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27th Sep 2023, 4:50 PM
	Mike Wilson1 Musicologist Member since Dec 2019 26 Points	mister_tmg wrote: Mike Wilson1 wrote: danceband91 wrote: My understanding is also that the information was based on sales of records as opposed to sheet music. Although I don't have the book (if anyone knows where you can still get it, please tell me!), there is a video about it on youtube which seems to back that up - it has interviews with both Steven Waters and Colin Brown: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dpoxx2svXc4 Just re-read all the forewords on the book and it is definately based on Sheet Music Sales.....100% Well as I say I am quite happy to be wrong if that is the case, I'm wrong about a lot of things as I approach severe old age....It has stimulated a bit of discussion about a subject we all love Can you provide a quote to back this up? I’m afraid you are wrong on this, Mike. The book is definitely not based on sheet music sales. It doesn’t match the sheet music charts that were actually published at the time! Why would we need retrospective sheet music charts when they were compiled and published during this period - albeit with many gaps during the war? The website for the book is now gone, but it is on the Internet Archive: https://tinyurl.com/Missingcharts The foreword can be read here: https://tinyurl.com/Missingchartsforeword Surely the clue is in the book title… “singles” refers to records, not sheet music! I would bet many of these tracks never made the contemporary sheet music charts, and vice versa.