Simplify the following text for a Grade 8 native English-speaking person.
Original: In the early summer of 2006 he produced Hats Off to the Buskers , the debut album of Dundee band The View , released 22 January 2007 through Columbia Records 1965 Records label and reaching number 1 in the UK Albums Chart .
Simplified: In the early summer of 2006 he produced Hats Off to the Buskers , the debut album of The View through Columbia Records .