1979 Donna Summer – Bad Girls

Bad Girls is the seventh studio album by American singer and songwriter Donna Summer, released on April 25, 1979 on Casablanca Records. Originally issued as a double album, Bad Girls became the best-selling album of Summer’s career. The album spent 6 weeks at the top of Billboard’s Hot 200 albums in 1979, for one week on June 16, 1979 and then for 5 consecutive weeks, from July 7 to August 4, 1979. It contained the number one hits “Hot Stuff” and “Bad Girls”, and the number two hit “Dim All the Lights”.

On the week of June 16, 1979, Summer had (for a second time) the No. 1 single “Hot Stuff” and album Bad Girls simultaneously on the Billboard charts. She accomplished this again for a third time, the week of August 14, 1979 when the single “Bad Girls” took the top spot on the Billboard Hot 100 charts for a 5-week run, and the album Bad Girls was at the top of the Billboard 200 album chart. They remained at the top of both charts together for 4 weeks. Summer also became the first female artist to have two songs in the top three, on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, when on the week of June 30, 1979, “Hot Stuff” fell to No. 2 and “Bad Girls” rose to No. 3. Both songs remained in the top three for 4 weeks. The week of July 21, 1979 the single “Bad Girls” took the top spot on the Billboard Hot R &B singles chart, Summer sat on top of 3 major Billboard charts. The album Bad Girls topped the R&B album charts for 3 weeks, June 23 to July 7, 1979.