Chart Books For All
It’s always hard to work out exactly what is the true account, particularly after so many years have elapsed – and thats a statement that is true largely regardless of the field being researched. It’s more true with charts as it is almost always impossible to locate the original data sources. Let me explain… How …
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I issued a new book on Saturday for the Billboard Best Sellers In Stores Chart. (If your interested then a link to check out the page is here) and I thought I’d go through the process of putting it together. My last post talked about gathering the data I nave, so this one will talk …
After relaunching the website a few weeks ago I’ve been concentrating on updating the database that creates the ChartBookWeekly and the associated books and that’s what I want to talk about now. When I began to collect the UK charts (and it was the UK as I didn’t know about Billboard back then) it was …
Chart errors. Some are genuine mistakes and so can be fixed easily. Some are more annoying as they can’t. I’m going to pick out a one in particular, of the annoying variety, and talk about that, but really there are hundreds over the years. March 1969 The UK Album Charts are the second class citizen …
Well, I wanted a new website. I actually don’t, what I really wanted was a refresh, but this seemed really good, so it’s a WordPress website. Does most of what I want and what I don’t want I can turn off. Probably. So far I have written a couple of pages and it will take me the rest …
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