Graceland was Paul Simon's highest charting album in the U.S. in over a decade, reaching #3 in the national Billboard charts

Billboard charts

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, receiving a certification

RIAA certification

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 of 5× Platinum by the RIAA and eventually selling over 14 million copies, making it Simon's most commercially successful album. Critics welcomed its eclectic mix of sounds and broad, quirky subject matter and it regularly shows up in critic polls and "recommended" lists. The album also helped to draw worldwide attention to the music of South Africa.

The album drew accolades from the beginning. Rolling Stone called it "lovely, daring and accomplished" and Robert Christgau

Robert Christgau

Robert Christgau is an American essayist, music journalist, and self-proclaimed "Dean of American Rock Critics".One of the earliest professional rock critics, Christgau is known for his terse capsule reviews, published since 1969 in his Consumer Guide columns...

 enthused it was "so strange, so sweet, so willful, so radically incongruous and plainly beautiful." It was so acclaimed by other critics that he later anticipated that it would top The Village Voice

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Pazz & Jop

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 critics poll for that year (1986).
In the Graceland Classic Albums video, Simon states that he considers the title track the best song he has ever written. A popular music video starring Simon and Chevy Chase

Chevy Chase

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 was made for the hit song "You Can Call Me Al

You Can Call Me Al

"You Can Call Me Al" is a song by Paul Simon, the first single released from his album Graceland. The song originally charted in the U.S. at No. 44 in October 1986 but it was reissued with greater promotion in March 1987 and hit No. 23. In the UK it peaked at No. 4, while in Sweden and the...

". Simon toured the album extensively, featuring many of the artists from the album in addition to exiled South Africans Hugh Masekela

Hugh Masekela

Hugh Ramopolo Masekela is a South African trumpeter, flugelhornist, cornetist, composer, and singer.-Early life:Masekela was born in Kwa-Guqa Township, Witbank, South Africa. He began singing and playing piano as a child...

 and Miriam Makeba

Miriam Makeba

Miriam Makeba , nicknamed Mama Africa, was a Grammy Award winning South African singer and civil rights activist....

. Two concerts in Harare

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, Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe

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, were filmed in 1987 for release as "The African Concert". The audience was a multi-racial mix with many travelling from South Africa.

The success of the album earned Paul Simon the Best International Solo Artist award at The Brit Awards in 1987.

Legacy

• In 1998, Q magazine
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   readers voted it the 56th greatest album of all time. In 2006, Q magazine placed the album at #39 in its list of "40 Best Albums of the '80s".
• It was also ranked #84 in a 2005 survey held by British television's Channel 4
  Channel 4
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   to determine the 100 greatest albums of all time.
• In 1989, it was rated #5 on Rolling Stone
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  magazine's list of the 100 Best Albums of the Eighties.
• It is #81 on the list of Rolling Stone magazine's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time as "an album about isolation and redemption that transcended "world music" to become the whole world's soundtrack."
• The song "Graceland" was voted #485 in the list of Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.
• According to AcclaimedMusic.net, a site which combines hundreds of best-of lists from critics and musicians from around the world, Graceland is ranked at #76 on the greatest albums of all time. It is also ranked #14 for albums released in the 1980s, and it is the second-highest ranking album of 1986, behind The Smiths
  The Smiths
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  ' The Queen Is Dead
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  The Queen Is Dead is the third studio album by the English alternative rock band The Smiths. It was released on 16 June 1986 in the United Kingdom by Rough Trade Records and released in the United States on 23 June 1986 through Sire Records. The album reached #2 on the UK Albums Chart, maintaining...
  
  ).
• In 2002, Pitchfork
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   named it the 85th best album of the 1980s citing it as "a phenomenal musical achievement".
• In 2006, Time
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  named it one of the All-Time 100 Albums.

Track listing

Additional tracks

• A 2004 CD
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   reissue of the album includes three previously-unreleased bonus track
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  s:

An extended version of "The Boy In The Bubble" was released on vinyl clocking in at 6:13, including a heavier focus on rhythms between the verses. This was digitally released only on a now-out-of-print CD5, although it has been uploaded to YouTube.

Credits

• Paul Simon
  Paul Simon
  Paul Frederic Simon is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist.Simon is best known for his success, beginning in 1965, as part of the duo Simon & Garfunkel, with musical partner Art Garfunkel. Simon wrote most of the pair's songs, including three that reached number one on the US singles...
  
   – acoustic guitar
  Acoustic guitar
  An acoustic guitar is a guitar that uses only an acoustic sound board. The air in this cavity resonates with the vibrational modes of the string and at low frequencies, which depend on the size of the box, the chamber acts like a Helmholtz resonator, increasing or decreasing the volume of the sound...
  
