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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I guess you could say it all started in the summer of 1996. It was at that seminal point in your life when career decisions and exams are foisted upon you and little else seems to matter. Something else did matter though! Music. Ever conscious of the future, it wasn’t clear to continue with my …
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David Carbines: The Hit Collector