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MUSIC BUSINESS, STUDIO RECORDING & AWARDS
AWARDS
Top 15 Pop Producer of the Year (1982) - ProSound News
Recording Engineer of the Year (1983) - ProSound News
Second Runner-Up Producer of the Year (1983) - Billboard
2 RIAA (US) Gold Album Sales Awards
2 RIAA (US) Platinum Album Sales Awards
1 RIAA (US) Gold Single Sales Awards
2 BPI (UK) Gold Album Sales Awards
1 CRIA (Canada) Gold Album Sales Awards
1 CRIA (Canada) Platinum Album Sales Award
8 AMPEX Golden Reel Awards
AMAZING FACTS!
• The Go-Go's multi-platinum selling debut album, "Beauty and the Beat," co-produced, recorded and mixed by Rob Freeman, topped Billboard's Top-100 Albums chart at #1 for six consecutive weeks! It spawned two Top-20 singles, one of which, "We Got the Beat," peaked at #2.
• "Beauty and the Beat" became the first #1 album in music history by an all-girl group who wrote their own songs and played their own instruments.
• "Beauty and the Beat" was named #1 on the College Music Journal (CMJ) Top-1000 Albums of the Decade, 1979-1989! (That's of the decade, folks!!)
• In its 1982 year-end wrap-up charts, Billboard bestowed the following awards upon The Go-Go's and "Beauty and the Beat":
#1 TOP POP ARTIST OF THE YEAR
#1 TOP POP ALBUM ARTISTS
#1 TOP POP ALBUM ARTIST DUOS/GROUPS
#2 TOP POP ALBUM
On those same Billboard year-end charts, The Go-Go's and "Beauty and the Beat" ranked above a distinguished list of albums and artists which included The Rolling Stones, Foreigner, Asia, Journey, John Cougar, The Police, Genesis, AC/DC, Diana Ross, Daryl Hall & John Oates, Ozzy Osbourne,
Loverboy, Olivia Newton-John, Alabama, Willie Nelson, Vangelis (whose
"Chariots of Fire" soundtrack knocked "Beauty and the Beat" out of the
#1 position on the Top-100 Album chart), Stevie Nicks, Kenny Rogers, Rick Springfield, and Air Supply.
• Rob's
production of Tim Moore's beat-ballad single "Yes," propelled by its
popularity as the love theme for a well-known Novela (Spanish soap
opera), remained at #1 simultaneously on the Brazilian and Portugese
record charts for an astonishing six months!
Amazing, indeed!
TITLEWAVE PRODUCTIONS
is located in Hollywood, Florida
