Furthermore, it spawned his biggest hit single, " Rockit" (1983), the first jazz hip-hop song, and became a worldwide anthem for breakdancers and the hip-hop culture of the 1980s. 7 on the Ö3 Austria Top 75 Longplays chart. The album had its best results in Europe, where it peaked at No. In 1983, Hancock radically refreshed his sound with strong electronic influences and released Future Shock (1983), an influential album in jazz fusion, dance, electronic, techno and hip-hop music. 26, and the second peaked on the VG Norwegian Albums Chart at No. The first album had its best performance peaking on UK Albums Chart at No. Thanks to these singles, his albums Sunlight (1978) and Feets, Don't Fail Me Now (1979) earned good popular success, especially in Europe. 18 on the UK Singles Chart, and "Tell Everybody" (1979), which peaked at No. In 1978, Hancock added disco influences to his jazz and established himself as a mainstream hitmaker across Europe with "I Thought It Was You" (1978) and "You Bet Your Love" (1979), which peaked, respectively, at No. Other albums that followed in the style of Head Hunters with good popular success, especially in the US, were Thrust (1974) and Man-Child (1975), which ranked respectively No. 35 on the RPM Canadian Singles Chart and is a jazz standard.
Head Hunters also contains Hancock's first mainstream hit, " Chameleon" (1974), which peaked at No. In 1986, it became the first jazz album ever to win a RIAA Platinum Award and is considered very influential in jazz, funk, soul and hip-hop music. 13 on the Billboard 200 and became the best-selling jazz album for a period of time. At Columbia, Hancock had his best commercial results, gaining immediate success with Head Hunters (1973), an R&B-oriented jazz album with strong funk influences. for Columbia Records, where he remained until the late 1980s, releasing sixteen studio albums.
Hancock continued to experiment after leaving Warner Bros. These three releases became influential in the jazz rock movement. Records, publishing three albums in which he experimented with new jazz music directions: the R&B-oriented Fat Albert Rotunda (1969) and the electronic-oriented Mwandishi (1971) and Crossings (1972). After his departure from Blue Note, Hancock signed with Warner Bros. 18 and won an Academy Award for Best Original Score.
In this role, he reached the top in 1986 with the Round Midnight soundtrack (for Columbia Records), that had its best result on the AFYVE Spanish Albums Chart at No. During these years, Hancock also began a career as composer for film and television soundtracks, beginning with Blow-Up (1966) for MGM Records. For the label, he released seven albums, including Takin' Off (1962), his first solo album, supported by the single " Watermelon Man", which is one of the most performed jazz standards Empyrean Isles (1964) and Maiden Voyage (1965), two influential jazz albums. Blue Note Records noticed his talent and added him to its roster.
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Hancock made his debut as professional musician in the early 1960s as a sideman, quickly earning a good reputation. Also included are certifications from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and the Bundesverband Musikindustrie (BVMI). The peaks do not refer necessarily to the position that a record reached when it was first released. Positions also listed on United States are R&B / hip hop, dance / club, jazz and bubbling under charts. The discography shows the peak weekly main chart positions of eight selected countries: United States, France, Germany, Japan, Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland and United Kingdom. This article does not include re-issues, unless they are counted separately from the original works in the charts, furthermore because of the enormous amount of material published, this discography omits less notable appearances in compilations and live albums. The discography of the American jazz artist Herbie Hancock consists of forty-one studio albums, twelve live albums, sixty-two compilation albums, five soundtrack albums, thirty-eight physical singles, nine promo singles and four songs not released as singles, but that charted due to downloads.
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