Chicago X | ||||
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Released | June 14, 1976[1] | |||
Recorded | March – April 1976 | |||
Studio | Caribou Ranch, Nederland, Colorado | |||
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Length | 37:51 | |||
Label | Columbia | |||
Producer | James William Guercio | |||
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Chicago X (affectionately called "the Chocolate Album" by fans) is the eighth studio album by the American rock band Chicago. It was recorded at Caribou Ranch[3] and it was released by Columbia Records on June 14, 1976. The album made it to number three on the Billboard 200,[4] and was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) on June 21, 1976, a week after its release.[5] It was the band's first album to be certified platinum,[1][6] on September 14, 1976, and has since been certified multi-platinum.[5] In honor of the group's platinum album achievement, Columbia Records awarded the group a 25-pound bar of pure platinum, made by Cartier.[7] (Billboard magazine reported it as a 30-pound bar.)[8][Note 1]
Chicago X was nominated for a Grammy Award for Album of the Year,[13][dead link] and it won a Grammy Award for Best Album Package.[14]
The album produced Chicago's first number one single in the United States, "If You Leave Me Now".[15] The single went on to win two Grammy Awards: for Best Pop Vocal Performance by a Duo, Group or Chorus, the band's first Grammy Award;[13] and for Best Arrangement Accompanying Vocalists, for arrangers James William Guercio and Jimmie Haskell.[14] It was also nominated for the Grammy Award for Record of the Year.[13] It would later go on to be featured in the 2013 video game Grand Theft Auto V on the Los Santos Rock Radio station.
The two other songs released from the album as singles also charted on the Billboard Hot 100; "Another Rainy Day in New York City" made it to number 32 and "You Are On My Mind" went to number 49.[15]
Record World called "You Are on My Mind" "another Chicago X showstopper."[16]
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