[3] C'est Chic includes the band's signature hit "Le Freak", which topped the US Hot 100 chart, US R&B, and US Club Play in October 1978,[4] selling six million copies in the US.

[8] The European version was originally called Très Chic, with the cover featuring a woman wrapped around a neon light tube.

The album has been digitally remastered and re-issued twice: first in 2011 by Warner Music Japan and then in 2018 at Abbey Road Studios by Atlantic.

The Globe and Mail deemed C'est Chic "a sleekly elegant variation" of disco.

[16] The Los Angeles Times opined that, aside from "Le Freak", the album "consists of pedestrian disco pieces and plodding R&B ballads.