Village People / Discography

The Village People, 1978

This discography is an overview of the musical works of the disco band Village People . In addition to the publications, it lists their position in the hit lists as well as the awards for the number of records sold. According to sources and record awards, she has sold more than 13 million records to date, over eight million of them in her home country alone. The Village People's most successful release is the single YMCA with over 2.7 million units sold.

Albums

Studio albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)						Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US	R&B
1977	Village People	-	-	-	-	US54 gold (86 weeks)US	R&B36 (8 weeks) R&B	Producer: Jacques Morali Recording: Sigma Sound Studios , New York
1978	Macho man	-	-	-	-	US24 platinum (69 weeks)US	R&B31 (32 weeks) R&B	Producer: Jacques Morali
	Cruisin '	DE1 gold (23 weeks)DE	AT1 (16 weeks) AT	-	UK24 (9 weeks) UK	US3 platinum (45 weeks)US	R&B5 (29 weeks) R&B	Producer: Jacques Morali Recording: Sigma Sound Studios, New York
1979	Go West	DE14 (13 weeks) DE	AT22 (8 weeks) AT	-	UK14th gold (19 weeks)UK	US8th platinum (21 weeks)US	R&B14 (12 weeks) R&B	Producer: Jacques Morali
1980	Can't stop the music	-	AT20 (2 weeks) AT	-	UK9 (8 weeks) UK	US47 (12 weeks) US	-	Producer: Jacques Morali with two tracks each by David London and The Ritchie Family ; Soundtrack
1981	Renaissance	-	-	-	-	US138 (4 weeks) US	-	Producers: Jacques Morali, Dennis Frederiksen

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More studio albums

• 1982: Fox on the Box ( Reissue as In the Street )
• 1985: Sex over the Phone
• 1995: Fire Island (feat. Felipe Rose )

Live albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)						Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US	R&B
1979	Live and Sleazy	-	-	-	-	US32 gold (20 weeks)US	R&B57 (3 weeks) R&B	Double album (live + studio)

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Compilations

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)						Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US	R&B
1993	The Best of the Village People	-	-	-	UK72 (1 week) UK	-	-
2019	gold	-	-	-	UK66 (1 week) UK	-	-

More compilations

1979: I Am What I Am - The Best of Village People 1986: The Hits 1988: Greatest Hits 1989: Greatest Hits Remix 1991: The Hits 1992: Greatest Hits 1994: The Best of Village People 1997: We Want You: The Very Best of Village People

1997: San Francisco / Macho Man 1998: We Want You - Greatest Hits 1999: Village People Greatest Hits 2001: The Best of Village People 2005: The History Day 2005: The History Night 2014: Icon

Singles

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)							Remarks	[↑]: treated together with the previous entry; [←]: placed in both charts
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US	R&B	Dance
1977	San Francisco (You've Got Me) Village People	-	-	-	UK45 (6 weeks) UK	-	-	Dance1 (23 weeks) Dance	Authors: Henri Belolo , Jacques Morali , Peter Whitehead, Phil Hurtt
1978	In Hollywood (Everybody Is a Star) Village People	-	-	-	-	-	-[Dance: ↑]		Authors: Henri Belolo, Jacques Morali, Peter Whitehead, Phil Hurtt
	Fire Island Village People	-	-	-	-	US-US	-[Dance: ↑]		Authors: Henri Belolo, Jacques Morali, Peter Whitehead, Phil Hurtt
	Macho Man Macho Man	-	-	-	-	US25th gold (15 weeks)US	-	Dance4 (18 weeks) Dance	Authors: Henri Belolo, Jacques Morali, Peter Whitehead, Victor Willis
1979	Key West Macho Man	-	-	-	-	-	-[Dance: ↑]		Authors: Henri Belolo, Jacques Morali, Peter Whitehead, Victor Willis
	I Am What I Am Macho Man	DE32 (4 weeks) DE	-	-	-	-	-[Dance: ↑]		Authors: Henri Belolo, Jacques Morali, Peter Whitehead, Victor Willis
	YMCA cruisin '	DE1 gold (25 weeks)DE	AT1 (20 weeks) AT	CH1 (17 weeks) CH	UK1 platinum (20 weeks)UK	US2 platinum (26 weeks)US	R&B32 (16 weeks) R&B	Dance2 (23 weeks) Dance	Authors: Henri Belolo, Victor Willis, Jacques Morali
	Hot cop cruisin '	-	-	-	-	-	-[Dance: ↑]		B-side by YMCA Authors: Henri Belolo, Jacques Morali, Victor Willis
	In the Navy Go West	DE3 (13 weeks) DE	AT5 (12 weeks) AT	CH7 (8 weeks) CH	UK2 silver (9 weeks)UK	US3 gold (18 weeks)US	R&B30 (12 weeks) R&B	Dance14 (12 weeks) Dance	Authors: Henri Belolo, Jacques Morali, Victor Willis
	Manhattan Woman Go West	-	-	-	-	-	-[Dance: ↑]		Authors: Henri Belolo, Jacques Morali, Victor Willis
	Go West Go West	-	-	-	UK15 (8 weeks) UK	US45 (9 weeks) US	-[Dance: ↑]		Authors: Henri Belolo, Jacques Morali, Victor Willis based on the melody and harmony of the hymn of the Soviet Union
	Sleazy Live and Sleazy	-	-	-	-	-	-	Dance26 (21 weeks) Dance	Authors: Peter Whitehead, Henri Belolo, Jacques Morali, Phil Hurtt
	Ready for the 80’s Live and Sleazy	-	-	-	-	US52 (9 weeks) US	-[Dance: ↑]		Authors: Jacques Morali, Henri Belolo, Phil Hurtt, Peter Whitehead
1980	Can't Stop the Music Can't Stop the Music	DE10 (16 weeks) DE	AT19 (2 weeks) AT	-	UK11 (11 weeks) UK	-	-	Dance27 (13 weeks) Dance	Authors: Peter Whitehead, Henri Belolo, Jacques Morali, Phil Hurtt
	Liberation Can't Stop the Music	-	-	-	-	-	-[Dance: ↑]		Authors: Peter Whitehead, Henri Belolo, Jacques Morali, Phil Hurtt
1985	Sex over the Phone Sex over the Phone	DE40 (9 weeks) DE	-	-	UK59 (6 weeks) UK	-	-	-	Authors: Bruce Vilanch , Fred Zarr, Jacques Morali
	New York City Sex over the Phone	-	-	-	UK97 (2 weeks) UK	-	-	-	Authors: Bruce Vilanch, Fred Zarr, Jacques Morali
	Medley 1985 / YMCA (US Remix)	-	-	-	UK91 (3 weeks) UK	-	-	-	Medley incl. In the Navy, Macho Man and Y. M. C. A.
1993	YMCA ('93 Remix) The Best of Village People	DE96 (5 weeks) DE	-	-	UK12 (7 weeks) UK	-	-	-	Remix: Dave Ford
1994	In the Navy (1994 Remixes) The Best of Village People	-	-	-	UK36 (3 weeks) UK	-	-	-	Remix: Joachim Heider , Mr. Kalif
	Far Away in America Far Away in America	DE44 (5 weeks) DE	-	-	-	-	-	-	with the German national soccer team Authors: Bernd Opinioner , Ralph Siegel Producer: Ralph Siegel

