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Joel Whitburn's Billboard pop hits, singles & albums, 1940-1954 / compiled from Billboard's pop singles charts 1940-1954 and Billboard's pop albums charts 1945-1954.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Whitburn, Joel.
- Standardized Title:
- Pop hits, 1940-1954
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Popular music--United States--1941-1950--Discography.
- Popular music.
- Popular music--United States--1951-1960--Discography.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Discographies.
- Physical Description:
- 573 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- [Second edition].
- Other Title:
- Billboard pop hits, singles & albums, 1940-1954
- Billboard pop hits, singles and albums, 1940-1954
- Pop hits, singles & albums, 1940-1954
- Pop hits, singles and albums, 1940-1954
- Place of Publication:
- Menomonee Falls, Wis. : Record Research, [2002]
- Summary:
- Pop Hits Singles and Albums is four big books in one covering the wonderful era of big bands, classic crooners, classy female vocalists and smooth vocal groups. The first section is an artist-by-artist anthology of classic pop songs with complete chart data and now shows every record's B-side. Following is a year-by-year ranking of all the hits which includes each song's songwriter(s). For the first time ever are the Top 10 charts for every week from 1940-54. And finally, the complete story of the early pop albums chart is told artist-by-artist - showing all chart data and every track from every album!
- Contents:
- The Singles
- Researching Billboard's Pop Singles Charts 11
- Singles by Artist 19
- Key To Symbols: An alphabetical listing, by artist, of every single that made Billboard's Pop Singles charts from 1940 through 1954 20
- Pop Annual: A yearly ranking, by highest position, of every single that made Billboard's Pop Singles charts from 1940 through 1954 145
- Each year begins with a
- Time Capsule
- Top 20 Artists Ranking
- Top Songwriters
- Top Artist Debuts
- Song Title Index: An alphabetical listing, by song title, of every single that made Billboard's Pop Singles charts from 1940 through 1954 263
- Backing Performer Cross Reference 289
- The Top Artists
- Top 150 Artists In Rank Order 297
- Top 150 Artists In A-Z Order 299
- Top 20 Artists By Half-Decade (with photos) 300
- Top Artists By Category (Vocalists/Groups/Jazz/Country/Novelty/Big Band, etc.) 301
- Top Artist Achievements 302
- Most Chart Hits
- Most Top 10 Hits
- Most Top 5 Hits
- Most #1 Hits
- Most Weeks At The #1 Position
- Most Consecutive #1 Hits
- Most 2-Sided Hits
- Top Artists Who Never Hit #1
- Top Artist Debuts 303
- Top 100 Songwriters 305
- One-Hit Wonders 305
- The Top Singles
- Top 100 #1 Singles 308
- Top 40 #1 Singles By Half-Decade 310
- Top POPular Recordings: Instrumental / Novelty / Christmas 313
- Singles Of Longevity 314
- Songs With Longest Titles 315
- Songs With Most Charted Versions 315
- MVPs
- Most Valuable Platters 316
- Academy Award-Winning Songs 317
- Year-By-Year Synopsis 317
- Top Record Labels 317
- The #1 Singles: A chronological listing, by peak date, of every #1 single 319
- Top 10 Singles Charts: A week-by-week chronicle of the Top 10 of every Billboard "Best Selling Singles" chart 327
- The Albums
- Researching Billboard's Pop Albums Charts 513
- Albums by Artist 517
- Key To Symbols: An alphabetical listing, by artist, of every album that made Billboard's Pop Albums charts from 1945 through 1954 518
- Each album title includes an index of cuts from that album
- Albums by Category
- Movie Soundtracks 553
- Original Casts 556
- Songs Of Our Times 558
- Various Artist Compilations 560
- The Albums Wrap-Up
- Top 40 Artists In Rank Order 563
- Top 40 Artists In A-Z Order 563
- Top Artist Achievements 564
- Most Chart Albums
- Most #1 Albums
- Top 5 MVP Photos
- Most Valuable Platters 565
- Albums Of Longevity 566
- Top 50 #1 Albums 567
- Photos of the Top 24 #1 Albums
- The #1 Albums: A chronological listing, by peak date, of every #1 album 571.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0898201527
- 9780898201529
- OCLC:
- 51670120
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