The Official Albums Charts: The Eighties is an unmissable collection of all the UK's Official charts, week-by-week - full Top 75s, chronicling the great variety of music reflected by the most popular albums, on vinyl, CD, cassette (even 8-Track), in this most memorable of decades. These are the rundowns recognised by the music industry as their official charts, as curated today by the Official Charts Company and available at OfficialCharts.com - and including the Official Compilation Albums Charts from 14 January 1989.This is the first time these Top 75s and Top 100s have been gathered together in the same place in a printed volume and is the first in a series of books which, over the coming months, will make up a collection of volumes spanning every week of the UK's Official albums and singles charts from 1952 to the present day. Published at the same time as this title is the companion volume, The Official Singles Charts: The Eighties. Additional volumes on the rest of the UK's great chart decades are coming your way very soon.

The Official Charts: The Sixties is an essential gathering together of all the UK's Official charts, week-by-week, as the full published chart, chronicling the shifting fashions and trends of that most memorable of decades. That means more than 500 weeks of singles charts. These are the charts recognised by the music industry as their official rundowns (as curated today by the Official Charts Company - and made available at OfficialCharts.com). This means the charts broadcast by BBC Radio 1 and Top Of The Pops, and published by music industry magazine Music Week. This is the first time the full charts have been gathered together in the same place in a printed volume and is the latest in a series of books which, over the coming months, will make up a collection of volumes spanning every week of the UK's Official singles and albums charts from 1952 to the present day. Also included are the accompanying EP Charts, which were published between March 1960 and December 1967. Published at the same time as this title is the companion volume, The Official Albums Charts: The Sixties. The additional volumes on the rest of the UK's great chart decades are coming your way very soon.

The Official Albums Charts: The Seventies is an unmissable collection of all the UK's Official charts, week-by-week, as full Top 75s and chronicling the great variety of music reflected by the most popular albums, on vinyl, CD, cassette (even 8-Track), in this most memorable of decades. That all adds up to more than 500 weeks of album charts. These are the rundowns recognised by the music industry as their official charts (and as curated today by the Official Charts Company - and made available at OfficialCharts.com). That means the charts broadcast at the time by BBC Radio 1 and Top Of The Pops, and published by music industry magazine Music Week.This is the first time these Top 75s have been gathered together in the same place in a printed volume and is the latest in a series of books which, over the coming months, will make up a collection of volumes spanning every week of the UK's Official albums and singles charts from 1952 to the present day. Published at the same time as this title is the companion volume, The Official Singles Charts: The Seventies. The additional volumes on the rest of the UK's great chart decades are coming your way very soon.

A totally righteous collection of tunes! From hair metal to the King of Pop, these 100 best-selling albums made up the soundtrack of the '80s. The wild success of artists Madonna, Michael Jackson, Van Halen, and Prince are chronicled here, along with more mellow musicians such as John Mellencamp, Phil Collins, Lionel Richie, and Huey Lewis. Metal heads will also appreciate entries from Def Leppard, Metallica, Guns ’n’ Roses, Quiet Riot, and more. Each listing features the full-color original sleeve artwork, and is packed with information about the musician lineup, track listings, and number-one singles that resulted. Return to the footloose years of the 1980s!

In 1966, the popular Australian music magazine Go-Set introduced the first ever national Australian singles chart. Four years later the national albums chart followed. This book is the first publication dedicated to the Go-Set charts. This book includes: - A comprehensive list of every single and album ever to appear on the Go-Set national charts. - Records arranged by both artist and title in separate sections. - Each entry has complete chart information: peak position, weeks at number one, entry date and number of weeks on the chart. - For the first time ever: gold, platinum and multi-platinum sales certifications for records selling over 50,000 copies. - Complete chronological list of all the number 1 singles and albums on the Go-Set charts. - Find out which artists had the most number one hits, the most charting singles and albums, and much more. Music and chart lovers can now complete their collection of the Australian charts by going back to where it all began - with Go-Set.

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 40 Charts. Now improved and fine-tuned, and drawn from the Official Charts Company Data since 1956, 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. The Virgin Book of Hit Singles is essential reading, and reference, for any music lover.

Ranking the '80s is the Who's Who and the What's What of pop music in the video decade.It's the complete reference. All the singles and all the albums, as well as all the acts that recorded them, ranked and indexed. Chart statistics are included for each record-Entry, Peak, Weeks at Peak and Total Weeks. Every single's entry includes writers, producers and the album from which the single came. The top writers and producers are ranked, and listed along with the acts and singles for whom they wrote and produced.Acts and records-both singles and albums-are brought together in united references with the acts in alphabetical order and the records sorted by chart strength. Vital statistics for both acts and albums are included.Ranking the '80s is full of new analytics. Albums are scored two ways: on the album's chart strength and according to the chart strength of the singles they produced. The difference can be telling: which albums are collections of hits and which albums are greater than the sum of their parts? Acts are analyzed as well: Which acts are singles acts and which are album acts?There is a unique Chronology section-a two-page graph and text snapshot of the decade for the top 20 singles acts and top 20 album acts. Each vignette traces singles history, album history week-to-week, important interactions between singles and albums, and a narrative summary of the act's decadal chart achievements.Then there are the fun lists:Highest scoring singles and albums never to make the weekly top 5Lowest scoring number 1sWeakest followup releases to number 1 hitsActs with consecutive number 1sActs with the most records and the most weeks in the Top 10, Top 40 and on the chartsMost records on the charts simultaneously?and many, many more