The History Of Top 40 Singles
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Author | : Joel Whitburn |
Publisher | : Billboard Books |
Total Pages | : 914 |
Release | : 2010-10-05 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 0823085546 |
The Essential Reference Guide to America’s Most Popular Songs and Artists Spanning More than Fifty Years of Music Beginning with Bill Haley & His Comets’ seminal “Rock Around the Clock” all the way up to Lady Gaga and her glammed-out “Poker face,” this updated and unparalleled resource contains the most complete chart information on every artist and song to hit Billboard’s Top 40 pop singles chart all the way back to 1955. Inside, you’ll find all of the biggest-selling, most-played hits for the past six decades. Each alphabetized artist entry includes biographical info, the date their single reached the Top 40, the song’s highest position, and the number of weeks on the charts, as well as the original record label and catalog number. Other sections—such as “Record Holders,” “Top Artists by Decade,” and “#1 Singles 1955-2009”—make The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits the handiest and most indispensable music reference for record collectors, trivia enthusiasts, industry professionals and pop music fans alike. Did you know? • Beyoncé’s 2003 hit “Crazy in Love” spent 24 weeks in the Top 40 and eight of them in the #1 spot. • Billy Idol has had a total of nine Top 40 hits over his career, the last being “Cradle of Love” in 1990. • Of Madonna’s twelve #1 hits, her 1994 single “Take a Bow” held the spot the longest, for seven weeks—one week longer than her 1984 smash “Like a Virgin.” • 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. • Male vocal group Boyz II Men had three of the biggest chart hits of all time during the 1990s. • The Grateful Dead finally enjoyed a Top 10 single in 1987 after 20 years of touring. • Janet Jackson has scored an impressive 39 Top 40 hits—one more than her megastar brother Michael!
Author | : Frank DeAngelis |
Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages | : 282 |
Release | : 2017-02 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781542469159 |
The essential reference guide to the styles, artists, writer, musicians, producers, record labels, and trends in popular music in this year-by-year complete analysis of Billboard Top 40 singles from the 1970s and 1980s. Two decades of hit singles are documented in one fact-filled book, including peak positions, trivia, interesting stories behind the artists and hits, and the evolution of pop music from bubblegum to disco to the second British Invasion, and everything in between!
Author | : Joel Whitburn |
Publisher | : Billboard Books |
Total Pages | : 571 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Popular music |
ISBN | : 9780851124308 |
Author | : Ben Fong-Torres |
Publisher | : Hal Leonard Corporation |
Total Pages | : 278 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 9780879306649 |
(Book). This lively blast from the past peels back the many layers of the Top 40 phenomenon: the DJs, fans, singles, jingles, dedications, contests, requests and more. The book features interviews with such renowned radio personalities and programmers as Casey Kasem, Dick Clark, Wolfman Jack, "Cousin Brucie" Morrow, Gary Owens and many others, and includes an exclusive CD with "airchecks" rare recordings from 16 legendary DJs on actual Top 40 broadcasts so that readers can hear the crazed, creative and compelling voices that made Top 40 so memorable. Also includes lots of fantastic black-and-white photos to help readers put faces to the voices they know so well, a bibliography and index, and a special Top of the Pops section featuring the Number One records of Top 40 radio from 1957 through 1997 as calculated by the staff of Gavin.
Author | : Joel Whitburn |
Publisher | : Billboard Books |
Total Pages | : 509 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : Billboard (Cincinnati, Ohio : 1963) |
ISBN | : 9780823075119 |
A descriptive list of top 40 hits with information on the performers, the names of their hits, number of weeks on the charts, and accompanying record labels.
Author | : Eric Weisbard |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2014-11-27 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0226896188 |
A capacious and stimulating tour de force of the mainstream music industry that reveals the cultural import of even the most deliberately banal performers and songs. Weisbard finds depths in our culture s shallows as he investigates and articulates the cultural construction of such phenomena as Dolly Parton, Elton John, the Isley Brothers, A&M Records, and the rise of radio populism. He further sheds new light on the upheavals in the music industry over the last fifteen years and the implications of them for the audiences the industry has shaped. Each chapter brings us to see afresh precisely that music and those musicians that have become the most familiar and overexposed, by delving into the minutiae of how pop stars and their music were made and framed for repeated consumption in the era dominated by radio."
Author | : Neil Cossar |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 400 |
Release | : 2014-08 |
Genre | : Rock music |
ISBN | : 9781783055104 |
Births, deaths and marriages, No1 singles, drug busts and arrests, famous gigs and awards... all these and much more appear in this fascinating 50 year almanac.Using a page for every day of the calendar year, the author records a variety of rock and pop events that took place on a given day of the month across the years.This Day in Music is fully illustrated with hundreds of pictures, cuttings and album covers, making this the must-have book for any pop music fan.
Author | : Tony Brown |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1395 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Popular music |
ISBN | : 9780711990753 |
The updated edition of the only chart book that lists both singles and albums in one volume. A new 'statistics' section has been added to include most number ones, most top ten hits, most weeks at number one, most weeks in the chart, one hit wonders and much more.
Author | : Richard W. Fatherley |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 217 |
Release | : 2013-12-07 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 1476605750 |
"Top 40" was the preeminent American radio format of the 1950s and 1960s. Although several radio station group owners offered their own versions of the format, the AM stations owned by Todd Storz and his father were acknowledged as the principal developers of Top 40 radio, and the prime movers in making it a nationwide ratings and revenue success. The Storz Stations in St. Louis, Omaha, New Orleans, Minneapolis-St. Paul, Kansas City, Oklahoma City and Miami are profiled in this book, as are various Storz air personalities and executives. A detailed chapter examines the unique "Storz Station sound," revealing the complexity of what detractors portrayed as a simplistic format. Another covers Storz advertising in radio trade magazines, which cemented the company's image as the format's most successful station group and Top 40 as the dominant programming of the day. There are extensive quotations from the memoirs of several of the founders of the format.
Author | : |
Publisher | : Random House |
Total Pages | : 1055 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Popular music |
ISBN | : 0753522004 |