ISBN: 9780898201970
The ultimate playlist! Arranged by year, Pop Annual 1955-2011, is a numerical ranking of all the songs that peaked from January, 1955 through December, 2011, on the pop singles charts of Billboard magazine: Hot 100, Bubbling Under the Hot 100, Best Sellers, Disc Jockey, Juke Box and Top 100.
The eighth edition of a longtime favorite print book, Pop Annual, is now an eBook! Each year of the rock era is thoroughly chronicled with loads of data on each of the 34,000+ songs that made Billboard's Hot 100, Bubbling Under the Hot 100 and 1955-58 pop singles charts.
Comprehensive, Essential Chart Data Arranged for Fast, Easy Reference
- Peak chart position
- Total peak weeks
- Peak date
- Yearly rank
- Songwriters
- Original label
- Total weeks in the Top 10
- Total weeks in the Top 40
- Total weeks charted
- RIAA Platinum/Gold certification
- Playing time of each title
- Symbols indicating Instrumental, Novelty, Christmas and other specialty recordings
- Color photos of the Top 5 songs headline each year's ranking
Special Bonus Sections:
- Ranking of Top Songwriters
- List of Tag-Along artists
- Academy Award & Grammy Award-Winning Songs & Records
- Complete Alphabetical Song Title List
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.