(Book). A comprehensive collection of one of today's hottest music formats. This book provides a 46-year history of Adult Contemporary (AC) music complete with over 8,500 songs, and 2,000 artists that appeared in Billboard's "Adult Contemporary" and "Adult Top 40" charts. This is the first time ever that a complete Adult Top 40 Chart history book has been published and it covers artists as diverse as Counting Crows, Sheryl Crow, Goo Goo Dolls, Lenny Kravitz, James Blunt, Kelly Clarkson, Jack Johnson and Daniel Powter. In the standard format that Record Research has made standard, all the essential song and artist info is included. Also, for the first time, songwriters are shown for every title. Many other bonus sections are added including lists of top artists organized by different themes and all-time rankings. Previous edition: Top Adult Contemporary, ISBN 089201497

One of our all-time bestsellers now spans the entire rock era! Billboard Top 10 Singles Charts 1955-2000 draws each weekly Top 10 from Billboard's "Best Sellers" charts for the years 1955, 1956, 1957 and the first half of 1958. From then on, it's the "Hot 100" all the way, with the weekly Top 10s of the premier Pop chart from its debut on August 4, 1958 right through the end of 2000. Each weekly Top 10 chart shows each record's current week's chart position, previous week's chart position, total weeks charted, label and number, and all "Hot 100" hits peak positions are shown in boldface type. Special sections include the highest debuts and biggest movers of each year, decade, and all time; the fastest and slowest movers to #1; and the biggest jumps to and falls from #1. (650+ pages, 6 inch. x 9-1/4 inch.)

This edition lists every song that made the Billboard "Hot 100" and Pop music charts from 1955 through 2006, and includes basic chart facts, plus detailed artist and song title data of more than 26,000 titles and 6,200 artists. New features include lists of artist awards and classic songs that did not chart, but have become fan favorites.--

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Title on spine: Billboard hot country albums.

In its 114th year, Billboard remains the world's premier weekly music publication and a diverse digital, events, brand, content and data licensing platform. Billboard publishes the most trusted charts and offers unrivaled reporting about the latest music, video, gaming, media, digital and mobile entertainment issues and trends.

(Book). Be a song expert with this handy book from renowned archivists Record Research that lists all the significant songs and essential hits from 1955 to the present. Also included are recommended playlists of each half-decade's biggest hits, as well as compilation suggestions for many types of events, activities, and moods, including road trips, stadium/sports, weddings, workouts, Christmas, and much more. Bonus categories include Hot Video Clips.

This title lists over 12,000 significant songs and essential hits of the past half century, from 1955 to 2005, in an easy-to-use A-Z artist listing. There's also a song title cross-reference section and playlists of each half-decade's biggest hits.

From John Philip Sousa to Green Day, from Scott Joplin to Kanye West, from Stephen Foster to Coldplay, The Encyclopedia of Great Popular Song Recordings, Volumes 1 and 2 covers the vast scope of its subject with virtually unprecedented breadth and depth. Approximately 1,000 key song recordings from 1889 to the present are explored in full, unveiling the stories behind the songs, the recordings, the performers, and the songwriters. Beginning the journey in the era of Victorian parlor balladry, brass bands, and ragtime with the advent of the record industry, readers witness the birth of the blues and the dawn of jazz in the 1910s and the emergence of country music on record and the shift from acoustic to electrical recording in the 1920s. The odyssey continues through the Swing Era of the 1930s; rhythm & blues, bluegrass, and bebop in the 1940s; the rock & roll revolution of the 1950s; modern soul, the British invasion, and the folk-rock movement of the 1960s; and finally into the modern era through the musical streams of disco, punk, grunge, hip-hop, and contemporary dance-pop. Sullivan, however, also takes critical detours by extending the coverage to genres neglected in pop music histories, from ethnic and world music, the gospel recording of both black and white artists, and lesser-known traditional folk tunes that reach back hundreds of years. This book is ideal for anyone who truly loves popular music in all of its glorious variety, and anyone wishing to learn more about the roots of virtually all the music we hear today. Popular music fans, as well as scholars of recording history and technology and students of the intersections between music and cultural history will all find this book to be informative and interesting.

The field of Popular Music Studies is growing, but still lacks some basic reference materials. The Chronology of American Popular Music, 1899-2000 fills this gap by offering a comprehensive overview of the field. It will be a must-own for libraries and individuals interested in this growing field of research.