Motown
The most renowned label house for Great Black Music. Founded in the winter of 1959 by Berry Gordy in Detroit, the Motown (a retraction of ‘Motor Town’) label marked the world of music by becoming a focal point for immense talent and a factory for smash hit tracks. Gordy used the money that he had generated writing and producing music to found the ‘Tamla’ label, the first hit song being Money (That’s What I Want) by Barrett Strong.
The soul, rhythm and blues tracks produced by Gordy would all go on to great success. From Stevie Wonder to Marvin Gaye, Diana Ross, Lionel Richie, via Michael Jackson, The Supremes, Commodores, The Temptations, and many more. The lineup speaks for itself. Some of the finest records in music history – period. Dive into the catalogue in superior sound quality on Qobuz.
Read moreThe most renowned label house for Great Black Music. Founded in the winter of 1959 by Berry Gordy in Detroit, the Motown (a retraction of ‘Motor Town’) label marked the world of music by becoming a focal point for immense talent and a factory for smash hit tracks. Gordy used the money that he had generated writing and producing music to found the ‘Tamla’ label, the first hit song being Money (That’s What I Want) by Barrett Strong.
The soul, rhythm and blues tracks produced by Gordy would all go on to great success. From Stevie Wonder to Marvin Gaye, Diana Ross, Lionel Richie, via Michael Jackson, The Supremes, Commodores, The Temptations, and many more. The lineup speaks for itself. Some of the finest records in music history – period. Dive into the catalogue in superior sound quality on Qobuz.
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What's Going On
Soul - Released by Motown on 21 May 1971
The Qobuz Ideal DiscographyDevastated by the death of his partner Tammi Terrell, who died of cancer on 6 March 1970 at the age of just 24, Marvin Gaye withdrew from show busines ...
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Songs In The Key Of Life
Soul - Released by Motown on 28 Sep 1976
The Qobuz Ideal DiscographyHi-Res AudioSongs in the Key of Life was Stevie Wonder's longest, most ambitious collection of songs, a two-LP (plus accompanying EP) set that -- just as the titl ...
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Innervisions
Soul - Released by Motown on 3 Aug 1973
The Qobuz Ideal DiscographyAt 23 years of age, Stevie Wonder’s music is in its innovative stages in Innervisions, released on August 3, 1973. Playing all kinds of instruments, f ...
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Talking Book
Soul - Released by Motown on 1 Jan 1972
The Qobuz Ideal DiscographyHi-Res AudioAfter releasing two "head" records during 1970 and 1971, Stevie Wonder expanded his compositional palette with 1972's Talking Book to include societal ...
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Can't Slow Down
Soul - Released by Motown on 1 Jan 1983
The Qobuz Ideal DiscographyOn Can't Slow Down, his second solo album, Lionel Richie ran with the sound and success of his eponymous debut, creating an album that was designed to ...
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Ramona Park Broke My Heart
Hip-Hop/Rap - Released by Motown on 8 Apr 2022
Everything Vince Staples releases seems to be a success, and his fifth album is no exception. The Californian rapper has a knack for dispersing rays o ...
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All Directions
Soul - Released by Motown on 27 Jul 1972
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Hotter Than July
R&B - Released by Motown on 1 Oct 1980
Four years after the pinnacle of Stevie Wonder's mid-'70s typhoon of classic albums, Hotter Than July was the proper follow-up to Songs in the Key of ...
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Let's Get It On
Soul - Released by Motown on 28 Aug 1973
The Qobuz Ideal DiscographyHi-Res AudioAfter brilliantly surveying the social, political, and spiritual landscape with What's Going On, Marvin Gaye turned to more intimate matters with Let' ...
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Stevie Wonder's Original Musiquarium I
Soul - Released by Motown on 4 May 1982
Hi-Res AudioReleased in 1982, the double-album Original Musiquarium I summarizes Stevie Wonder's classic period of the '70s, concentrating primarily on the hits, ...
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Commodores
R&B - Released by Motown on 1 Jan 1977
The Qobuz Ideal DiscographyThe Commodores' early years were spent on the Southern funk circuit, where their energetic, catchy tunes, and keyboard-oriented funk made them both a ...
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Street Songs
Funk - Released by Motown on 1 Jan 1981
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Fulfillingness' First Finale
Soul - Released by Motown on 1 Jan 1972
The Qobuz Ideal DiscographyHi-Res AudioAfter the righteous anger and occasional despair of the socially motivated Innervisions, Stevie Wonder returned with a relationship record: Fulfilling ...
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Where Did Our Love Go
Soul - Released by Motown on 1 Jan 1964
The Qobuz Ideal DiscographyEven though this long-player was the second collection to have featured the original Supremes lineup with Mary Wilson, Florence Ballard and Diana Ross ...
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Back To Front
R&B - Released by Motown on 5 Aug 2014
On his own and as part of the Commodores, by 1992 Lionel Richie amassed more than enough singles for a greatest-hits collection. Unfortunately, this i ...
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Frances the Mute
Rock - Released by Motown on 1 Jan 2005
The Mars Volta's 2003 debut was a dense, experimental run-on sentence of science fiction and musical exploration. But though it ultimately rewarded pa ...
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Nightshift
R&B - Released by Motown on 1 Jan 1985
The Commodores made one final stab at regaining R&B glory when Lionel Richie and producer/arranger James Anthony Carmichael both left in the mid-'80s. ...
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