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9th Mar 2016, 3:03 AM
	Appletree1 SUBS ILR Top 40 charts please! Member since Mar 2015 81 Points	Just to add some further information on the Sheet Music thing. A chap called David Armstrong has not long ago published all the Sheet Music Charts from 1947 to 1959 in book form. It's available on Amazon. You will find the title I mentioned in that book. The First Hits book is not very accurate on the dates of releases. It was published retrospectively adding release dates they could find. Colin Brown's charts were done at the time and he was able to source the information from the publishers. He was not allowed to publish the charts at the time, because he worked for a record company and he was sworn to a confidentiality agreement with them. According to Colin's Charts, records were sent out in the first two weeks of each month. He records no new records entering on the other weeks of each month. I consider the book to be more accurate than the Sheet Music charts, but it does have it's faults. It unlikely that the distribution of some of the records stopped, when Colin's book shows they did. Especially as some of the records, were stopped while the title was still top of the Sheet Music chart. Doris Day's for example "It's Magic" in 1949 is removed when it was number two in Colin's Chart! But you do have to bare in mind that what Colin's Book shows is records being sent out to shops. It doesn't mean they sold huge amounts, even if Colin says a record was number one for several weeks! Even so I do think that this chart book is an excellent source for release dates. Much better than a Record Company Catalogue, or the First Hits book.