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The Magic Of Boney M. (Special Remix E...

1.4B streams

1,447,476,981

Rasputin - Lover Of The Russian Queen

751.4M streams

751,415,925

The Greatest Hits

329.8M streams

329,826,935

Boney M.

188.9M streams

188,886,014

Nightflight to Venus

172.1M streams

172,136,961

The Magic Of Boney M.

155.1M streams

155,094,087

Let It All Be Music

126M streams

125,988,854

Best Of

120.7M streams

120,707,078

Love For Sale

120.3M streams

120,289,073

Rasputin - Big And Strong: The Greates...

86.7M streams

86,669,083

Biography

The Euro-disco group Boney M. were a European phenomenon during the '70s. After German record producer Frank Farian (born in 1942) recorded the single "Baby Do You Wanna Bump?" (which was successful in Holland and Belgium), he created Boney M. to support the song, bringing in four West Indian vocalists who had been working as session singers in Germany -- Marcia Barrett, Liz Mitchell, Maizie Williams, and Bobby Farrell. "Daddy Cool" reached the U.K. Top Ten in February 1977, followed in April by a remake of Bobby Hebb's "Sunny." In July, "Ma Baker" just missed the U.K. number one spot, and "Belfast" hit the Top Ten in December. In 1978, Boney M. were at the height of their popularity with "Rivers of Babylon"/"Brown Girl in the Ring," which became the second-biggest selling single in U.K. chart history; "Rivers of Babylon" was also Boney M.'s only U.S. Top 40 hit. Their album Nightflight to Venus topped the U.K. charts. In October 1978, "Rasputin" became another U.K. Top Ten hit, followed by the seasonal chart-topper "Mary's Boy Child"/"Oh My Lord," which became the fifth biggest-selling single in U.K. history. In March 1979, "Painter Man" hit the U.K. Top Ten, followed in May by "Hooray! Hooray! It's a Holi-Holiday." In September, the album Oceans of Fantasy hit number one. Their music continued to sell well in Europe, with a compilation hitting the U.K. Top Ten in 1994. Farian went on to create the late-'80s dance sensation Milli Vanilli. In 2017, Farian and Liz Mitchell, under the Boney M. moniker, released the festive conceptual holiday LP World Music for Christmas, which featured well-known world music mixed with Christmas lyrics. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Rovi