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The Whitburn Book of Top 10 Hits 1950-2020

You saw it in the Top 10. But, was it in Billboard, Cash Box, Radio & Records, or Music Vendor/Record World? Find out in the A-Z by artist cross-chart digest!
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Hit Country Records 1954-1982

For the lover of Classic Country – an A-Z by artist compilation of all songs that appeared on the Music Vendor / Record World country charts.

Now $34.98 (Reg. $69.95)

Cash Box Looking Ahead 1959-1993

It’s a must-have among dedicated chart buffs, exclusively featuring the songs that ‘bubbled under’ the main CB pop charts and never charted anywhere else!

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Cash Box Top 100 Charts: The 1980s

The ’80s were the last decade of the 45’s dominance and pop music thrived with variety and exposure on Top 40 radio.

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Cash Box Top 100 Charts: The 1970s

Each weekly chart is a detailed showcase of the era’s medley of soft rock, hard rock, folk, disco, glam, and more.

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Cash Box Top 100 Charts: The Sixties

A full decade’s worth of weekly charts – that’s 522 – looking just as they did when printed in Cash Box magazine.

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Top Pop Playlists 1985-1999

Explore our month-by-month playlists from 1985-1999.  Each is a ranking of all songs that reached their peak popularity during that month on Billboard’s Hot 100 chart.

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Top 10 Albums 1955-2011

Every Top 10 Album!

Lists Tracks Of Every Top 10 Album!

1st-ever Albums Annual = 57 separate listings of each year’s top albums!

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Top 10 Pop Hits 1940-2011

Spanning the golden era of radio swing to modern-day YouTube sensations, this guide is an artist-by-artist inventory of every Top 10 single that graced Billboard’s pop singles charts over 7+ decades.

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Across The Charts The 1960s

A-Z by artist of everything on Billboard’s 5 Singles Charts from 1960-69:
Hot 100
Country
R&B
Easy Listening (AC)
Bubbling Under the Hot 100

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Cash Box Regional Hits 1956

The 1st in our Cash Box Regional Hits series!  Colorful book of rare records showing DJs, record shops and juke box locales!

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Cash Box Regional Hits 1957

Joel thoroughly examined the Top 10 hits from local Cash Box surveys, coast to coast. Despite the popularity on the regional level, these hits never made it to the national charts.

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1950 page 1 from Pop Annual 1950-2023
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Announcing Pop Annual 1950-2023
Pop Annual 1950-2023

Printing June of 2024
Pre-Order Now & Save $15

Announcing the upcoming 10th edition of our beloved Pop Annual. The new edition of this music fan favorite boasts 12 more yearly rankings over its predecessor, as we take it back to the beginning of the Fifties and update it through 2023. Also new to this book are half-decade synopses of the Top 10s among artists, songwriters and songs, as well as Top Artist Debuts, and news tidbits. Journey across this musical landscape of ~1,000 pages packed with stats detailing every song and artist to hit Billboard's pop singles charts, whether they ascended to #1 or #135, over the past 74 years.

Coming June, 2024

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1970-74 Top Artist Debuts & News Tidbits
first page of 2021 ranking of all songs that appeared on Billboard's Hot 100 and Bubbling Under the Hot 100 charts
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It now takes two volumes to cover the  complete research of every song and artist that ever hit Billboard magazine’s early pop singles, “Hot 100” and “Bubbling Under” charts since the dawn of the rock era.  Every song, whether it was a month-long chart-topper or hit #135 for a single week, is presented with our robust research.  These data-dense books present an objective history of mainstream music in an A-Z artist section, song title section, rankings, and more. 

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