   (tracks 1 and 11), guitar
  Guitar
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   (tracks 5 and 7), lead vocals
  Human voice
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  , synclavier
  Synclavier
  The Synclavier System was an early digital synthesizer, polyphonic digital sampling system, and music workstation, manufactured by New England Digital Corporation, Norwich, VT. The original design and development of the Synclavier prototype occurred at Dartmouth College with the collaboration of...
  
   (track 3 and 4), six-string electric bass
  Bass guitar
  The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
  
   (track 6), background vocals
  Human voice
  The human voice consists of sound made by a human being using the vocal folds for talking, singing, laughing, crying, screaming, etc. Its frequency ranges from about 60 to 7000 Hz. The human voice is specifically that part of human sound production in which the vocal folds are the primary...
  
   (tracks 1, 2, 4, 6, and 9)
• Rob Mounsey
  Rob Mounsey
  Rob Mounsey is an award-winning composer, music producer, and musician. He was born in Berea, Ohio and grew up in Seattle, Washington and several Ohio towns. At the age of 17, he was awarded a BMI Student Composer's Award in New York. He attended Berklee College of Music in Boston from 1971 to 1975...
  
   – horn
  Horn section
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   arrangement (track 6) (uncredited on album)
• Ray Phiri
  Ray Phiri
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   – guitar (tracks 2, 5, 6, 7, and 9)
• Adrian Belew
  Adrian Belew
  Adrian Belew is an American guitarist, singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and record producer...
  
   – guitar synthesizer
  Synthesizer
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   (tracks 1, 6, and 9), guitar (track 7)
• Demola Adepoju – pedal steel guitar (track 2)
• Daniel Xilakazi – lead
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   and rhythm guitar (track 4)
• Sherman Robertson
  Sherman Robertson
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   – guitar (track 10)
• Cesar Rosas
  Cesar Rosas
  César Rosas is a singer, songwriter and guitarist for Los Lobos. Rosas also participates in the Latin supergroup Los Super Seven. Perhaps the most recognizable member of Los Lobos, Rosas is known for his trademark black sunglasses and slicked-back, black hair. His singing voice is reminiscent of...
  
   – guitar and backing vocals (track 11)
• David Hidalgo
  David Hidalgo
  David Hidalgo is an American singer-songwriter, best known for his work with the band Los Lobos. He is also a member of the supergroup Los Super Seven and of the Latin Playboys, a side project band made up of some of the members of Los Lobos...
  
   – guitar, accordion
  Accordion
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  , and backing vocals (track 11)
• Conrad Lozano
  Conrad Lozano
  Conrad Lozano is the bass player for Los Lobos.Conrad uses a Lakland Joe Osborne 4 string Bass and runs it through an Ampeg bass amp. His down-to-earth style and walking bass sound is the driving force of the East Los Angeles band Los Lobos. He also sings backing vocal harmony on most of the Los...
  
   – bass (track 11)
• Alonzo Johnson – bass (track 10)
• Lloyd Lelose – bass (track 9)
• Bakithi Kumalo – bass (tracks 1, 2, 5, 6, and 7)
• Isaac Mtshali – drums
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   (tracks 5, 6, 7, and 9)
• Vusi Khumalo – drums (tracks 1 and 2)
• Petrus Manile – drums (track 4)
• Alton Rubin, Jr. – drums (track 10)
• Louie Pérez
  Louie Pérez
  Louie Pérez is an American songwriter, percussionist and guitarist for Los Lobos, and Latin Playboys....
  
   – drums (track 11)
• Steve Gadd
  Steve Gadd
  Steve Gadd is an American session and studio drummer, notable for his work with popular musicians from a wide range of genres.-Biography:...
  
   – additional drums (track 11)
• Makhaya Mahlangu – percussion (tracks 1 and 2)
• Ralph MacDonald
  Ralph MacDonald
  Ralph MacDonald is an American percussionist and song-writer. He joined Harry Belafonte's band at age 17. He wrote the Roberta Flack and Donny Hathaway song "Where is the Love" with songwriting partner William Salter. Probably his best-known composition is the Grover Washington, Jr...
  
   – percussion (tracks 4, 6, 7, and 11)
• Youssou N'Dour
  Youssou N'Dour
  Youssou N'Dour is a Senegalese singer, percussionist and occasional actor. In 2004, Rolling Stone described him as, in Senegal and much of Africa, "perhaps the most famous singer alive." He helped develop a style of popular music in Senegal, known in the Serer language as mbalax, a type of music...
  
