Joel Whitburn's Record Research Based on the Billboard Charts
Editors Note: If you are going to set out to build a website about music, like Events-in-Music.com, you will quickly find that the most important tool to have at your disposal is a source of accurate data about the record business. Joel Whitburn's life-long passion for music has provided the impetus for his creation of such a powerful reference resource, aptly called Record Research. Joel's enormous catalogue of music reference books and his accompanying online "Record Research On Demand" are the very best source of information on music, records, and the Billboard Charts.
From RecordResearch.com:
"From pastime to passion to profitable enterprise, the growth of Record Research has been the outgrowth of Joel Whitburn’s hobby. Joel began collecting records as a teenager in the 1950s. As his collection grew, he began to sort, categorize and file each record according to the highest position it reached on Billboard’s charts. He went on to publish this information — first on individual artists’ cards, then in book form — and a business was born. "Today, Joel leads a team of researchers who delve into all of Billboard’s music and video charts to an unmatched degree of depth and detail. Widely recognized as the most authoritative historian on charted music, Joel has also collaborated with Rhino Records on a series of nearly 150 cassette and CD albums of America’s top charted hits. Joel’s own record collection remains unrivaled the world over and includes every charted Hot 100 and pop single (back to 1936), every charted pop album (back to 1945), collections of nearly every charted Country, R&B, Bubbling Under The Hot 100 and Adult Contemporary records, and every video to chart since Billboard began its video charts in 1979. Ever the consummate collector, Joel also owns one of the world’s largest picture sleeve collections, many of which he displays in the series of books (Top 40 Hits, Top 40 Albums, Top 40 Country Hits) he writes for Billboard’s book division. To date, Record Research has published over 100 books, over 40 of which are currently in the catalog...."
Click here to see Joel's catalogue of Record Research books.
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