Heart is the eighth studio album by American rock band Heart, released on June 21, 1985, by Capitol Records.[8][9] The album continued the band's transition into mainstream rock, a genre that yielded the band its greatest commercial success. Marking the band's Capitol Records debut, it became Heart's only album to top the US Billboard 200 to date. The album was eventually certified quintuple platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA)—in contrast to Heart's previous two releases, Private Audition and Passionworks, which were uncertified.[10]
In a 2022 interview, Ann Wilson stated that the album was self-titled because the band "didn’t write a whole lot of the songs on there, so that aspect of closeness with the work was gone and it was much harder for us to come up with a title that was real."[13]
In 2024, Loudwire staff elected it as the best hard rock album of 1985.[14]
1 2 Smith, Troy L. (November 10, 2022). "Every No. 1 album of the 1980s ranked from worst to best". Cleveland.com. Retrieved December 13, 2024. The band began a move into mainstream rock territory that peaked on its 1985 self-titled album. Heart was all about embracing its pop savvy and Ann Wilson's big vocals...
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