(Book). The annual Yearbook is back... in a new combined edition covering both 2005 and 2006. It features ten artist-by-artist sections listing every single, track, and album that made these 2005-2006 major Billboard music charts. Categories include Hot 100, Bubbling Under, Hot Country, Hot R&B/Hip-Hop, Adult Contemporary/Adult Top 40, Mainstream Rock, Modern Rock, Top 200 Albums, Top Country Albums, and Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums.
This title lists over 12,000 significant songs and essential hits of the past half century, from 1955 to 2005, in an easy-to-use A-Z artist listing. There's also a song title cross-reference section and playlists of each half-decade's biggest hits.
(Book). Be a song expert with this handy book from renowned archivists Record Research that lists all the significant songs and essential hits from 1955 to the present. Also included are recommended playlists of each half-decade's biggest hits, as well as compilation suggestions for many types of events, activities, and moods, including road trips, stadium/sports, weddings, workouts, Christmas, and much more. Bonus categories include Hot Video Clips.
(Book). A colorful pictorial look at the top 1,000 hits of the past 50 years! Each and every hit of the rock era is shown in this beautiful book, in full color with complete Billboard chart data. Each entry includes the original 45 RPM picture sleeve, cassette single box, CD single insert, sheet music, and/or full-page Billboard ad along with: overall Top 1,000 rank, peak position, weeks at peak position, and the year it charted. The book also includes: an Artist Section listing all Top 1,000 titles by the artist's name; an A-to-Z Title Section listing all Top 1000 titles in alphabetical order; a Yearly Section listing the Top 40 hits, year by year from 1955-2005. Over 100 pages of color images pictorially represent every top hit of the rock era. An intriguing, one-of-a-kind book!
Includes, beginning Sept. 15, 1954 (and on the 15th of each month, Sept.-May) a special section: School library journal, ISSN 0000-0035, (called Junior libraries, 1954-May 1961). Also issued separately.
(Book). The 1997 Music Yearbook is the ultimate recap of the year's hits and happenings in the world of music. Everything that made Billboard's singles and albums charts in Pop, Country and R&B music, as well as the Rock Tracks, Bubbling Under and Adult Contemporary singles charts, is exhaustively covered. Get the complete stats (chart debut date, peak position, total weeks charted, and more) on Elton John's "Candle in the Wind '97"; Puff Daddy's chart-topping reign as writer/producer/ rapper; the Spice Girls and Hanson phenomenons; Leann Rimes' giant crossover success; the return of Fleetwood Mac, The Rolling Stones and Hall & Oates; the hit debuts of OMC, Lee Ann Womack, Smash Mouth, Michael Peterson and Sugar Ray. Also features a Time Capsule of the year's events, entertainment obits, the #1 hits of nearly 20 charts, and many special sections.
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!
