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You Grew Up With These Albums

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You Grew up with these albums

  

From My Son, The Nut to Rhythm Nation 1814--The authority for the Stereo LP Era

By 1963 stereo albums were selling as well as mono albums, so album charts were consolidated to include both. By the end of the decade, mono had virtually disappeared and the Stereo LP was king. It would hold the throne for nearly two decades, but by the end of the ‘80s had been supplanted by cassettes and CDs.


This book mines that time when the rock LP came of age and ruled the chart. All 3,542 acts and 13,843 albums--all scored and ranked using a unique technology that gives apples-to-apples comparisons even across a quarter century and despite huge changes in the music market.


The three major indexes work smoothly together. The acts are ranked and scored with entries and weeks in the Top 10, Top 40 and the chart itself. The albums are listed in rank order as well as alphabetically, and the two are brought together in one master reference of acts and albums. And data, data, data.


Ranking the Albums includes a unique graphical chronology of all the albums for the Top 25 Acts, and an all-new plot of chart performance week-to-week for the Top 25 Albums, along with all the singles from those Albums


Then there are the fun lists:

· Top 100 Movie Soundtracks

· Top 200 Live Albums

· Albums with Most Weeks in Top 10, Top 40 and Overall

· Top Acts by Year and Decade

· Acts with Most Consecutive Weeks on the Chart

· Highest Scoring Acts Never to Make the Top 5

And many, many more.


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FAQ--How to use Ranking The Albums

  

The information used to compile this book consists of Album Title, Act and Chart Position week by week for all albums entering the Billboard consolidated Mono and Stereo album chart between August 17, 1963 and December 31, 1989. All the other quantities are derived from these data. Descriptive information about albums and acts is found from various sources, including act websites and Wikipedia.


There are three major sections of this book and they interoperate: the Acts Section, the Albums Section and the Acts With Albums Section. There are four major lists with the Albums ranked, the Albums in alphabetical order, the Acts Ranked and the Acts in alphabetical order, along with their albums. Additionally, there are a number of specialized lists, including the top albums for each year and the top acts for each year and the decades.


Not all the album-specific information is contained in every list—that would have made the book four times as large; but it allows you to start with either an album title, an act or a ranking and find all the relevant information in the various lists.


For example:


Q: What was the rank of Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band?

A: Rank? Sergeant. Oh, sorry. Did you mean the original album or the movie Soundtrack? If all you know is the album name, start with the Album Alphabetical list. It has the Title, the Act and the Rank.


Q: I meant the Beatles album.

A: Fine. As you can see, it ranked 19. The Soundtrack ranked 1079.


Q: What was the number 20 album, then?

A: Go to the Albums, Rank Order list.  Appetite For Destruction by Guns N’ Roses.


Q: I hated that album. Why did you rank it so high?

A: Remember, this is not about what is good or bad, it’s about what charted strongly.


Q: OK. What other Beatle albums charted?

A: Go to the Acts With Albums Section and look up The Beatles (under B—the words a, an and the are not used for alphabetical order). There you will find The BEATLES along with their Act ranking (1) their highest peak with any album (1) and the number of their albums that made the Top 10, Top 40, and the chart itself [23|27|37]. First album under the heading is Sgt. Pepper’s and you will find its year of entry, (67), Peak and Weeks at Peak, 1(15), and weeks in the Top 10, Top 40 and in Total [33|63|175]. Finally there is the score.


Q: Let’s try one more. Where did the Bee Gees rank as a group?

A: Start with the Acts in Alphabetical order because it also has rank.


Q: Right. I see they’re number 14. Who was 13?

A: Go To the Acts, Rank Order list. It was Bob Dylan.


Q:  There’s so much stuff here. Are there any mistakes?

A: Probably. I hope you look hard enough to find them and let me know where they are. Contact me through the Home Page

trivia questions

Q: By any measure, this album spent more weeks on the chart than any other. Name it.

A: Dark Side Of The Moon—Pink Floyd-741 between 1973 and 2000


Q: Everyone knows Thriller by Michael Jackson spent the most weeks (37) at number 1. What was second, and how many weeks at number 1?

A: Rumours—Fleetwood Mac—31


Q: Who was the highest charting solo African-American male act?

A: Stevie Wonder (11)

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