Beauty and the Beat

Beauty and the Beat is the debut album by American rock band the Go-Go's. It was released on July 14, 1981, by the I.R.S. Records label. Bolstered by its two Hot 100 hit singles "Our Lips Are Sealed" and "We Got the Beat", Beauty and the Beat reached number one on the Billboard Top LPs & Tape chart in March 1982, and eventually ranked second on Billboard's 1982 year-end albums chart. The album sold in excess of two million copies, and was RIAA-certified double platinum, qualifying it as one of the most successful debut albums of all time. Critically acclaimed, it has been described as one of the cornerstone albums of American new wave music. In 2026, the album was selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the National Recording Registry for its "cultural, historical or aesthetic importance in the nation's recorded sound heritage." The title is a play on the European fairy tale "Beauty and the Beast". From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beauty_...) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...)