We Are Family (album)

We Are Family
Studio album by
Sister Sledge
ReleasedJanuary 22, 1979
RecordedAugust–November 1978
StudioPower Station, New York City
GenreDisco, R&B, soul
Length43:56
LabelCotillion
ProducerNile Rodgers, Bernard Edwards
Sister Sledge chronology
Together
(1977) 		We Are Family
(1979) 		Love Somebody Today
(1980)
Singles from We Are Family
  1. "He's the Greatest Dancer"
    Released: February 3, 1979
  2. "We Are Family"
    Released: April 1979
  3. "Lost in Music"
    Released: April 1979[1]
  4. "Thinking of You"
    Released: June 1984

We Are Family is the third studio album by the American R&B vocal group Sister Sledge, released on January 22, 1979, in the United States and on April 30, 1979, in the United Kingdom by Cotillion Records. The album was written and produced by Nile Rodgers and Bernard Edwards of the band Chic, and includes four hit singles: the title track, "He's the Greatest Dancer", "Lost in Music" and "Thinking of You", all of which have been sampled, remixed, and reissued in the decades after the album's release. The album reached number one on the Top R&B Albums chart and peaked at number three on the Billboard 200, making it the band's most commercially successful album. In 2013, NME named it among the 500 greatest albums of all time.[2]

  1. ^ The Book of Hit Singles: Top 20 Charts from 1954 to the Present Day
  2. ^ "The 500 Greatest Albums Of All Time: 400-301". www.nme.com/. Retrieved 1 November 2014.