The most complete guide to every artist and album that has ever charted in the UK Album chart, with details on over 14,800 albums and biographies on every one of the 3,180 acts that have appeared since the chart first started in 1958. From a Top Ten in 1958, the album chart has grown in both size and stature over the years. Increased to a Top Twenty in 1960, the chart grew to a Top 30 by 1966, a Top 40 later that year, a Top 50 in 1971, a Top 75 in 1978 and a Top 100 in 1981. By 1989, when compilation albums and soundtracks were a major factor in the chart, a decision was taken to produce two charts; a Top 75 artist chart and a Top 20 compilation chart. Every single entry on all these charts is included in Collins Complete UK Hit Albums. 3,180 acts have registered just over 11,300 hit albums; also listed are the approximately 3,500 soundtracks and compilation albums that have also hit the charts. Hit Singles: a brief biography of each of the 3,180 or so artists who have had hit albums, details of BPI awards, Platinum Europe awards and RIAA Diamond awards and details of BRIT, Grammy awards and US Number Ones. Just as with the single chart, the album chart is not without its peculiarities and so you will learn of the album that took nearly four years to hit the number one spot, the album by Sigur Ros that had no title as opposed to that by Fiona Apple which registered the longest title (all 89 words), the artists whose chart career consists of a single week at position 100 as opposed to Fleetwood Mac's Rumours which has spent 477 weeks on the chart, including one week at number one.

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Commentary (music and lyrics not included). Pages: 65. Chapters: Now Esto Es Musica! Latino, Now Esto Es Musica! Latino 2, Now Esto Es Musica! Latino 3, Now Esto Es Musica! Latino 4, Now That's What I Call a Country Christmas, Now That's What I Call Christmas!, Now That's What I Call Christmas!: The Signature Collection, Now That's What I Call Christmas! 3, Now That's What I Call Christmas! 4, Now That's What I Call Classic Rock Hits, Now That's What I Call Club Hits, Now That's What I Call Club Hits 2, Now That's What I Call Country, Now That's What I Call Country Volume 2, Now That's What I Call Country Volume 3, Now That's What I Call Country Volume 4, Now That's What I Call Country Volume 5, Now That's What I Call Dance Classics, Now That's What I Call Faith, Now That's What I Call Love (U.S. album), Now That's What I Call Motown, Now That's What I Call Music! (original U.S. album), Now That's What I Call Music! 10 (U.S. series), Now That's What I Call Music! 11 (U.S. series), Now That's What I Call Music! 12 (U.S. series), Now That's What I Call Music! 13 (U.S. series), Now That's What I Call Music! 14 (U.S. series), Now That's What I Call Music! 15 (U.S. series), Now That's What I Call Music! 16 (U.S. series), Now That's What I Call Music! 17 (U.S. series), Now That's What I Call Music! 18 (U.S. series), Now That's What I Call Music! 19 (U.S. series), Now That's What I Call Music! 20 (U.S. series), Now That's What I Call Music! 21 (U.S. series), Now That's What I Call Music! 22 (U.S. series), Now That's What I Call Music! 23 (U.S. series), Now That's What I Call Music! 24 (U.S. series), Now That's What I Call Music! 25 (U.S. series), Now That's What I Call Music! 26 (U.S. series), Now That's What I Call Music! 27 (U.S. series), Now That's What I Call Music! 28 (U.S. series), Now That's What I Call Music! 29 (U.S. series), Now...

In its 114th year, Billboard remains the world's premier weekly music publication and a diverse digital, events, brand, content and data licensing platform. Billboard publishes the most trusted charts and offers unrivaled reporting about the latest music, video, gaming, media, digital and mobile entertainment issues and trends.

The annual bible of pop is back with the most comprehensive edition yet combining British hit singles and British hit albums in one volume. The UK's oldest and biggest-selling music annual contains all 39,000 hit singles and albums from more than 50 years of the charts. All this plus act biographies, a song title index and more than 50 illustrated features make it the perfect book for pop quizzers, record collectors, DJs, downloaders and music fans of all ages.

Why We Can’t Sleep meets Furiously Happy in this hilarious, heartfelt memoir about one woman’s midlife obsession with Benedict Cumberbatch, and the liberating power of reclaiming our passions as we age, whatever they may be. Tabitha Carvan was a new mother, at home with two young children, when she fell for the actor Benedict Cumberbatch. You know the guy: strange name, alien face, made Sherlock so sexy that it became one of the most streamed shows in the world? The force of her fixation took everyone—especially Carvan herself—by surprise. But what she slowly realized was that her preoccupation was not about Benedict Cumberbatch at all, as dashing as he might be. It was about finally feeling passionate about something, anything, again at a point in her life when she had lost touch with her own identity and sense of self. In This Is Not a Book About Benedict Cumberbatch, Carvan explores what happens to women's desires after we leave adolescence…and why the space in our lives for pure, unadulterated joy is squeezed ever smaller as we age. She shines a light onto the hidden corners of fandom, from the passion of the online communities to the profound real-world connections forged between Cumberbatch devotees. But more importantly, she asks: what happens if we simply decide to follow our interests like we used to—unabashedly, audaciously, shamelessly? After all, Carvan realizes, there’s true, untapped power in finding your “thing” (even if that thing happens to be a British-born Marvel superhero) and loving it like your life depends on it.