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.

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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.

Having been in a partnership with songwriters Burt Bacharach and Hal David, Warwick ranks among the 40 biggest hit makers of the entire rock era ( 1955 – 2012 ), based on the Billboard Hot 100 Pop Singles Charts.

Warwick ranks second only to Aretha Franklin as the most-charted female vocalist with 56 singles making the Billboard Hot 100 between 1962 and 1998.

and the metalcore groups Underoath, Demon Hunter, As I Lay Dying, and Norma Jean ( dubbed by Revolver Magazine as " The Holy Alliance ") brought some mainstream attention to the movement in the first decade of the 21st century, achieving ranks in the Billboard 200.

Mary was featured on the cover of Billboard magazine in a story hailing her as " a firm favorite to join the heavy-hitting ranks of such Irish artists as Enya, Sinéad O ' Connor and Clannad's Máire Brennan in the international marketplace ".

Their next single " Never My Love " also topped the charts in autumn 1967 (# 2 Billboard, # 1 Cashbox ) and now ranks as one of the most successful of all Warner Bros. recordings — it became a radio staple and is now accredited by BMI as the second most-played song on US radio in the 20th century, surpassing both " Yesterday " by The Beatles and " Stand by Me " by Ben E. King.

The single currently ranks at # 7 on the Billboard All Time Hot 100.

The record ranks No. 65 on the Top 100 Country Singles of All Time, according to Billboard historian Joel Whitburn.

Billboard magazine ranks him as the top selling piano recording artist in history with 18 gold and platinum albums to his credit.

The Hot Digital Songs chart ranks the best-selling digital singles in the United States, according to Billboard.

The Hot Digital Tracks chart is a song popularity chart that ranks the best selling digital tracks in the United States according to Billboard magazine.

Hot Adult Contemporary Recurrents ranks airplay from the Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks chart that have reached Billboard recurrent criteria.

Destiny's Child has sold over 17. 5 million albums in the US alone, and Billboard magazine ranks the group as one of the greatest female trios of all time, and inducted the group in 2008 into the All time Hot 100 Artist.

The group also scored 20 Top 20 UK hit singles, as well as 19 Top-20 hit singles in the US ( as charted by Billboard Magazine ).

The band also holds the record for having the most Billboard Hot 100, Top 40 hits of any group in US chart history without ever having a number one single.

Montreal singer Nancy Martinez's 1986 single " For Tonight " would become the first Canadian freestyle single to reach the Top 40 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, while the Montreal girl group 11: 30 reached the Canadian chart with " Ole Ole " in 2000.

Even though it was in essence a novelty song, it actually peaked at # 41 on the Billboard charts and received a Grammy nomination for best R & B song by a group.

The album debuted at # 5 on the Billboard 200, placing her in an elite group of women who have secured five or more US Top 10 album debuts.

In 1986, a screening of the entire Monkees television series by MTV led to renewed interest in the group, followed by a single (" That Was Then, This Is Now " reached number 20 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the U. S .), a 20th Anniversary Tour, a greatest hits album and a brand new LP, Pool It!

While " Cast Your Fate To The Wind " by Guaraldi achieved modest chart success as a single in 1963, a cover version two years later by British group Sounds Orchestral cracked the Billboard top 10 ( in the spring of 1965 ).

Simon enjoyed some moderate success in recording a few singles as part of a group called Tico and the Triumphs, including a song called " Motorcycle " which reached No. 97 on the Billboard charts in 1962.

The most awarded artist in the history of the Billboard Music Awards with 33 wins, she is one an elite group of musical acts, such as Madonna, Aerosmith, Garth Brooks and Eric Clapton, whom Billboard credits for " redefining the landscape of popular music.

Their biggest hit, " Venus ", went to # 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in February 1970, and the band had sold 13. 5 million discs by 1973, but the group disbanded in 1974.

After Mariska Veres took over the vocals, the group charted a world-wide hit with the song " Venus ", which reached # 1 on the U. S. Billboard Hot 100 in February 1970.

* Terri Nunn, lead singer of Berlin, 1980s Billboard top ten group

## a-ha ’ s " Take on Me " made the top 10 of VH1's 100 Greatest One Hit Wonders, even though the group had two Billboard Top 20 singles: " Take on Me " and " The Sun Always Shines on TV ".

The film's theme song " Eye of the Tiger ", was written by the group Survivor at the request of Stallone, and became a smash hit single, topping the US Billboard music charts and received an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Song.

The group incorporated the song into their live performances before recording it in 1962 ; their 1962 recording of " Puff " reached number two on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and spent two weeks atop the Billboard easy listening chart in early 1963.

The group signed to Virgin Records in 1987, released two lauded albums and enjoyed chart success with their 1989 cover of Status Quo's " Pictures of Matchstick Men ", a number one hit on Billboard Magazines Modern Rock Tracks.

The song would eventually be the first song by a British group to ever reach the top spot on the Billboard Top 100, proving to be a precursor to the British Invasion.

In the mid-1960s two of Burke's younger brothers, Alex ( born 1948 in Philadelphia ) and Laddie ( born 1949 in Philadelphia ), joined with fellow Germantown High School students, brothers Earl and Timmy Smith to form The Showstoppers, who had a couple of local hit singles in Philadelphia on Showtime Records in 1968, including a # 11 hit on the UK Singles Chart with " Ain't Nothin ' But a Houseparty " b / w " How Easy Your Heart Forgets Me " ( Heritage HE-800 ), which peaked at # 87 on the Billboard chart in 1968, which was later a discothèque hit (# 33 ) in 1971, just before the group disbanded after a series of flops.

Drummer Kenney Jones formed the rock group The Jones Gang, together with singer Robert Hart ( formerly of Bad Company ), Patrick Walford and guitarist Rick Wills ( formerly of Foreigner ); in 2005 their first single " Angel " reached number 1 on the US Billboard " hot singles sales " list.

They have been described as either the first African-American girl group to top the Billboard Hot 100, or the first girl group overall, with the song " Will You Love Me Tomorrow ".