Eargasm
Eargasm is an album by the American R&B singer Johnnie Taylor, released in March 1976 on Columbia Records. The album contains "Disco Lady", which was a No. 1 pop hit for four weeks, and achieved the first platinum certification for a single, with two million copies sold. Eargasm was Taylor's first album for Columbia Records, after many years spent recording for Stax.
| Eargasm | ||||
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| Released | March 1976 | |||
| Studio | United Sound Systems, Detroit; Muscle Shoals Sound Studios; Sundance Studios, Dallas | |||
| Genre | R&B, soul | |||
| Length | 34:45 | |||
| Label | Columbia | |||
| Producer | Don Davis | |||
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The album peaked at No. 5 on the Billboard 200; it spent two weeks at No. 1 on the Soul Albums chart, and peaked at No. 41 in Canada. Taylor's most commercially successful album, Eargasm achieved gold status in 1980 and platinum status in 2001. The album's second single, "Somebody's Gettin' It", was also a hit.
The album helped Taylor earn the Southern Christian Leadership Conference's award for the 1976 "Entertainer of the Year".