YEAR
2016
INDUCTED BY
Rob Thomas
CATEGORY
performers
Chicago stands as one of America’s most successful rock bands of any epoch in terms of both sales and longevity.
The statistics are simply staggering: over a forty-six-year recording career, the band has issued thirty-six albums, sold well over 100 million records, and released twenty Top 10 pop and twenty-two Top 10 adult contemporary singles (fifteen of which broke the Top 10 on both charts). It achieved the enviable feat of placing these hits on the Billboard charts in five different decades. Seventeen of their first twenty albums were certified platinum, nine of those multiplatinum, and Chicago 17 (1984) hit platinum a whopping six times.
Danny Seraphine
James Pankow
Lee Loughnane
Peter Cetera
Robert Lamm
Terry Kath
Walter Parazaider
HALL OF FAME
ESSAY
By Rob Bowman
Chicago stands as one of America’s most successful rock bands of any epoch in terms of both sales and longevity.
The statistics are simply staggering: Over a forty-six-year recording career, the band has issued thirty-six albums, sold well over a hundred million records, and released twenty Top Ten pop and twenty-two Top Ten adult contemporary singles (fifteen of which broke the Top Ten on both charts).
It achieved the enviable feat of placing these hits on the Billboard charts in five different decades. Seventeen of its first twenty albums were certified platinum, nine of those multiplatinum, and Chicago 17 hit platinum a whopping six times.
