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artistes whose careers have spanned more than one decade ?
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the chauffeur
20-09-2015
With Duran Duran back in the top ten albums, got me wondering how many other acts have managed to have hits over more than one decade.
i'm thinking original/new music, rather than greatest hits or reissues.
Of course Cliff Richard is probabily the longest charted singer, spanning from 1958 thru to 2009 in the UK singles.
FMKK
20-09-2015
There's a lot really.
Hayden
20-09-2015
Who's going to do the list?
cnbcwatcher
20-09-2015
I mostly know of pop acts...

Britney Spears
Madonna
Kylie Minogue
Rihanna (mid 00s-present)
Celine Dion
Beyonce (solo and Destiny's Child)
Nebworth90
20-09-2015
If we were to refine the list to 4 or more decades (like Duran Duran have), the list would be substantially less...
little-monster
20-09-2015
Barbra Streisand has been going on since the 60's.
ShaunIOW
20-09-2015
Iron Maiden
Judas Priest
Motorhead
Lewnaticc
20-09-2015
It should really be two/three decades or more to be considered impressive (though in this modern era of easily disposable music and trends, one is actually quite good).

Will we be listening to Carly Rae Jepsen in 10 years? I doubt it.
FMKK
20-09-2015
Originally Posted by Lewnaticc:
“It should really be two/three decades or more to be considered impressive (though in this modern era of easily disposable music and trends, one is actually quite good).

Will we be listening to Carly Rae Jepsen in 10 years? I doubt it.”

Eh, I reckon Call Me Maybe will still get a few spins on commercial radio. It was a really big hit.
urt31
20-09-2015
Cher had her first top 40 single in 1965, most recent in 2013.

She has had a number one single in the US in each of the past six decades.
John_Lochery
21-09-2015
Cliff Richard been going since the 50s
Cher's been going since the 60s
Madonna been going since the 80s
Britney been going since 1998
P!nk been going since 2000
Mariah Carey been going since the 90s
Will Young been going since 2002

Theres loads more but too tired to think now lol
unique
21-09-2015
Originally Posted by the chauffeur:
“With Duran Duran back in the top ten albums, got me wondering how many other acts have managed to have hits over more than one decade.
i'm thinking original/new music, rather than greatest hits or reissues.
Of course Cliff Richard is probabily the longest charted singer, spanning from 1958 thru to 2009 in the UK singles.”

thousands of acts

if you have a hit in 1969 and a hit in 1970 you have hits over more than one decade for example, or 2009 and 2010 as the years fall in different decades

and theres loads of acts that have been going for over 10 years and having hits a long time apart
shackfan
21-09-2015
There are probably hundreds so really not worthwhile starting.
mushymanrob
21-09-2015
careers? as in chart careers?..

look at cathy dennis for eg, short chart career as an artist but much longer when she went into writing. i think most artists career might change path but still carry on in music in some way.

and do breaks count?... look at jackie wilson, hits until 75, then an 11 year gap before re-releases prolonged a dead career..
mgvsmith
21-09-2015
Maybe it should just be longest career, Vera Lynn goes back to the 1940s.
Inkblot
21-09-2015
Charles Aznavour first performed on stage in 1933, aged nine and is appearing at the Royal Albert Hall in November, aged 91.

Admittedly he was an originally an actor but that's still a career spanning nine decades!

Tony Bennett can only claim eight decades as, though he's 89 now, he didn't start performing until the late 1940s.
Doghouse Riley
21-09-2015
Miles Davis, 40s, 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s and early 90s. Could have been more had he not died at the age of 65.

Re-issues of his albums every year.
Puterkid
21-09-2015
A lot more come and go than continue for decades, that's for sure. Artists who survive more than a decade need something a bit special and a loyal fanbase.
Inkblot
21-09-2015
Originally Posted by Doghouse Riley:
“Miles Davis, 40s, 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s and early 90s. Could have been more had he not died at the age of 65.

Re-issues of his albums every year.”

How about Jon Hendricks?

According to Wikipedia he started singing at age 7, which would be in the 1920s! So he's performed in 10 decades!

Here he is, I believe in his nineties: https://youtu.be/liXRbSoEsr0
PhilH36
21-09-2015
Quo..........
Doghouse Riley
21-09-2015
Originally Posted by Inkblot:
“How about Jon Hendricks?

According to Wikipedia he started singing at age 7, which would be in the 1920s! So he's performed in 10 decades!

Here he is, I believe in his nineties: https://youtu.be/liXRbSoEsr0”

Good call!

I used to like Lambert, Hendricks & Ross.

Dave Lambert died in 1966, hit by a truck on the Connecticut Turnpike, when changing a tyre.

Annie Ross is now 85.

Jon Hendricks is unbelievably, now 94.
lollipop1995
21-09-2015
Cheryl's been on the go since 2002. And of course Britney,Beyoncé,Madonna,Cher.
ellesworth
21-09-2015
McFly (2004)
Kelly Clarkson (2002)
Carrie Underwood (2005)
George Michael (1983 with Wham and subsequently as a solo artist)
Dolly Parton
Maroon 5
Britney
Christina

There are a lot of artists who are popular in America but not so much over here, who have lasted a really long time. Tim McGraw, Brad Paisley, Rascal Flatts, Reba, Eagles, George Strait, Keith Urban, Kenny Chesney, Big & Rich, Blake Shelton,
my name is joe
21-09-2015
Cliff Richard
Nana mouskouri
Demis Roussos
Daniel O Donnell

all the greats basically

the real answer is almost everyone except the most ephemeral of pop acts
Dougray
21-09-2015
I remember when Kylie first started having hits and all the critics said she would be gone in a few years....28 years later shes still going!
First female to have a number one album in 80s, 90's,00's and 10's
has had top 3 hits in all those decades, not bad for someone who was meant to be a flash in the pan!
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