Hard rock/heavy metal bands
- Alice Cooper
- Parkway Drive
Hard rock/heavy metal bands
- Alice Cooper
- Parkway Drive
- Iron Maiden
(I’ll be going to see them for the third – and probably last – time in September!)
Hard rock/heavy metal bands
- Alice Cooper
- Parkway Drive
- Iron Maiden
- Judas Priest
Hard rock/heavy metal bands
- Alice Cooper
- Parkway Drive
- Iron Maiden
- Judas Priest
- Jethro Tull
Won the first “Hard Rock/Heavy Metal Album” Grammy Award… how much more metal can you get? OK, maybe not.
- Alice Cooper
- Parkway Drive
- Iron Maiden
- Judas Priest
- AC/DC
Hard rock/heavy metal bands
- Alice Cooper
- Parkway Drive
- Iron Maiden
- Judas Priest
- AC/DC
- Black Sabbath
Hard rock/heavy metal bands
- Alice Cooper
- Parkway Drive
- Iron Maiden
- Judas Priest
- AC/DC
- Black Sabbath
- Jackyl
you don’t get much more metal than a chain-saw solo
-“BB”-
Hard rock/heavy metal bands
- Alice Cooper
- Parkway Drive
- Iron Maiden
- Judas Priest
- AC/DC
- Black Sabbath
- Jackyl
- Van Halen
Hard rock/heavy metal bands
- Alice Cooper
- Parkway Drive
- Iron Maiden
- Judas Priest
- AC/DC
- Black Sabbath
- Jackyl
- Van Halen
- Hawkwind
Hard rock/heavy metal bands
- Alice Cooper
- Parkway Drive
- Iron Maiden
- Judas Priest
- AC/DC
- Black Sabbath
- Jackyl
- Van Halen
- Hawkwind
- Spinal Tap
Fictional bands or artists that may or may not have actually charted hits
- The Soggy Bottom Boys - “Man of Constant Sorrow” (O Brother, Where Art Thou?)
Fictional bands or artists that may or may not have actually charted hits
- The Soggy Bottom Boys - “Man of Constant Sorrow” (O Brother, Where Art Thou?)
- The Archies - “Sugar Sugar” (The Archie Show animated series)
While singer-songwriter Andy Kim co-wrote “Sugar Sugar”, lead vocals were performed by Cuff Links vocalist Ron Dante. Dante would go on to produce nine albums for Barry Manilow through 1980.
Fictional bands or artists that may or may not have actually charted hits
- The Soggy Bottom Boys - “Man of Constant Sorrow” (O Brother, Where Art Thou?)
- The Archies - “Sugar Sugar” (The Archie Show animated series)
- The Chipmunks - “The Chipmunk Song (Christmas Don’t Be Late)”
Sped-up recording of human voice.
Fictional bands or artists that may or may not have actually charted hits
- The Soggy Bottom Boys - “Man of Constant Sorrow” (O Brother, Where Art Thou?)
- The Archies - “Sugar Sugar” (The Archie Show animated series)
- The Chipmunks - “The Chipmunk Song (Christmas Don’t Be Late)”
- Spın̈al Tap - “Bitch School” (the fictional subject of the mockumentary This is Spın̈al Tap; this song from their 1992 “reunion” album actually reached #35 on the UK chart)
Fictional bands or artists that may or may not have actually charted hits
- The Soggy Bottom Boys - “Man of Constant Sorrow” (O Brother, Where Art Thou?)
- The Archies - “Sugar Sugar” (The Archie Show animated series)
- The Chipmunks - “The Chipmunk Song (Christmas Don’t Be Late)”
- Spın̈al Tap - “Bitch School” (the fictional subject of the mockumentary This is Spın̈al Tap; this song from their 1992 “reunion” album actually reached #35 on the UK chart)
- Dethklok – This band from the Cartoon Network animated show Metalocalypse released several full-length studio albums. Their first album, The Dethalbum (2007) set records by becoming the highest-charting death metal album in Billboard history at that time.
-“BB”-
Fictional bands or artists that may or may not have actually charted hits
- The Soggy Bottom Boys - “Man of Constant Sorrow” (O Brother, Where Art Thou?)
- The Archies - “Sugar Sugar” (The Archie Show animated series)
- The Chipmunks - “The Chipmunk Song (Christmas Don’t Be Late)”
- Spın̈al Tap - “Bitch School” (the fictional subject of the mockumentary This is Spın̈al Tap; this song from their 1992 “reunion” album actually reached #35 on the UK chart)
- Dethklok – This band from the Cartoon Network animated show Metalocalypse released several full-length studio albums. Their first album, The Dethalbum (2007) set records by becoming the highest-charting death metal album in Billboard history at that time.
- The Takeaways - Fictional band created for the Australian TV series “Sweet and Sour” in 1984. Featuring the contributions of many well credentialled local artists, the soundtrack album went platinum, selling over 70,000 copies. Australian band GANGgajang was formed as a direct result of four of their members involvement as musicians/songwriters.
Fictional bands or artists that may or may not have actually charted hits
- The Soggy Bottom Boys - “Man of Constant Sorrow” (O Brother, Where Art Thou?)
