In Square Circle by Stevie Wonder

In Square Circle, Stevie Wonder's twentieth studio album, came out on Tamla in September 1985, on the same label that had signed him at 11, and he produced it himself. This is the man who rewired R&B with synthesizers in the '70s, and here he bends that know-how toward funk with a pop grin.

"Part Time Lover" was the hit, and its run to number one put Wonder atop the Billboard Hot 100 in a third straight decade, something no act had managed before. The album did its share too: 12 weeks at number one on Billboard's R&B albums chart, a place in the top five of the Billboard 200 alongside Hotter Than July and The Woman in Red before it, and a peak of number 5 in the UK.

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