Product Code: | NBLP-2-7150 |
Artist: | Donna Summer |
Origin: | New Zealand |
Label: | Casablanca / Polygram (1979) |
Format: | LP |
Availability: | Enquire Now |
Condition: |
Cover: VG+
Record: NM (M-)
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Genre: | Pop U |
Pristine 2LP vinyl and very nice clean gloss gatefold cover (minor ring wear). Includes insert sheet.
Bad Girls is the seventh studio album by American singer and songwriter Donna Summer, released in April 25, 1979 on Casablanca Records. Originally issued as a double album, Bad Girls became the best-selling album of Summer's career. The album spent 6 weeks at the top of Billboard's Hot 200 albums in 1979, one week on June 16, 1979 and 5 consecutive weeks, from July 7 to August 4, 1979. It contained the number one hits "Hot Stuff" and "Bad Girls", and the number two hit "Dim All the Lights".
On the week of June 16, 1979, Summer had (for a second time) the No. 1 single "Hot Stuff" and album Bad Girls simultaneously on the Billboard charts. She would accomplish this for a third time, the week of August 14, 1979 when the single "Bad Girls" took the top spot on the Billboard Hot 100 charts for a 5-week run, and the album Bad Girls was at the top of the Billboard 200 album chart. They would remain at the top of both charts together for 4 weeks. Summer would also become the first female artist to have two songs in the top three, on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, when on the week of June 30, 1979, "Hot Stuff" descended to No. 2 and "Bad Girls" ascended to No. 3. Both songs would remain in the top three for 4 weeks. The week of July 21, 1979 the single "Bad Girls" would take the top spot on the Billboard Hot R &B singles chart, Summer would sit on top of 3 major Billboard charts. The album Bad Girls would top the R&B album charts for 3 weeks, June 23 to July 7, 1979.