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The must-have, official book of the music charts, exclusive to Virgin
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The second in this new series, The Virgin Book of Hit Singles is the most-up-to-date and comprehensive record of the music charts available today and a perfect, collectable complement to The Virgin Book of Hit Albums and The Virgin Book of Top 75 Charts.
Now improved and fine-tuned, and drawn from the Official Charts Company Data since 1952, The Virgin Book of Hit Singles features the most comprehensive, easy to read and accessible music chart data and information. It's all here -- expanded artist biographies, side notes of interest, label and catalogue numbers, peak positions, number of weeks on chart and weeks at number one. Also includes EP charts.
The Virgin Book of Hit Singles is essential reading, and reference, for any music lover.
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23 of 25 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Virgin has certainly raised the bar in the past few years as been the definitive publisher of great UK Chart books. Last years Top 40 Charts was brilliant, their Hit Albums book was refreshing and stuffed with trivia, and now Hit Singles Volume 2 has well and truly captured the digital era, and brought this book right up to the present.
The fact that the listing of no. 1s goes right up to Scouting For Girls in April this year, shows the dedication and commitment contributors McAleer, White & Gregory have put into this book. My only surprise is that they haven't included the forthcoming Christmas No. 1.
As ever, you'd expect nothing less than loads of statistics, and boy, has this book got them? Okay! So, there's the usual `Most weeks at No. 1' etc, but it'll also tell you who is the biggest selling download artist ever in the UK? Who has had the most Top 40 hits? How many songs have sold over a million copies? What solo artist has the same amount of Top 10 singles as The Beatles? (Although he'll be one ahead by now). When was the last year Cliff Richard didn't have a chart entry? Who's the only female artist with two UK million sellers? or How many Michael Jackson singles entered the UK charts in the week following his death?
It's all here for you to enjoy, along with updated biographies (over 10,000 of them), then there's the current updated Top 100 selling singles ever, and the Top 50 Catalogue Downloads of Classic Songs which makes interesting reading and you'll get to know what classic songs (from the pre-download era) from the past 50 years are the best sellers since downloads became a part of the charts.
I'm running out of superlatives to describe these series of books, you'll find it hard to find fault with it, and I'm already looking forward to Volume 3.
The fact that the listing of no. 1s goes right up to Scouting For Girls in April this year, shows the dedication and commitment contributors McAleer, White & Gregory have put into this book. My only surprise is that they haven't included the forthcoming Christmas No. 1.
As ever, you'd expect nothing less than loads of statistics, and boy, has this book got them? Okay! So, there's the usual `Most weeks at No. 1' etc, but it'll also tell you who is the biggest selling download artist ever in the UK? Who has had the most Top 40 hits? How many songs have sold over a million copies? What solo artist has the same amount of Top 10 singles as The Beatles? (Although he'll be one ahead by now). When was the last year Cliff Richard didn't have a chart entry? Who's the only female artist with two UK million sellers? or How many Michael Jackson singles entered the UK charts in the week following his death?
It's all here for you to enjoy, along with updated biographies (over 10,000 of them), then there's the current updated Top 100 selling singles ever, and the Top 50 Catalogue Downloads of Classic Songs which makes interesting reading and you'll get to know what classic songs (from the pre-download era) from the past 50 years are the best sellers since downloads became a part of the charts.
I'm running out of superlatives to describe these series of books, you'll find it hard to find fault with it, and I'm already looking forward to Volume 3.
16 of 18 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Ok, here goes. I saw the original Virgin Book of British Hit Singles, and was one of the many who felt it was a poor substitute for the excellent Guinness works. The Guinness works had been getting worse and worse, but no-one could have foreseen how bad the Virgin book would be.
I never even considered that the Virgin Book of British Hit Albums would be any good, but when I found it brand new at an unmissably low price, I took it home and found it pretty un-put-downable. Not Guinness, not error-free, but very thorough and a welcome update. It inspired me to give Virgin Book of British Hit Singles Volume 2 a try, and I have been very impressed. Only in-depth reading will reveal how many errors there are (it is inevitable that there will be some), and there are some very puzzling editorial inconsistencies, but it strikes me that the author(s) really have tried to take on board readers' dissatisfaction with the first volume, and have made improvements accordingly. Crucially, the Top 75 weeks on chart are back!
At the opening price of £13, an avid chartwatcher should find this is well worth a punt, even though times are hard.
I never even considered that the Virgin Book of British Hit Albums would be any good, but when I found it brand new at an unmissably low price, I took it home and found it pretty un-put-downable. Not Guinness, not error-free, but very thorough and a welcome update. It inspired me to give Virgin Book of British Hit Singles Volume 2 a try, and I have been very impressed. Only in-depth reading will reveal how many errors there are (it is inevitable that there will be some), and there are some very puzzling editorial inconsistencies, but it strikes me that the author(s) really have tried to take on board readers' dissatisfaction with the first volume, and have made improvements accordingly. Crucially, the Top 75 weeks on chart are back!
At the opening price of £13, an avid chartwatcher should find this is well worth a punt, even though times are hard.
13 of 15 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I bought this book as an up to date replacement for the now deleted British Hit Singles & Albums. It is not as good as the deleted book that I just mentioned due to the fact that it doesn't contain albums, that is a seperate book at extra cost, and the lay out is not as good as the outgoing title. But it serves it's purpose. If this is the first time you buy a book like this, then you won't be disappointed. It's only when you have experienced the old title and compare like for like as I did will you then understand why I prefer the old title, but as it is no longer published, this is the next best thing
Most Recent Customer Reviews
The Perfect UK Chart Reference
Well laid out and easy to understand, this book is packed full of all the information you will ever need about UK chart Sinces since the inception of the hit parade in 1952 right... Read more
Published 3 months ago by Colinski
Virgin Book Of British Hit Singles
If you need a book to tell you all the details of every song that's ever charted.. you've found it!
Published 5 months ago by whitewhotedove
Still Some Way To Go
It's better than Volume 1 (which I didn't buy myself), but still has some way to go to match the Guinness series, which admittedly set a high benchmark by the time it reached its... Read more
Published 8 months ago by harpmj
Media presenter's must have item.
A great book, full of invaluable information on every British hit single from 1952 to 2010.
I have yet to find a record that has not been included, and there are some pretty... Read more
I have yet to find a record that has not been included, and there are some pretty... Read more
Published 14 months ago by jaycando
Virgin Music
The contents of the book are excellent ... but the quality of my copy was poor.
Part of one page was double leaved, part printed in part on both leaves. Read more
Part of one page was double leaved, part printed in part on both leaves. Read more
Published 15 months ago by Richard
3rd Time Lucky - Perhaps?
I like this book very much. I use my Virgin Book of Top 40 Charts all the time, so this is a good companion. Read more
Published 16 months ago by red robbo
Virgin Book of Hit Singles - Vol. 2
The book is just what somebody who is interested in the British pop scene wants and it replaces the Guiness Book of Hit Singles,which I believe is now out of print. Read more
Published 17 months ago by DJ Pappy
much better
Four stars just. Very clear that Virgin did listen to all the unhappy purchasers of the previous addition. Read more
Published 17 months ago by Red Rose
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