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

From My Son, The Nut to Rhythm Nation 1814 …and everything in betweenThe authority for the Stereo LP Era: By 1963 stereo albums were selling as well as mono albums, so album charts were consolidated to include both. By the end of the decade, mono had virtually disappeared and the Stereo LP was king. It would hold the throne for nearly two decades, but by the end of the ‘80s had been supplanted by cassettes and CDs.This book mines that time when the rock LP came of age and ruled the chart. All 3,542 acts and 13,843 albums–all scored and ranked using a unique technology that gives apples-to-apples comparisons even across a quarter century and despite huge changes in the music market.The three major indexes work smoothly together. The acts are ranked and scored with entries and weeks in the Top 10, Top 40 and the chart itself. The albums are listed in rank order as well as alphabetically, and the two are brought together in one master reference of acts and albums together. And there’s data, data, data.Ranking the Albums includes a unique graphical chronology of all the albums for the Top 25 Acts, and an all-new plot of chart performance week-to-week for the Top 25 Albums, along with all the singles from those AlbumsThen there are the fun lists: -Top 100 Movie Soundtracks-Top 200 Live Albums-Albums with Most Weeks in Top 10, Top 40 and Overall-Top Acts by Year and Decade-Acts with Most Consecutive Weeks on the Chart-Highest Scoring Acts Never to Make the Top 5And many, many more