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Alabama is an American country and Southern rock band formed in Fort Payne, Alabama, in 1969. The band was founded by Randy Owen (lead vocals, rhythm guitar) and his cousin Teddy Gentry (bass guitar, background vocals). They were soon joined by their other cousin, Jeff Cook (lead guitar, fiddle, and keyboards). First operating under the name Wildcountry, the group toured the Southeast bar circuit in the early 1970s, and began writing original songs. They changed their name to Alabama in 1977 and following the chart success of two singles, were approached by RCA Records for a record deal.
Alabama’s biggest success came in the 1980s, where the band had over 27 number one hits, seven multi-platinum albums and received numerous awards. Alabama’s first single on RCA Records, “Tennessee River”, began a streak of 21 number one singles, including “Love in the First Degree” (1981), “Mountain Music” (1982), “Dixieland Delight” (1983), “If You’re Gonna Play in Texas (You Gotta Have a Fiddle in the Band)” (1984) and “Song of the South” (1988). The band’s popularity waned slightly in the 1990s although they continued to produce hit singles and multi-platinum album sales. Alabama disbanded in 2003 following a farewell tour and two albums of inspirational music but reunited in 2010 and have continued to record and tour worldwide.
The band’s blend of traditional country music and Southern rock combined with elements of gospel, and pop music gave it a crossover appeal that helped lead to their success. They also toured extensively and incorporated production elements such as lighting and “sets” inspired by rock concerts into their shows. The band has over 30 number one country records on the Billboard charts to their credit and have sold over 75 million records, making them the most successful band in country music history. AllMusic credited the band with popularizing the idea of a country band and wrote that “It’s unlikely that any other country group will be able to surpass the success of Alabama.” – Wikipedia
| 1 | Mountain Music |
| 1 | Dixieland Delight |
| 3 | When We Make Love |
| 4 | Love in the First Degree |
| 5 | Take Me Down |
| 6 | Feels So Right |
| 7 | The Closer You Get |
| 8 | Lady Down on Love |
| 9 | Forever’s as Far as I’ll Go |
| 10 | God Must Have Spent a Little More Time on You (Feat. ‘N Sync) |
| 11 | There’s No Way |
| 12 | Then Again |
| 13 | Close Enough to Perfect |
| 14 | Keepin’ Up |
| 15 | How Do You Fall in Love |
| 16 | Tennessee River |
| 17 | Old Flame |
| 18 | Roll On (Eighteen Wheeler) |
| 19 | If You’re Gonna Play in Texas (You Gotta Have a Fiddle in the Band) |
| 20 | (There’s A) Fire in the Night |
| 21 | 40 Hour Week (For a Livin’) |
| 22 | Can’t Keep a Good Man Down |
| 23 | She and I |
| 24 | Touch Me When We’re Dancing |
| 25 | You’ve Got the Touch |
| 26 | Face to Face |
| 27 | Fallin’ Again |
| 28 | Song of the South |
| 29 | If I Had You |
| 30 | High Cotton |
| 31 | Southern Star |
| 32 | Jukebox in My Mind |
| 33 | Down Home |
| 34 | I’m in a Hurry (And Don’t Know Why) |
| 35 | Reckless |
| 36 | She Ain’t Your Ordinary Girl |
| 37 | Sad Lookin’ Moon |
| 38 | Why Lady Why |
| 39 | Born Country |
| 40 | Take a Little Trip |
| 41 | Hometown Honeymoon |
| 42 | Pass It On Down |
| 43 | Here We Are |
| 44 | Once Upon a Lifetime |
| 45 | Give Me One More Shot |
| 46 | In Pictures |
| 47 | Dancin’, Shaggin’ on the Boulevard |
| 48 | T.L.C. A.S.A.P. |
| 49 | Tar Top |
| 50 | We Can’t Love Like This Anymore |
Nickelback is a Canadian rock band formed in 1995 in Hanna, Alberta, Canada. The band is composed of guitarist and lead vocalist Chad Kroeger, guitarist, keyboardist and backing vocalist Ryan Peake, bassist Mike Kroeger, and drummer Daniel Adair. The band went through several drummer changes between 1995 and 2005, achieving its current lineup when Adair replaced drummer Ryan Vikedal.
