Question: Information: - "Pink Houses" is a song written and performed by John Mellencamp. It was released on the 1983 album "Uh-Huh" on Riva Records. It reached #8 on the U.S. "Billboard" Hot 100 in early 1984. "Pink Houses" was ranked #439 on "Rolling Stone" magazine's list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. - Heartland rock is a genre of rock music that is exemplified by the commercial success of singer-songwriters Bruce Springsteen, Bob Seger, Tom Petty, and John Mellencamp. It is characterized by a straightforward musical style, a concern with the average, blue-collar American life, and a conviction that rock music has a social or communal purpose beyond just entertainment. - John J Mellencamp (born October 7, 1951), also known as John Cougar Mellencamp, is an American musician, singer-songwriter, painter, and actor. He is known for his catchy, populist brand of heartland rock, which emphasizes traditional instrumentation. Mellencamp rose to superstardom in the 1980s while "honing an almost startlingly plainspoken writing style that, starting in 1982, yielded a string of Top 10 singles," including "Hurts So Good," "Jack & Diane," "Crumblin' Down," "Pink Houses," "Lonely Ol' Night," "Small Town," "R.O.C.K. in the U.S.A.," "Paper in Fire," and "Cherry Bomb." He has amassed 22 Top 40 hits in the United States. In addition, he holds the record for the most tracks by a solo artist to hit number one on the Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart, with seven, and has been nominated for 13 Grammy Awards, winning one. Mellencamp released his latest album, "Plain Spoken", on September 23, 2014, to widespread critical acclaim. - A Grammy Award (originally called Gramophone Award), or Grammy, is an honor awarded by The Recording Academy to recognize outstanding achievement in the mainly English-language music industry. The annual presentation ceremony features performances by prominent artists, and the presentation of those awards that have a more popular interest. It shares recognition of the music industry as that of the other performance awards such as the Emmy Awards (television), the Tony Awards (stage performance), and the Academy Awards (motion pictures). - Nothin ' Matters and What If It Did is John Mellencamp 's fourth released album , under his pseudonym of John Cougar . It includes the moderate hits '' Ai n't Even Done with the Night , '' which reached # 17 on the Billboard Hot 100 as the album 's second single , and '' This Time , '' which peaked at # 27 as the album 's lead single . '' The singles were stupid little pop songs , '' Mellencamp told Record Magazine in 1983 . '' I take no credit for that record . It was n't like the title was made up -- it was n't supposed to be punky or cocky like some people thought . Toward the end , I did n't even go to the studio . Me and the guys in the band thought we were finished , anyway . It was the most expensive record I ever made . It cost $ 280,000 , do you believe that ? The worst thing was that I could have gone on making records like that for hundreds of years . Hell , as long as you sell a few records and the record company is n't putting a lot of money into promotion , you 're making money for ' em and that 's all they care about . PolyGram loved Nothin ' Matters . They thought I was going to turn into the next Neil Diamond . '' Mellencamp wrote '' To M.G. ( Wherever She May Be ) '' in remembrance of his high school girlfriend , whose name was Margie ( aka M.G. ) . The woman on the album 's cover , Edith Massey , was chosen because , as Mellencamp told Rolling Stone in late 1980 , '' I was looking for a typical heavy woman to convey a lower - middle - class way of living . '' The remastered version was released March 29 , 2005 , on Mercury / Island / UMe and includes one bonus track , '' Latest Game , '' which , according to the liner notes , was taken from the sessions for Mellencamp 's 1982 album American Fool . - "Small Town" is a 1985 song written by John Mellencamp and released on his 1985 album "Scarecrow". The song reached #6 on the "Billboard" Hot 100 chart. - "Hurts So Good" is a song from 1982 by American singer-songwriter John Mellencamp, then performing under the stage name "John Cougar." The song was a number two hit on the "Billboard" Hot 100 for the singer/songwriter. It was the first of three major hit singles from his 1982 album "American Fool". The others were "Jack & Diane" and "Hand to Hold On To," which were all released in 1982. - Top 40 is a music industry shorthand for the currently most-popular songs in a particular genre. When used without qualification it refers to the best-selling or most frequently broadcast popular music. The term is derived from record music charts, a few of which traditionally consist of a total of 40 songs. Top 40 is also an alternative term for the radio format of such music, also known as Contemporary hit radio. What is the relationship between 'nothin' matters and what if it did' and 'riva records'?
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record label