For most mainstream country stations, the emphasis is generally on current pop country, following the same process as top 40 ; the remaining music in a particular station's library generally uses music from the past fifteen years ( shorter for " hot country " or " new country " stations ), with the exact music used varying depending on the station and the style of music the listener wants to hear.

Music radio, particularly top 40, has often acted as both a barometer and an arbiter of musical taste, and radio airplay is one of the defining measures of success in the mainstream musical world.

From the first established world championship, the top professional wrestlers have garnered fame within mainstream society.

" It's Been Awhile " spent a total of 16 and 14 weeks on top of the modern and mainstream rock charts, respectively, making it one of the highest joint numbers of all time.

The album provided two mainstream hits: the lead single " Price to Play ", and " So Far Away " ( which spent 14 weeks on top of the rock chart, and was featured on an episode of Smallville ); in addition, two other singles failed to crack the Hot 100 —" How About You " and " Zoe Jane "— but " How About You " was a fairly popular song on modern rock radio.

Of her fourteen Vanguard albums, thirteen made the top 100 of Billboard's mainstream pop chart, eleven made the top forty, eight made the top twenty, and four made the top ten.

At another review aggregator, Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 top reviews from mainstream critics, the film received an average score of 46 %, based on 14 reviews.

" Little Old Wine Drinker Me ," the first single, was a top ten hit at country radio, reaching # 9 there, and crossed over onto mainstream radio, where it peaked at # 96.

The band is often credited with bringing country music groups ( as opposed to solo vocalists ) into the mainstream, paving the way for the success of today's top country groups.

In 2010, she along with Cécile Duflot, Monica Frassoni, and Marina Silva were named by Foreign Policy magazine to its list of top global thinkers, for taking Green mainstream.

Electronic music made occasional moves into the mainstream, with jazz musician Stan Free, under the pseudonym Hot Butter, having a top 10 hit in the United States and United Kingdom in 1972, with a cover of the 1969 Gershon Kingsley song " Popcorn " using a Moog synthesizer, which is recognised as a forerunner to synthpop and disco.

All four studio albums produced during this period reached No. 1 on the Billboard pop music charts and 17 singles breached the top 12 of the mainstream rock tracks chart.

Existing indie bands that were now able to enter the mainstream included more musically and emotionally complex bands including Modest Mouse ( whose 2004 album Good News for People Who Love Bad News reached the US top 40 and was nominated for a Grammy Award ), Bright Eyes ( who in 2004 had two singles at the top of the Billboard magazine Hot 100 Single Sales ) and Death Cab for Cutie ( whose 2005 album Plans debuted at number four in the US, remaining on the Billboard charts for nearly one year and achieving platinum status and a Grammy nomination ).

Released from the album were the top 10 singles " 18 and Life " and " I Remember You " and the mainstream rock hit " Youth Gone Wild.

During the 1980s, Coe enjoyed a resurgence in mainstream popularity, twice hitting the top 10 of the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart with " The Ride " ( 1983 ) and " Mona Lisa Lost Her Smile " ( 1984 ).

The album was a commercial disappointment which failed to crack the top 20, and ultimately was never released in the U. S. A New Morning was considered a solid enough outing by fans of the band, but critical reaction was decidedly lukewarm and the mainstream public interest had long disappeared.

However, even though they were often considered one of the top bands of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal movement of the late 1970s, in the mid-1980s the band were associated with the growing glam metal scene, mainly due to their mainstream success and glossy production.

While not attaining the sales of ' mainstream ' comics, it has sustained healthy figures, consistently being one of the top selling Vertigo titles, and is sustained by healthy sales of trade paperbacks.

After a label change to Clive Davis's Arista Records, Monica mainstream success was boosted, when Diane Warren-written " For You I Will ", from the Space Jam soundtrack, became her next top ten pop hit.

* 1955-Rock and roll music enters the mainstream, with " Rock Around the Clock " by Bill Haley and His Comets becoming the first record to top the Billboard magazine pop charts.

Between 1997 and 2001, the band targeted the majority of its work towards a mainstream audience, with several singles reaching the top 20 on the UK music charts.

They now lead Louisville by a full game on top of the American Association pack.

A top American official, after a look at Europe's factories, thinks the U.S. is in a `` very serious situation '' competitively.

Though the subject -- segregation in her native South -- has been thoroughly worked, Miss McCullers uses her poet's instinct and storyteller's skill to reaffirm her place at the very top of modern American writing.

English speakers may be unaware of the differences among six allophones of the phoneme, namely unreleased as in cat, aspirated as in top, glottalized as in button, flapped as in American English water, nasalized flapped as in winter, and none of the above as in stop.

When " Rock Around the Clock " appeared behind the opening credits of the 1955 film Blackboard Jungle starring Glenn Ford, it soared to the top of the American Billboard chart for eight weeks.

Individual for whom the American Society of Mechanical Engineers ' top award in Biomedical Engineering, the Herbert R. Lissner Medal, is named.

On top of this there are many non-European clowning traditions ( including clown-like figures in Japanese Kabuki theatre ), North American native shaman traditions to consider which may or may not have influenced what we now think of as a clown in the Western world.

The differences between the more modern and traditional branches of American Judaism came to a head in 1883, at the " Trefa Banquet " at the Highland House entertainment pavilion, which was at the top of the Mount Adams Incline – where shellfish and other non-kosher dishes were served at the celebration of the first graduating class of Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati.

In 1991, Don McLean returned to the UK top 20 with a re-issue of " American Pie ".

* 1945 – World War II: During the Battle of Iwo Jima, a group of United States Marines and a commonly forgotten U. S. Navy Corpsman, reach the top of Mount Suribachi on the island and are photographed raising the American flag.

The American Film Institute named it one of the best films ever made, putting it at the top of the list of AFI's 100 Years ... 100 Cheers, a list of what AFI considers to be the most inspirational American movies of all time.

The film also appeared in another AFI Top 100 list: it placed at 11th on AFI's 100 Years ... 100 Movies list of the top American films.

The national flag of the United States of America is often simply referred to as the American flag, consisting of thirteen equal horizontal stripes of red ( top and bottom ) alternating with white, with a blue rectangle in the canton ( referred to specifically as the " union ") bearing fifty small, white, five-pointed stars arranged in nine offset horizontal rows of six stars ( top and bottom ) alternating with rows of five stars.

In 2011, his article The Use of Knowledge in Society was selected as one of the top 20 articles published in the American Economic Review during its first 100 years.

In 2011, his article The Use of Knowledge in Society was selected as one of the top 20 articles published in the American Economic Review during its first 100 years.

Archtop guitars are steel-string instruments in which the top ( and often the back ) of the instrument are carved from a solid billet in a curved rather than a flat shape ; this violin-like construction is usually credited to the American Orville Gibson ( 1856 – 1918 ).

In describing the list to readers, Paul MacInnes from British newspaper The Guardian wrote, " Surprisingly enough for an American magazine, the top 10 is fair jam-packed with Yanks ," though he also noted three exceptions in the top 10.

Harold and Maude is # 45 on the American Film Institute ’ s list of 100 Years ... 100 Laughs, the list of the top 100 films in American comedy.

Connick appeared on the May 4, 2010, episode of American Idol where he acted as a mentor for the top 5 finalists.

In 2000, the film was ranked 29th on the American Film Institute's list of the top 100 comedy movies in American cinema and it was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being " culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant ".