#1 Album on October 31, 1964

People
Barbra Streisand

"People who need people are the luckiest people in the world." The title track from People was a hit song from the Broadway musical Funny Girl in which Streisand starred. Barbra Streisand's first television appearance was on The Tonight Show in 1961.
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#1 Album on October 30, 1975

Windsong
John Denver

Windsong features the hit single Calypso, written by John Denver as a tribute to celebrity marine explorer Jacques-Yves Cousteau and his research vessel the Calypso. Denver's spectacular entertainment career peaked during the late 1970s. He was known for his catch phrase "Far out!".
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#1 Album on October 29, 1989

Rhythm Nation 1814
Janet Jackson

Rhythm Nation 1814 is Janet Jackson's music concept addressing the social issues of racism, crime, poverty, substance abuse, homelessness and illiteracy. The album was the best selling of 1990 and generated five charted hits. Janet is the youngest child of the Jackson music family.
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#1 Album on October 28, 1967

Diana Ross and The Supremes Greatest Hits
Supremes

Greatest Hits is twenty tracks by the Supremes, ten of which were #1 hits. Notable tracks include "Where Did Our Love Go", "Stop! In the Name of Love", "You Can't Hurry Love" and "The Happening". Greatest Hits spent the month of November 1967 at #1.
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#1 Album on October 27, 2001

Pain Is Love
Ja Rule

Pain Is Love was the best-selling album of 2001. Ja Rule appeared in several films during a break from recording beginning in 2001. Ja Rule was born Jeffrey Atkins in Hollis, Queens, New York in 1976.
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#1 Album on October 26, 1963

Peter, Paul and Mary
Peter, Paul and Mary

The 1962 debut of folk singing group Peter, Paul and Mary gave us several folk rock staples: "500 Miles", "Lemon Tree", "If I Had a Hammer" and "Where Have All the Flowers Gone?". The group scored their first and only #1 song in 1969 singing John Denver's "Leaving On A Jet Plane".
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#1 Album on October 25, 1980

Guilty
Barbra Streisand

Guilty was written and produced for Barbra Streisand by Bee Gee member Barry Gibb. The album's title track earned a Grammy Award in 1981. Barbra Streisand has recorded more than sixty albums over five decades in the music business.
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#1 Album on October 24, 2004

50 Number Ones
George Strait

George Strait's compilation album also includes the new release "I Hate Everything", which became George's fifty-first #1 song. George earned his first #1 hit with 1981's "Fool Hearted Memory". During his army days, George Strait played in a band called Rambling while stationed in Hawaii.
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#1 Album on October 23, 1966

Supremes A' Go-Go
Supremes

The Supremes formed in Detroit in 1959. Lead vocalist Dianna Ross, backed up by Mary Wilson and Florence Ballard, produced twelve #1 hits during the 1960s and were Motown Records most successful act. Dianna Ross left the Supremes in 1970 to pursue a solo career.
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#1 Album on October 22, 1995

Daydream
Mariah Carey

Daydream is recognized as Mariah's most critically acclaimed release. The global #1 hit has sold over ten million copies since its 1995 release and is Mariah's best selling in America. Mariah Carey was born in Huntington, Long Island, New York.
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#1 Album on October 21, 1972

Super Fly
Curtis Mayfield

Super Fly is the soundtrack from the 1972 film of the same name. The album represents the critical and commercial peak of Curtis Mayfield's solo career, which began when he left The Impressions in the 1970s. Mayfield received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1995. He died in 1999.
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#1 Album on October 20, 1999

Human Clay
Creed

Creed front man Scott Stapp wrote the lyrics for "With Arms Wide Open" when he found out that he was going to be a father. The song earned a Grammy Award for Best Rock Song in 2001. Creed was formed in 1995 in Tallahassee at Florida State University.
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#1 Album on October 19, 1989

Dr. Feelgood
Mötley Crüe

Several notable artists, including Bryan Adams, Robin Zander, Rick Nielsen and Steven Tyler, backed Mötley Crüe on Dr. Feelgood. The album features "Without You", "Don't Go Away Mad (Just Go Away)" and "Kickstart My Heart". The latter was inspired by bassist Nikki Sixx's near-fatal heroin overdose in 1987. Mötley Crüe formed in Los Angeles, California in 1981.
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#1 Album on October 18, 1994

Monster
R.E.M.

The first single from Monster, "What's the Frequency, Kenneth?", refers to the bizarre phrase used by an attacker on news anchor Dan Rather in 1986. The album was a hard-edged departure from previous R.E.M. releases. The Athens, Georgia-based band played its first show on April 5, 1980 at a friend's birthday party.
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#1 Album on October 17, 1998

Vol. 2... Hard Knock Life
Jay-Z

Hard Knock Life is Jay-Z's most commercially successful album. The album stayed at #1 for over a month during autumn 1998 and spawned two top ten hits, "Can I Get A..." and "Hard Knock Life (Ghetto Anthem)". The album earned a Grammy but Jay-Z boycotted the ceremony protesting fellow rapper DMX's failure to garner a Grammy nomination.
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#1 Album on October 15, 1988

New Jersey
Bon Jovi

New Jersey was a huge hit for Bon Jovi. The album produced two #1 songs, "Bad Medicine" and "I'll Be There for You", plus three charted hits, "Born to Be My Baby", "Lay Your Hands on Me", and "Living in Sin". The band formed around lead vocalist John Bon Jovi in Sayreville, New Jersey in 1983 and has essentially stayed the same since then.
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#1 Album on October 14, 2002