   – percussion (track 5)
• Babacar Faye – percussion (track 5)
• Assane Thiam – percussion (track 5)
• James Guyatt - percussion (tracks 5,6 and 7)
• Lulu Masilela – tambourine
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  The tambourine or marine is a musical instrument of the percussion family consisting of a frame, often of wood or plastic, with pairs of small metal jingles, called "zils". Classically the term tambourine denotes an instrument with a drumhead, though some variants may not have a head at all....
  
  s (track 4)
• David Rubin – washboard (track 10)
• Alton Rubin, Sr.
  Rockin' Dopsie
  Rockin' Dopsie was born Alton Rubin in Carencro, Louisiana. He was a leading Zydeco musician and button accordion player who enjoyed popular success first in Europe and later in the United States...
  
   – accordion (track 10)
• Jonhjon Mkhalali – accordion (track 4)
• Forere Motloheloa – accordion (track 1)
• Rob Mounsey
  Rob Mounsey
  Rob Mounsey is an award-winning composer, music producer, and musician. He was born in Berea, Ohio and grew up in Seattle, Washington and several Ohio towns. At the age of 17, he was awarded a BMI Student Composer's Award in New York. He attended Berklee College of Music in Boston from 1971 to 1975...
  
   – synthesizer (tracks 1 and 6)
• Barney Rachabane – saxophone
  Saxophone
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   (track 4)
• Mike Makhalemele – saxophone (track 4)
• Teaspoon Ndela – saxophone (track 4)
• Lenny Pickett – tenor saxophone
  Tenor saxophone
  The tenor saxophone is a medium-sized member of the saxophone family, a group of instruments invented by Adolphe Sax in the 1840s. The tenor, with the alto, are the two most common types of saxophones. The tenor is pitched in the key of B, and written as a transposing instrument in the treble...
  
   (track 5)
• Earl Gardner – trumpet
  Trumpet
  The trumpet is the musical instrument with the highest register in the brass family. Trumpets are among the oldest musical instruments, dating back to at least 1500 BCE. They are played by blowing air through closed lips, producing a "buzzing" sound which starts a standing wave vibration in the air...
  
   (track 5)
• Alex Foster – alto saxophone
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   (track 5)
• Ronnie Cuber
  Ronnie Cuber
  Ronnie Cuber is a jazz saxophonist. He has also played in Latin, pop, rock and blues sessions. In addition to his primary instrument, baritone sax, he has also played tenor sax, soprano sax and flute, the latter on an album by Eddie Palmieri. As a leader, Cuber is known for hard bop and Latin jazz...
  
   – bass
  Bass saxophone
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   and baritone saxophone
  Baritone saxophone
  The baritone saxophone, often called "bari sax" , is one of the largest and lowest pitched members of the saxophone family. It was invented by Adolphe Sax. The baritone is distinguished from smaller sizes of saxophone by the extra loop near its mouthpiece...
  
   (track 6)
• Jon Faddis
  Jon Faddis
  Jon Faddis is an American jazz trumpet player, conductor, composer, and educator renowned for both his highly virtuosic command of the instrument and for his expertise in the field of music education...
  
   – trumpet (track 6)
• Randy Brecker
  Randy Brecker
  Randal "Randy" Brecker is an American trumpeter and flugelhornist. He is a highly sought after performer in the genres of jazz, rock, and R&B, and has performed or recorded with Stanley Turrentine, Billy Cobham, Bruce Springsteen, Lou Reed, Sandip Burman, Charles Mingus, Blood, Sweat & Tears,...
  
   – trumpet (track 6)
• Lew Soloff
  Lew Soloff
  Lew Soloff is a jazz trumpeter, composer and actor. He studied trumpet at the Eastman School of Music and the Juilliard School. He is likely best known for his work with Blood, Sweat & Tears from 1968 to 1973...
  
   – trumpet (track 6)
• Alan Rubin
  Alan Rubin
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   – trumpet (track 6)
• Dave Bargeron
  Dave Bargeron
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   – trombone
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   (track 6)
• Kim Allan Cissel – trombone (track 6)
• Morris Goldberg
  Morris Goldberg
  Saxophonist Morris Goldberg, was born in Cape Town, South Africa and grew up in the area known as Observatory. He is recognised as one of the early pioneers of Cape Jazz, along with Dollar Brand and Chris McGregor. He left South Africa in the Apartheid years to study in New York, where he now...
  
   – penny whistle
  Tin whistle
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   (track 6), soprano saxophone
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   (track 9)
• Johnny Hoyt – saxophone (track 10)
• Steve Berlin
  Steve Berlin
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   – saxophone (track 11)
• The Everly Brothers
  The Everly Brothers
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   – additional vocals (track 2)
• The Gaza Sisters – vocals (track 3)
• Diane Garisto – backing vocals (track 4)
• Michelle Cobbs – vacking vocals (track 4)
• Ladysmith Black Mambazo
  Ladysmith Black Mambazo
  Ladysmith Black Mambazo is a male choral group from South Africa that sings in the vocal styles of isicathamiya and mbube. They rose to worldwide prominence as a result of singing with Paul Simon on his album, Graceland and have won multiple awards, including three Grammy Awards...
  
