Artist Countdown: Def Leppard Top 50 Hits 7pm ET @def_leppard @RadioMax

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 Rick Savage (bass, backing vocals), Joe Elliott (lead vocals), Rick Allen (drums, backing vocals), Phil Collen (guitar, backing vocals), and Vivian Campbell (guitar, backing vocals). This is the band’s longest-standing 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 stand out track “Bringin’ On the Heartbreak” became one of the first metal videos played on MTV in 1982. The band’s next studio album Pyromania in 1983, with the lead single “Photograph”, turned Def Leppard into a household name. 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 U.S. and UK album charts. As of 2009 it has 12x platinum sales in the United States, and has gone on to sell over 20 million copies worldwide. The album spawned seven 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 on the U.S. Billboard 200 and UK Album Chart 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”, while their greatest hits album Vault released in 1995 featured the new track “When Love & Hate Collide“.

As one of the world’s best-selling music artists, Def Leppard have sold more than 100 million albums 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”. (Source: Wikipedia)

1	Let’s Get Rocked
2	Love Bites
3	Rocket
4	Animal
5	Pour Some Sugar on Me
6	Make Love Like a Man
7	Two Steps Behind
8	When Love & Hate Collide
9	Have You Ever Needed Someone
10	Armageddon It
11	Hysteria
12	Now
13	Rock of Ages
14	Work It Out
15	Photograph
16	Stand Up (Kick Love into Motion)
17	Promises
18	Tonight
19	Foolin’
20	Action
21	Heaven Is
22	Miss You in a Heartbeat
23	Slang
24	Women
25	Too Late for Love
26	Paper Sun
27	Desert Song
28	Elected
29	Day After Day
30	Comin’ Under Fire
31	Four Letter Word
32	Billy’s Got a Gun
33	Let It Go
34	All I Want Is Everything
35	Long, Long Way to Go
36	Action! Not Words
37	Breathe a Sigh
38	Hello America
39	Goodbye
40	Wasted
41	Rock Brigade
42	Bringin’ On the Heartbreak
43	21st Century Sha La La La Girl
44	Back in Your Face
45	No Matter What
46	Rock On
47	20th Century Boy
48	Nine Lives (ft. Tim McGraw)
49	Undefeated
50	It’s All About Believin’

Artist Countdown: Tears For Fears 6pm ET @radiomax @tearsforfears

Tears for Fears are an English New Wave band formed in 1981 by Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith. Founded after the dissolution of their first band, the mod-influenced Graduate, they were initially associated with the new wave synthesizer bands of the early 1980s but later branched out into mainstream rock and pop, which led to international chart success.

Their platinum-selling debut album, The Hurting, reached number one on the UK Album Chart, while their second album, Songs from the Big Chair, reached number one on the U.S. Billboard 200, achieving multi-platinum status in both the UK and the United States. Their second album contained two Billboard Hot 100 number ones: “Shout” and “Everybody Wants to Rule the World“‘, the latter winning the Brit Award for Best British Single in 1986.

Following the release of their third platinum-selling album, The Seeds of Love (1989), Smith and Orzabal parted company in 1991, though Orzabal retained the Tears for Fears name throughout the remainder of the 1990s. The duo re-formed in 2000, and released an album of new material, Everybody Loves a Happy Ending, in 2004. To date, Tears for Fears have sold over 25 million albums worldwide, including more than 8 million in the U.S. (Source: Wikipedia)

1	Shout
2	Everybody Wants to Rule the World
3	Sowing the Seeds of Love
4	Woman in Chains (with Oleta Adams)
5	Head over Heels
6	Change
7	Break It Down Again
8	Advice for the Young at Heart
9	Laid So Low
10	Mad World
11	Pale Shelter
12	I Believe (A Soulful Re-Recording)
13	Mothers Talk
14	God’s Mistake
15	Closest Thing to Heaven
16	Everybody Loves a Happy Ending
17	The Way You Are
18	Raoul and the Kings of Spain
19	Goodnight Song
20	Suffer the Children
21	Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams
22	Cold
23	Famous Last Words
24	Elemental
25	Secrets
26	Call Me Mellow
27	Secret World
28	Working Hour
29	Dog’s A Best Friends Dog
30	Swords and Knives