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Billboard's Hottest Hot 100 Hits, Updated and Expanded 3rd Edition
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by Fred Bronson
Sales Rank: 75422
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List Price: $21.95
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Paperback: 544 pages
Publisher: Billboard Books; 3 Exp Upd edition December 2002
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0823077381
ISBN-13: 978-0823077380
Product Dimensions:
9.2 x 6.9 x 1.5 inches
Shipping Weight: 2 pounds
Book Description
New updated and expanded edition of the classic best-seller! The third edition of Billboard's Hottest Hot 100 Hits follows the recorded history of popular music through the end of 2001. Written by Fred Bronson, author of the best-selling Billboard Book of Number One Hits, this time-honored and reliable source of information about the most popular songs of the rock era is a must- have for all pop and chart fans. Unique in its approach to the history of recorded music, the book devotes separate chapters to such categories as the artists, the writers, the producers, the labels, the years, and the subjects. Each chapter narrows in to the best of the best-including "The Top 100 Songs of The Beatles," "The Top 50 Songs Written by Carole King," "The Top 50 Songs Produced by Phil Spector," "The Top 100 Songs on Atlantic Records," "The Top 100 Songs of 2001," and "The Top 100 Love Songs." This fabulous book also contains a list of "The Top 5000 Hits of the Rock Era," from 1956 through the end of 2001. Immensely entertaining, endlessly informative, and filled with fascinating facts and figures, this brand-new third edition of Billboard's Hottest Hot 100 Hits is an essential music reference.
About The Author
Fred Bronson is the author of the perennial best-seller The Billboard Book of Number One Hits, currently in its fourth edition, and coauthor of Dick Clark's American Bandstand. Writer of the popular weekly column "Chart Beat" in Billboard as well as his own section of Billboard Online, he is also a cowriter of the annual TV special American Music Awards. He lives in Los Angeles, California.
Owner Reviews, Ratings, Comments and Criticism
This review is from: Billboard's Hottest Hot 100 Hits (Paperback)
Fred Bronson is a chart trivia columnist for Billboard magazine and his love of the charts shines through in this book. It consists primarlity of lists of songs from the Billboard Hot 100, either by artists, producer, label, year or topic. So you get the top 100 Beatles songs, the top 100 Motown songs, the top 25 songs written by Diane Warren, the top 100 songs of 1979, etc. It keeps the biggest for last: a 5000 song chart of the biggest hits of all time. The only problem is that all lists are based on equally weighted weeks from the history of chart music. So the 50's (where songs were fewer and chart life longer), and the 90's (where singles were largely abandoned and those that were releases remained on the charts for over a year) tend to dominate many of these lists. More than half the top 100 of all time are from 55-57 or the 90's. Is 'A Blossom Fell' by Nat King Cole really a bigger hit than Michael Jackson's "Billie Jean"? It is here. In fact, with the fast turnover of hits in the 60's only "Hey Jude" makes the top 100. Pity there wasn't some way to balance this info, possibly by factoring in Top 40 listener stats or total singles sales by year as a way to adjust for historical imbalances. The saving grace of the book is the Charts by Year section. Here the songs have an even playing field, so you can compare songs like "Love Will Keep Us Together" with "Jive Talkin" in 1975, or "Sunshine Superman" and "Hanky Panky" in '66, or "Wind Beneath My Wings" to "Love Shack" in '89. If you want more specific info on a song, you should also check out Fred's Billboard Book of Number One Singles, a treasure trove of musical trivia.
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