Joel Whitburn Presents Hot Country Albums

Title on spine: Billboard hot country albums.

Joel Whitburn's Top Country Albums 1964-1997 includes an exhaustive collection of albums by every country artist who has ever appeared on the Billboard charts. Includes a short bio of every artist and lists the song titles included on each album as well as their highest chart position.

Beginning with the very first #1 album on Billboard's very first album chart, Joel Whitburn's #1 Album Pix is the most colorful, exciting and detailed chronological look ever at every one of the over 1600 #1 albums of the past 59 years. Three big sections show you every Billboard #1 Pop, R & B, and Country album...year by year...album by album... cover by full-color cover! Book jacket.

This concise yet lively textbook explores the history and significance of American popular music from Tin Pan Alley to Public Enemy. Ethnomusicologist Eric Charry provides a strong foundation for understanding how music, the music industry, and American culture intersect. His innovative teaching style presents the material in a dynamic format suitable for general education courses in music. The book is organized around a series of timelines, tables, and figures, providing fresh perspectives on the social and cultural importance of the music. Charry lays out key contemporary theoretical issues, covers the technical foundations of the music industry, and provides a capsule history of who did what when, with particular emphasis on the rapid emergence of distinct genres and subgenres. The book’s figures distill the history and provide new insight into understanding trends. Over a thousand artists, albums, and songs are covered, such as Muddy Waters, Elvis Presley, Bob Dylan, Aretha Franklin, the Velvet Underground, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, David Bowie, Stevie Wonder, Prince, Madonna, Talking Heads, and many more.

All the information since the earliest Billboard charts were originally compiled in 1942 is gathered into this one essential reference on country music that has been updated and expanded to capture today's top recording artists and their biggest songs. Original.

(Book). An all-encompassing, artist-by-artist listing of every artist and song that's made Billboard 's "Hot Country Songs" charts. Over 2,400 country artists and over 19,000 songs represent 64 years of country chart hits! Complete chart data shows peak position and total chart weeks. Indicates awards that the song won, as well as a bio on every artist listed. A special section includes an alphabetical song title section and handy list of Top Artists, Top Hits and Record Breakers.