/10 [12] |
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Spin Alternative Record Guide | 9/10 [15] |
The Globe and Mail deemed C'est Chic "a sleekly elegant variation" of disco. [16] The Los Angeles Times opined that,aside from "Le Freak",the album "consists of pedestrian disco pieces and plodding R&B ballads." [2]
All songs written by Bernard Edwards and Nile Rodgers;except where indicated.
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Weekly charts
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Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
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Canada (Music Canada) [28] | Platinum | 100,000^ |
France (SNEP) [29] | Gold | 100,000* |
Hong Kong (IFPI Hong Kong) [30] | Gold | 10,000* |
United Kingdom (BPI) [31] | Gold | 100,000^ |
United States (RIAA) [32] | Platinum | 1,000,000^ |
* Sales figures based on certification alone. |
Robert Wyatt had a top 20 UK Indie Chart hit with a cover of "At Last I Am Free" in 1980. [33]
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