David Carbines: The Hit Collector
A personal adventure of collecting and cataloguing the UK hit singles and albums. With some original art, music and literature reviews exclusively on this site as I am not on social media.
America, with Billboard, started recording music charts before we did in the UK. There has been somewhat of an American chart since 1940, when the Best Sellers In Stores chart was established. Billboard also collated Most Played by Jockeys (essentially an airplay chart) and Most Played in Jukeboxes which is self-explanatory. NME published it’s first …
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Artist – Title – Cat No, Position (Chart weeks: Top 10/40/75)/Hit Singles represented (Position, Weeks on top 75) 7″ Singles: Andrew Ridgeley – Shake – AJR1, #58 (0/0/3)/ Parent Album: Son Of Albert (failed to chart). CD Singles: Nick Heywood – He Doesn’t Love You Like I Do – 659728 2, #58 (0/0/2)/ Parent Album: …
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David Carbines: The Hit Collector