Alicia Bridges (album)

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{{Infobox album

| name = Alicia Bridges

| type = Studio

| artist = Alicia Bridges

| cover = Alicia Bridges (album).jpeg

| alt =

| released = July 1978

| recorded = 1977–1978

| studio = Studio One, Doraville, Georgia; The Sound Pit, Atlanta, Georgia

| venue =

| genre = Disco

| length =

| label = Polydor

| producer = Steve Buckingham (for The Lowery Group)

| prev_title =

| prev_year =

| next_title = Play It as It Lays

| next_year = 1979

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{{Album ratings

| rev1 = Allmusic

| rev1Score = {{Rating|2|5}}{{AllMusic|class=album|id=alicia-bridges-r31488|pure_url=yes}}

| rev2 = Smash Hits

| rev2score = 5/10{{cite journal|last=Starr|first=Red|title=Albums|journal=Smash Hits|issue=February 22 – March 7, 1979|page=25}}

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Alicia Bridges is the eponymous debut album from disco singer-songwriter Alicia Bridges, released in 1978 on Polydor Records. The album featured the smash hit single, "I Love the Nightlife (Disco Round)", which, when released as a 12" single (as remixed by producer Jim Burgess), reached a peak of number 5 on the Billboard, Cash Box & Record World charts in 1978 (quickly becoming an RIAA-certified gold record for sales of over one million copies; it would now be seen as a platinum record).[https://www.riaa.com/gold-platinum/?tab_active=default-award&se=Alicia+Bridges#search_section RIAA Certification] riaa.com Retrieved January 25, 2016. Alicia Bridges peaked a number 52 on the Australian chart.{{cite book|last=Kent|first=David|author-link=David Kent (historian)|title=Australian Chart Book 1970–1992|edition=illustrated|publisher=Australian Chart Book|location=St Ives, N.S.W.|year=1993|isbn=0-646-11917-6|page=46}}

Bridges released a second single shortly thereafter; the rock-inflected "Body Heat", which had the same strong backbeat as her big hit, but also featured more prominent rhythm guitar. The song became a minor hit, but it was the success of the first single that drove the album, which climbed the charts quickly and remained there for a total of 35 weeks. Bridges would be nominated for a Grammy and performed the hit single as an opening act.