Chart Rewind: In 1982, The Go-Go's Got the 'Beat' to a Historic No. 1

The album, released in July 1981, debuted at No. 186 a month later on the Billboard 200 dated Aug. 1, then took a leisurely seven-month climb to No. 1. While the album's first single, "Our Lips Are Sealed," reached No. 20 on the Billboard Hot 100, it was the group's second hit, "We Got the Beat," written by guitarist Charlotte Caffey, that blew the pop doors open for the quintet. (All 11 tracks on the album were written or co-written by the band's members.)

The act would release two more studio albums in the early '80s before going on hiatus in 1990. Lead singer Belinda Carlisle notched four solo Hot 100 top 10s in 1986-88, while Wiedlin added her own ("Rush Hour") in 1988. The band has since has issued an additional studio LP, 2001's God Bless the Go-Go's.

The stage musical Head Over Heels, set to the group's song catalog, debuted on Broadway in 2018. In 2020, a documentary simply titled The Go-Go's debuted on Showtime alongside the release of new single "Club Zero," which hit No. 7 on Billboard's Rock Digital Song Sales chart and No. 38 on Adult Alternative Airplay. In February 2021, the group was nominated for induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.