Grant has won six Grammy Awards, 25 Gospel Music Association Dove Awards, and had the first Christian album ever to go Platinum.

The six main cast members participated on a 1963 Columbia soundtrack album which featured original song numbers in character.

The album reached number one in New Zealand, number two in Australia, number six in the UK and made the top 20 in several European countries.

Released six weeks later, his album debut, David Bowie, an amalgam of pop, psychedelia, and music hall, met the same fate.

Peaking at number six in the UK, the album yielded the hits " Day-In, Day-Out " ( his 60th single ), " Time Will Crawl ", and " Never Let Me Down ".

Brooks released Fresh Horses, his first album of new material in two years, in November 1995 ; within six months of its release, it had sold over three million copies.

Following several singles releases on behalf of both bands, the label released its first new album in six and a half years in late 2007-SixNationState's self-titled debut album.

A song off the album, " Saltwater ", reached number six in the UK and topped the Australian singles charts for four weeks.

Each of their nine studio albums reached the top 10 of the Billboard album chart in the US, with six reaching the number-one spot.

They have been awarded five Diamond albums, as well as fourteen Multi-Platinum, four Platinum and one Gold album in the United States, while in the UK they have five Multi-Platinum, six Platinum, one Gold and four Silver albums.

Their next album, the heavier Huevos, came out less than six months afterward, in late summer of 1987.

* Kev Hopper, formerly the bass guitarist in the 1980s band Stump, made an album entitled Saurus in 2003 featuring six original saw tunes.

Thanks to the persistence of the band's management, the album was eventually released in the US and the UK six months after its Australian release.

Norton produced their second full album, Doolittle, which was recorded in the last six weeks of 1988 and seen as a departure from the raw sound of Come On Pilgrim and Surfer Rosa.

The album was supported by the band's first tour in six years, including first-ever concerts in Mexico City and Brazil, where they played to some of the largest crowds of their career.

The album failed to sell significant copies initially, although Twain's future success generated enough interest for the album to be certified platinum six years later by the RIAA, denoting sales of over a million.

The album achieved slow success, with the album reaching the No. 1 spot on Billboard's Heatseaker Charts almost six months after its debut.

The Doors were initially signed to Columbia Records under a six month contract, but the band agreed to a release after being unable to secure a producer for the album from Columbia.

The album was recorded at Sunset Sound Studios in California over six days, with producer Paul Rothchild and audio engineer Bruce Botnick.

Following the release of their only studio album, ( GI ), The Germs recorded six original songs with legendary producer Jack Nitzsche for the soundtrack to the film, Cruising, starring Al Pacino.

Jesperson chose an eight-track home studio in Minneapolis called Blackberry Way ; however, as the band had no clout at the studio, time spent in the studio was intermittent, and so it took about six months to record the album.

During 1980, six years after Vangelis decided against joining Yes, he and Jon Anderson, the lead singer of Yes, released their first album together, Short Stories, under the band name of Jon & Vangelis.

In Japan, Osamu Kitajima's 1974 psychadelic rock album Benzaiten utilized electronic equipment such as a synthesizer and drum machine, and one of the record's contributors was Haruomi Hosono, who later started the electronic music band Yellow Magic Orchestra ( as " Yellow Magic Band ") in 1977.

Sakamoto would later remix his song " Thousand Knives " using the Roland TR-808 drum machine as " 1000 Knives " for his band's album BGM ( 1981 ).

David Sinclair, of the London Times, described in his book The Story of ZZ Top how Linden Hudson drew Billy's attention to the possibility of using a drum machine for the final recording of the Eliminator album.

The first all-digital album recorded on this machine was Ry Cooder's Bop till You Drop in 1979.

As work on the album began, Abbey Road Studios possessed, but had yet to install, an 8-track machine that had supposedly been sitting in a storage room for months.

Their first album, 2000's SMPT: e ( a play on words, as both a combination of the members ' last initials, as well as a common machine time protocol used in high end recording studios ) received strong critical reviews, including " some of the best progressive rock music ever written " ( Robert Taylor in Allmusic )).

By treating the sounds with echo and filtering they used the drum machine to record rhythm tracks for their second album.

In 1974, Osamu Kitajima's progressive rock album Benzaiten, featuring Haruomi Hosono ( who later founded Yellow Magic Orchestra ), utilized a synthesizer, rhythm machine, and electronic drums.

Nick Heyward of Haircut One Hundred mocked the band saying that " recorded entire album in the time it took The Human League to program one drum machine!

Recording engineer Steve Albini's bands Big Black, Rapeman and Shellac were all three-piece bands ( though Big Black usually credited their drum machine as a member in album liner notes ).

Each album was recorded by a different line-up ; singer and songwriter Andrew Eldritch and the drum machine called Doktor Avalanche are the only points of continuity among the line-ups.

This was the first major label album to feature a drum machine.

; this album brought the band into synthesizer and drum machine experimentation.

The album uses synthesizer and drum machine on some songs.

For instance, " The National Anthem " opens with radio transmissions, has a harder " fuzz bass " guitar sound and lacks the horns and free jazz ending of the studio version ; " I Might Be Wrong " emphasizes the rhythm section and is more of a rock tune ; " Morning Bell " is driven by Phil Selway's live drums rather than a drum machine ; " Idioteque " builds into a frenzied audience singalong ; " Dollars and Cents " replaces strings with synthesisers and ends with a guitar coda not heard on the album ; while " Everything in Its Right Place " is about three-and-a-half minutes longer, and makes use of improvised effects on a Korg Kaoss Pad.

Since the album Kid A, he has also contributed drum machine programming.

A full album, On Avery Island, followed, this time recorded in Denver, Colorado on a four-track reel-to-reel tape machine, where Mangum was backed by the album's producer Robert Schneider of The Apples in Stereo, Rick Benjamin of The Perry Weissman 3 and Lisa Janssen of Secret Square.

The album consisted of Harper's songs and poetry backed by acoustic guitar and recorded with a Revox tape machine by Pierre Tubbs.

The only pieces of equipment Shadow used to produce the album were the AKAI MPC60 12-bit sampling drum machine, a pair of turntables and a borrowed-by-visiting Pro Tools setup from an early adopter of the technology, Dan " The Automator " Nakamura.

* Maceo Parker sings the song on his 1975 album Funky music machine.

Albini " sorta conned " small local label Fever Records into financing the next Big Black EP, bringing in drummer Pat Byrne of Urge Overkill to play on the sessions as accompaniment to the drum machine, which they dubbed " Roland " for album credits.

Snider then recorded an album with Franco programming the drum machine and featuring several session musicians such as Reb Beach on guitar and Kip Winger ( just before they formed Winger ) and Steve Whiteman of Kix.

The New Rolling Stone Album Guide ( 2004 ) wrote that the album impacted popular music with a " blockbuster momentum all its own ", while Eric Henderson of Slant Magazine noted Control " was every bit the hit machine that her brother's Thriller was.

Keyboardist Erick Anderson and guitarist Nate Collis, part of the touring band for Atmosphere ( who perform live renditions of songs that are normally sampler / drum machine produced ), were brought in to help record the album, leading to a much different sound than previous albums.