Billboard magazine awarded him their Century Award, their " highest honor for distinguished creative achievement ", in December 1997.

" American Pie " reached number one on the U. S. Billboard magazine charts for four weeks in 1972, and remains McLean's most successful single release.

The duo scored an impressive sixteen Top 40 hits on the Billboard and Cash Box magazine charts, with a total of twenty-six chart hits over an eight-year period ( 1958 – 1966 ).

In this radio format, disc-jockeys would select one of a set of the forty best-selling singles ( usually in a rack ) as rated by Billboard magazine or from the station's own chart of the local top selling songs.

By 1942, Billboard magazine columnist Maurie Orodenker had begun using the term " rock and roll " in descriptions of upbeat recordings such as " Rock Me " by Sister Rosetta Tharpe.

Jerry Wexler of Billboard magazine coined the term " rhythm and blues " in 1948 as a musical marketing term in the United States.

In 2002, Billboard magazine listed Orbison at number 74 in the Top 600 recording artists.

Orbison's success was greater in Britain ; as Billboard magazine noted, " In a 68-week period that began on August 8, 1963, Roy Orbison was the only American artist to have a number-one single in Britain.

was given four out of five stars by Rolling Stone magazine, and debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard albums chart, selling 874, 000 in the first week alone.

This prompted an editorial in Billboard magazine questioning whether the act was art or advertising.

In 2008, Billboard magazine ranked the Rolling Stones at number ten on " The Billboard Top All-Time Artists ", and as the second most successful group in the Billboard Hot 100 chart.

Billboard magazine named Eminem as the artist with the best performance on the Billboard charts and named Beyoncé as the female artist of the decade.

( In 2010, Billboard magazine ranked this as the most popular single ever about sex.

Billboard magazine later confirmed the news, quoting Andy Summers ' 2006 statement as to how the band could have continued post-Synchronicity: " The more rational approach would have been, ' OK, Sting, go make a solo record, and let's get back together in two or three years.

In March 2008, Business Wire reported " Janet Jackson is one of the top ten selling artists in the history of contemporary music ; ranked by Billboard magazine as the ninth most successful act in rock and roll history, and the second most successful female artist in pop music history.

While 32 songs reached the summit in Billboard magazine, the band's official website acknowledges 41 of its songs reached the top of the various charts ( which included Cash Box, Gavin Report, Radio & Records, among others ).

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) ( 1991 ), number one in the Billboard magazine, plus several hits around the whole world.

Billboard magazine Earl Paige reported that the large number of unsold E. T.

In 1994, Billboard magazine added the " Nationally Syndicated Air Personality of the Year " category to its annual radio awards based on entertainment value, creativity and ratings success.

Their first album, Tales of Mystery and Imagination, including major contributions by all members of Pilot and Ambrosia, was a success, reaching the Top 40 in the US Billboard 200 chart.

The singles " I Wouldn't Want to Be Like You ", " Games People Play ", " Damned If I Do ", " Time " ( Woolfson's first lead vocal ), " Eye in the Sky " and " Don't Answer Me " had a notable impact on the Billboard Hot 100.

* 1958 – The Billboard Hot 100 is published for the first time.

In 1986, she scored her first Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 song in a duet with Peter Cetera, " The Next Time I Fall ".

Amy Grant scored her first Billboard No. 1 song in 1986 with " The Next Time I Fall ", a duet with former Chicago singer / bassist Peter Cetera.

The album's title song received some pop radio airplay and crossed over to No. 96 on the Billboard Hot 100, and " 1974 ( We Were Young )" and " Saved By Love " also charted as Adult Contemporary songs.

The track " Baby Baby " ( written for Grant's newborn daughter, Millie, whose " six-week-old face was my inspiration ,") became a pop hit ( hitting No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 ), and Grant was established as a name in the mainstream music world.

They are widely known for their hit single " Deeper Shade Of Soul ", which charted at number 21 in the United States on Billboard Hot 100.

It peaked at # 5 on the Billboard 200, and has been certified with a gold album by the RIAA.

" That'll Be the Day " topped the Billboard US " Best Sellers in Stores " chart on September 23, and was on the UK Singles Chart for three weeks in November.

