| Bootsy? Player of the Year | |
| Type: | studio |
| Artist: | Bootsy's Rubber Band |
| Cover: | Player Of The Year.jpg |
| Released: | January 20th, 1978 |
| Recorded: | 1977 |
| Studio: | United Sound Studios, Detroit, Michigan Hollywood Sound Studios, Hollywood, California |
| Genre: | Funk |
| Length: | 44:51 |
| Label: | Warner Bros. |
| Producer: | Bootsy Collins, George Clinton |
| Prev Title: | Ahh... The Name Is Bootsy, Baby! |
| Prev Year: | 1977 |
| Next Title: | This Boot Is Made for Fonk-N |
| Next Year: | 1979 |
Bootsy? Player of the Year is the third album by the American funk band Bootsy's Rubber Band. The album was released on Warner Bros. Records on January 20, 1978. At the height of the album's popularity, it competed head to head with Bootsy Collins' mentor George Clinton and his band Parliament, who had released the album Funkentelechy Vs. the Placebo Syndrome just two months earlier. The album was produced by Clinton and Collins and arranged by "The Player". The original vinyl version of the album contained a pair of cut out star shaped eyeglasses.
The album was reissued in 1990 by Warner/Pioneer of Japan, then through WEA International in the mid-1990s and then by Time/Warner in the U.S. in April 1998.
Bootsy? Player of the Year featured two hit singles, "Bootzilla", which went to number one on the Billboard Hot Soul Singles charts, and "Hollywood Squares". The album peaked at number one on the Billboard Soul Album charts for four non-consecutive weeks. It sold more than 500,000 copies in its first six months of release.[1]
| Year | Single | Chart positions[3] | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US | US R&B | US Dance | ||
| 1978 | "Bootzilla" | - | 1 | - |
| "Hollywood Squares" | - | 17 | - | |