Age to Age became the first Christian album by a solo artist to be certified gold ( 1983 ) and the first Christian album to be certified platinum ( 1985 ).

Somerville went on to have success as lead singer of The Communards and as a solo artist.

Holly signed as a solo artist with another Decca subsidiary, Coral Records.

As Holly was signed both as a solo artist and a member of the Crickets, two debut albums were released: The " Chirping " Crickets on November 27, 1957 and Buddy Holly on February 20, 1958.

He is also notable for his musical career, as a solo artist and as half of the duo Barnes & Barnes.

Shortly after the record was released, Love told Kurt Loder on TRL: " I cannot exist as a solo artist.

In Tuskegee, they played local parties and fraternity parties playing mostly cover tunes and some original songs with their original singer, James Ingram ( another " James Ingram " – not the more famous solo artist ).

His new manager, Ralph Horton, later instrumental in his transition to solo artist, soon witnessed Bowie's move to yet another group, the Buzz, yielding the singer's fifth unsuccessful single release, " Do Anything You Say ".

Having established himself as a solo artist with " Space Oddity ", Bowie began to sense a lacking: " a full-time band for gigs and recording — people he could relate to personally ".

After a disastrous opening gig at the London Roundhouse, they reverted to a configuration presenting Bowie as a solo artist.

Despite his initial high profile after the end of the Monkees, Jones struggled to establish himself as a solo artist.

Beginning his musical career in the swing era with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, Sinatra became an unprecedentedly successful solo artist from the early to mid-1940s, after being signed to Columbia Records in 1943.

Furthermore, according to RIAA he is the second best-selling solo albums artist in the United States of all time behind Elvis Presley ( overall is third to the Beatles and Elvis Presley ) with 128 million units sold.

He won several important awards in his career as 2 Grammy Awards, 17 American Music Awards ( including the " Artist of the ' 90s ") and the RIAA Award as Best selling solo albums artist of the Century in the United States.

Goodness was a rock band from Seattle, Washington ( U. S .), led by Carrie Akre, formerly of Hammerbox and now primarily a solo artist.

Besides recording as a solo artist, he also worked in several notable bands, including the International Submarine Band, The Byrds, and The Flying Burrito Brothers.

On his 7th solo album Finding Forever, Hip-Hop artist Common features harpist Brandee Younger on the introductory track, followed by a Dorothy Ashby sample from her 1969 recording of By the Time I Get to Phoenix.

* 1971 – Carole King's Tapestry album is released, it would become the longest charting album by a female solo artist and sell 24 million copies worldwide.

Joplin first rose to prominence in the late 1960s as the lead singer of the psychedelic-acid rock band Big Brother and the Holding Company, and later as a solo artist with her more soulful and bluesy backing groups, The Kozmic Blues Band and The Full Tilt Boogie Band.

Well-known solo performers outside of Japan include koto master and award-winning recording artist Elizabeth Falconer, who also studied for a decade at the esteemed Sawai Koto School in Tokyo, as well as koto master Linda Kako Caplan, Canadian daishihan ( grandmaster ) and a member of Fukuoka's Chikushi Koto School for over two decades.

Moon's legacy, as a member of The Who, as a solo artist, and as an eccentric personality, continues to garner awards and praise, including a Rolling Stone readers ' pick placing him in second place of the magazine's " best drummers of all time " in 2011, nearly 35 years after his death.

In the late 1990s, Puerto Rican rapper Big Punisher became the first Latino solo artist to reach platinum sales for an LP with his debut album Capital Punishment, which included hit song Still Not a Player.

Pittman's boss, WASEC Executive Vice President John Lack, had shepherded PopClips, a TV series created by former Monkee-turned solo artist Michael Nesmith, whose attention had turned to the music video format by the late 1970s.

Within the following six years, Sixx played in the bands 58 and Brides of Destruction, while Lee formed Methods of Mayhem and performed as a solo artist.

Neil continued touring on an annual basis as a solo artist, singing mostly Mötley Crüe songs.

The tempo of their arrangement was slowed to allow for the bagpipes, but it was based on Collins ': it began with a bagpipe solo introduction similar to her lone voice, then it was accompanied by the band of bagpipes and horns, whereas in her version she is backed up by a chorus.

Then comes her one solo, " Liaisons ", in which her character thinks back on the art of love as a profession in a gilded age, when sex ' was but a pleasurable means to a measurable end.

In 2006, Love started recording what was going to be her second solo album, How Dirty Girls Get Clean, collaborating with again with Perry and Billy Corgan in the writing and recording.

Her later work was more introspective in its lyrics as opposed to aggressive ; Hole's Celebrity Skin and Love's solo album, America's Sweetheart, focused more on celebrity life, Hollywood, and drug addiction, while also carrying on past themes of vanity and body image, and Nobody's Daughter was lyrically reflective of Love's past relationships and her struggle to sobriety, with the majority of its lyrics having been written while Love was in rehab in 2006.

Coldcut and Mark Saunders produced her debut solo single " This Is the Right Time " which became another UK Top 20 hit in August as well as reaching # 21 on the U. S. Billboard Hot 100 the following year.

Second, a class action may overcome " the problem that small recoveries do not provide the incentive for any individual to bring a solo action prosecuting his or her rights.

After leaving the Les Brown & His Band of Renown to try a solo career, she started her long-lasting partnership with Columbia Records, which would remain her only recording label.

