The instrumental on that album, " Sirius ", eventually became the best-known ( or at least most frequently heard ) Parsons instrumental.

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 ).

While he was working at Friends Bubbles formed an association with Hawkwind and became responsible for a run of their album sleeves, including X In Search of Space, Doremi Fasol Latido and Space Ritual.

" Machine Gun ", the instrumental title track from the band's debut album, became a staple at American sporting events, and is similarly featured in many films, including Boogie Nights and Looking for Mr. Goodbar.

" In 1977 the Commodores scored a ballad hit with " Easy ", which became the group's biggest hit yet, reaching No. 4 in the U. S., followed by the funky favorite " Brick House ", also Top 5, both from their landmark album " The Commodores ", as was the utopian album favorite " Zoom ".

Styx continued to have multiplatinum albums with their 1981 release Paradise Theater ( a concept album about a decaying theater in Chicago which became a metaphor for childhood and American culture ) and 1983's Kilroy Was Here ( a science fiction rock opera about a future where moralists imprison rockers ).

In the 1980s, concept albums also became popular among rock bands like Kiss, with their album, 1981's Music from " The Elder ", which went on to become the group's poorest selling and charting album in their history, primarily because of its radical departure in musical style compared to Kiss's previous offerings.

In this period he became known internationally as " Mister Guitar ", inspiring an album named Mister Guitar, engineered by both Bob Ferris and Bill Porter, Ferris's replacement.

The rich orchestral accompaniment that became identified with the disco era conjured up the memories of the big band era — which brought out several artists that recorded and disco-ized some big band arrangements including Perry Como, who re-recorded his 1929 and 1939 hit, " Temptation ", in 1975, as well as Ethel Merman, who released an album of disco songs entitled The Ethel Merman Disco Album in 1979.

" ( Brubeck wrote, and the Quartet performed, the theme song for the Craig Stevens CBS drama series ; the music from the series became material for the " New York " album.

Day became the oldest artist to score a UK Top 10 with an album featuring new material, according to the Official Charts Company, entering at Number 9.

Incorporating experiments in British jungle and drum ' n ' bass, Earthling ( 1997 ) was a critical and commercial success in the UK and the US, and two singles from the album became UK top 40 hits.

Shortly afterwards, her 1988 album Watermark propelled her to further international fame and she became known for her distinctive sound, characterised by voice-layering, folk melodies, synthesised backdrops and ethereal reverberations.

She continued to enjoy steady success during the 1990s and 2000s ; her 2000 album A Day Without Rain sold 15 million copies, and became the top selling new age album of the 2000s in the US, according to Nielsen SoundScan.

The song " Boadicea ", also from this album, would later be sampled by The Fugees on their single " Ready or Not " ( 1996 ), causing a brief stir because the group neither sought permission from Enya nor gave her credit initially, and by Mario Winans, who did give her credit ( the Winans track, " I Don't Wanna Know " which features a rap by P. Diddy and is officially credited to all three artists, became Enya's highest charting single in the US, when it peaked at # 2 on the Hot 100 in 2004 ).

The first single of the album, " Can't Get It Out of My Head ", became their first US Billboard charts Top 10 hit, and Eldorado, A Symphony became ELO's first gold album.

On the follow-up album Discovery, the logo became a small glowing artifact on top of a treasure chest.

The album also reached number 3 on the pop chart, and eventually became Brooks's highest-selling album, with domestic shipments of 17 million.

Lemar's fourth studio album " The Reason " was released on 24 November 2008, entering the UK Albums Chart at No. 41.

On 11 March 2010 Lemar's album The Hits hit number one on the R & B download charts on iTunes.

Biancaniello co-produced Lemar's second single, " Weight of the World ", from his fourth album The Reason with Jim Jonsin.

Opgezwolle, a group from Zwolle's latest album, Eigen Wereld ( Own World ) appeared in the ' Album Top 100 ' at number 4 ; the highest notation of a Dutch rap album ever.

The magazine has since excised the article from subsequent editions of the Illustrated History book ; a transcription of it can be found at the link below ( despite his scathing view of Young's career, Marsh gave the album the highest possible rating ).

His highest charting album, is his 2004 release Only You which reached No. 5 in the U. S. and No. 6 in Britain.

The album was one of the highest selling independent albums of 1992.

* The track " We Do What We're Told ( Milgram's 37 )" on Peter Gabriel's album So is a reference to Milgram's Experiment 18, in which 37 of 40 people were prepared to administer the highest level of shock.

The band's 2007 album, Snakes & Arrows, debuted at No. 3 ( just one position shy of Rush's highest peaking albums, Counterparts ( 1992 ) and " Clockwork Angels " ( 2012 ), which both debuted at No. 2 ) on the Billboard 200 selling approximately 93, 000 its first week of release.

The album's first week sales were the second highest of any album that year, a significant achievement for a hard rock band at a time when music charts were largely dominated by hip hop and teen-pop acts.

* November 12 – Australian singer John Farnham releases the album Whispering Jack, which becomes the highest selling album in Australia's history.

Another McVie single from the album, " Everywhere ", reached # 4 in the UK, which would be the band's third highest ever chart peak there and their final top 40 UK hit to date ( the single peaked at # 14 in the US ).

Flirting with mainstream pop music as well as writing her own songs for Diamonds & Rust ( 1975 ), the album became the highest selling of Baez's career and spawned a second top-ten single in the form of the title track.

It became their highest charting album in the UK to date, entering at number three and featuring three Top 30 singles in the UK and Germany (" Lullaby ", " Lovesong " and " Pictures of You ").

Nevertheless, the album still went on to become one of Combat Records ' highest selling releases.

Tyranny ( For You ), released in 1991, became the band's highest charting album, reaching # 95 on the Billboard 200.

The album sold 22, 000 copies in its first week, the highest sales in the band's history, and eventually went gold.

The band's second album, Cool for Cats ( 1979 ), contained the band's two highest charting UK singles in " Cool For Cats " and " Up The Junction ", both of which peaked at No. 2.

Their latest studio album, The Electric Age ( 2012 ), debuted at No. 77 on Billboard 200, making it Overkill's highest ever chart position in the United States.

Although many of their previous albums, including Pleasure to Kill ( 1986 ), were quite popular in the United States, Kreator did not experience major American commercial success until the 2009 release of their twelfth studio album, Hordes of Chaos, which peaked at number 165 on the Billboard 200 and debuted at No. 16 on the Media Control Charts, the band's highest ever chart position in Germany.

It was his highest charting album in the US until his Top Ten debut on Billboard 200 in 2008.

His next release, 1999's Back on Top, achieved a modest success, being his highest charting album in the US since 1978's Wavelength.

The album, Down the Road released in May 2002, received a good critical reception and proved to be his highest charting album in the US since 1972's Saint Dominic's Preview.

A tentative amalgamation of oldies and some new songs, the record was released in the summer of 1976 to commercial acclaim and, despite moderate reviews, peaked at # 8 on the Billboard album chart, the band's highest entry ( apart from Endless Summer and the followup 1975 compilation Spirit of America ) since 1965.