During the Labor Day weekend in 1952, The Saddlemen were renamed Bill Haley with Haley's Comets ( inspired by a popular mispronunciation of Halley's Comet ), and in 1953, Haley's recording of " Crazy Man, Crazy " ( co-written by Haley and his bass player, Marshall Lytle although Lytle would not receive credit until 2001 ) became the first rock and roll song to hit the American charts, peaking at no. 15 on Billboard and no. 11 on Cash Box.

When " Rock Around the Clock " appeared behind the opening credits of the 1955 film Blackboard Jungle starring Glenn Ford, it soared to the top of the American Billboard chart for eight weeks.

The single is commonly used as a convenient line of demarcation between the " rock era " and the music industry that preceded it ; Billboard separated its statistical tabulations into 1890-1954 and 1955 – present.

It is one of the very few songs of the 1960s to cast the military in a positive light, yet it became a major hit, reaching No. 1 on the Billboard charts for five weeks in 1966.

See Billboard charts.

For a very brief period in 1944 the Wills band included 23 members., and around mid year he toured Northern California and the Pacific Northwest with 21 pieces in the orchestra. Billboard reported that Wills outgrossed Harry James, Benny Goodman, " both Dorsies, et al.

Some nationwide celebrities might command some attention outside their own nation ; for example, the singer Lara Fabian is widely known in the French-speaking world, but only had a couple of Billboard hits in the U. S., whereas the francophone Canadian singer Celine Dion is well known in both the French-speaking world and in the U. S.

He wanted a few stills for magazine ads, he said.

The earlier of them was an unofficial enterprise, sponsored by Life magazine, under the title of The National Purpose.

And let me add Murray's new book as another symptom of it, particularly so in view of the attention Time magazine gave it when it came out recently.

In 1687 the Turks, who had been in control of the city since the fifteenth century, with a truly shattering lack of prudence used the Parthenon as a powder magazine.

Maybe I could call Rimanelli at the magazine Rottosei where he worked.

Friends, a picture magazine distributed by Chevrolet dealers, describes a paramilitary organization of employees of the Gulf Telephone Company at Foley, Alabama.

If it is not enough that all of our internationalist One Worlders are advocating that we join this market, I refer you to an article in the New York Times' magazine section ( Nov. 12, 1961 ), by Mr. Eric Johnston, entitled `` We Must Join The Common Market ''.

Representatives of Harvard University Press, which is publishing the book this month of April, recognize and freely acknowledge that they invited such reaction by allowing Life magazine to print an excerpt from the book in advance of the book's publication date.

Pat had been worried as hell ever since she'd lost her job on that fashion magazine.

As the story goes, Mr. Gibbs, who originally came from the back counties of the Commonwealth of Virginia, saw an illustration in a magazine of the famous Howe sewing machine.

In co-operation with the Alumni Association of Carleton College, an alumni magazine, The Voice Of The Carleton Alumni, is edited and mailed seven times a year by the College's Publications Office and the Alumni Office.

In January, 1960, the first issue of The Carleton Miscellany, a quarterly literary magazine, was published by the College.

The magazine, edited by members of the Carleton Department of English, includes contributions by authors from both within and beyond the Carleton community.

Manuscript, a quarterly literary magazine, is published by the students of the College.

It is the purpose of this magazine to serve as an outlet for student creative writing.

The average reader of this magazine owns more than one gun ( we ran a survey to find out ) but he's always on the lookout for new and better arms.

rim-fire auto with a tubular magazine that holds 18 Long Rifles.

We have two media for publicizing individual technical activity, a magazine widely distributed both within and without the company, and an information bulletin for engineering personnel distributed to the homes of all engineers.

Herb, an expert on narrow ties, thin lapels, and swatches, was men's fashion editor of Parvenu, the weekly magazine with the tremendous circulation.

`` It was only the other day that I saw something of yours, about something or other, in some magazine ''.

Marriage manuals and women's magazine articles began to stress the importance of the female climax.

Ritchie walked up to him at the magazine stand.

They do not understand how a small magazine with no advertising and no newsstand sale could have achieved such a following.

Fifteen years ago, troubled by the rising tide of materialism in the post-war world, a businessman and a minister asked themselves if there might not be a place for a small magazine in which men and women, regardless of creed or color, could set forth boldly their religious convictions and bear witness to the power of faith to solve the endless problems of living.

These and other figures and comments have been reported in a special supplement of Sponsor magazine, a trade publication for radio and TV advertisers.