History Main / FaceoftheBand

** Caitlyn Jenner's transition scored him a show and public attention, making him the most famous Jenner at least briefly.

** After the members of the Rippers fire him, [[Series/TheBradyBunch Barry Williams]] take up this role with "Barry and the Rippers".

* One episode of ''Series/{{CSI}}'' featured a murdered rock star who wrote all of his band's songs and would have kept the lion's share of the group's earnings if they'd broken up. This is a strong motive for his bandmates to kill him, but it turns out that the killer is [[spoiler:his ex-girlfriend, who was afraid she'd lose custody of their child to him and didn't want the kid caught up in his drug-fuelled lifestyle.]]

* An episode of ''Series/JonathanCreek'' involves Jonathan trying to help out his favourite musician, who was once on a 1970s prog-rock band called "Edwin Drood". While he still achieved success after the band split up, the story also shows us his former bandmates, who are slogging away in various levels of self-deluding obscurity and bitterness.

* Satisfaction/The Girls of Summer... The fictional band consisted of "star" Justine Bateman, a then-unknown Julia Roberts ("the slut") and...um....

* Wait a minute, there are other Music/{{Vocaloid}} singers beside [[BreakoutCharacter Miku]]?

** ''DEAR♥VOCALIST'' has seven bands as the focus of their series, but the only people that ever get focus are (as you could guess from the title) the vocalists. In general all of them seem to do the legwork for their groups as well, but the fact still stands that the vocalists are, both in and out of universe, the only musicians worth looking at.

** Caitlyn Jenner's transition scored her a show and public attention, making her the most famous Jenner at least briefly.

* Creator/SidMeier is the face of developer Creator/FiraxisGames and the Civilization series of games (among others). Even if he isn't directly involved in a game's development, the box will still say, "Sid Meier's Civilization".

* ''Creator/{{Maxis}}''? Most people only think of ''Creator/WillWright'', and not all his colleagues that did the artwork and music.

** Erik Wolpaw and Chet Faliszek were Internet-famous for early computer-gaming satire website Website/OldManMurray before becoming staff writers for Valve.

* Back to music: Frank Klepacki for the ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquer'' series. Jarrid Mendelson, Steve Jablonsky, James Hannigan and Tim Wynn? Who are those people? Particularly notable in that Frank hasn't actually been a composer for any of the games past ''[[VideoGame/CommandAndConquerRenegade Renegade]]'' back in 2002 - all he's really done for the series since was a third iteration of of "[[VideoGame/CommandAndConquerRedAlert Hell]] [[VideoGame/CommandAndConquerRedAlert2 March]]" for ''[[VideoGame/CommandAndConquerRedAlert3 Red Alert 3]]''.

** However artist Yoji Shinkawa also enjoys considerable name recognition thanks to his character designs and other art for the VideoGame/MetalGear series.

* Though all the characters are mainstream, except possibly Reggie, [[Franchise/ArchieComics The Archie's]] is basically "Archie Andrews and..." in-series and out. Similarly Josie is the face of ''ComicBook/JosieAndThePussycats''.

This is especially prevalent in bands that are named for one or more of the founding members (Santana, Gladys Knight and the Pips), bands with rotating casts aside from one or two consistent members, or [[TheSmurfettePrinciple bands with one female member]] (even in the rare case where she doesn't sing lead, which is a sure-fire clincher of "face" status, she'll at least be the ''other'' Face Of The Band simply by virtue of being TheChick). It's also rather fascinating just how often this tends to be a rare human-specific case of WhatMeasureIsANonCute. (Not really ''surprising'', but fascinating.)

* VideoGame/{{Splatoon}} has the in-game band ABXY, also known as the Chirpy Chips internationally. Their lead vocalist is an ''adorable'' sea anemone girl, who has already become the most popular of their quartet amongst the game's fans.

* UsefulNotes/TheAuteurTheory was a revolutionary idea in UsefulNotes/NewHollywood that purported that the director was the primary creative force in a film's production. While its arguments remain contentious, its legacy is indisputable: below leading actors, directors are often given top billing on a film's marketing.

* TheAuteurTheory was a revolutionary idea in UsefulNotes/NewHollywood that purported that the director was the primary creative force in a film's production. While its arguments remain contentious, its legacy is indisputable: below leading actors, directors are often given top billing on a film's marketing.

* Very prevalent in sports, where squads will usually be reduced to "team of [TheAce]". Sometimes there will be TheLancer (Scottie Pippen with Usefulnotes/MichaelJordan) who might even break out as a star himself (Mark Messier with Usefulnotes/WayneGretzky), or an iconic duo\trio.

* Hidetaka Miyazaki has become the face of Creator/FromSoftware ever since the runaway success of ''VideoGame/DarkSouls''. It helps that he is now the president of the company, giving him a compelling RagsToRichesStory that's rare to see in Japanese corporate culture.

* Union Station consists of Alison Krauss and, um...maybe Dan Tyminski, only because of him singing Music/{{Avicii}}'s "Hey Brother".

** On paper, L Nomura is the leader of Music/MarginalNumber4, but it's Atom Kirihara that's used as the face of the group out of universe. The [[Anime/MarginalNumber4 anime]] tackles why this is the case.