{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox album | name = The Definitive Groove Collection | type = compilation | artist = Chic | cover = Chic - The Definitive Groove Collection.jpg | alt = | released = August 8, 2006 | recorded = 1977–1992 | venue = | studio = | genre = Disco, funk, R&B | length = 155:40 | label = Rhino/Warner Music | producer = Nile Rodgers, Bernard Edwards | prev_title = | prev_year = | next_title = | next_year = }} {{Music ratings | rev1 = Allmusic | rev1Score = {{Rating|4.5|5}} [{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r847420|pure_url=yes}}]}}
'''''The Definitive Groove Collection''''' is a compilation album of recordings by American R&B band Chic, released by Rhino Records/Warner Music in 2006. ''The Definitive Groove Collection'' is the first two-disc Chic compilation to be released and contains all the band's hits and best known album tracks from 1977's ''Chic'' to 1992's ''Chic-Ism'' in (near) chronological order.
==Track listing== ''All tracks written by Bernard Edwards and Nile Rodgers unless otherwise noted.''
'''Disc one:''' #"Dance, Dance, Dance (Yowsah, Yowsah, Yowsah)" (Edwards, Lehman, Rodgers) - 8:21 #"Everybody Dance" - 6:42 #"Strike Up the Band" (Edwards, Lehman, Rodgers) - 4:34 #* Tracks 1–3 from 1977 album ''Chic'' #"Le Freak" - 5:31 #"Savoir Faire" - 5:04 #"Chic Cheer" - 4:44 #"At Last I Am Free" - 7:13 #"I Want Your Love" - 6:56 #* Tracks 4–8 from 1978 album ''C'est Chic'' #"Good Times" - 8:15 #"My Forbidden Lover" - 4:42 #"What About Me" - 4:13 #"My Feet Keep Dancing" - 6:41 #* Tracks 9–12 from 1979 album ''Risqué'' #"Chip off the Old Block" - 5:00 #* From 1980 album ''Real People''
'''Disc two:''' #"Rebels Are We" (7" Edit) - 3:21 #"Real People" (7" Edit) - 3:45 #* Tracks 1 & 2 from 1980 album ''Real People'' #"Will You Cry (When You Hear This Song)" - 4:09 #* From 1979 album ''Risqué'' #"26" - 4:06 #"You Can't Do It Alone" - 4:47 #* Tracks 4 & 5 from 1980 album ''Real People'' #"Stage Fright" (7" Edit) - 3:39 #"Just out of Reach" - 3:47 #"Flash Back" - 4:29 #"Your Love Is Cancelled" - 4:16 #* Tracks 6–9 from 1981 album ''Take It Off'' #"Soup for One" - 5:36 #* From 1982 album ''Soup For One (soundtrack)'' #"When You Love Someone" - 5:09 #"Hangin'" (7" Edit) - 3:38 #* Tracks 11 & 12 from 1982 album ''Tongue in Chic'' #"Give Me the Lovin'" (7" Edit) - 3:32 #"Believer" - 5:07 #"You Are Beautiful" - 4:37 #* Tracks 13–15 from 1983 album ''Believer'' #"Chic Mystique" (Edwards, Princesa, Rodgers) - 6:39 #"Your Love" - 5:57 #* Tracks 16 & 17 from 1992 album ''Chic-ism''
==Certifications== {{Certification Table Top|caption=Certifications and sales for ''The Definitive Groove Collection''}} {{Certification Table Entry|region=United Kingdom|artist=Chic|title=The Definitive Groove Collection|type=album|award=Silver|relyear=2007|certyear=2022|id=18589-1185-2|access-date=December 18, 2022}} {{Certification Table Bottom|streaming=true|noshipments= true|nosales=true}}
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