#1 Album on February 28, 2004

Feels like Home
Norah Jones

Feels Like Home sold nearly two million copies worldwide one week after its release. The #1 album's first single "Sunrise" earned a Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance. Nora was raised in Texas and moved to New York in 1999. She was a lounge singer before becoming a recording artist.
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#1 Album on February 27, 1971

Pearl
Janis Joplin

Pearl was released four months after the death of Janis Joplin. The album's featured single "Me and Bobby McGee" was co-written by Kris Kristofferson and became her best selling song. The last recordings completed by Joplin were "Mercedes Benz" and a birthday greeting for John Lennon. Janis Joplin died in Los Angeles, California of a drug overdose at the age of 27.
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#1 Album on February 26, 2000

Supernatural
Santana

The phenomenal success of Supernatural helped jump-start Carlos Santana's career in 2000. Santana collaborated with several, including Matchbox Twenty singer Rob Thomas, Everlast, Eric Clapton, and Dave Matthews, to produce a concept album conceived by producer Clive Davis. The record earned eight Grammys including Album of the Year. The album's featured single "Smooth" was #1 for twelve weeks.
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#1 Album on February 25, 2006

Sing-A-Longs and Lullabies Curious George
Jack Johnson and Friends

Hawaiian singer Jack Johnson and a host of featured guests produced the soundtrack to the classic story of Curious George. The album reached #1 the week of February 19, 2006, the first #1 for Jack Johnson. The album features the single "Upside Down". Jack Johnson is a life-long surfer who began writing songs during his college days in California.
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#1 Album on February 24, 2007

Infinity on High
Fall Out Boy

Infinity on High hit #1 the week of February 18, 2007 and was Fall Out Boy's first #1 album. The band's fourth studio album was released with sixteen tracks, including the single "This Ain't a Scene, It's an Arms Race", which reached #2 in the U.S. and charted in fourteen other countries. Fall Out Boy is from Wilmette, Illinois.
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#1 Album on February 23, 2004

When the Sun Goes Down
Kenny Chesney

When the Sun Goes Down earned the Country Music Association's Album of the Year award in 2004. Six singles were released through 2005, including "There Goes My Life", "When the Sun Goes Down", "I Go Back", "The Woman with You", "Anything but Mine", and "Keg in the Closet". Kenny Chesney graduated from East Tennessee State University with a degree in advertising in 1990.
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#1 Album on February 22, 1975

AWB
Average White Band

The Average White Band's second album rose to the top of the album charts with the classic single "Pick Up the Pieces". The instrumental song was the group's most successful and has become one of the most recognizable in funk music. AWB was produced by renowned producer Arif Mardin. The Scottish funk group Average White Band was formed in 1971.
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#1 Album on February 21, 2005

The Documentary
The Game

The Documentary reached #1 in the U.S. and Canada and entered the top twenty in Europe. The West Coast hip hop album features 50 Cent, Faith Evans, Timabland, Eminem and Busta Rhymes. The single "Hate It or Love It" was the most popular single from the release. The Game was born Jayceon Terrell Taylor in Los Angeles and grew up in nearby Compton.
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#1 Album on February 19, 1986

Promise
Sade

The British quartet's first #1 album produced two top twenty singles: "The Sweetest Taboo" and "Never as Good as the First Time". Sade was named for its front women, singer, songwriter and producer Sade Adu. Born Helen Folasade Adu in Nigeria, Sade moved to England at age four and studied fashion design in college before embarking on a music career.
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#1 Album on February 18, 1973

The World Is a Ghetto
War

The World Is a Ghetto is six songs recorded by the R&B funk group War. The album's featured single "The Cisco Kid" was a huge commercial hit that propelled the album to #1. The album was voted Billboard's Album of the Year in 1973. The band traces its roots to 1962, and includes stints with NFL player Deacon Jones and former Animals front man Eric Burdon.
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#1 Album on February 17, 2001

Hot Shot
Shaggy

Shaggy's #1 album Hot Shot sold six million copies in the United States. The album produced the #1 singles "It Wasn't Me" and "Angel", which is a mash up of the 1970s pop songs "The Joker" and "Angel of the Morning". Shaggy was born as Orville Richard Burrell in Jamaica and later moved to Brooklyn, New York. Burell served in the U.S. Marines during Operation Desert Storm.
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#1 Album on February 16, 1974

Planet Waves
Bob Dylan

Planet Waves reached #1 in February 1974, making this Dylan's first #1 album. The album was a collaboration of Bob Dylan and The Band, followed up by a U.S. concert tour. Eleven Bob Dylan songs, including the album's featured track "Forever Young", were recorded in Los Angeles in autumn of 1973. Bob Dylan first toured with The Band, known then as The Hawks, in 1966.
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#1 Album on February 15, 1964

Meet the Beatles!
Beatles

The Beatles second album release topped the album charts for three months into spring of 1964. The single "I Want to Hold Your Hand", released with the B-side "I Saw Her Standing There", was the band's first #1 hit in America and launched the Beatlemania. The Beatles first came to the U.S. in February 1964 to play the Ed Sullivan Show.
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#1 Album on February 14, 2000

Voodoo
D'Angelo

Voodoo was released almost five years after D'Angelo's debut album Brown Sugar. The #1 album earned a Grammy for Best R&B Album and its lead single "Untitled (How Does It Feel?)" won a Grammy for Best Male R&B Vocal Performance. Voodoo was recorded at Electric Lady Studios, the Greenwich Village-based studio built by legendary musician Jimi Hendrix.
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#1 Album on February 13, 1979

