Kindle Versions Now Available for the '70s, the '80s, the Rock Writers and the Albums
A Classic...Taken To The Next Level
A Complete Catalog of All the Acts and Records from Pop's Golden Decade
It’s a new and expanded version of a classic.
When Dann Isbell published the original Ranking the ‘60s, it was an instant hit. Chart enthusiasts and ‘60s buffs alike loved having a data-based ranking of all the singles and acts that inhabited their favorite music decade. So how do you improve a classic? You keep everything that people like and give them more.
It’s a great lookup book.
The singles are here—all 6889 of them—scored, ranked and indexed using the unique area-under-the-curve analytics pioneered by the Ranking books. And this time every imaginable chart statistic is here—including their history on the Billboard Hot 100, their albums of origin, writers and producers.
The albums are here—all 3904 of them—scored, ranked and indexed with album chart statistics including Entry, Exit and Peak dates, Top 10 and Top 40 weeks and the singles they spawned.
The acts are here--scored and ranked for their history with both singles and albums. There are unique Chronologies giving an at-a-glance graphical and narrative decade history of the 25 most important singles acts.
The writers and writer teams are here—scored, ranked and listed with the acts they wrote for. And the producers and producer teams are here—ranked on their own and shown with their acts and labels.
Then there are the special lists—nearly 70 of them:
· Top singles and albums of each year
· Most weeks on the charts
· Most consecutive weeks on the charts by acts and writers
· All the cover versions
· Albums charting the most singles
· Acts whose careers started and those whose careers ended in the ‘60s
· Writers with the most songs charting at the same time
· Most streamed records
· And so much more data, data, data. The Table of Contents alone is three pages!
It’s also a great read.
There are articles on the development of the 45 and the LP and the advance of stereo, an explanation of the payola scandal of 1960, the history of the Billboard album charts and how the album changed from an easy listening medium at the beginning of the decade to the way everyone bought rock at the end. And don't forget the Knucklebuster Trivia Quiz--and yes, the answers are there and found in the tables and lists.
It’s THE reference for a pivotal decade.
Open Ranking the '60s Version 2.0 to any page and find a memory, an insight or a surprise. And there are way more of them this time.
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