Joel Whitburn, whose books of research on the charts were a staple of the bookshelves of anyone who cared about the history or business of pop music for decades, died Tuesday at age 82. No cause of…
with former Billboard bureau chief in 2013, Whitburn estimated he had over 200,000 45 rpm singles in his vault , and claimed to have a copy of every pop album that ever charted in the magazine dating back to 1945, too.
Whitburn kept every issue, a practice that went on for enough years that he was able to indulge in nostalgia looking at old copies. “One September day in 1965 – I remember it was rainy – I grabbed an issue from 1958, the year the Hot 100 started. I thought it was just an amazing chart. It combined everything into one, and took up two pages in the magazine. I thought, ‘I’ll start there.
Whitburn was glad he went rogue and self-published before Billboard came into the picture, having seen advertisements for his first book. “I just published my book” when the first call came, he recalled. “It was lucky I did because if I had asked Billboard, they probably would have said no.” Looking back to his teen years. Whitburn figured the timing was right for him to become obsessed with music in the mid-’50s, even though his interest pre-dated rock ‘n’ roll, as he loved the crooners as well. “I was at the perfect age, 14 or 15, when rock ‘n’ roll broke,” he told LeBlanc. “I was able to go down once a week and buy a record. I had to make that awful decision of what record do I buy this week, and what records do I leave out until next week. Sam Cooke was my favorite.
When artists came to Milwaukee to do shows, Whitburn would be there to present them with copies of his books backstage, from Paul McCartney to Sting. When Elton John came through… well, you can probably guess the punchline. “I was going to give Elton John a book, and he said, ‘I’ve got all of your books.'”
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