For the next decade Ponty toured the world repeatedly and recorded 12 consecutive albums, all of which reached the "Billboard" jazz charts top five, selling millions of albums. His early Atlantic recordings, such as 1976's "Aurora" and "Imaginary Voyage", established Ponty as one of the leading figures in jazz-rock. He went on to crack the Top 40 with the album "Enigmatic Ocean" in 1977 and "Cosmic Messenger" in 1978. In 1984 a video of time-lapse images was produced by Louis Schwarzberg for the song "Individual Choice" (1983).