For the remainder of the decade, none of her solo efforts – even " In the Good Old Days ( When Times Were Bad )", which later became a standard – were as successful as her duets with Wagoner.

Wagoner and Parton were both frustrated by her lack of solo success, because he had a significant financial stake in her future: as of 1969, he was her co-producer and owned nearly half of Owepar, the publishing company Parton had founded with Bill Owens.

By 1970, both Parton and Wagoner had grown frustrated by her lack of solo chart success, and Porter had her record Jimmie Rodgers ' " Mule Skinner Blues ", a gimmick that worked.

" For the next two years, she had a number of solo hits – including her signature song " Coat of Many Colors " ( number four in 1971 ) – in addition to her duets.

Though her solo singles and the Wagoner duets were successful, her biggest hit of this period would be " Jolene ".

She began her musical career in 1980, when she briefly joined her family band Clannad before leaving to perform solo.

In 1982, shortly before Clannad became internationally renowned for " Theme From Harry's Game ", producer and manager Nicky Ryan left the group and Enya joined him to start her own solo career.

The music she produced was featured on her first solo album, Enya ( 1987 ), but it attracted little attention at the time.

A two-time Grammy Award-winner known for his distinctive bass voice and romantic image, White's greatest success came in the 1970s as a solo singer and with the Love Unlimited Orchestra, crafting many enduring soul, funk, and disco songs such as his two biggest hits, " You're the First, the Last, My Everything " and " Can't Get Enough of Your Love, Babe.

Notable Australian musicians include: the opera singers Dame Nellie Melba and Dame Joan Sutherland ; country music stars Slim Dusty ( Australia's biggest selling domestic artist ) and John Williamson ; solo artists John Farnham and Olivia Newton-John, Pub rock band Cold Chisel, folk-rocker Paul Kelly ; Dance group The Avalanches ; jazz guitarist Tommy Emmanuel ; pioneer rocker Johnny O ' Keefe, global folk-rock band The Seekers, global rock and pop bands Men At Work, The EasyBeats, Air Supply, Crowded House, AC / DC, INXS, Little River Band, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Midnight Oil, Dragon, Silverchair, Youth Group, You Am I and Powderfinger ; the " pop princess " Kylie Minogue, Pendulum, Pop Rock duo Savage Garden and alternative music stars the John Butler Trio, Xavier Rudd, Wolfmother, Tame Impala and The Vines.

Amidst his solo career, Howe has continuously made himself available as a session musician for many of the world's biggest pop stars.

At the time it was the UK's biggest selling single by a solo artist, and remains one of the UK's biggest selling singles of all time.

Ironically, Rundgren's biggest solo hit was an up-tempo version of Nazz ' first unsuccessful single, " Hello It's Me " from his 1972 Something / Anything?

Recording both a cappella and with some of the day's biggest solo stars, including Billy Murray and Corinne Morgan, they were one of the most successful acts of the century's first decade.

Her biggest solo success was " Blacksmith Blues " in 1952, which sold over one million copies, and was awarded a gold disc.

Mayfield became a solo artist while at Curtom, and his Super Fly soundtrack ( 1972 ), with its funk style, represents the label ’ s biggest seller.

Ure continued to collaborate with Lynott, providing the chorus to " Chinatown " and co-writing Lynott's biggest solo hit, " Yellow Pearl ".

Typical of this style was his playing on Paul Young's biggest chart hits, in particular his bass solo on Wherever I Lay My Hat ( That's My Home ).

Stevens also had hit singles as a solo artist with " Sixteen Reasons " ( 1960 ), her biggest hit, reaching # 3 on the Billboard Hot 100, and a minor # 71 hit " Too Young to Go Steady " ( 1960 ) ( music by Jimmy McHugh and lyrics by Harold Adamson ).

Several of their songs are listed among the biggest hits of the 1970s: Simon & Garfunkel's " Bridge Over Troubled Water ," Simon's solo hit " 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover ," and Ross ' " Ain't No Mountain High Enough.

Lionel Richie, who went on to even greater success as a solo artist in the 1980s, fronted the group's biggest 1970s hits, including " Easy ," " Three Times a Lady " and " Still.

As a consequence, he chose to play at Lancashire County Cricket Club in Old Trafford, in what was to be his biggest solo show to date.

Beyoncé is the biggest winner of this award, having won it four times: twice with Destiny's Child and twice as a solo artist.

The Raiders's biggest hit of the period, " Indian Reservation ", was recorded as a Mark Lindsay solo session, although some sources erroneously credit the lead vocals to Weller, who, around the same time, had recorded " Indian Lake " ( a cover of the hit song by The Cowsills ).

" You Came 2006 " charted Top 20 in most of these countries and became her biggest solo hit in Germany since 1988.

The first single " Love of My Own " released in the same year is considered the biggest success of his solo career at that time.

During this three year stint, Wood had her first experience of recording for an album and performing solo in front of large crowds, her biggest being the opening of the Sydney Harbour Tunnel where she performed in front of over 20, 000 people.

", which reached number 3 in August 1990, is her biggest solo hit to date.

It was trailed by the single " World Shut Your Mouth ", which became Cope ’ s biggest solo hit, reaching # 19 in the UK in 1986 and becoming his only Top 20 solo hit.

They – including Donny, Marie, and Jimmy as solo artists – scored several hits, their biggest being the No. 1 " One Bad Apple ".