More singles

1977: In Hollywood (Everybody Is a Star) 1978: Medley: Just a Gigolo / I Ain't Got Nobody 1979: Get Away Holiday 1980: Magic Night 1981: Action Man 1981: 5 O'Clock in the Morning 1981: Do You Wanna Spend the Night 1982: Play Bach

1982: Fox on the Box 1982: Everybody Loves the Funk 1983: America 1988: Livin 'in the Wildlife 1989: Megamix 1993: Macho Man (Remix) 1997: Go West / We Want You - Megamix '97 1998: We Want You - The 1998 Megamix

Video albums

• 1983: Can't Stop the Music
• 2001: The Best Of - 18 Non-Stop Dance Hits
• 2002: Village People DVD
• 2007: Live in Japan

statistics

Chart evaluation

DE  AT  UK  US  R&B Number one albums DE1DE AT1AT UK-UK US-US R&B-R&B Top 10 albums DE1DE AT1AT UK1UK US2US R&B1R&B Albums in the charts DE2DE AT3AT UK5UK US7thUS R&B5R&B

DE  AT  CH  UK  US  R&B  Dance Number one singles DE1DE AT1AT CH1CH UK1UK US-US R&B-R&B Dance1Dance Top 10 singles DE3DE AT2AT CH2CH UK2UK US2US R&B-R&B Dance3Dance Singles in the charts DE7thDE AT3AT CH2CH UK10UK US5US R&B2R&B Dance6thDance

Awards for music sales

Golden record  France 1978: for the single YMCA 1979: for the single In the Navy 1979: for the album Cruisin ' 1979: for the album Go West  Netherlands 1979: for the album Cruisin '  Spain 1980: for the single Can't Stop the Music Platinum record  Canada 1979: for the single Macho Man 1979: for the single In the Navy 1979: for the album Live and Sleazy 1979: for the album Village People  Netherlands 1979: for the single YMCA

2 × platinum record  Canada 1979: for the single YMCA 3 × platinum record  Canada 1979: for the album Go West 1979: for the album Macho Man 4 × platinum record  Canada 1979: for the album Cruisin '

Note: Awards in countries from the chart tables or chart boxes can be found in these.

Country / Region	silver	gold	platinum	Sales	swell
Awards for music sales (country / region, awards, sales, sources)
Germany (BVMI)	-	2 × gold2	-	500,000	musikindustrie.de
France (SNEP)	-	4 × gold4th	-	1,200,000	infodisc.fr
Canada (MC)	-	-	16 × platinum16	1,800,000	musiccanada.com
Netherlands (NVPI)	-	gold1	platinum1	150,000	nvpi.nl
Spain (Promusicae)	-	gold1	-	50,000	Sólo éxitos: año año, 1959-2002
United States (RIAA)	-	4 × gold4th	4 × platinum4th	8,000,000	riaa.com
United Kingdom (BPI)	silver1	gold1	platinum1	1,350,000	bpi.co.uk
All in all	silver1	12 × gold12	22 × platinum22nd

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1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Chart sources: Singles Albums UK1 UK2 US
2. ↑ ^{a b} The Billboard album by Joel Whitburn , 6th Edition, Record Research 2006, ISBN 0-89820-166-7 .
3. ^ Joel Whitburn : Top R&B Albums 1965–1998, ISBN 0-89820-134-9 .
4. ^ Joel Whitburn : Hot R&B Songs 1942–2010: 6th Edition, ISBN 978-0-89820-186-4 .
5. ^ Joel Whitburn : Hot Dance / Disco 1974-2003, ISBN 978-0-89820-156-7 .

Web links

• Village People at Allmusic (English)
• Village People at Discogs (English)