   – vocals (tracks 5 and 8)
• Joseph Shabalala
  Joseph Shabalala
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   – vocals (track 8)
• Linda Ronstadt
  Linda Ronstadt
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   – additional vocals (track 7)

Grammy Awards

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| style="width:35px; text-align:center;" rowspan="3"|1987 || Graceland || Album of the Year ||
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| rowspan="3"|"Graceland" || |Song of the Year

Grammy Award for Song of the Year

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 ||
|-
| Best Pop Vocal Performance - Male

Grammy Award for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance

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 ||
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| style="text-align:center;"|1988 || Record of the Year ||
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Chart positions

Chart (1986)	Position
Australian Albums Chart ARIA Charts The ARIA charts are the main Australian music sales charts, issued weekly by the Australian Recording Industry Association. The charts are a record of the highest selling singles and albums in various genres in Australia. ARIA commenced compiling its own charts in-house from the week ending 26 June...	1
Canadian Albums Chart Canadian Albums Chart The Canadian Albums Chart is the official album sales chart in Canada. It is compiled every Wednesday by U.S.-based music sales tracking company Nielsen Soundscan, and published every Thursday by Jam! Canoe and Billboard, along with its sister charts the Canadian Singles Chart and the Canadian BDS...	1
Dutch Albums Chart MegaCharts MegaCharts is responsible for the composition and exploitation of a broad collection of official charts in the Netherlands, of which the Mega Top 50 and the Mega Album Top 100 are the most known ones. Mega Charts also provides information to the Stichting Nederlandse Top 40, of which the Dutch Top...	1
French Albums Chart	1
New Zealand Albums Chart	1
Swiss Albums Chart Swiss Music Charts The Swiss Music Charts are Switzerland's main music sales charts. The charts are a record of the highest-selling singles and albums in various genres in Switzerland.The Swiss Charts include:* Singles Top 75...	1
UK Albums Chart UK Albums Chart The UK Albums Chart is a list of albums ranked by physical and digital sales in the United Kingdom. It is compiled every week by The Official Charts Company and broadcast on a Sunday on BBC Radio 1 , and published in Music Week magazine and on the OCC website .To qualify for the UK albums chart...	1
German Albums Chart	2
Austrian Albums Chart Ö3 Austria Top 40 Ö3 Austria Top 40 is the name of the official Austrian singles chart, as well as the radio show which presents it, aired Fridays on Hitradio Ö3. The show presents the Austrian singles, ringtones and downloads chart. It premiered on 26 November 1968 as Disc Parade and was presented by Ernst Grissemann...	3
U.S. Billboard Pop Albums Billboard 200 The Billboard 200 is a ranking of the 200 highest-selling music albums and EPs in the United States, published weekly by Billboard magazine. It is frequently used to convey the popularity of an artist or groups of artists...	3
Italian Albums Chart	4
Finnish Albums Chart	7
Norwegian Albums Chart VG-lista VG-listen is a Norwegian record chart. It is weekly presented in the newspaper VG and the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation program Topp 20. It is considered the primary Norwegian record chart, charting albums and singles from countries and continent around the world. The data is collected by...	13
Swedish Albums Chart Sverigetopplistan Sverigetopplistan, earlier known as Topplistan and Hitlistan and other names, is since October 2007 the Swedish national record chart, based on sales data from Swedish Recording Industry Association ....	13
Japanese Albums Chart Oricon , established in 1999, is the holding company at the head of a Japanese corporate group that supplies statistics and information on music and the music industry in Japan. It started as , which was founded by Sōkō Koike in November 1967 and became known for its music charts. Oricon Inc...	46
Chart (2011)	Position
Irish Albums Chart Irish Albums Chart The Irish Albums Chart is the Irish music industry standard albums popularity chart issued weekly by the Irish Recorded Music Association and compiled on its behalf by Chart-Track. Chart rankings are based on sales, which are compiled through over-the-counter retail data captured electronically...	61

Year-end charts

Chart (1986)	Position
UK Albums Chart	4
Chart (1987)	Position
US Albums Chart Billboard Year-End Billboard Year-End charts are a cumulative measure of a single or album's performance in the United States, based upon the Billboard magazine charts during any given chart year. Billboard's "chart year" runs from the first week of December to the final week in November...	2
Swiss Albums Chart	3
Australian Albums Chart	4
Austrian Albums Chart	12
UK Albums Chart	14

Certifications