Posted October 4, 201014 yr The 2nd Volume of the 'Virgin Book Of British Hit Singles' is out on Thursday 4th November. Amazon.uk are currently taking Pre-Orders for it - at £13, rather than its full price of £20. LINK:, http://smurl.name/e4z6 Here is Amazon's description of it:, "The second in this new series, The Virgin Book of Hit Singles is the most-up-to-date and comprehensive record of the music charts available today and a perfect, collectable complement to The Virgin Book of Hit Albums and The Virgin Book of Top 75 Charts. Now improved and fine-tuned, and drawn from the Official Charts Company Data since 1952, The Virgin Book of Hit Singles features the most comprehensive, easy to read and accessible music chart data and information. It's all here -- expanded artist biographies, side notes of interest, label and catalogue numbers, peak positions, number of weeks on chart and weeks at number one. Also includes EP charts. The Virgin Book of Hit Singles is essential reading, and reference, for any music lover". SOMEONE'S COMMENTS ON THE 2010 'HIT SINGLES' BOOK Someone has seen the 'Hit Singles' Book, & describes it on James Masterton's Chart Blog. I thought that you'd like to see what the Fellow says. (It will be a Male - hardly any Females are interested in Chart Books. People who run Book Shops have often told me that, when I've asked). He calls himself 'This Charming Man', & he says:, "Chart lovers: GOOD NEWS! I have seen an early copy of the new Virgin British Hit Singles and it's ace. Lists of best selling singles/dowloads ever and by year. The short-lived EP charts listings, lists of "more weeks at #1" by artist and single, "in the top 10" etc... They vastly make up for the poor showing of 2 years ago. And they have "weeks in the charts" column as opposed to "weeks in the Top 40" as they did last time. I hope this doesn't count as spam as I am effectively promoting something, so apologies if I am offending anyone". @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ Anyhow - with full Top 75 Weeks On Chart, & EP Chart Data added in - plus many other improvements, on the 2008 Edition - it looks like the 2010 Edition will be well worth buying for Chart Fans. Edited October 4, 201014 yr by zeus555
October 4, 201014 yr I didn't buy the first edition but I'll be buying this as they've put right all the things that were wrong with the first one. I assume they will also have corrected the errors that various people pointed out. It's in the very nature of books like this that there will probably be some new errors though.
October 4, 201014 yr Author They have addressed the 'mess' that was the 2008 Book. The more people who buy the 2010 Book, the more chance of a 2011 Album Book, & 2012 Singles Book. It is in 'Chart Fans' hands, whether these Books continue or not. We are very lucky in the UK - the people who compile the German Charts, refuse to let anyone do German Chart Books. There have not been any there for many Years.
October 5, 201014 yr I might have to buy this if only for the pre-1960 info. It gets a little confusing there.
October 5, 201014 yr They have addressed the 'mess' that was the 2008 Book. The more people who buy the 2010 Book, the more chance of a 2011 Album Book, & 2012 Singles Book. It is in 'Chart Fans' hands, whether these Books continue or not. We are very lucky in the UK - the people who compile the German Charts, refuse to let anyone do German Chart Books. There have not been any there for many Years. Agreed. It's particularly important that people - like me - who didn't buy the first one because of the format buy this one to reward them for addressing the various issues. If this one sells more than the first that should encourage them to continue. They will probably need to consider what extras to include, preferably information that is not readily available on the internet. At 720 pages it is 50% bigger than last year's albums book and the same size as the last Guinness book which combined singles and albums. Perhaps they should consider s separate volume for acts who have not had a hit since, say, 2000 or even 1990 as a sort of permanent archive. Then the new books can contain any act with at least one hit after that date with plenty of room for additional facts. These volumes should, of course, continue to have a full list of number ones.
October 5, 201014 yr I would love them to start including sales data but I'd imagine that would be a lot of work.
October 5, 201014 yr Author WH Smith will be selling the 2010 'British Hit Singles' Book for £12.40 - 60p cheaper than Amazon.uk, & £7.60 cheaper than its full price. LINK:, http://bit.ly/bPM6Ga Edited October 5, 201014 yr by zeus555
October 5, 201014 yr WH Smith will be selling the 2010 'British Hit Singles' Book for £12.40 - 60p cheaper than Amazon.uk, & £7.60 cheaper than its full price. LINK:, http://bit.ly/bPM6Ga That's better, it save me postage and packing from Amazon, just pre -order it from my local branch
October 5, 201014 yr a perfect, collectable complement to The Virgin Book of Hit Albums and The Virgin Book of Top 75 Charts. I must have beem shortchanged as my copy is restricted to the Top 40s! :lol:
October 5, 201014 yr Sounds better this time. I was glad to have an updated book last time but it was a bit souless with nothing but the a-z Is the cut off end of 2009 in terms of sales/weeks or are they doing that weird march thing again even though the book itself didn't make the date clear!
October 6, 201014 yr Author Sounds better this time. I was glad to have an updated book last time but it was a bit souless with nothing but the a-z Is the cut off end of 2009 in terms of sales/weeks or are they doing that weird march thing again even though the book itself didn't make the date clear! Spicefunk - As far as I understand it, the 2010 'British Hit Singles' Book goes up to the Chart of W/E 10th April THIS Year - inclusive. At first I was told W/E 3rd April, but - in various ways - I worked out that the Data went up to a Week later than that - 10th April.
October 6, 201014 yr I don't think it's random, isn't mid-April the end of a business 'quarter' or something of the sort?
October 6, 201014 yr Random dates again then. Thanks zeus So we get a few extra months. Isn't that a good thing? I assume they wanted to publish fairly close to Christmas and include as much data as possible.
October 8, 201014 yr I don't think it's random, isn't mid-April the end of a business 'quarter' or something of the sort? Well the last book was up to 8th march or something weird and business quarters don't end in the middle of the month. Also since when have the charts been looked at in "business quarters"? So we get a few extra months. Isn't that a good thing? I assume they wanted to publish fairly close to Christmas and include as much data as possible. I take your point but if that's always the cutoff its not really extra months considering subsequent books will only contain 2 years extra data. Also, its not that good for comparisons of artists or runs, or weeks on in a certain year to work out for example when the cutoff date is completely arbitrary and makes no logical sense. I assume it was chosen as the last date info could be input before everything had to be finalised and sent to the publishers. Personally id rather just have end 2009 and know where I stood
October 8, 201014 yr Anyway a minor gripe. The changes they've made sound far more positive, looking forward to it :D
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