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Overview
The first systematic bottom-up look at the writers of the rock era, using publicly available information, including copyrights, royalty rights, labels and crowdsourced databases. The data set is huge--all three major magazines, 24,426 songs, 11,834 writers and 10,773 writer teams. Each song is scored, then the score is allocated to the writers to rank each writer and writer team in the era. Writer aliases and similar names have been rationalized to assign one name to each writer and one writer to each name.
There are two major indexes:
All the songs: Title, Act, Label, Number, where they charted, earliest entry and highest peak. Other song characteristics are noted: instrumentals, and whether words and music have separate writers; songs that originated in a foreign language and were translated or given new English lyrics, and more.
All the writers: Each song attributed to them, listed in order of chart strength.
Then there are the fun lists:
- Top 2000 Writer teams with their songs
- Top 200 Writers and Writer Teams with their first and biggest songs
- Top 100 Writers and Writer Teams in each decade by score and number of charted hits
- Top 750 Acts and the writers who supported them
- Top 100 songs by one, two and three writer teams
- Top 150 songs by score, counting all charted versions
- A unique timeline for each of the Top 30 Writer Teams showing each hit by chart strength and entry date and a brief narrative about their chart performance.
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780692122174 |
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| Publisher: | Carroll Applied Science LLC |
| Publication date: | 06/01/2018 |
| Pages: | 902 |
| Product dimensions: | 8.50(w) x 11.00(h) x 1.78(d) |
About the Author
Table of Contents
Foreword: Sometimes Song Lyrics Write Themselves—Michael Sigman................... xi
How to Use This Book/FAQ....................................................................................... xiii
The Writers
Individual Writers, Alphabetical Order......................................................................... 3
All 11,834 writers, their aliases, scores, entries, titles, acts, year of entry and songs
Top 1000 Individual Writers, Rank Order................................................................ 291
Top 100 Individual Writers and Their Collaborators................................................. 297
Top 200 Writers-Their First and Biggest Charted Songs............................................ 307
Top 100 One-Hit Wonders as Solo Writers............................................................... 317
Decades: Top Writers (‘50s, ‘60s, ‘70s and ‘80s) by Score and Entries...................... 319
Writer Alias and Alternate Name Index.................................................................... 329
The Writer Teams
Top 2000 Writer Teams and Their Songs, Rank Order.............................................. 357
Team score and entries, song titles, acts, year of entry and song scores
Writer Index to Top 2000 Writer Teams, Alphabetical Order.................................... 403
Top 30 Writer Teams in Words, Charts and Graphs.................................................. 415
Top 200 Writer Teams and the Acts That Recorded Their Songs............................... 459
Top 200 Writer Teams-Their First and Biggest Charted Songs................................... 471
Top 100 One, Two and Three Writer Teams............................................................. 481
Top 100 Most Efficient Writer Team-Act Combinations............................................ 485
Top 100 Most Efficient Writer Teams....................................................................... 487
Decades: Top Writer Teams (‘50s, ‘60s, ‘70s and ‘80s) by Score and Entries................ 489
The Songs and Acts
Index of Charted Songs, Alphabetical Order............................................................. 501
.. All 24,426 charted songs characterized by Title, Act, Label and Number and other attributes
Top 50 Songs By One, Two and Three Writers......................................................... 799
Top 150 Songs by Score and Entries—All versions.................................................... 807
Top 750 Acts and the Writers Who Supported Them............................................... 815
Index to Top 750 Acts, Alphabetical Order............................................................... 868
Appendix
Attribution Rules and Methodology for Ranking the Rock Writers............................ 873
Acknowledgements................................................................................................ 881
About the Author.................................................................................................... 883