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Moe Bandy, singer of the 70s/80s; paired with Joe Stampley on a series of recordings; The Browns, brother-sister trio; Glen Campbell, brought a whole new audience to Country Music with his TV show, co-starred with John Wayne in movie "True Grit," won many awards, top Country Music hitmaker and pop crossover icon. He popularized "The Nashville ...
The Bee Gees scored the most number-one hits (9 songs) and had the longest cumulative run atop the Billboard Hot 100 chart (27 weeks) during the 1970s. Rod Stewart remained at the top of the Billboard Hot 100 chart for 17 weeks during the 1970s.
As the decade progressed, a growing trend in the music industry was to promote songs to radio without the release of a commercially available singles in an attempt by record companies to boost albums sales. Because such a release was required to chart on the Hot 100, many popular songs that were hits on top 40 radio never made it onto the chart.
The band became famous after playing the Woodstock festival in 1969 and began the '70s with two #1 albums: 1970's "Abraxas" and 1971's "Santana III." In 1998, Santana was inducted into the Rock ...
This alphabetical list of country rock bands and artists covers a wide variety of subgenres. The year following the artist's name is the first year of the artist's musical career. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
This is a list of notable musical acts who pertain to the glam rock genre of music. Classic era of glam (1971–1976) ABBA [1] [2] Angel [3] Arrows [4]
If two or more artists have the same claimed sales, they are then ranked by certified units. The claimed sales figure and the total of certified units (for each country) within the provided sources include sales of albums, singles, compilation-albums, music videos as well as downloads of singles and full-length albums.
This includes artists who have either been very important to the genre or have had a considerable amount of exposure (such as those that have been on a major label). Bands are listed by the first letter in their name (not including the words "a", "an", or "the"), and individuals are listed by last name.