Cheap Trick at Budokan

Cheap Trick at Budokan
Live album by Cheap Trick
Released	October 8, 1978 (Japan) February 1979 (U.S.)
Recorded	April 28 & 30, 1978
Venue	Nippon Budokan, Tokyo
Genre	Hard rock power pop
Length	42:27
Label	Epic
Producer	Cheap Trick
Cheap Trick chronology
Heaven Tonight (1978) Cheap Trick at Budokan (1978) Dream Police (1979)
Singles from Cheap Trick at Budokan
"I Want You to Want Me" Released: April 1979 "Ain't That a Shame" Released: July 1979

Cheap Trick at Budokan (or simply At Budokan) is the first live album by American rock band Cheap Trick, and their best-selling recording. Recorded at the Nippon Budokan in Tokyo, the album was first released in Japan on October 8, 1978, and later released in the United States in February 1979, through Epic Records. After several years of constant touring but only middling exposure for the band, At Budokan steadily grew off radio play and word-of-mouth to become a high-selling success, kickstarting the band's popularity and becoming acclaimed as one of the greatest live rock albums of all time and a classic of the power pop genre.

It was ranked number 426 in the 2003 edition of Rolling Stone magazine's list of "the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time".^[1] In 2019, the album was selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the United States National Recording Registry for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".^[2] An album featuring leftover tracks from the band's 1978 Budokan set, plus additional material from their 1979 tour of Japan, was released in 1994 as Budokan II, and a two-disc reconstruction of the complete original Budokan performances, titled At Budokan: The Complete Concert, was released to commemorate its twentieth anniversary in 1998.