Blondes Have More Fun
Rod Stewart

Blonds Have More Fun was #1 for three consecutive weeks during winter of 1979. The singles "Do Ya Think I'm Sexy?" and "Ain't Love a Bitch" reached #1 and #22 respectively. The album made Rod Stewart a pop music star. Before embarking on a solo career in 1969, Stewart sang with several notables, including members of the Kinks, Fleetwood Mac, The Jeff Beck Group, and The Faces.
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#1 Album on February 12, 1977

A Star Is Born
Barbra Streisand

Kris Kristofferson and Barbra Streisand starred in the 1976 movie. Streisand plays a rising star who falls in love with an established but fading rock star. The soundtrack features the #1 single "Evergreen (Love Theme from A Star Is Born)", which earned Streisand an Academy Award for Best Original Song. Streisand originally wanted Elvis Presley for the role played by Kristofferson.
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#1 Album on February 11, 1961

Blue Hawaii
Elvis Presley

The Blue Hawaii soundtrack was on the album charts for 79 weeks and spent 20 weeks at #1. Elvis Presley starred as Chad Gates, who has just gotten out of the Army and is happy to be back in Hawaii with his surf-board, his beach buddies, and his girlfriend. The single "Can't Help Falling Love" was written for this film and became one of Elvis' most popular songs.
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#1 Album on February 10, 1962

Breakfast at Tiffany's
Henry Mancini

The #1 soundtrack for the romantic comedy starring Audrey Hepburn and George Peppard features the signature song "Moon River", which earned composers Henry Mancini and Johnny Mercer an Oscar for Best Original Song. The song was written especially for Audry Hepburn, who had no training as a singer. According to Mancini, a studio executive hated the song and demanded it be cut from the film.
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#1 Album on February 9, 1985

Like a Virgin
Madonna

Madonna's follow up to her self-titled debut album was a huge commercial success. Five of the album's ten tracks were charted hits, including the #1 title track. The album was mostly panned by critics but sold an estimated 21 million copies worldwide. Madonna was born Madonna Louise Ciccone and raised in Pontiac, Michigan.
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#1 Album on February 8, 1979

Briefcase Full of Blues
Blues Brothers

The Blues Brothers were led by Saturday Night Live comedians Dan Akroyd and John Belushi. The band was developed for a musical skit for the show and then later expanded into a successful feature length film. The full band was put together with the help of pianist-arranger Paul Shaffer. Briefcase Full of Blues produced two hit recordings, "Soul Man" and "Rubber Biscuit."
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#1 Album on February 7, 1976

Desire
Bob Dylan

Desire was recorded in summer of 1975. Dylan recorded the album with several members of the Rolling Thunder Review, his touring band at the time. Nine tracks were recorded, including the protest song "Hurricane" in the cause of boxer Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, whom Dylan believed had been wrongfully imprisoned. Bob Dylan was born Robert Allen Zimmerman in Duluth, Minnesota.
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#1 Album on February 6, 1982

Freeze Frame
J. Geils Band

Freeze Frame features the #1 hit "Centerfold", a song about a man who discovers his former high school girlfriend in a magazine centerfold. The title track charted as well. Hailing from Massachusetts, The J. Geils Band recorded three live albums in Detroit, a place they considered their second home due to their popularity there.
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#1 Album on February 5, 2004

Speakerboxxx/The Love Below
OutKast

Speakerboxxx/The Love Below is a double album containing a solo album from each of OutKast's two members: Big Boi's Speakerboxxx and André 3000's The Love Below. Each produced a #1 single, "The Way You Move" and "Hey Ya!" The breakthrough hip-hop album won Album of the Year at the 2004 Grammys. OutKast's André Benjamin and Antwan Patton first met in high school.
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#1 Album on February 4, 1988

Tiffany
Tiffany

Tiffany, born Tiffany Renee Darwish, promoted her self-titled debut by touring shopping malls across America. Tiffany rose to #1 with the singles "I Think We're Alone Now" and "Could've Been", earning her the distinction of being the youngest female artist to top the charts with a debut album. Some of the album tracks were recorded as early as when she was 12 years old.
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#1 Album on February 3, 1990

Forever Your Girl
Paula Abdul

Paula Abdul's debut release was a global blockbuster. Six of the album's ten tracks were charted hits, including #1 songs "Opposites Attract", "Forever Your Girl", "Straight Up" and "Cold Hearted". The album took a record-setting 62 weeks to hit #1 and spent 10 weeks there. Abdul's show business career began when she was selected among 700 for the Laker Girls cheerleading squad.
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#1 Album on February 2, 2002

Drive
Alan Jackson

Alan Jackson's "Drive" reached #1 in winter of 2002. The most popular single from the album was "Where Were You (When the World Stopped Turning)", a ballad written in response to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. Jackson's wife Denise wrote a book that topped the New York Times Best Seller list in 2007 that covered her life with Jackson.
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#1 Album on February 1, 1995

Balance
Van Halen

Balance is Van Halen's last album recorded with lead singer Sammy Hagar, who replaced front man David Lee Roth in 1985. Hagar would reunite with the band in 2004. Four singles were released, including the #1 song "Don't Tell Me (What Love Can Do)." Eddie Van Halen and Sammy Hagar were first introduced by way of a mutual auto mechanic.
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