A complete listing of all albums and artists entering the Billboard Album Chart from August 17, 1963 to December 31, 1989, ranked for chart strength. Additionally specialty "best of" lists including Soundtracks, Live Albums and Greatest Hits.

Ranking the Albums: The Stereo LP Era: 1963-1989

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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

Ranking the '80s

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The first systematic bottom-up look at the writers of the rock era, using publicly available information, including copyrights, royalty rights, labels and crowdsourced databases. The data set is huge—all three major magazines, 24,426 songs, 11,834 writers and 10,773 writer teams. Each song is scored, then the score is allocated to the writers to rank each writer and writer team in the era. Writer aliases and similar names have been rationalized to assign one name to each writer and one writer to each name.
There are two major indexes:
All the songs: Title, Act, Label, Number, where they charted, earliest entry and highest peak. Other song characteristics are noted: instrumentals, and whether words and music have separate writers; songs that originated in a foreign language and were translated or given new English lyrics, and more.
All the writers: Each song attributed to them, listed in order of chart strength.
Then there are the fun lists: <ul>
<li>Top 2000 Writer teams with their songs</li> <li>Top 200 Writers and Writer Teams with their first and biggest songs</li> <li>Top 100 Writers and Writer Teams in each decade by score and number of charted hits</li> <li>Top 750 Acts and the writers who supported them</li> <li>Top 100 songs by one, two and three writer teams</li> <li>Top 150 songs by score, counting all charted versions</li> <li>A unique timeline for each of the Top 30 Writer Teams showing each hit by chart strength and entry date and a brief narrative about their chart performance.</li> </ul>

Ranking the Rock Writers

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Ranking the Albums: The Stereo LP Era: 1963-1989

Ranking the '80s

Ranking the Rock Writers