Happy 49th Birthday to Equinox! 🧊 Released on December 1, 1975, Equinox was also the band’s first album on a major label, A&M Records, opening the door for our subsequent, best-selling international success. (Under their original recording contract, Styx’s first four LPs were released on Wooden Nickel Records, a Chicago-based independent record label.) Equinox ultimately reached No. 58 on the Billboard 200 albums chart in 1976, and has since been certified by the RIAA as achieving Gold status,