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Read * The Book of Hit Singles 4 Ed: Top 20 Charts from 1954 to the Present Day PDF by ! Dave McAleer eBook or Kindle ePUB Online free. The Book of Hit Singles 4 Ed: Top 20 Charts from 1954 to the Present Day All stars and songs are indexed separately, making it especially easy to pinpoint any Top 20 hit. Each song is listed with artist name and nationality, current and previous month's chart position, record label, weeks on the chart, and simultaneous position on the "other side of the pond." Special symbols indicate million-sellers, plus artists' first and most recent hits. Includes 200 photos, plus new pop trivia and star gossip!. Based on the official Top 20 charts from Billboard in the US and NM
| Title | : | The Book of Hit Singles 4 Ed: Top 20 Charts from 1954 to the Present Day |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.33 (760 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0879306661 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 512 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-09-16 |
| Language | : | English |
All stars and songs are indexed separately, making it especially easy to pinpoint any Top 20 hit. Each song is listed with artist name and nationality, current and previous month's chart position, record label, weeks on the chart, and simultaneous position on the "other side of the pond." Special symbols indicate million-sellers, plus artists' first and most recent hits. Includes 200 photos, plus new pop trivia and star gossip!. Based on the official Top 20 charts from Billboard in the US and NME/Music Week in the UK, this entertaining book shows at a glance the monthly international status of the hits. (Book). The fully updated and revised fourth edition lists the charts since they began in January 1954 all the way through December 2000
monthly charts are given on facing pages for easy comparison. . Alongside the charts are sidebars with music trivia, illustrated with black-and-white photographs.Two indexes allow access by artist and song title. At this price, public libraries will want to own both. his claims are true.The bulk of the book is made up of top-20 charts from 1954 through 1993. as well as the U.S. Each section opens with an overview of the decade before presenting the charts year by year. McAleer allows easy access by date and covers the hits in the U.K. From Booklist In the middle of the night, Slim Whitman's TV ads claim number-one hit songs no one has heard of. Notation is given for shared hits and reissued songs. With this new book you can check out his sales and see that for the U.K. The title index cross-references the user to the artist index.The All Music Book of Hit Singles complements rather than competes with Whitb
Five Stars Just what I wanted. Update this book! Sam Quintin I really love this book and pop/rock music fans will spend hours with itHOWEVER this book really needs an editor to catch those little mistakes, ie, its "Topsy II" (Cozy Cole) not "Topsy Li"; "Affair of The Heart" (Rick Springfield) not "Affair of The Night". And with each succeeding edition, the charts need to be updated, (Britney Spears, for instance, has had more than one hit- "Baby, One More Time" listed as first and last both right off the bat in each succeeding edition! Adam Ant had a US Top 20 hit with "Goody Two Shoes",(19. Not up to Joel Whitburn but an interesting variation A variation on pop-chart history books, McAleer summarizes a month's worth of charts into a single top twenty. Each page contains 3 months of singles charts, with the even numbered pages showing UK charts directly opposite the same month's summary in the US. The margins are filled with the music trivia of the day. The odd format of monthly charts exaggerates the chart success of songs that were around at the start of the month, but hurts songs that peaked in mid-month. Also odd, each country's chart also include a cross-reference
He was also a contributor to The Guinness Encyclopedia of Popular Music (published by Guinness in the US). He also started the 'Music Business Trivia League' that led to numerous pop quizzes on radio and television. He has also been record label manager for Pye, Stax and RCA amongst others. He does chart research for Sky Television's "UK Top 40," suppli
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