The OCC, (& others), have finished Proof Reading the 'Virgin Top 40 Charts' Book. It will be out in November.

 

It has every Singles Top 40 in it - from March 1960 to 2009 - so, it looks like some Top 40's from this

Year are in it. There are no 1950's Charts in it, so 'New Musical Express' has, (obviously), refused to

let them include its Charts, from Mid November 1952, to March 1960.

 

Here is a Link - to show the Cover. The Book has 544 Pages.

 

THE LINK

 

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Top-40-Charts/dp/0...9199&sr=1-1

 

Looking forward to hit - just wish it was top 75

Now this I like, but why limit it to a top 40, I would rather have a top 75.

The OCC, (& others), have finished Proof Reading the 'Virgin Top 40 Charts' Book. It will be out in November.

 

It has every Singles Top 40 in it - from March 1960 to 2009 - so, it looks like some Top 40's from this

Year are in it. There are no 1950's Charts in it, so 'New Musical Express' has, (obviously), refused to

let them include its Charts, from Mid November 1952, to March 1960.

 

Here is a Link - to show the Cover. The Book has 544 Pages.

 

THE LINK

 

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Top-40-Charts/dp/0...9199&sr=1-1

It would be more correct, if they started the book from February 1969, and finished in February 2009. Then it would actually be correct with 40 years of Official Charts. The 1960-69 Charts in it, are a lot of rubbish...that were never even followed by any of the media.

yeh...great...bought the guinness one from years ago upto 95 i think. top 40 is the most popular part of chart Radio 1 etc. i'll be buying! :D

It is a shame that its not top 75's though even still will be buying this! Might be worth buying a few in case theirs not another one! Because there wasnt any other editions after the one in 1995, everyone held on to their copy, so any copy that was for sale usually went for alot of money!

The OCC, (& others), have finished Proof Reading the 'Virgin Top 40 Charts' Book. It will be out in November.

 

It has every Singles Top 40 in it - from March 1960 to 2009 - so, it looks like some Top 40's from this

Year are in it. There are no 1950's Charts in it, so 'New Musical Express' has, (obviously), refused to

let them include its Charts, from Mid November 1952, to March 1960.

 

Not a problem for me - I have both the 1st Ed. of the Guinness T40 book, and the NME '40 years of charts' book.

 

The update covering 1992-2009 will be very welcome. :)

 

Apparently, The OCC & Virgin considered basing the Book on the Top 75, but they decided

not to, in the end. The Price would have had to go up - considerably - at Retail - and they

worried that this would put many people off buying it.

 

So, if they could only be sure that we'd still have bought it, it would have had Top 75's in it.

I just recently discovered the existance of this book and bought it from Amazon. I was wondering if there was any other discussion of this book on here (or elsewhere)? I can only find this thread. In particular I am interested in any known errors in it. I've spent all afternoon going through the Complete Charts thread on UKMix and have compiled a file of things that needed correcting there, but most seem to be already corrected in the book.

I have noticed that in different years they follow different rules in terms of how many total weeks Fairytale of New York has charted, first treating it a separate re-entry the first time, then counting all the weeks in every guise in subsequent times. Also I think they have confused the two different labels issues of Je'Taime somewhere along the lines, as I believe the second labels issue enetered high as the first dropped out (due to the first label stopping the issue after the controversies), in the book the second version breifly appears lower (which is really the dropping out of the first issue I think).

DanChartFan - Yes 'Je Taime' does have its Chart 'Runs' on

its 2 Labels confused, in the 'Top 40 Book'. The old Guinness

Top 40 Book got it right. (The OCC & Virgin are aware of the

mistake).

Edited January 10, 201114 yr by zeus555

Something else I have now noticed is whenever there is tied positions the following chart tends to have an incorrect previous weeks position for one of the tied records (or more if there are more than two in the tie). This seems to be a particular nightmare in Feb-Jun 1969 when an awful lot of tied positions existed, some of which I have found from online sources but not in the book and some in the book but not in other onlines sources. I assume the author would have had to thoroughly research the 1969 charts in RR and RM to find what is correct as there seem to have been a lot of problems and variations that year between sources.

Finally made my through this book - only took over a year to do it.

 

I know it's a minor criticism but Kylie was labelled as a debuting artist on Spinning Around and Billie Piper was labelled as a debuting artist on Day and Night. They weren't of course, just a different credit.

 

Also, I always assumed it was Beyonce (sole credit) on 'Crazy in love' in the UK and Beyonce ft Jay-Z in America. In the book it's credited to Beyonce ft. Jay-Z.

That's interesting Jaynesangel, I hadn't even noticed the chart debut symbols until you said. But now I notice a similar error, with S Club given a second debut after they had dropped the 7!

As for Crazy In Love I have the UK cd single and I'm fairly sure it was Beyonce ft Jay-Z here in the UK too!

Does this book show charts weekly? Or by artist?

Does this book show charts weekly? Or by artist?

 

It's the weekly Top 40 charts, listed in order

It's every top 40 from 12 Mar 1960 till 3 Jan 2009. Except when there wasn't a new chart over xmas or when occasionally only a top 30 was compiled. Obviously NME didn't agree tp them using the 1952 to Feb 1960 charts though.