Nickelback is one of the most commercially successful Canadian rock bands, having sold more than 50 million albums worldwide. In 2009 Billboard ranked them the most successful rock group of that decade; their song “How You Remind Me” was listed as the best-selling rock song and the fourth best-selling song of the decade overall. They were listed number seven on the Billboard top artist of the decade, with four albums listed on the Billboard top albums of the decade.
The band signed with Roadrunner Records in 1999 and re-released their once-independent album The State. The band achieved significant commercial success with this album, as well as with its follow-up, Silver Side Up, in 2001. Following the release of Silver Side Up the band released their biggest and most well-known hit today, “How You Remind Me”, which peaked number 1 on both the Billboard and Canadian Singles Charts. The band’s fourth album The Long Road, was released in 2003 and spawned 5 singles including Canadian number one “Someday”, which also peaked at number 7 on the Billboard Hot 100. Afterwards, the band put out their biggest-selling album to date, All The Right Reasons (2005) which produced 3 top 10 singles and 5 top 20 singles on the Billboard Hot 100 including “Photograph”, “Far Away”, and “Rockstar”. The band’s album Dark Horse (2008) was another commercial success, producing eight singles, one of which peaked on the top 10 on the Billboard Hot 100 and two of which peaked on the top 20 on the Billboard Hot 100. In 2011, the band released their seventh album Here and Now which again topped the charts. Their eighth studio album No Fixed Address was released on 17 November 2014, and their ninth studio album, Feed the Machine, was released on June 16, 2017. – Wikipedia
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| 1 | How You Remind Me |
| 2 | Someday |
| 3 | Photograph |
| 4 | Gotta Be Somebody |
| 5 | Rockstar |
| 6 | Far Away |
| 7 | Today Was Your Last Day |
| 8 | Savin’ Me |
| 9 | When We Stand Together |
| 10 | If Everyone Cared |
| 11 | Too Bad |
| 12 | This Afternoon |
| 13 | Feelin’ Way Too Damn Good |
| 14 | I’d Come for You |
| 15 | What Are You Waiting For? |
| 16 | Lullaby |
| 17 | Never Gonna Be Alone |
| 18 | Edge of a Revolution |
| 19 | Never Again |
| 20 | Figured You Out |
| 21 | After the Rain |
| 22 | Burn It to the Ground |
| 23 | Animals |
| 24 | Don’t Ever Let It End |
| 25 | Something in Your Mouth |
| 26 | Bottoms Up |
| 27 | Gotta Get Me Some |
| 28 | Shakin’ Hands |
| 29 | Trying Not to Love You |
| 30 | This Means War |
| 31 | Because of You |
| 32 | Side of a Bullet |
| 33 | Someone That You’re With |
| 34 | Leader of Men |
| 35 | Breathe |
| 36 | Million Miles an Hour |
| 37 | Feed the Machine |
| 38 | Home |
| 39 | Every Time We’re Together |
| 40 | Everything I Wanna Do |
| 41 | Flat on the Floor |
| 42 | Old Enough |
| 43 | Must Be Nice |
| 44 | Get ‘Em Up |
| 45 | Holding On to Heaven |
| 46 | She Keeps Me Up |
| 47 | See You at the Show |
| 48 | Fly |
| 49 | Satellite |
| 50 | Dirty Laundry |
ABBA were a Swedish pop group formed in Stockholm in 1972, comprising Agnetha Fältskog, Björn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson and Anni-Frid Lyngstad. ABBA is an acronym of the first letters of the band members’ first names (Agnetha, Benny, Bjorn and Anni-Frid) and is sometimes stylized as the registered trademark ᗅᗺᗷᗅ. They became one of the most commercially successful acts in the history of pop music, topping the charts worldwide from 1972 to 1982. They are also known for winning the 1974 Eurovision Song Contest, giving Sweden its first victory in the history of the contest and being the most successful group ever to take part in the contest.
