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This week in 1979, the Blondie single “Heart of Glass” debuted on the US Billboard Hot 100 at #84 (February 17)

Debbie Harry said that "Heart of Glass" was, along with "Rapture," the song she was proudest of having written.

Debbie Harry and Chris Stein wrote an early version of "Heart of Glass", called "Once I Had a Love", in 1974–75. 
This earlier version was initially recorded as a demo in 1975. 

The song had a slower, funkier sound with a basic disco beat. For this reason the band referred to it as "The Disco Song".

Harry recalled “‘Heart of Glass' was one of the first songs Blondie wrote, but it was years before we recorded it properly. 
We'd tried it as a ballad, as reggae, but it never quite worked"

Producer Mike Chapman helped crystallize the song from the “Parallel Lines” LP, and turn it into a worldwide hit.

The song with the pulsing synth line driving it on went to #1 in the US, the UK, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Switzerland, Austria and Germany, and was Top 5 in the Netherlands, South Africa, Norway, Sweden, Ireland and Belgium.

The song’s disco stylings displeased many of Blondie’s hard core fans from their early post-punk days, seeing the band as “selling out”.

Interestingly though, despite "Heart of Glass" being known as “the disco song”, it was not a hit in New York City's traditional discothèques such as Studio 54, Xenon and Crisco Disco, and reached only #58 in Billboard's Disco Top 80 chart.

"Heart of Glass" ranked at #66 in the UK's official list of biggest selling singles of all-time, with sales of 1.32 million copies. 

It was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame as a recording of "qualitative or historical significance" in 2015.

In 2021, Rolling Stone ranked the song #138 on its list of the 500 greatest songs of all time.

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