top 40

The band earned 30 Top 40 hits in its lifetime, with the Recording Academy bestowing the Grammy Legend Award in 2003 and a Lifetime Achievement Award in 2015.

The remaining song of the year nominee is “Die With a Smile,” the Top 40 radio smash performed by Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars.

In the mid-’60s, he produced four million-selling singles and 10 Top 40 hits for Lesley Gore, including “It’s My Party.”

Following his death, all five One Direction albums have returned to the UK top 40.

Lesh remained with the Dead through their unexpected upswing in popularity in the late 1980s and early ’90s, a revival partially fueled by the band’s only Top 40 hit, “Touch of Grey.”