Elv1s: 30 #1 Hits
Elvis Presley

Thirty #1 hits by Elvis Presley debuted in the top spot. This posthumous achievement made Elvis the only solo act in recording history to earn a #1 album in each of four different decades. Elvis made his first public performance at age ten in a singing contest at the Mississippi-Alabama Fair and Dairy Show. He sang Red Foley's "Old Shep".
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#1 Album on October 13, 1973

Goats Head Soup
Rolling Stones

Goats Head Soup produced the #1 hit "Angie" and the charted hit "Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo (Heartbreaker)". Legal issues for guitarist Keith Richards caused the band to relocate to Jamaica for the album's recording sessions. One outtake from the album, "Waiting on a Friend", would become a hit several years later for the Stones.
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#1 Album on October 12, 1968

Cheap Thrills
Big Brother and the Holding Company

The #1 single "Piece of My Heart" propelled Big Brother's last album with lead singer Janis Joplin to the top of the album charts for eight weeks. The highly anticipated album was released in the summer of 1968 at the height of the psychedelic music scene. Janis Joplin left Big Brother and the Holding Company for a solo career in December 1968.
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#1 Album on October 11, 1997

Evolution
Boyz II Men

Evolution was released three years after the group's 1994 super smash album "II". The highly anticipated album debuted at #1 and produced the #1 "4 Seasons of Loneliness" and the charted single "A Song for Mama". The Philadelphia-based trio is the only group in history to have seven platinum singles in the United States.
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#1 Album on October 10, 1992

The Chase
Garth Brooks

Garth Brooks' The Chase features two #1 country hits "Somewhere Other Than the Night" and "That Summer", as well as the charted songs "We Shall Be Free" and "Learning to Live Again". Garth Brooks wrote the memorable gospel/country song "We Shall Be Free" after spending time in Los Angeles during the 1992 riots.
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#1 Album on October 9, 2002

Believe
Disturbed

Believe debuted at #1, produced the singles "Prayer", "Liberate" and "Remember", and was the first of three consecutive #1 albums for the Chicago-based band. The members of Disturbed first played under the name Brawl. Lead singer David Draiman answered a newspaper ad and joined the band's three other members in 1996.
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#1 Album on October 8, 1978

Don't Look Back
Boston

The classic rock group Boston became a phenomenal success after its 1976 self-titled debut release. The #1 album produced the classic rock hits "More Than a Feeling" and "Long Time". The band followed up two years later with the #1 album Don't Look Back. Boston formed during the early 1970s and first played under the name "Mother's Milk".
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#1 Album on October 7, 1975

Wish You Were Here
Pink Floyd

Pink Floyd's long anticipated follow-up to Dark Side of the Moon topped the charts for two weeks in October 1975. The album spawned several Pink Floyd classics, including the title track, "Have a Cigar" and the nine-part song "Shine On You Crazy Diamond", a tribute to former front man Syd Barrett, who left the band in 1968.
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#1 Album on October 6, 1996

Falling Into You
Celine Dion

Falling into You stayed in the charts for more than a year. The international blockbuster earned several awards, including a Grammy for Album of the year in 1997. The album features "Because You Loved Me", "It's All Coming Back to Me Now" and "All by Myself". Céline Dion was born in Charlemagne, Quebec, Canada, the youngest of fourteen children.
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#1 Album on October 5, 1991

Use Your Illusion II
Guns N' Roses

Use Your Illusion II is the second of two albums released in conjunction with the band's Use Your Illusion tour, which ran for over two years. The album has fourteen tracks including the single "You Could Be Mine" and the cover of Bob Dylan's "Knockin' on Heaven's Door". Members of the bands Hollywood Rose and L.A. Guns joined up in 1985 to form Guns N' Roses.
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#1 Album on October 4, 1969

Green River
Creedence Clearwater Revival

Released at the peak of their success, Green River features CCR's signature classic "Bad Moon Rising" as well as the title track and "Lodi". The band members of Creedence Clearwater Revival met while in high school in El Cerrito, California. Artistic and business tensions caused the band to dissolve in October 1972. Front man John Fogerty went on to enjoy a highly successful solo career.
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#1 Album on October 3, 1974

Bad Company
Bad Company

Bad Company's debut #1 album produced the classic rock staples "Can't Get Enough", "Rock Steady", "Bad Company" and "Ready for Love". The original band was considered a rock "super group", comprised of former members of Free, Mott the Hoople and King Crimson. Front man Paul Rodgers adopted the band's name from the 1972 film Bad Company.
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#1 Album on October 2, 1971

Every Picture Tells a Story
Rod Stewart

Rod Stewart's Every Picture Tells a Story features one of his most successful and well-known songs "Maggie May". Both the album and song hit #1 in October 1971. "Maggie May" was originally the B-side of the minor hit "Reason to Believe". Fellow band members of Faces --who Stewart was lead singer with during this time-- performed on the album.
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#1 Album on October 1, 1986

Dancing on the Ceiling
Lionel Richie

Dancing on the Ceiling was Lionel Richie's last of a string of popular releases during the 1980s. The album produced the #1 "Say You, Say Me" and charted hits "Dancing on the Ceiling", "Ballerina Girl" and "Se La". Lionel was a standout tennis player in high school and accepted a tennis scholarship at Tuskegee Institute, where he later graduated with a major in economics.
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