Best Disco Album

Chic's 1979 album Risque featured Good Times, a Bernard Edwards bass line later central to early hip-hop sampling and interpolation.

Chic's 1978 album C'est Chic made the band a major disco act and included Le Freak, one of the era's best-selling singles.

Grace Jones's Warm Leatherette is a 1980 Island Records album recorded with Sly and Robbie, marking her shift from disco to new wave and reggae.

Step II is Sylvester's 1978 Fantasy album, notable for the disco hits You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real) and Dance (Disco Heat).

Sister Sledge's 1979 album We Are Family was produced by Chic's Nile Rodgers and Bernard Edwards and became the group's defining disco record.

Donna Summer's 1977 album I Remember Yesterday mixed period pop styles with disco and introduced the electronic hit I Feel Love.

Cerrone's Supernature is a 1977 album by the French disco producer, notable for its electronic title track and a US dance chart No. 1 run.

Donna Summer's 1975 album Love to Love You Baby, produced with Giorgio Moroder, helped define Eurodisco through its extended title track.

The Glow of Love is Change's 1980 debut album, an Italian-American disco LP produced by Jacques Fred Petrus with Luther Vandross vocals.

Cerrone's Love in C Minor is the French drummer-producer's 1976 solo debut, a long-form disco album that became a New York club hit.

Delusions is First Choice's 1977 Gold Mind album, a Philadelphia soul and disco LP featuring Doctor Love and Let No Man Put Asunder.

Patrick Cowley's Megatron Man is a 1981 Megatone album by the San Francisco hi-NRG producer, led by a title track that hit No. 2 on Billboard's dance chart.

Gloria Gaynor's 1978 album Love Tracks includes I Will Survive, a 1979 Grammy-winning disco anthem written by Freddie Perren and Dino Fekaris.

The Salsoul Orchestra is the group's 1975 debut album, led by Vincent Montana Jr. and central to Salsoul Records' orchestral disco sound.

Boney M.'s Nightflight to Venus is a 1978 Eurodisco album notable for Rasputin and Rivers of Babylon, two of the group's biggest hits.

Chic's 1977 debut album Chic introduced the New York band led by Nile Rodgers and Bernard Edwards and included the hit Dance, Dance, Dance.

The Jacksons' Destiny is a 1978 Epic album written largely by the group, notable for Blame It on the Boogie and Shake Your Body.

Gloria Gaynor's 1975 album Never Can Say Goodbye helped establish the disco LP format with a continuous side-long dance medley.

Love Sensation is Loleatta Holloway's 1980 Gold Mind album, her final studio LP and source of Dan Hartman's widely sampled No. 1 dance title track.

The Trammps' 1976 album Disco Inferno contains the title track, later made famous by the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack.

Bee Gees' Children of the World is a 1976 RSO disco and R&B album that introduced the Gibb-Galuten-Richardson production team.

You're the One for Me is D Train's 1982 debut album, produced by Hubert Eaves III and anchored by the US dance No. 1 title single.

KC and the Sunshine Band's Part 3 is a 1976 TK disco album notable for the US No. 1 hits Shake Your Booty and I'm Your Boogie Man.

Instant Funk is the Trenton band's 1979 Salsoul album, a gold-certified R&B No. 1 LP driven by I Got My Mind Made Up, remixed by Larry Levan.

The Jacksons' Triumph is a 1980 Epic album produced by the group, notable for topping the US R&B albums chart and including Can You Feel It.

Donna Summer's 1977 double album Once Upon a Time is a disco concept record produced by Giorgio Moroder and Pete Bellotte.

Loleatta is Loleatta Holloway's 1977 Gold Mind album, produced by Norman Harris, Ron Kersey, and Floyd Smith and including the disco hit Dreamin'.

Keep On Jumpin' is Musique's 1978 Prelude debut, a Patrick Adams studio project featuring In the Bush and a US dance chart-topping title cut.

Ten Percent is Double Exposure's 1976 Salsoul album, notable because Walter Gibbons's remix of its title track became the first commercial 12-inch single.