Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes

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Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes
Studio album by Jimmy Buffett
Released	January 20, 1977
Recorded	November 1976
Studio	Criteria (Miami) Quadrafonic Sound (Nashville)
Genre	Country rock folk Gulf and Western
Length	41:28
Label	ABC AB-990 (US, 12"), MCA (Reissues)
Producer	Norbert Putnam
Jimmy Buffett chronology
Havaña Daydreamin' (1976) Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes (1977) Son of a Son of a Sailor (1978)

Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes is the seventh studio album by American popular music singer-songwriter Jimmy Buffett. This is his breakthrough album, which remains the best-selling studio album of Buffett's career, and contains his biggest single, "Margaritaville". It was initially released in January 1977 as ABC AB-990 and rereleased on its successor label, MCA.

Changes was very popular and critically well-received and was a transitional album on several levels for Buffett. In a commercial sense, it ushered in Buffett's greatest period of chart and airplay popularity – changing him from an FM cult favorite and minor hitmaker to a top-draw touring artist whose albums sold in the millions, receiving regular AM airplay at the time. Changes would be followed by equally popular and more grandiose expressions of Buffett's "Caribbean Soul" on Son of a Son of a Sailor (1978) and Volcano (1979). All of these albums would combine pop, bar-band rock, country, folk, and reggae influences with the professional production of Norbert Putnam.