I have amended the headers at the top of the website today to include a Book Finder – a single page with (hopefully) links to all the books I offer. Since 2017 I have put together over 40 books – some have been remade – and all that are currently available should be listed on …
Author archives: Lonnie
Gallup Charts – 1983-1994
Over the past few months I have been busy sorting out the Gallup Singles Charts and adding these to the end of their tenure as compiler, on 5 Feb 1994. Now, with all 177,327 positions added, I’ve launched two books – both now available for preorder. The first volume is almost 4,000 pages and just …
The UK Singles Annual 2024
Announcing the Singles Annual for 2024, by popular request. I have lost count of the number of people who have asked, so here it is! I have added 7 UK Singles charts (including the one compiled by Billboard and three streaming charts). The book itself comes in at over 3,400 pages and covers each one …
An End Of 2024 Update
Hello all and welcome to my website. I do appreciate that the website is updated relatively irregularly but that’s largely due to the time it takes to put various of my books and series together. In this post I’m going to talk about 2024 and some thoughts on 2025. During 2024 spent much of the …
UK Singles Top 40 Charts
I thought it time I added a new chart book to the collection, and created one for the UK Top 40 Singles charts, form 1952 through to the current chart (at time of writing) 18 July 2024. This volume updates three older books created first by Guiness (in 1992 and 1996) and by Virgin (in …
New Year, New Chart Book?
As 2024 dawns, and life returns to normal after the holidays, I’ve launched a new chart book, and in this blog post we shall discuss the series and plans for 2024 – and also if I managed to achieve the plans I had for 2023! New Chart Book! This is new to the website, but …
The Gallup Top 200 -1983-1989
I have been wanting to do this book for a long time, and now, finally, I can! This volume – my largest book yet – contains over 4,000 pages with the BMRB charts for 1980-1982, and then the complete Gallup Top 200 charts from 1983-1989, complete with panel sales. The book covers all Top 200 …
New Books – Record Mirror and Billboard
One of the things I really enjoy doing is researching a chart that has either been overlooked or not researched in the same way that I can. Both of these are true for the two new books I’m going to discuss today. Record Mirror The first book is the third version – and definitive version – …
Page Changes
I’ve spent some time today tidying up the website and consolidating all the information about the UK Decade Series in one easy to find page. This new page is here and I hope that all the links work. I’ve also added a new option that allows the purchase of all 7 UK Decade volumes for …
85 Years Of Billboard Charts
I couldn’t not do a Billboard series could I? With most of the charts available easily enough to put into the database, and a wealth of data from places like Discogs and Wikipedia to augment the data, I just couldn’t resit. I do know of course that Record Research have bene making – and continue …