Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits, 9th Edition, The: Complete Chart Information about America's Most Popular Songs and Artists, 1955-2009 - Softcover

Joel Whitburn

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0823085546 ISBN 13: 9780823085545

Publisher: Billboard, 2010

Synopsis

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 this title

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Billboard
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0823085546
• ISBN 13: 9780823085545
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 984