Billboard's Top 1000 Hits of the Rock Era - 1955-2005 [Paperback]

Joel Whitburn (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 1, 2006

A colorful pictorial look at the top 1,000 hits of the past 50 years! Each and every hit of the rock era is shown in this beautiful book, in full color with complete Billboard chart data. Each entry includes the original 45 RPM picture sleeve, cassette single box, CD single insert, sheet music, and/or full-page Billboard ad along with: overall Top 1,000 rank, peak position, weeks at peak position, and the year it charted. The book also includes: an Artist Section listing all Top 1,000 titles by the artist's name; an A-to-Z Title Section listing all Top 1000 titles in alphabetical order; a Yearly Section listing the Top 40 hits, year by year from 1955-2005. Over 100 pages of color images pictorially represent every top hit of the rock era. An intriguing, one-of-a-kind book!

Product Details

• Paperback: 200 pages
• Publisher: Record Research (May 1, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1423409191
• ISBN-13: 978-1423409199
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.1 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #93,762 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Any music fan will quickly consider Top 1000 Hits Of The Rock Era a top pick, August 5, 2006

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Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Billboard's Top 1000 Hits of the Rock Era - 1955-2005 (Paperback)

The blend of color photos with statistics here is simply wonderful, surpassing other `top hits' compilations by providing a full color photos of each hit's original 45 RPM picture sleeve or ad, supplementing the Billboard chart details. The rock era covered is from 1955-2005: fifty years of top music, with nine small photos to each page enhancing the countdown listings. Any music fan will quickly consider Top 1000 Hits Of The Rock Era a top pick.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Review of Kindle Edition only - too tiny to read!, June 30, 2011

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Christine Egan (Winthrop, MA, US) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Billboard's Top 1000 Hits of the Rock Era - 1955-2005 (Kindle Edition)

I love Joel Whitburn's Billboard books, so I was delighted to find that there is one in kindle format. I downloaded a sample, and got a few pages of the rankings. The typeface is microscopic and unreadable, but I thought that might be because of all the photos involved. I thought that surely the artist & song title sections would read normally, so I purchased the book. Sadly, the unreadably tiny font prevails throughout all of the data sections. The image does not change when either the zoom feature on the increase type-face feature is used. I've asked for a refund on this item. If you are considering buying this for your kindle, download the sample first and look at the size of the printing under the rankings photos. If you can read & live with that, more power to you.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Top 1000 HITS OF THE ROCK ERA 1955-2005, February 25, 2009

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Mark A. Hughes - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Billboard's Top 1000 Hits of the Rock Era - 1955-2005 (Paperback)

To be honest, I was a little disapointed with my purchase. I was expecting the same information on artist and groups like the Joel Whitburns TOP 40 Hits. With info. on group members and original artists on the album. I personally like the trivia. I thought it was an updated version.