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The Greatest (TV series) The Greatest. (TV series) The Greatest is a television series broadcast on VH1. Each episode counts down either songs, albums, music videos, moments, musicians, or celebrities of a particular category.
A one-hit wonder is a musical artist who is successful with one hit song, but without a comparable subsequent hit. [1] The term may also be applied to an artist who is remembered for only one hit despite other successes (such as "Take On Me" by a-ha in the United States, [2] [3] [4] which topped a Rolling Stone magazine poll to find the top one-hit wonder).
In 2009, "Runnin' with the Devil" was named the 9th greatest hard rock song of all time by VH1. [1] Chuck Klosterman of Vulture ranked it the eighth-best Van Halen song, praising the staccato bass playing as well as David Lee Roth's vocal performance. [3] "Runnin' with the Devil" remains a staple track of classic rock radio and Van Halen's ...
This time the single peaked at #6 on the US Billboard Hot 100; [3] it was certified platinum by the RIAA. This made Houston the first musical act to take the national anthem Top 10 in the US; she was also the first act to have it certified platinum. The 2001 re-release of the single was Houston's last Top Ten hit on the US Hot 100 during her ...
In 2002, VH1 voted it as the 64th greatest one-hit wonder of all time. In 2007, the song was voted number 90 on VH1's "100 Greatest Songs of the 90s". [19] It was listed number 440 on Blender's list of "The 500 Greatest Songs Since You Were Born". [20] In 2010 it was number 106 on Pitchfork's "Top 200 Tracks of the 90s". [21]
VH1's Top 40 Videos of the Year: The year's best videos are counted down with commentary from celebrities. Prior to 2002, the special was a top 50 countdown, and was five hours long to allow most or all of each video to be played. From 2002 to 2011, the special was a top 40 countdown and resembled VH1's occasional "Top 100" countdowns.
The 100 Greatest Artists of All Time" is a special issue published by Rolling Stone in two parts in 2004 and 2005, and later updated in 2011. [1] The list presented was compiled based on input from musicians, writers, and industry figures and is focused on the rock & roll era.
The song, recognized as "the best-selling single of all time", was released before the pop/rock singles-chart era and "was listed as the world's best-selling single in the first-ever Guinness Book of Records (published in 1955) and—remarkably—still retains the title more than 50 years later".