Kenny Rogers
Highlights
- Has charted more than 70 hit singles
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Voted the "Favorite Singer of All-Time", in a 1986 joint poll by readers of both USA Today and People.
- The only artist to chart a record in each of the last six decades (50's, 60's, 70's, 80's, 90's, 2000's).
- At the height of his late '70s-early '80s success, Kenny Rogers sold more than one million records every month for a whopping 26 straight months.
- #1 chart-topping hit "Buy Me A Rose" -made him the oldest artist to reach #1 in the history of the country charts
- He was the first country music artist to receive 20 RIAA gold albums
- Topped the country and pop album charts for more than 543 individual weeks in the United States alone.
- Two of his albums, The Gambler and Kenny, are featured in the About.com poll of "The 200 Most Influential Country Albums Ever"
- 30 #1 singles