And while less than ten years earlier the wayward Black Sox -- all of them top performers in their positions -- had toiled for stingy Charles Comiskey at salaries ranging from twenty-five hundred dollars to forty-five hundred dollars a year, stars now were asking ten thousand dollars, twenty thousand dollars, yes, even fifty thousand dollars a season.

The Beverly Hillbillies ranked among the top twenty most watched programs on television for eight of its nine seasons, twice ranking as the number one series of the year, with a number of episodes that remain among the most watched television episodes of all time.

A second single, the double A-sided single " Two Doors Down "/" It's All Wrong, But It's All Right " also topped the country singles chart and crossed over to the pop top twenty.

Its three singles became top twenty hits in both countries, where its title track reached number one.

Adding four more Harry Potter and one more Lord of the Rings films plus Alice in Wonderland, and more than half of the top twenty most commercial films, had a substantial British dimension.

With considerable cost and effort, Indiana boasts nine of the ten largest high school gyms in the country, and a purported eighteen of the top twenty.

The album's opening track, " Immigrant Song ", was released in November 1970 as a single in the US against the band's wishes, reaching the top twenty on the Billboard chart.

He then went up Mount Nebo to the top of Pisgah, looked over the promised land of Israel spread out before him, and died, at the age of one hundred and twenty, according to Talmudic legend on 7 Adar, his 120th birthday exactly.

All ten NDC members were ranked within the top twenty on September 5, and all but one occupied the top twenty at the fiftieth anniversary of National Foundation Day on September 9.

The list of ' modern ' world champions extended into the 1980s, when the sport entered the catamaran, and then the ' superboat ' era-the 1000 cubic inch total engine displacement restrictions were lifted for boats over in length, and soon three-and four-engine boats sporting F16 fighter canopies replaced the venerable vee hulls that had been the sport's top category for twenty years.

In August, The Adverts entered the top twenty with " Gary Gilmore's Eyes ".

Flogging Molly and Dropkick Murphys each had top twenty albums on small labels, with the former's Float landing at number four in 2008.

The viticultural pride of the island is the sweet and strong Vinsanto (), a dessert wine made from the best sun-dried Assyrtiko, Athiri, and Aidani grapes and undergoing long barrel aging ( up to twenty or twenty-five years for the top cuvées ).

After Strummer's departure, the remaining seven Pogues recorded Waiting for Herb, which contained the band's third and final top twenty single, " Tuesday Morning ", which became their best-selling single internationally.

On comprehensive measures such as the UN Human Development Index the United States is always in the top twenty, currently ranking 4th.

The 2005 TOC, made up of the top twenty qualifying players at each circuit event, along with the final table from the 2005 Main Event and the winners of nine or more bracelets ( Johnny Chan, Doyle Brunson, and Phil Hellmuth ) would participate in the revamped TOC at Caesars Palace.

The beer is one of the United Kingdom's leading bottled ales and is in the top twenty highest selling ales overall, selling around 100, 000 hectolitres annually.

Teaching quality inspections place the university within the top twenty in the UK, according to The Complete University Guide.

It also became a top twenty hit in many European countries, Latin America and Australia.

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.

It has sold over nine million singles and albums and was the top single of a year in which the British Invasion, led by the Beatles and the Rolling Stones, continued to dominate the U. S. charts.

* Michael Alexander St. John: A parody of hyperbolic and pun-laden radio presenting, St. John presents items such as the top 10 singles charts and the weekend's gigs.

The first single " Better Be Home Soon " peaked at number two on both Australian and New Zealand singles charts and reached top 50 In the US, though the following four singles were less successful.

That song, a cover of Tom Paxton's " The Last Thing on My Mind ", released in late 1967, reached the country top ten in January 1968, launching a six-year streak of virtually uninterrupted top-ten singles for the pair.

She continued to have hits with " Heartbreaker " ( 1978 ), " Baby I'm Burning " and " You're the Only One " ( both 1979 ), all of which charted in the pop singles Top 40, and all of which also topped the country-singles chart ; 1979's " Sweet Summer Lovin '" became the first Parton single in two years to not top the country singles chart ( though it still nonetheless reached the top ten ).

Aladdin Sane spawned the UK top five singles " The Jean Genie " and " Drive-In Saturday ".

Featuring characters from a short story written by Bowie, the album achieved US and UK chart success, and yielded three top 40 UK singles.

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.

The title track, performed by both Newton-John and ELO, is ELO's only song to top the singles chart in the United Kingdom.

The single was a phenomenal success in the UK, staying at the top of the singles chart for nine consecutive weeks, during which time the group's previous single " Relax " climbed back up the charts to number two.

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.

George Clinton's interdependent Funkadelic and Parliament ensembles and their various spin-offs, took the genre to its most extreme lengths making funk almost a religion in the 1970s, producing over forty singles, including three in the US top ten, and three platinum albums.

Robyn's US breakthrough came in 1997, when the dance-pop singles " Show Me Love " and " Do You Know ( What It Takes )" reached the top ten on the Billboard Hot 100.

Hi Infidelity spawned four hit singles written by Richrath and Cronin, including the # 1 " Keep On Loving You " ( Cronin ), the # 5 " Take It on the Run " ( Richrath ), " In Your Letter " (# 20 ) ( Richrath ), and " Don't Let Him Go " (# 24 ) ( Cronin ), and remained on the charts for 65 weeks, 32 of which were spent in the top ten, including 15 weeks atop the Billboard 200.

It features the top 25 hit singles " A Hazy Shade of Winter ", " Fakin ' It ", " At the Zoo ", " America " and a full version of " Mrs. Robinson " – the classic No. 1 single from The Graduate soundtrack.

Strachan released further solo singles, " Mr Summer " in October and " Nothing but the Best " in January 1979, but neither charted in the top 50.

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.

Scoring some 23 UK top 40 singles and 17 UK top 40 albums to date in a career spanning four decades, the Stranglers are the longest-surviving and most " continuously successful " band to have originated in the UK punk scene of the mid to late 1970s.

Cobb and Buie borrowed heavily from 1936's " Everyday With Jesus " by Robert C. and Wendell P. Loveless to pen the top 20 follow-up " Everyday With You Girl " ( 1969, No. 19 ).

Following " Prayin ' for Daylight ", the album's other three singles all made top ten on that chart: " This Everyday Love ", " While You Loved Me ", and " I'm Movin ' On ", which respectively peaked at numbers 9, 7 and 4.

His “ Let ’ s Live Everyday Like It Was Christmas ” single with Grand Ole Opry stars The Whites was given a nod as one of the top Country Vocal Collaborations.

His song, " Everyday ", was ranked number 49 on the CCLI top 100 songs.