BLONDIE - THE BEST OF BLONDIE 1981 US 1st PRESS SEALED VINYL/LP 6 #1s NO CLUB ED

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Blondie - The Best Of Blondie 1981 US First/Original Pressing OOP (Out of Print) Factory Sealed Vinyl/LP containing 12 total tracks featuring 6 charting songs and 6 #1 smash hit singles: “Atomic” (went to #1 on the UK Singles Chart), “Sunday Girl” (chart topper on the Irish Singles Chart and on the UK Singles Chart), “Heart Of Glass” (reached #1 on the Singles Charts in several countries: Australia (Kent Music Report), Austria (Austria Top 40), Canada Top Singles (RPM), Switzerland (Schweizer Hitpararde), West Germany (Official German Charts), New Zealand (Recorded Music NZ and finished at #1 on its Year-end Chart Of 1979), the United Kingdom (OCC Singles Chart) and the United States (Billboard Hot 100 Singles Chart), re-charting in 1995 peaking at #15 on the UK Singles Chart (OCC), #11 on the US Billboard Hot Dance Music/Maxi-Singles Sales Chart and #7 on the US Billboard Hot Dance Club Play Chart then has been Certified Platinum Singles in Australia, the UK by BPI (British Phonographic Industry) and the US by the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) and 2x Platinum in Canada by Music Canada. Billboard magazine ranked "Heart of Glass" number 47 in their list of 500 best pop songs of all time in 2023. "Heart of Glass" ranked at number 66 in the UK's official list of biggest selling singles of all-time, with sales of 1.32 million copies. It was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame as a recording of "qualitative or historical significance" in 2015. On April 16, 2024, the song was selected by the Library of Congress calling it an audio treasure worthy of preservation for all time in the United States National Recording Registry. Deborah Harry herself stated that "Heart of Glass" was, along with "Rapture," the song she was proudest of having written. She and her band members had to fight for the ‘Heart Of Glass’ as the record label didn’t like it initially); “The Tide Is High” (peaked at #6 on the Austrian Singles Chart through Ö3 Austria Top 40, #5 on the Netherlands Singles Chart through Single Top 100, on the South Africa Singles Chart through Springbok Radio and on the Swiss Singles Chart through Schweizer Hitparade, #4 on the Australian Singles Chart through Kent Music Report), on the Belgian Singles Chart through Ultratop 50 Flanders, on the Netherlands Singles Chart through Dutch Top 40, #4 on the Irish Singles Chart through the Irish Recorded Music Association and on the New Zealand Singles Chart through Recorded Music NZ, #3 on the US Billboard Easy Listening/Adult Contemporary Chart, #2 on the Irish Singles Chart through the Irish Recorded Music Association and #1 on the Canada RPM Top Singles Chart finishing at #10 on its Year-end Chart Of 1981 then has been Certified Platinum by Music Canada for shipments figures of 150K based on certification alone, on the New Zealand Singles Chart through Recorded Music NZ finishing at #14 on its Year-end Chart Of 1981, on the UK Singles Chart through Official Charts Company then has been Certified Gold by the British Phonographic Industry for shipments figures of 500K based on certification alone, on the US Billboard Hot Dance Club Play Chart and on the US Billboard Hot 100 Singles Chart finishing at #17 on its Year-end Chart Of 1981 then has been Certified Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America for shipments figures of 1M based on certification alone); “Rapture” (reached #40 on the West Germany Singles Chart through GfK, #35 on the US Billboard Mainstream Rock Chart, #33 on the US Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs Chart, #21 on the Spanish Singles Chart through AFYVE, #20 on the Netherlands Singles Chart through Single Top 100, #13 on the Swedish Singles Chart through Sverigetopplistan, #8 on the Belgium Singles Chart through Ultratop 50 Flanders finishing at #100 on its Year-end Chart Of 1981 and on the Norwegian Singles Chart through VG-lista, #6 on the South Africa Singles Chart through. Springbok Radio, #5 on the Netherlands Singles Chart through Single Top 100, on the South African Singles Chart through Springbok Radio, #5 on the Australian Singles Chart through Kent Music Report finishing at #15 on its Year-end Chart Of 1981, on the UK Singles Chart through Official Charts Company then has been Certified Silver by the British Phonographic Industry for shipment figures of 250K based on certified alone, #3 on the Canada RPM Top Singles Chart finishing at #24 on its Year-end Chart Of 1981, #1 on the US Billboard Hot Dance Club Play Chart finishing at #7 on its Year-end Chart Of 1981 and on the US Billboard Hot 100 Singles Chart for 2 weeks finishing at #15 on its Year-end Chart Of 1981 then has been Certified Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America tor shipments figures of 1M based on certification alone and was the first #1 single in the United States to feature rap vocals plus a 1994 remix went to #8 on the US Billboard Dance Club Songs Chart in the same year) and “Call Me” (peaked at #9 on the Belgian Singles Chart through Ultratop 50 Flanders and on the Netherlands Singles Chart through Dutch Top 40, #6 on the New Zealand Singles Chart through Recorded Music NZ, #5 on the Austrian Singles Chart through Ö3 Austria Top 40, #4 on the Australian Singles Chart through Kent Music Report finishing at #19 on its Year-end Chart Of 1980, #3 on the Finnish Singles Chart through Suomen virallinen lista, on the Swedish Singles Chart through Sverigetopplistan finishing at #9 on its Year-end Chart Of 1980 and on the Swiss Singles Chart through Schweizer Hitparade finishing at #19 on its Year-end Chart Of 1980, #2 on the Irish Singles Chart through Irish Recorded Music Association, on the Norwegian Singles Chart through VG-lista, on the South Africa Singles Chart through Springbok Radio and on the US Billboard Hot Dance Club Play Chart and #1 on the Canada RPM Top Singles Chart finishing at #3 on its Year-end Chart Of 1980 then has been Certified Platinum by Music Canada for shipments figures of 150K based on certification alone, on the UK Singles Chart through Official Charts Company and on the US Billboard Hot 100 Singles Chart for 6 consecutive weeks finishing at #1 on its Year-end Chart Of 1980, at #9 on its Decade-end Chart 1980-1989 and at #57 on its All-Time Chart 1958-2018 then has been Certified Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America for shipments figures of 1M based on certification alone which became the band's biggest single ). For full track listing and sequence (Photo #5). The album went to #30 on the US Billboard Top 200 Albums Chart then has been Certified 2x Platinum by the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) for shipments figures of 2M based on certification alone, #15 on the Canada RPM Top Albums Chart finishing at #81 on its Year-end Chart Of 1981, #4 on the UK Albums Chart (OCC) finishing at #18 on its Year-end Chart Of 1981 and has been Certified 2x Platinum by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) for shipments figures of 600K based on certification alone and #1 on the New Zealand Albums Chart (Recorded Music NZ finishing at #34 on its Year-end Chart Of 1982 and on the Australian Albums Chart (Kent Music Report) finishing at #14 on its Year-end Chart Of 1982. White/Red Hype Sticker over the left lower section of the sealed front album cover stating:

