Posted September 22, 201014 yr Who here is going to buy this (out on 4th Nov, apparently)? Me, obviously. AIUI, they have learned the lessons from V1, and will now include full weeks-on-chart figures, not just those for the T40.
September 22, 201014 yr It might be on the Christmas list for me. The jury's still out on them IMHO, the old edition was too full of mistakes.
September 22, 201014 yr I have pre-ordered my copy from amazon and I'm glad it will show all the weeks on the chart and not just the Top 40
September 22, 201014 yr I might get this IF it's like those old ones from a few years ago. What does this book include? What kinda stats etc? Anyone know? I didn't know the last one they did only included weeks in top 40, I'm glad this ones full because if it'd just the weeks in top 40 I'm not buying.
September 22, 201014 yr It might be on the Christmas list for me. The jury's still out on them IMHO, the old edition was too full of mistakes. I know a lot of people contacted them to point out mistakes so they ought to be corrected in the new edition. There will probably be some new mistakes but that's inevitable in a publication like this.
September 22, 201014 yr Far more effort has gone into the 2010 'Hit Singles' Book. (Than went into the 2008 Edition). There are numerous Facts & Feats in it, & it is Top 75 based, this time. Depending on how well the 2010 Edition sells, there will be future 'Hit Singles', & 'Hit Albums', Books. There will not be any future 'Top 40' Charts Books, as the 2009 Edition did not sell well enough to justify up-dated editions.
September 22, 201014 yr Far more effort has gone into the 2010 'Hit Singles' Book. (Than went into the 2008 Edition). There are numerous Facts & Feats in it, & it is Top 75 based, this time. Depending on how well the 2010 Edition sells, there will be future 'Hit Singles', & 'Hit Albums', Books. There will not be any future 'Top 40' Charts Books, as the 2009 Edition did not sell well enough to justify up-dated editions. Thanks for that. Was wondering wheather theyd be another edition of Top 40 Charts. :) Shame there isnt going to be another one, there just isnt the demand for old charts anymore like there used to be :(
September 22, 201014 yr I don't know why I still buy these books I never use them. I tend to just check Everyhit or Polyhex... I used to adore them in the late 90s I got the new edition every year for my birthday. I was a sad child. :dance:
September 22, 201014 yr I don't know why I still buy these books I never use them. I tend to just check Everyhit or Polyhex... I used to adore them in the late 90s I got the new edition every year for my birthday. I was a sad child. :dance: I was exactly the same. Bought them religiously each May (?) and scoured them for hours and days on end. Now I either use Polyhex, Chart Stats, or I just don't care enough. Did anyone else buy that other book 'Hit Singles: Top 20 Charts' which included monthly top 20's in the UK and US. As interesting as I used to find it comparing the big hits in each chart at the comparative time, I had two major problems with it. 1. I'm pretty sure (not certain though) that it was the sales chart being used and not the Billboard chart, which obviously counts for very little these days. 2. How was the monthly data collected and used exactly? Taking the most recent December chart from the current book for example - for that calendar month, RATM were #7 and Joe was #8...so obviously based on sales for December they would have been #1 and #2 easily as they sold 500k and 450k respectively in the final chart week of December, more than any other songs. So it wasn't based on sales, so I assume it must be based on some sort of points system, but that theory doesn't really work either :unsure: Anyone else used to buy the Top of the Pops magazine though circa the late 90's/very early 00's? They used to print the top 40 of each month on the back page and that was definitely using official total sales.
September 23, 201014 yr Author There will not be any future 'Top 40' Charts Books, as the 2009 Edition did not sell well enough to justify up-dated editions. Oh well, at least we got one - and nowadays it's easy to keep up-to-date via the internet anyway.
September 23, 201014 yr Author I don't know why I still buy these books I never use them. I tend to just check Everyhit or Polyhex... I used to adore them in the late 90s I got the new edition every year for my birthday. I was a sad child. :dance: I used to get Guinness Hit Singles back in the 80's, when instant #1's were still such a novelty they listed them all - nowadays, they fill half the book... :P
September 23, 201014 yr I was exactly the same. Bought them religiously each May (?) and scoured them for hours and days on end. Now I either use Polyhex, Chart Stats, or I just don't care enough. Did anyone else buy that other book 'Hit Singles: Top 20 Charts' which included monthly top 20's in the UK and US. As interesting as I used to find it comparing the big hits in each chart at the comparative time, I had two major problems with it. 1. I'm pretty sure (not certain though) that it was the sales chart being used and not the Billboard chart, which obviously counts for very little these days. 2. How was the monthly data collected and used exactly? Taking the most recent December chart from the current book for example - for that calendar month, RATM were #7 and Joe was #8...so obviously based on sales for December they would have been #1 and #2 easily as they sold 500k and 450k respectively in the final chart week of December, more than any other songs. So it wasn't based on sales, so I assume it must be based on some sort of points system, but that theory doesn't really work either :unsure: Anyone else used to buy the Top of the Pops magazine though circa the late 90's/very early 00's? They used to print the top 40 of each month on the back page and that was definitely using official total sales. I bought the first edition of top 20 charts book (I also bought the albums one too) they were compiled by Dave McAleer -all of his books are excellent btw. I no longer still have the books but I'm sure that they used to use a points system, but not just the tradional points system it was alot more complex than that. It mentions it in the book if I remember right? :unsure: I still have Dave McAleer's UK & US Hit Singles book, which came out in 1990 and was an excellent book, sadly there was never any more editions. Though in it he compiled the biggest singles artists by various categories for both the UK & US. In that he used extra bonus points for singles that peaked top 10 and top 5. Edited September 23, 201014 yr by fiesta
September 23, 201014 yr Anyone else used to buy the Top of the Pops magazine though circa the late 90's/very early 00's? They used to print the top 40 of each month on the back page and that was definitely using official total sales. This is true. Their monthly charts covered 4 or 5 week periods, as dictated by publishing deadlines, and were most useful when they aligned with other information such as Hit Music's bi-weekly Top 30s.
September 23, 201014 yr I will probably buy this - the Guinness Books were what got me into charts in the first place, before I discovered online forums. I'd love to have it all in a book again for me to flick through at my leisure.
September 23, 201014 yr I'll definitely be buying it. I've bought most of the old Guinness Hit Singles books - I got the very first edition as a Christmas present in 1977 though the next edition I bought was in 1989 (it used to be published every two years back then so I only missed 5 editions). I then bought every edition except for the 1999 error prone edition and the last two that were published in 2005 and 2006. It's a great shame that there won't be another Top 40 book though that isn't the sort of book that I would have expected to see published more than once every few years. There used to be another Top 20 Charts book produced by Tony Jasper which used to list each top 20 chart, initially based on the top 20 charts taken from Record Mirror (a music magazine that closed in 1991) from January 1955 then it used the same charts as Record Retailer / Music Week top 20 charts from March 1962 when RM began to carry that chart. That Top 20 Charts book first appeared in 1975 and was published every two years until some time in the 90s. It used to sell quite well until the original Top 40 book was published by Guinness in 1992 which caused sales to decline quite fast.
November 1, 201014 yr Author Bump. Don't forget it is finally out this week - I've already ordered my copy. :dance:
November 1, 201014 yr I ahvent bought this since it was Guinness produced. I really like the chart that told you how many weeks an act had ben in the charts in total.
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