The “Billboard” Book of Top 40 R&B and Hipp-hop Hits – Joel Whitburn Koopje

his first edition of “The Billboard Book Of Top-40 R&B & Hip-Hop Hits” offers complete and authoritative chart information on the most popular rhythm and blues and hip-hop songs and artists to reach the top 40 positions on Billboard’s R&B Singles chart from 1942 – the present. From the days of Louis Jordan and Bullmoose Jackson and his Buffalo Bearcats, swing, and World War II, Billboard began keeping tabs on the bestsellers in record stores in Harlem, New York. That Harlem Hit Parade chart of 1942, the sta…