#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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