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Pop into the new millennium with 100 separate rankings of the Top 40 songs of every year from 1900 through 1999! Whatever your generation, A Century of Pop Hits holds the soundtrack of your life. This chronological tour through the prime of pop music's past takes you from ragtime to rap, from crooners to country, from big bands to R&B, from the cylinder to the CD. Each of the 100 yearly rankings are based on America's weekly popular music charts and include chart data on every hit! All artists appearing within the yearly rankings are listed alphabetically in the artist section. The title section shows all 4,000 hits alphabetically with each title's peak position and peak year. Ten fascinating articles highlight the events, moods, and music trends of each decade. Sprinkled throughout the book are pictures of the top artists and rankings of each decade's top hits and top artists. A Century of Pop Hits is sure to spark hours of fun and great musical memories, and provide countless trivia challenges.

One of our all-time bestsellers now spans the entire rock era! Billboard Top 10 Singles Charts 1955-2000 draws each weekly Top 10 from Billboard's Best Sellers charts for the years 1955, 1956, 1957 and the first half of 1958. From then on, it's the Hot 100 all the way, with the weekly Top 10s of the premier Pop chart from its debut on August 4, 1958 right through the end of 2000. Each weekly Top 10 chart shows each record's current week's chart position, previous week's chart position, total weeks charted, label and number, and all Hot 100 hits peak positions are shown in boldface type. Special sections include the highest debuts and biggest movers of each year, decade, and all time; the fastest and slowest movers to #1; and the biggest jumps to and falls from #1.

A full 48 years in the making, Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles 1955-2002 (10th Edition) is by far the biggest and best edition of our bestseller we've ever published. From vinyl 45s to CD singles to album tracks, here - and only here - are the more than 25,000 titles and 6,000 artists that appeared on Billboard's Pop music charts from January, 1955 through December, 2002. Painstakingly researched and brimming with basic chart facts, detailed artist and title data, plus great new features and format changes that make it more useful than ever!