- The Archies - “Sugar Sugar” (The Archie Show animated series)
- The Chipmunks - “The Chipmunk Song (Christmas Don’t Be Late)”
- Spın̈al Tap - “Bitch School” (the fictional subject of the mockumentary This is Spın̈al Tap; this song from their 1992 “reunion” album actually reached #35 on the UK chart)
- Dethklok – This band from the Cartoon Network animated show Metalocalypse released several full-length studio albums. Their first album, The Dethalbum (2007) set records by becoming the highest-charting death metal album in Billboard history at that time.
- The Takeaways - Fictional band created for the Australian TV series “Sweet and Sour” in 1984. Featuring the contributions of many well credentialled local artists, the soundtrack album went platinum, selling over 70,000 copies. Australian band GANGgajang was formed as a direct result of four of their members involvement as musicians/songwriters.
- Girls 5eva - “Famous 5eva” from the series Girls 5eva, about a girl group trying to make a comeback years after their heyday.
Fictional bands or artists that may or may not have actually charted hits
- The Soggy Bottom Boys - “Man of Constant Sorrow” (O Brother, Where Art Thou?)
- The Archies - “Sugar Sugar” (The Archie Show animated series)
- The Chipmunks - “The Chipmunk Song (Christmas Don’t Be Late)”
- Spın̈al Tap - “Bitch School” (the fictional subject of the mockumentary This is Spın̈al Tap; this song from their 1992 “reunion” album actually reached #35 on the UK chart)
- Dethklok – This band from the Cartoon Network animated show Metalocalypse released several full-length studio albums. Their first album, The Dethalbum (2007) set records by becoming the highest-charting death metal album in Billboard history at that time.
- The Takeaways - Fictional band created for the Australian TV series “Sweet and Sour” in 1984. Featuring the contributions of many well credentialled local artists, the soundtrack album went platinum, selling over 70,000 copies. Australian band GANGgajang was formed as a direct result of four of their members involvement as musicians/songwriters.
- Girls 5eva - “Famous 5eva” from the series Girls 5eva, about a girl group trying to make a comeback years after their heyday.
- Huntrix - “Golden” (The fictional K-pop girl group in the animated Netflix film KPop Demon Hunters. The song reached #1 in dozens of countries, including the U.S.)
Fictional bands or artists that may or may not have actually charted hits
- The Soggy Bottom Boys - “Man of Constant Sorrow” (O Brother, Where Art Thou?)
- The Archies - “Sugar Sugar” (The Archie Show animated series)
- The Chipmunks - “The Chipmunk Song (Christmas Don’t Be Late)”
- Spın̈al Tap - “Bitch School” (the fictional subject of the mockumentary This is Spın̈al Tap; this song from their 1992 “reunion” album actually reached #35 on the UK chart)
- Dethklok – This band from the Cartoon Network animated show Metalocalypse released several full-length studio albums. Their first album, The Dethalbum (2007) set records by becoming the highest-charting death metal album in Billboard history at that time.
- The Takeaways - Fictional band created for the Australian TV series “Sweet and Sour” in 1984. Featuring the contributions of many well credentialled local artists, the soundtrack album went platinum, selling over 70,000 copies. Australian band GANGgajang was formed as a direct result of four of their members involvement as musicians/songwriters.
- Girls 5eva - “Famous 5eva” from the series Girls 5eva, about a girl group trying to make a comeback years after their heyday.
- Huntrix - “Golden” (The fictional K-pop girl group in the animated Netflix film KPop Demon Hunters. The song reached #1 in dozens of countries, including the U.S.)
- The Wonders (or One-ders) - “That Thing You Do,” from the movie of the same name. Plenty of great music in that film; if nothing charted on real charts, it should have.
Fictional bands or artists that may or may not have actually charted hits
- The Soggy Bottom Boys - “Man of Constant Sorrow” (O Brother, Where Art Thou?)
- The Archies - “Sugar Sugar” (The Archie Show animated series)
- The Chipmunks - “The Chipmunk Song (Christmas Don’t Be Late)”
- Spın̈al Tap - “Bitch School” (the fictional subject of the mockumentary This is Spın̈al Tap; this song from their 1992 “reunion” album actually reached #35 on the UK chart)
- Dethklok – This band from the Cartoon Network animated show Metalocalypse released several full-length studio albums. Their first album, The Dethalbum (2007) set records by becoming the highest-charting death metal album in Billboard history at that time.
- The Takeaways - Fictional band created for the Australian TV series “Sweet and Sour” in 1984. Featuring the contributions of many well credentialled local artists, the soundtrack album went platinum, selling over 70,000 copies. Australian band GANGgajang was formed as a direct result of four of their members involvement as musicians/songwriters.
- Girls 5eva - “Famous 5eva” from the series Girls 5eva, about a girl group trying to make a comeback years after their heyday.
- Huntrix - “Golden” (The fictional K-pop girl group in the animated Netflix film KPop Demon Hunters. The song reached #1 in dozens of countries, including the U.S.)
- The Wonders (or One-ders) - “That Thing You Do,” from the movie of the same name. Plenty of great music in that film; if nothing charted on real charts, it should have.
- Dewey Cox - Performed many great songs on the Walk Hard soundtrack including the titular song, “A Life Without You”, “Guilty as Charged”, and “Let’s Duet”.
Pass.
Top 40 Hits By Punk Bands
- “Punk Rock Girl” - The Dead Milkmen
Top 40 Hits By Punk Bands
- “Punk Rock Girl” - The Dead Milkmen
- “Ruby Soho” - Rancid