ABBA had sold over 370 million albums and singles worldwide and still sell millions of records a year, which makes them one of the best-selling music artists of all time. ABBA was the first pop group to come from a non-English-speaking country that enjoyed consistent success in the charts of English-speaking countries, including the UK, Ireland, the U.S., Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Philippines and South Africa. The group also enjoyed significant success in Latin American markets, and recorded a collection of their hit songs in Spanish.
During the band’s active years, Fältskog and Ulvaeus were a married couple, as were Lyngstad and Andersson, although both couples later divorced. At the height of their popularity, both relationships were suffering strain which ultimately resulted in the collapse of the Ulvaeus-Fältskog marriage in 1979 and the Andersson-Lyngstad marriage in 1981. These relationship changes were reflected in the group’s music, with later compositions including more introspective lyrics.
After ABBA broke up in late 1982, Andersson and Ulvaeus achieved success writing music for the stage while Lyngstad and Fältskog pursued solo careers with mixed success. ABBA’s music declined in popularity until several films, notably Muriel’s Wedding and The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, revived interest in the group, spawning several tribute bands. In 1999, ABBA’s music was adapted into the successful musical Mamma Mia! that toured worldwide. A film of the same name released in 2008 became the highest-grossing film in the United Kingdom that year. The group was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on 15 March 2010. – Source: Wikipedia
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| 1 | Dancing Queen |
| 2 | Fernando |
| 3 | The Winner Takes It All |
| 4 | The Name of the Game |
| 5 | Chiquitita |
| 6 | SOS |
| 7 | Knowing Me, Knowing You |
| 8 | Take a Chance on Me |
| 9 | Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight) |
| 10 | Mamma Mia |
| 11 | Money, Money, Money |
| 12 | One of Us |
| 13 | Summer Night City |
| 14 | Waterloo |
| 15 | Super Trouper |
| 16 | I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do |
| 17 | Does Your Mother Know |
| 18 | The Day Before You Came |
| 19 | I Have a Dream |
| 20 | Head Over Heels |
| 21 | Honey, Honey |
| 22 | Voulez-Vous |
| 23 | Under Attack |
| 24 | Eagle |
| 25 | Lay All Your Love on Me |
| 26 | Angeleyes |
| 27 | Thank You for the Music |
| 28 | Rock Me |
| 29 | So Long |
| 30 | Hasta Mañana |
| 31 | Ring Ring |
| 32 | Rock and Roll Band |
| 33 | On and On and On |
| 34 | When All Is Said and Done |
| 35 | The Visitors |
| 36 | King Kong Song |
| 37 | People Need Love |
| 38 | He Is Your Brother |
| 39 | Love Isn’t Easy (But It Sure Is Hard Enough) |
| 40 | Nina, Pretty Ballerina |
| 41 | Another Town, Another Train |
| 42 | Bang-A-Boomerang |
| 43 | I Am Just a Girl |
| 44 | That’s Me |
| 45 | As Good as New |
| 46 | Our Last Summer |
| 47 | Happy New Year |
| 48 | Dream World |
| 49 | Put On Your White Sombrero |
| 50 | Dum Dum Diddle |
We feature the Top 50 Hits of 1971!
In the final installment of 1970 music we feature the Top 50 Albums of the year.
We have ranked and will play the Top 50 Def Leppard tunes.
Def Leppard are an English rock band formed in 1977 in Sheffield as part of the new wave of British heavy metal movement. Since 1992, the band has consisted of Joe Elliott (lead vocals), Rick Savage (bass, backing vocals), Rick Allen (drums, backing vocals), Phil Collen (guitars, backing vocals), and Vivian Campbell (guitars, backing vocals). This is the band’s longest lasting line-up.