‘12 Exciting Hits

Including 4

#1 Singles

"HEART OF GLASS"

"CALL ME"

"THE TIDE IS HIGN"

"RAPTURE"

Plus Special Remixes

CHR 1337’ (Photo #4). Sleeve/cover back/ rear: Made in USA. ℗ & © 1981 Chrysalis Records. Runout info: variant 1 side A: stamped / side B: etched; variant 2 side A: stamped, except etched "T D-3" / side B etched. Condition is "New". "Sealed vinyl/records are not returnable if they are opened". No notch/saw cuts, punch/drill holes, clipped corners nor gold promo stamp. Not a club edition (CRC/Columbia Record Club/Columbia House/RCA Music Service) either. Shipped with USPS Media Mail. Payment is due within 5-7 days from the purchase date. Thanks for stopping by.

The vinyl will be one of the following pressing variants:

Matrix / Runout - Side A label in parenthesis:

CHR-1337-AS

Matrix / Runout - Side B label in parenthesis:

CHR-1337-BS

Matrix / Runout - Side A runout, variant 1:

CHR-1337-AS 1D

Matrix / Runout - Side B runout, variant 1:

CHR-1337-BS

Matrix / Runout - Side A runout, variant 2:

CHR-1337AS-1A T D-3

Matrix / Runout - Side B runout, variant 2:

CHR-1337-BS-2-REP1

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