Editing Get the Knack (section)

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{{Infobox album
|name       = Get the Knack
|type       = studio
|artist     = [[The Knack]]
|cover      = Get The Knack album cover.JPG
|alt        =
|released   = {{start date|1979|06|11}}
|recorded   = April 1979
|venue      =
|studio     = The [[Record Plant]] (New York)
|genre      = {{flatlist|
*[[Power pop]]<ref name="Borack"/>
*[[New wave music|new wave]]<ref name="Paste"/>}}
|length     = {{Duration|m=40|s=58}}
|label      = [[Capitol Records]]
|producer   = [[Mike Chapman]]
|prev_title =
|prev_year  =
|next_title = [[...But the Little Girls Understand]]
|next_year  = 1980
|misc       = {{Singles
|name       = Get the Knack
|type       = studio
|single1    = [[My Sharona]]
|single1date= June 18, 1979<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.superseventies.com/1979_1singles.html | title="My Sharona" - the Knack }}</ref>
|single2    = [[Good Girls Don't]]
|single2date= August 1979
}}
}}
'''''Get the Knack''''' is the debut studio album by American [[power pop]] band [[The Knack]], released in June 1979. At the time, the album was one of the most successful debuts in history, selling over one million copies in less than two months and spending five weeks at number one on the [[Billboard 200|''Billboard'' 200]] album chart.

The lead single from the album, "[[My Sharona]]", was number one on the [[Billboard Hot 100|''Billboard'' Hot 100]] for six weeks and number one on ''Billboard''{{'}}s Top Pop Singles of 1979 year-end chart. The follow-up single, "[[Good Girls Don't]]", reached number 11 on the Hot 100 and followed "My Sharona" to number one on the [[Canadian Singles Chart]]. In ''Billboard'' magazine's year-end charts, ''Get the Knack'' ranked at #16 for 1979,<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal |date=December 22, 1979 |title=Top Album Artists of the Year |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CSQEAAAAMBAJ |journal=Billboard Magazine |volume=91 |pages=TIA-12 (insert)}}</ref> and #72 for 1980.<ref>{{Cite journal |date=December 20, 1980 |title=Number One Awards: Pop Albums |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GyUEAAAAMBAJ |journal=Billboard Magazine |volume=92 |pages=TIA-12 (insert)}}</ref>