Talk:Eat to the Beat

First ever video album?
Was this really the first ever video album? I thought ELO's "Discovery" was the first. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.65.71.24 (talk) 13:45, 16 September 2007 (UTC)

Edit 14/7/06
Moved 'Shayla' to 2001 re-issue bonus tracks section - it was never part of the original vinyl release.Paul75 00:03, 15 July 2006 (UTC)

How bizzare - Debbie Harry said she enjoyed singing it the most, it was never released as a single was it? User:Jbeckwith
 * It most certainly was on the original vinyl release. I still have mine from 1979 and Shayla is track 4! 2A02:C7D:2B99:DF00:704E:752C:7816:D328 (talk) 18:33, 16 November 2015 (UTC)

Lorna Luft vocals
Can anyone verify which tracks Lorna Luft sang backing vocals on? I have the impression that "Slow Motion" was the only track she sings on (she's in the duo or trio singing the echo lines -- "Wants his baby back", "She can't concentrate", etc.) But I can't verify this. &mdash; Lawrence King ( talk ) 05:14, 23 August 2009 (UTC)


 * I found the answer in the liner notes. LL sings on two tracks.  The backing vocals on "Slow Motion" are Luft along with Debbie (i.e., Debbie is double-tracked in this recording). &mdash; Lawrence King ( talk ) 23:26, 23 August 2009 (UTC)

Joint No.1
This album wasn't joint No.1 with Regatta de Blanc by The Police. In fact, there were two charts dated 13 October 1979 in the UK. This was to accommodate the fact that the album charts sales had been running a week behind up to that point. To catch up, two charts were released on the same day. Blondie were No.1 on the first and The Police No.1 on the second, so Eat to the Beat was a distinct No.1 in its own right.--Tuzapicabit (talk) 09:56, 20 March 2012 (UTC)

Only # 17 on the Billboard 200 charts and top 10 in the year end charts ? Sounds strange !
The top 200 Album charts were known as Top 200 lp charts by 1979

i know this and some cannot speak about the billboard 200 i know this.

But how it can be that the album reached only #17 but was among the top 10 of the year end charts ?

That is not normal

And how can an album can be certified only PLATINUM if it was among the top 10 of the year end best albums of that year ?

Sales at that time were quite high or not ?

Please check this case — Preceding unsigned comment added by 46.114.37.30 (talk) 15:09, 17 October 2015 (UTC)


 * You can check the source with Google books. Eat to the Beat was the number 8 album of 1980. The year-end list measured chart performance over the course of the year (December 1979 to November 1980), not just its peak position during one particular week. The album may not have peaked in the top 10 but it was on the chart for 51 weeks, almost the entire chart year. Pat Benatar's In the Heat of the Night had similar results, peaking at number 12 but was on the chart the entire year and was ranked number 7 for 1980. Conversely, Fleetwood Mac's Tusk peaked at number 4 but quickly slid down the chart and only ranked number 20 for 1980.


 * As for its platinum status, there was no multi-platinum award until 1984 and since these awards are basically marketing tools, record companies don't always pursue them for defunct groups or artists without active catalog sales. It's also possible that it didn't reach two million in sales. Piriczki (talk) 16:03, 17 October 2015 (UTC)

Hey there thank you very much for those infos. I do know a lot about calculations and numbers. I m not far from getting a masters degrees in a number-related….. :-)) But of course i know that a chart trajectory might be more important than just position

For example  album 1       # 10  # 19   # 64   # 99  # 112   # 165  # 200    peak # 10     only 7 weeks on chart album 2      # 30  # 33  # 31    # 30   # 29    # 33    # 34       peak #29     but obviously more weeks on chart

the late 70s were the times of albums of big sales. there are albums reaching year end positions similar to blondie but sold multiplatinum

I'm sure it has since sold more than 1 million

please change that

I'm sure that chrysalis records was to lazy to pay the certification diploma etc……

but the number 1,000,000 suggests that it has been sold 1 million and not more — Preceding unsigned comment added by 176.2.34.68 (talk) 15:25, 28 February 2016 (UTC)


 * Actually the U.S. record industry was in the midst of a sales slump when this album was released in 1979. Also, Blondie might not have been as popular in the U.S. as you might think. They were certainly famous but never got beyond playing small halls and while they had four million-selling singles, some of their other singles flopped. Piriczki (talk) 16:04, 28 February 2016 (UTC)

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New wave?
The album is on a list of new wave releases published by AOTY. Albumoftheyear.org fails WP:USERG because users can sign in and change the information.

The album is also the subject of an article published by uDiscoverMusic. The writer is a "fan first, writer second", which isn't a good indicator. The subtitle of the article is "How Blondie Served Up A New Wave Classic" but the writer says nothing about how Blondie served up a new wave anything. The word "wave" doesn't even appear in the article body – the writer talks about other genres such as punk, pop, pop-punk and punk-funk. So the subtitle is misleading and unsupported. Binksternet (talk) 08:45, 27 February 2021 (UTC)


 * , I invite you to defend the sources you chose to use. I already indicated in my edit summary and on your talk page that:
 * WP:ALBUMAVOID says Sputnik user reviews are unreliable. Only staff and "emeritus" reviews are accepted.
 * The Udiscovermusic piece has an inexperienced writer, not known for music criticism.
 * The discussion at Reliable sources/Noticeboard/Archive 316 determined that albumoftheyear.org is unreliable.
 * If you know of a reason that any one of these should be considered reliable for this Blondie album, feel free to comment here. Binksternet (talk) 02:53, 1 March 2021 (UTC)