ISBN: 978-0-89820-231-1
Get the full story on the Top 40 radio charts with all the Radio & Records data – the only place you’ll find it! Until now, this chart information has never been compiled!
Many popular album cuts that were not allowed to chart on the Billboard Hot 100 (such as “Pinball Wizard” by Elton John, “All My Love” by Led Zeppelin and “Into The Groove” by Madonna) were huge Top 10 hits on the R&R charts. All of those hits will be designated with a special star symbol. You’ll find within this new book 225 songs and 65 artists that did not appear on the Billboard Hot 100 chart!
Radio & Records was founded as a newspaper in 1973 by Bob Wilson and Robert Kardashian (OJ’s lawyer & father of “Keeping Up …” celebs). The first issue was published on October 5, 1973. It remained an independent publication until August 2006, when VNU (parent company of Billboard at the time) bought it, but kept the name Radio & Records. The publication officially folded with the issue dated June 5, 2009.
This book contains every single to make the Rock/Pop/CHR/Top 40 charts of every issue from 1973-2009. If you want to know the FULL STORY on Top 40 radio charts from 1973-2009, this is the ONLY place to find it. The Rock/Pop chart ranked the top songs each week, based on radio playlists from around the U.S.A. By 1981, the term Contemporary Hit Radio (CHR) was used for the first time to describe the music played on popular “Top 40” radio stations. The charts continued to use the “CHR” term for the rest of the run. Slowly but surely, the publication could tout itself as “The Industry’s Newspaper” and was the primary trade publication among radio programmers and disc jockeys. Because the charts were based strictly on airplay, programmers could use them as a more accurate way to program their own stations. The charts were used for popular radio countdown shows hosted by Rick Dees, Dick Clark and (eventually) Casey Kasem.
From pastime to passion to profitable enterprise, the growth of Record Research has been the outgrowth of Joel Whitburn’s hobby. Joel began collecting records as a teenager in the 1950s. As his collection grew, he began to sort, categorize and file each record according to the highest position it reached on Billboard magazine's charts. He went on to publish this information — first on individual artists’ cards, then in book form in 1970 — and a business was born.
Over the nearly six decades since, Record Research has created data of the life of a recording on America's major music charts, publishing 189 reference books in print. Joel also collaborated with Warner/Rhino Records in creating a series of 150 CD albums, plus five CD albums with Curb Records.
The Joel Whitburn Music Archive remains unrivaled and includes every charted Hot 100 and pop single (back to 1936), every charted pop album (back to 1945), collections of nearly every charted Country, R&B, Bubbling Under The Hot 100 and Adult Contemporary records. The collection also boasts one of the world’s largest picture sleeve collections, many of which are displayed in the series of books (Top 40 Hits, Top 40 Albums, Top 40 Country Hits, Top 40 R&B Hits) he authored for Billboard’s book division.
The world's most authoritative historian on charted music passed away in 2022, still researching the charts until his final day. His Record Research legacy continues.
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