Chicago-Chicago 16 (1982)

In the mid-70s, Chicago began to drift their sound towards more commercial directions to the detriment of the jazz and rhythm & blues influences of their first eight albums.
But it would be from their album "Chicago 16" published in 1982, when they would make the definitive leap towards the sounds considered AOR with an album full of commercial melodies, pop choruses, a bombastic sound, full of effects and arrangements that would make this album in one of the best of the 80's.
The world would surrender to songs like the beautiful "Hard To Say I'm Sorry", the sensational "Waiting For You To Decide" or the energetic "Chains", propping up the group among the most emblematic of the AOR.