With no set standards, there is the tendency to promote to the next highest level when the top of a salary band is reached regardless of performance.

Originally active from 1985 to 1996, the band have had consistent commercial and critical success in Australia and New Zealand and international chart success in two phases, beginning with their self-titled debut album, Crowded House, which reached number twelve on the US Album Chart in 1987 and provided the Top Ten hits, " Don't Dream It's Over " and " Something So Strong ".

His father was a military bandmaster, and by the time Arthur had reached the age of 8, he was proficient with all the instruments in the band.

In February 1977, the first album by a British punk band appeared: Damned Damned Damned ( by the Damned ) reached number thirty-six on the UK chart.

The following year, Enema of the State, the first major-label release by pop punk band Blink-182, reached the top ten and sold four million copies in under twelve months.

When Alexander the Great reached Egypt, he put his whole vast enterprise on hold, while he made his way with a small band deep into the Libyan desert, to consult the oracle of Ammun.

Despite having completely dropped out of the public eye for five years after the gold-selling Test for Echo ( which peaked at number 5 on the Billboard 200 ) and the band being relegated almost solely to classic rock stations in the U. S., Vapor Trails reached No. 6 on the Billboard 200 chart in its first week of release in 2002 with 108, 000 albums sold.

The band reached international prominence in the 1980s and early 1990s.

The EP reached No. 72 in the national charts and the band played triumphant shows on their return to Perth.

Later in 1989 the band released a double A-side single, " Fools Gold / What the World Is Waiting For ", which reached number eight on the UK Singles Chart in November.

By July the band had released their final single for Silvertone, " One Love ", which reached number four in the UK singles chart, their highest placing yet.

In 1990, the band ( now without Lindsey Buckingham ) recorded Behind the Mask, but the album only reached ' Gold ' status in the U. S. The album did however, enter the UK album chart at # 1, but there were no UK hits from the album and only Christine's song " Save Me " made the US Top 40.

When Sousa reached the age of 13, his father, a trombonist in the Marine Band, enlisted his son in the United States Marine Corps as an apprentice to keep him from joining a circus band.

The band reached a creative peak in the early 1940s, when Ellington and a small hand-picked group of his composers and arrangers wrote for an orchestra of distinctive voices who displayed tremendous creativity.

The Freddie Mercury-written lead single " Seven Seas of Rhye " reached number ten in the UK, giving the band their first hit.

The Queen Is Dead reached number two in the UK charts, and consisted of a mixture of mordant bleakness ( e. g. " Never Had No One Ever ", which seemed to play up to stereotypes of the band ), dry humour ( e. g. " Frankly, Mr. Shankly ", allegedly a message to Rough Trade boss Geoff Travis disguised as a letter of resignation from a worker to his superior ), and synthesis of both, such as in " There Is a Light That Never Goes Out " and " Cemetry Gates ".

The band had announced on their website that the next single was to be the rocky " Is Everybody Here On Drugs ", although the announcement was quickly removed once it was clear that Catatonia had reached the end of the road.

A decision had been reached amongst members of Incubus in a face-to-face meeting at the end of the Morning View tour to discuss his involvement in the band.

All four albums released with Fish were commercial successes, and the band released eleven Top 40 hits on the UK Singles Chart, including 1985's " Kayleigh ", which reached No. 2 and became their biggest hit single.

The band released " You're Gone " as the lead single from the album, which reached No. 7, making it the first Marillion song to reach the UK Top Ten since " Incommunicado " in 1987 and the band's first Top 40 entry since " Beautiful " in 1995.

The song reached number 15 on the British charts and earned the band an appearance on the television show Top of the Pops.

Chicago cabaret focused intensely on the larger band ensembles and reached its peak during Roaring Twenties, under the Prohibition Era, where it was featured in the speakeasies and steakhouses.

The record sales went down, by the end of the 1990s the band reached both commercial and critical nadir.

Throughout the 1980s, the band struggled to find success, but gained prominence in the UK in the mid-1990s with the release of the albums His ' n ' Hers in 1994 and particularly Different Class in 1995, which reached the number one spot in the UK Albums Chart.

* All five albums released by the band between 1982 and 1991 reached the Top 30 on the Billboard 200 album chart and have been certified either Gold, Platinum, or Multi-platinum.

The band had an early hit with " Being Boiled ", but achieved stardom after a key change in line-up in 1980, releasing multiple international hits from the early 1980s to the mid 1990s.

Cheap Trick at Budokan launched the band into international stardom, and the album went triple platinum in the United States.

Barely twenty when the band hit major stardom, he cultivated an androgynous and sometimes flamboyant image, wore heavy makeup, and changed his hair colour at whim.

This song propelled the band to stardom, as it stayed on top of Billboard Hot 100 Airplay charts for a record-breaking 18 weeks, and was nominated for three Grammys that year.

In the 1990s, East Lansing band The Verve Pipe rose to brief stardom with the hit " Freshmen ," and Sponge had moderate national success with a dual-guitar sound reminiscent of the MC5.

Although Billy tells Corinne that he only wanted her replaced early on in the tour, Corinne lashes out at him, and at the Stains ' next show, she plagarizes Billy's song, which skyrockets the band to even further stardom.

Albert then signed the band to a recording contract with EMI's Parlophone label, and they began a meteoric rise to national stardom.

That album, 1992-The Love Album, went straight to number one in the UK charts, propelling the band to pop stardom.

Billy Tallent finds out that by going on tour he loses his position in main stream rock band Jenifur and with that his one shot at stardom.

During this period, the band played a number of small venues and school auditoriums, refining their craft before the song " Lady " propelled them to national, then international, stardom.

The album again included a number of hit songs and returned the band to stardom.

The band reached stardom in 1990 with their first album Stick It to Ya, which spawned several hit singles including " Up All Night ", " Spend My Life ", " Mad About You " and " Fly to the Angels ".

" The 300 star sought advice from Depp on " putting a first-rate band together " and was then introduced to Manson and Black, who are reportedly guiding Butler along the path to rock and roll stardom.

Dewey decides to turn his temporary job into what he tells them is a " special class project ", but is actually a personal one: to turn his class into a rock band and crew to serve as a vehicle to stardom by winning the upcoming Battle of the Bands, where he is out to avenge his eviction from his old band and win the $ 20, 000 prize.

The album sold 250, 000 copies and launched the band into stardom.

The 1980s saw the rise to stardom of the most successful Irish rock band, U2.

" He goes on to insist that Elvis is assisting the band in their rise to stardom, and that they " wanted Roy Orbison, but they said he was dead ".

The album features several of the band's most well-known songs, including " Gimme Three Steps ", " Simple Man ", " Tuesday's Gone " and " Free Bird ", the latter of which launched the band to national stardom.

She began singing professionally as a band member while in the Israeli Army during the 1980s, and " rose to stardom quickly.

Those harmonies gave the putative power trio an additional guitarist ( the band eventually grew to six members ) and Dickey Betts the opening for stardom as a co-founder and key contributor to the Allman Brothers Band.

The hit singles " Love Song ", " Heaven's Trail ( No Way Out )", " The Way It Is " received considerable MTV airplay and rocketed the band to stardom.