Top Pop Albums 1955-2016

The brand new edition (with the tracks back in) is now up for pre-order. Save $15 thru the end of the year. Printing in late February:

https://www.recordresearch.com/pop/top_pop_albums_1955-2016. php

Congratulations to a well deserving chart geek. This new book has to
be your masterpiece as I can’t fathom how challenging this book had to
be. Not only do have re-entries for albums occurring decades apart but
all those cuts! I’m looking forward to receiving my book but I need to
make some room in my bookcase! Maybe I’ll park it next to the disco
book which was also a challenging project.

So now that you have some free time, what’s your next project?

For your updated Country Singles book you may want to look at some potential updates at the spreadsheet found at:

http://www25.zippyshare.com/v/wzrmNVFp/file.html

Most of the errors seemed focus on the years when Billboard ran three concurrent charts. All occurred before you were the research guy at Record Research.

Where does one download the file on that website? It wants to give me malware.

Andy

Just received an e-mail that the "Monster" book is shipping - so I should receive it in a week.

Crunched some numbers about songs that peaked in 2017 on the C&W and R&B charts - subject to change as a few may eventually peak in 2018.

There were 198 songs that charted on both the CA (Country Airplay)and CWS (Hybrid Country Songs) charts, 39 that only appeared on the CA chart, and 65 that only appeared on the CWS chart. There were 32 #1 songs on the CA chart (Small Town Boy was #1 for 4 weeks) but only 6 songs that were #1 on the CWS charts (Body Like A Back Road for 34 weeks and Meant To Be for 18 weeks and counting). Remember when Cruise was the "biggest" C&W song of all time? Looks like the song will "only" be the third biggest in about a month when Meant To Be passes it.

There were 300 songs that peaked on the R&B charts with 242 songs also making the Hot 100 and 56 making the Pop Bubbling Under chart. Ghostbusters and Too Many Years were the only 2 songs that didn't chart on the pop charts. There were also 165 songs that peaked on the R&B Bubbling Under chart - only 2 made the Hot 100 (low positions) and 104 made the Pop Bubbling Under chart.