The band’s strongest commercial success came between the early 1980s and the early 1990s. Their 1981 album, High ‘n’ Dry, was produced by Robert John “Mutt” Lange, who helped them begin to define their style, and the album’s standout track “Bringin’ On the Heartbreak” became one of the first rock videos played on MTV in 1982. The band’s next studio album, Pyromania, was released in January 1983, with “Photograph” and “Rock of Ages” as the lead singles. In the U.S., Pyromania was certified diamond (10× platinum), making Def Leppard among the most popular music groups at the time. In 2003, the album ranked number 384 on Rolling Stone’s 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.
Def Leppard’s fourth album Hysteria, released in 1987, topped the UK and U.S. album charts. As of 2009, it has reached beyond the success of Pyromania, having been certified 12× platinum for sales of over 12 million in the U.S. and has gone on to sell over 25 million copies worldwide. The album spawned seven hit singles, including the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 number one “Love Bites”, alongside “Pour Some Sugar on Me”, “Hysteria”, “Armageddon It”, “Animal”, “Rocket”, and “Women”. Their next studio album, Adrenalize (the first following the death of guitarist Steve Clark), reached number one in UK and U.S. charts in 1992, and contained several hits, including “Let’s Get Rocked” and “Have You Ever Needed Someone So Bad”. Their 1993 album, Retro Active, contained the acoustic hit song “Two Steps Behind”. Their greatest-hits album Vault, released in 1995, featured the UK hit “When Love & Hate Collide”.
As one of the world’s best-selling music artists, Def Leppard have sold more than 100 million records worldwide, and have two albums with RIAA diamond certification, Pyromania and Hysteria. They are one of only five rock bands with two original studio albums selling over 10 million copies in the U.S. The band were ranked No. 31 in VH1’s “100 Greatest Artists of Hard Rock” and ranked No. 70 in “100 Greatest Artists of All Time”. – Wikipedia
John J Mellencamp (born October 7, 1951), previously known as Johnny Cougar, John Cougar, and John Cougar Mellencamp, is an American musician, singer-songwriter, painter, and actor. He is known for his catchy, populist brand of heartland rock, which emphasizes traditional instrumentation. Mellencamp rose to fame in the 1980s while “honing an almost startlingly plainspoken writing style that, starting in 1982, yielded a string of Top 10 singles,” including “Hurts So Good,” “Jack & Diane,” “Crumblin’ Down,” “Pink Houses,” “Lonely Ol’ Night,” “Small Town,” “R.O.C.K. in the U.S.A.,” “Paper in Fire” and “Cherry Bomb.” He has amassed 22 Top 40 hits in the United States. In addition, he holds the record for the most tracks by a solo artist to hit number one on the Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart, with seven. Mellencamp has been nominated for 13 Grammy Awards, winning one. Mellencamp released his latest album, Sad Clowns & Hillbillies, on April 28, 2017, to widespread critical acclaim.
Mellencamp is also one of the founding members of Farm Aid, an organization that began in 1985 with a concert in Champaign, Illinois, to raise awareness about the loss of family farms and to raise funds to keep farm families on their land. Farm Aid concerts have remained an annual event over the past 33 years, and as of 2018 the organization has raised over $50 million to promote a strong and resilient family farm system of agriculture.
Mellencamp was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on March 10, 2008. On June 14, 2018, Mellencamp was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame. His biggest musical influences are Bob Dylan, Woody Guthrie, James Brown and the Rolling Stones. Rolling Stone contributor Anthony DeCurtis said: “Mellencamp has created an important body of work that has earned him both critical regard and an enormous audience. His songs document the joys and struggles of ordinary people seeking to make their way, and he has consistently brought the fresh air of common experience to the typically glamour-addled world of popular music.” – Wikipedia
