" Find a Way ", from Unguarded, became the first Christian song to hit Billboard's Top 40 list, also reaching No. 7 on the Adult Contemporary chart.

Beatrix Potter Heelis became keenly interested in the breeding and raising of Herdwick sheep, the indigenous fell sheep, soon after acquiring Hill Top Farm.

" 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 ".

The single " People Hold On " became another UK Top 20 hit.

Coldcut and Mark Saunders produced her debut solo single " This Is the Right Time " which became another UK Top 20 hit in August as well as reaching # 21 on the U. S. Billboard Hot 100 the following year.

With a legendary Hollywood " girl next door " image, and capable of delivering comedy and romance as well as heavy drama, she appeared in 39 films, released 29 albums, spent 460 weeks in the Top 40 charts and eventually became one of America's most beloved entertainers.

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.

In 1986, " Walk This Way ", a rap / rock collaboration by Run DMC and Aerosmith, became the first hip-hop song to reach the Top 10 on the Billboard Hot 100.

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 ).

Devo gained a new level of visibility with 1980's Freedom of Choice which included their best-known hit, " Whip It ", which immediately became a Top 40 hit.

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.

The album was then released in November 1997, and debuted at number-one on both the Top Country Albums and Billboard 200 album charts in the United States, and later became his fourth album to reach a sales of 10 million copies.

Some of her lesser-known singles, due to lack of recurrent airplay — including " Honey Bee " ( 1974 ), " Casanova Brown " ( 1975 ), and " Let's Make A Deal " ( 1976 ) — became hits in the clubs and reached the Top 5 on Billboard's disco charts.

Brown's band recorded the instrumental hit, " Night Train ", which was among the first to credit Brown by himself, and became a Top 5 R & B hit and crossed over briefly to the Top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100.

After the year's previous success, King had Brown sign a new recording contract and in June 1965, released " Papa's Got a Brand New Bag ", which became his breakthrough hit single, becoming his first # 1 single on the R & B chart since " Try Me " and his first Top 10 pop single winning Brown his first Grammy.

From this album, the song " If I Ruled the World " became a Top 5 hit on Billboards R & B chart.

The movie, which became the most commercially successful film of all time when it was released — along with his Oscar-nominated performance as Paul in Last Tango in Paris ( 1972 ), another smash hit — revitalized Brando's career and reestablished him in the ranks of top box office stars, placing him at number 6 and number 10 in Top 10 Money Making Stars poll in 1972 and 1973, respectively.

The album eventually became multi-platinum in the spring and summer of 1989, and it spawned five American Top Three singles, four of them # 1s ( three in 1989 and one in 1990 ): " Straight Up ", " Forever Your Girl ", " Cold Hearted ", and " Opposites Attract ".

In 1972, he became a Top 40 music disc jockey on WIXZ, a small AM radio station that reached much of the Pittsburgh area.

It quickly became their second # 1 U. S. hit, staying on the top for three weeks, but the song failed to reach the Top 10 in the UK.

This motivated Polygram ( who now owned the Verve / MGM label archives ) to re-release the song to Top 40 radio where it became a major hit for a second time ( their second UK # 1 ) and a greatest hits CD collection called The Very Best of The Righteous Brothers ... Unchained Melody.

In January 1989, Orbison became the first musician since Elvis Presley to have two albums in the Top Five at the same time.

Top priority was placed on the growth of a self-reliant economy and modernization ; " Development First, Unification Later " became the slogan of the times and the economy grew rapidly with vast improvement in industrial structure, especially in the basic and heavy chemical industries.

In this period of renewed football attendances, Charlton became one of only eleven English football teams to average over 40, 000 as their attendance during a full season.

In 1978, Gaylord Perry ( age 40 ) became the oldest pitcher to receive the award, only to have the record broken in 2004 by Roger Clemens ( age 42 ).

" Budgeted at US $ 32 million, the film became a moderate financial success at a worldwide box office total of US $ 40 million.

Released as a single, the song became a top 40 hit in the UK and US.

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.

On 28 September 2009, in what became known as the ' Bloody Monday ' massacre / 2009 Guinea protest, Amnesty International said that Guinea security forces killed more than 150 people and raped over 40 women during and following the protests.

That same year " The Red Strokes " became Brooks's first single to make the pop top 40 in the UK, reaching a high of No. 13 ; it was followed by " Standing Outside The Fire ", which reached No. 23.

The exile community in Babylon thus became the source of significant portions of the Hebrew Bible: Isaiah 40 – 55, Ezekiel, the final version of Jeremiah, the work of the Priestly source in the Pentateuch, and the final form of the history of Israel from Deuteronomy to 2 Kings Theologically, they were responsible for the doctrines of individual responsibility and universalism ( the concept that one god controls the entire world ), and for the increased emphasis on purity and holiness.

Of 750 members, 250 became alienated through the influence of Bernhard Müller ( self-styled Count de Leon ), who, with 40 followers ( also at variance with the authorities in the old country ), had come to Economy to affiliate with the Society.

Legal disputes caused production delays for several years, but AMD's 40 MHz part eventually became very popular with computer enthusiasts as a low cost and low power alternative to the 25 MHz 486SX.

This industry created 25, 000 jobs, and rubber quickly became the backbone of the Liberian economy ; in the 1950s, rubber accounted for 40 percent of the national budget.

Lycos enjoyed several years of growth during the 1990s and became the most visited online destination in the world in 1999, with a global presence in more than 40 countries.

In September 2009 Moldova became the first country in the world to launch high-definition voice services ( HD voice ) for mobile phones, and the first country in Europe to launch 14. 4 Mbit / s mobile broadband at a national scale, with over 40 % population coverage.

The band became a top act across Canada in the following months, and Men At Work started receiving top 40 US airplay by August.

The single, " True Faith ", with its surreal video, became a hit on MTV and the band's first American top 40 hit.

He became the youngest Prime Minister of India when he took office at the age of 40.

Approximately 40 percent of total farm households became small landowners.

Her 1995 album The Woman in Me brought her fame, and her 1997 album Come On Over became the best-selling studio album of all time by a female act in any genre and the best-selling country album of all time, Come On Over sold more than 40 million copies worldwide.