Cheap Thrills (Big Brother and the Holding Company album)

Cheap Thrills
Studio album by Big Brother and the Holding Company
Released	August 12, 1968 (1968-08-12)
Recorded	March 2 – May 20, 1968
Genre	Blues rock acid rock psychedelic rock[1]
Length	37:11
Label	Columbia
Producer	John Simon
Big Brother and the Holding Company chronology
Big Brother & the Holding Company (1967) Cheap Thrills (1968) Be a Brother (1970)
Janis Joplin chronology
Big Brother & The Holding Company (1967) Cheap Thrills (1968) I Got Dem Ol' Kozmic Blues Again Mama! (1969)
Singles from Cheap Thrills
"Piece of My Heart" Released: August 1968

Cheap Thrills is the second studio album by American rock band Big Brother and the Holding Company, issued by Columbia Records in 1968. Cheap Thrills was the band's final album with lead singer Janis Joplin before she left to begin a solo career. For Cheap Thrills, the band and producer John Simon incorporated recordings of crowd noises to give the impression of a live album, for which it was subsequently mistaken by many listeners. Only "Ball and Chain" was actually recorded in concert at the Winterland Ballroom.^[2][3]

Cheap Thrills reached number one on the charts for eight nonconsecutive weeks in 1968.

In 2007, Cheap Thrills was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.^[4]