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{{Infobox album
| name         = Parallel Lines
| type         = studio
| artist       = [[Blondie (band)|Blondie]]
| cover        = Blondie - Parallel Lines.png
| border       = yes
| alt          = The band members of Blondie standing behind a black and white wall. Debbie Harry (standing center right, with her clenched hands on her hips) is seen wearing a white dress while the rest of the band wears business suits with a black tie.
| released     = September 8, 1978
| recorded     = June–July 1978
| studio       = [[Record Plant]] (New York City)
| genre        = {{hlist|[[New wave music|New wave]]|[[pop rock]]|[[power pop]]}}
| length       = 39:06
| label        = [[Chrysalis Records|Chrysalis]]
| producer     = [[Mike Chapman]]
| prev_title   = [[Plastic Letters]]
| prev_year    = 1978
| next_title   = [[Eat to the Beat]]
| next_year    = 1979
| misc         = {{Singles
 | name        = Parallel Lines
 | type        = studio
 | single1     = [[Picture This (Blondie song)|Picture This]]
 | single1date = August 1978
 | single2     = [[I'm Gonna Love You Too#Blondie version|I'm Gonna Love You Too]]
 | single2date = September 1978
 | single3     = [[Hanging on the Telephone]]
 | single3date = November 1978<ref>{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/greatrockdiscogr00stro/page/70/|page=71|title=The Great Rock Discography|year=1995 |isbn=9780862415419 |last1=Strong |first1=Martin Charles |publisher=Canongate Press }}</ref>
 | single4     = [[Heart of Glass (song)|Heart of Glass]]
 | single4date = January 1979
 | single5     = [[Sunday Girl]]
 | single5date = May 1979 (UK)
 | single6     = [[One Way or Another]]
 | single6date = May 1979 (US)
}}
}}

'''''Parallel Lines''''' is the third studio album by American [[Rock music|rock]] band [[Blondie (band)|Blondie]], released on September 8, 1978,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.worldradiohistory.com/UK/Music-Week/1978/Music-Week-1978-09-02.pdf|title=Music Week|page=50}}</ref> by [[Chrysalis Records]]. An instant critical and commercial success, the album reached No. 1 on the [[UK Albums Chart]] in February 1979 and proved to be the band's commercial breakthrough in the United States, where it reached No. 6 on the [[Billboard 200|''Billboard'' 200]] in April 1979. In ''[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]'' magazine, ''Parallel Lines'' was listed at No. 9 in its top pop albums year-end chart of 1979. The album spawned several successful singles, notably the international hit "[[Heart of Glass (song)|Heart of Glass]]".