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.

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( 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.

Billboard named the Asia debut as album of the year.

She was named the " top Latin artist of the ' 90s " and " Best selling Latin artist of the decade " by Billboard for her fourteen top-ten singles in the Top Latin Songs chart, including seven number-one hits.

Despite the success of " I Love You ", and despite favorable reviews, the subsequent album, named after their hit single and released in July 1968, only reached No. 138 on the Billboard charts.

The song was named the # 1 song of the year for 1966 by the Billboard R & B charts, and spent 20 weeks on the R & B charts in 1966, peaking at # 1 in June.

The group's third album, Natural Selection, named after Darwinian theory, was released in September 2003 and debuted at No. 15 on the U. S. Billboard charts.

In 2010 Billboard named " Afternoon Delight " the 20th sexiest song of all time.

Because of that chart success, Billboard Magazine named them the most successful duo of the rock era, surpassing the Everly Brothers.

Billboard Magazine ’ s Year End # 1 Awards for 1978 named Brown the # 1 new male album artist, # 3 new album artist and # 10 pop male artist.

Billboard named her the top jazz artist of the 2000 – 2009 decade, establishing herself as one of the best-selling artists of all time.

This featured his most successful chart single, " Amityville ( The House on the Hill )," a parody song named in reference to the film The Amityville Horror ( itself based on alleged supernatural activities surrounding the DeFeo murder case ) was a # 12 hit in the UK Singles Chart, and hit the Top 20 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the U. S. in 1986.

In 1993, it was named Home Video of the Year by Billboard magazine in their annual end of the year publication which cites the most popular artists, songs, CDs, and video items of the year.

Also on March 8 an article on Ray by a writer named Chuck Dauphin appeared on Billboard. com detailing the Encyclopedia's contents.

In 2009 Billboard magazine named Pink the number one pop musician of the decade, and in 2012 VH1 named Pink number 10 on their list of the 100 Greatest Women in Music.

Billboard named " The Way We Were " as the # 1 pop hit of 1974, and it was the title track of a Streisand album that also reached # 1.

Billboard Magazine named her Top New Single Artist, while Cashbox Magazine awarded her both Most Promising Female Vocalist and Top Female Vocalist.

Houston the birthplace of Grammy Award Winning Gospel Artist Yolanda Adams ; who as of December 11, 2009 was named the # 1 Gospel Artist of the last decade by Billboard Magazine.

93 ’ til Infinity is the group's highest charting album to date (# 17 Top R & B / Hip Hop Albums ; # 85 Billboard 200 ) and, in January, 1998, was named one of the Top 100 Rap albums by The Source magazine.

In December 1989 the American music magazine Billboard Magazine named Michael Jackson as the best Artist of the Decade for the 1980s.

The tune became the second of three " one-hit wonders " named " pop single of the year " by Billboard ( the others being 1958's " Volare ( Nel Blu Dipinto Di Blu )" by Domenico Modugno and 2006's " Bad Day " by Daniel Powter.

Billboard named SWV the # 7 R & B Act and the # 2 Top Selling / Airplay R & B Female Group of the 1990s.

On December 11, 2009, Jay-Z was ranked as the 10th most successful artist of 2000s by Billboard and ranking as the 5th top solo male artist and as the 4th top rapper behind Eminem, Nelly, and 50 Cent.

According to Billboard, Eminem has two of his albums among the top five highest selling albums of the 2000s.