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Chicago

CHICAGO

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

Danny Seraphine

James Pankow

James Pankow

Lee Loughnane

Lee Loughnane

Peter Cetera

Peter Cetera

Robert Lamm

Robert Lamm

Terry Kath

Terry Kath

Walter Parazaider

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.

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