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This is the 9th edition of one of Billboard Books' backlist bestsellers, fully revised and expanded to encompass all the Billboard Top 40 hits and chart data from the years 1955 to 2009. Watson-Guptill's Billboard chart books are perennial The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits, an exhaustive resource of up-to-date chart information on every artist and song to hit the Top 40 on Billboard's pop singles charts since 1955, tops the list, with more than 300,000 copies sold since 1985. Now expanded and updated to encompass all the hits from the past 5 years. The book includes not just America's most popular songs in a quick, easy-to-read guide, but also supplies biographical information on the artists, lists of record holders, top artists by decade and much more.
About the Author
Joel Whitburn is the leading authority on charted music and began collecting records in the 1950s, filing each one according to the position it reached on Billboards charts. He went on to publish this information - and his business, Record Research, was born. Today, he leads a team of chart researchers from his home base in Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin.
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Great Reference!!!
7 Nov 2010
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This book is probably the greatest single reference for the modern popular music fan. The last edition of "Top 40 Hits" that I owned only covered up to 1990, and it was around 600 pages long. This new edition goes all the way up to 2009 and it's huge---900 pages---almost a third longer. I have been without one of these Whitburn "Top 40" references for a while and I had forgotten how much I missed having it as a music listening tool. With this book you can identify your favorite top 40 hit record (from 2009 back to 1955) when you hear it on the radio, or just look up your favorite song titles to see when they were hits, and learn their peak chart position. Or you can see just how many of your favorite band or artist's songs made it to Top 40 hit status. The thoroughness of Whitburn's research is unbelievable! In this latest edition there is still trivia about many of the bands and artists including listings of many bandmembers and their previous and subsequent musical involvement. And in the hands of a skilled music programmer, this book is a powerful programming tool. So it is both entertaining and useful. I guess it's all a matter of perspective, but since I received my copy it has never been up on the shelf. It is out on the table, and used almost constantly. This was some of the best reference book money I have spent in a long time.
12 of 16 people found the following review helpful
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6 Oct 2010
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Within 1 minute of reading the back page, I found an error. This statement is not true:
Marvin Gaye's song "Sexual Healing" spent 15 weeks at #3 in 1982, while the same song was #1 on the R&B chart for 10 weeks.
No song ever spent 15 weeks at #3. The song spent 3 weeks at #3 and was in the Top 40 for 15 weeks.
I was surprised that no one on the Record Research staff caught this error.
Comparing this 9th edition with prior editions, to make room for 6 more years worth of songs, they dropped a prior feature that I liked.
All of the early editions had trivia pages scattered throughout the book with pictures of the artists and their hit songs. That feature was removed for this update.
Marvin Gaye's song "Sexual Healing" spent 15 weeks at #3 in 1982, while the same song was #1 on the R&B chart for 10 weeks.
No song ever spent 15 weeks at #3. The song spent 3 weeks at #3 and was in the Top 40 for 15 weeks.
I was surprised that no one on the Record Research staff caught this error.
Comparing this 9th edition with prior editions, to make room for 6 more years worth of songs, they dropped a prior feature that I liked.
All of the early editions had trivia pages scattered throughout the book with pictures of the artists and their hit songs. That feature was removed for this update.
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27 April 2011
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After being a local DJ for over 25 years, I've always relied on Joel Whitburn's reference books to locate hard to find information on older top 40 hits that you just don't hear much anymore. Joel relies on the info from Billboard's charts & then when I'm ready to purchase a new up-to-date edition, I've found the place to contact & that's Amazon.com ! Everytime I check with them they have what I'm looking for, in stock @ the best price. Their shipping rates are reasonable & I get my order in a incredible fast time! Why waste your time looking anywhere else? For me, it's Amazon.com everytime! One other thing, Amazon.com has a great selection of other editions for those people that may be looking for a different need.
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