Saturday, January 31, 2015

Top 20 of Japan Billboard Hot 100 (2015/02/02)




NY Times Bestseller List (Fiction) 02/01/15

New York Times Bestseller List
Top 10 Hardback Fiction
Week Ending February 1st 2015

10 - Insatiable Appetites - Stuart Woods
(2 weeks on list)

9  -  The Boston Girl - Anita Diamant
(6 weeks on list)

8  -  Hope To Die - James Patterson
(8 weeks on list)

7  -  The Escape - David Baldacci
(9 weeks on list)

6  -  The First Bad Man - Miranda July
(Debut)
A houseguest forces a passive woman into a bizarre but liberating sexual friendship.

5  - Cold Cold Heart - Tami Hoag
(Debut)
Shaken by torture and rape at a serial killer's hands, a TV reporter returns to her hometown, where she investigates the disappearance of a high school friend many years earlier.

4  -  Gray Mountain - John Grisham
(13 weeks on list)

3  -  Saint Odd - Dean Koontz
(Debut)
In the conclusion to the Odd Thomas series, Odd, who can communicate with the dead, returns home to small town California to meet one last challenge.

2  -  The Girl on the Train - Paula Hawkins
(Debut)
A psychological thriller set in London is a full of complications and betrayals.

1  -  All The Light We Cannot See - Anthony Doerr
(37 weeks on list) (3rd consecutive week at #1)
The lives of a blind French girl and a gadget obsessed German boy before and during WWII.


NY Times Bestseller List (NonFiction) 02/01/15

New York Times Bestseller List
Top Ten Hardback Non-Fiction
Week Ending February 1st 2015

10 - Digital Destiny - Shawn DuBravac
(Debut)
An economist argues that technology will transform our daily lives and solve many of mankind's problems.

9  -  It Was Me All Along - Andie Mitchell
(2 weeks on list)
A memoir about the author's long struggle with and eventual victory over obesity.

8  - Unbroken - Laura Hillenbrand
(191 weeks on list)

7  -  41 - George W. Bush
(10 weeks on list)

6  -  Not That Kind of Girl - Lena Duham
(16 weeks on list)

5  -  What If? - Randall Munroe
(20 weeks on list)

4  -  America's Bitter Pill - Steven Brill
(2 weeks on list)
The issues in American health care and health care reform and recent developments including the drafting and implementation of the Affordable Care Act, by the journalist, editor and lawyer.

3  -  Killing Patton - Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard
(17 weeks on list)

2  -  Yes Please - Amy Poehler
(12 weeks on list) (#1 last week)

1  - Being Mortal - Atul Gawande
(15 weeks on list)
The surgeon and New Yorker writer considers how doctors fail patients at the end of life and offers suggestions for how they can do better.

Thursday, January 29, 2015

The Year in Billboard #1 Albums - 1980

January 12th 1980
(1 week at #1)


Track listing[edit]

Side one
No.TitleLength
1."Jive Talkin'"  3:43
2."Night Fever"  3:33
3."Tragedy"  5:03
4."You Should Be Dancing"  4:16
5."Stayin' Alive"  4:43
Side two
No.TitleLength
1."How Deep Is Your Love"  4:03
2."Love So Right"  3:34
3."Too Much Heaven"  4:55
4."(Our Love) Don't Throw it All Away(Barry Gibb, Blue Weaver)4:02
5."Fanny (Be Tender with My Love)"  4:02
Side three
No.TitleLength
1."If I Can't Have You"  3:25
2."You Stepped Into My Life"  3:25
3."Love Me(Barry Gibb, Robin Gibb)4:01
4."More Than a Woman"  3:15
5."Rest Your Love on Me(Barry Gibb)4:20
Side four
No.TitleLength
1."Nights on Broadway"  4:31
2."Spirits (Having Flown)"  5:19
3."Love You Inside Out"  4:11
4."Wind of Change(Barry Gibb, Robin Gibb)4:54
5."Children of the World"  3:07

The Year in Billboard #1 Albums - 1980

January 5th 1980
(1 week at #1)


Track listing[edit]

Side one
No.TitleWriter(s)AlbumLength
1."On the Radio"  Giorgio MoroderDonna SummerFoxes (soundtrack)4:00
2."Love to Love You Baby"  Pete Bellotte, Moroder, SummerLove to Love You Baby4:07
3."Try Me, I Know We Can Make It"  Bellotte, Moroder, SummerA Love Trilogy3:24
4."I Feel Love"  Bellotte, Moroder, SummerI Remember Yesterday3:20
5."Our Love"  Moroder, SummerBad Girls3:43
Side two
No.TitleWriter(s)AlbumLength
6."I Remember Yesterday"  Bellotte, Moroder, SummerI Remember Yesterday4:46
7."I Love You"  Bellotte, Moroder, SummerOnce Upon a Time3:12
8."Heaven Knows(duet with Brooklyn Dreams)Bellotte, Greg Mathieson, Moroder, SummerLive and More3:30
9."Last Dance"  Paul JabaraThank God It's Friday (soundtrack)4:56
Side three
No.TitleWriter(s)AlbumLength
10."MacArthur Park"  Jimmy WebbLive and More3:54
11."Hot Stuff"  Bellotte, Faltermeyer, Keith ForseyBad Girls2:54
12."Bad Girls"  Joe "Bean" Esposito, Eddie Hokenson, Bruce Sudano, SummerBad Girls3:05
13."Dim All the Lights"  SummerBad Girls4:11
14."Sunset People"  Bellotte, Harold Faltermeyer, ForseyBad Girls4:32
Side four
No.TitleWriter(s)AlbumLength
15."No More Tears (Enough Is Enough)(duet with Barbra Streisand)Jabara, Bruce RobertsWet (Barbra Streisand album)11:41
16."On the Radio (Long Version)"  Moroder, SummerFoxes (soundtrack)5:50

Saturday, January 24, 2015

Sports Illustrated Cover of the Week

July 17th 1967
Fran Tarkenton of the NY Giants


NY Times Bestseller List (Fiction) 01/25/15


New York Times Bestseller List
Hardback Fiction Top Ten
Week Ending January 25th 2015


10 - Revival - Stephen King
(9 weeks on list)

9  -  The Boston Girl - Anita Diamant
(5 weeks on list)

8  -  The Escape - David Baldacci
(8 weeks on list)

7  -  Hope To Die - James Patterson
(7 weeks on list)

6  -  Golden Son - Pierce Brown
(Debut)
In Book 2 of the Red Rising trilogy, set in a dystopian future, a young laborer in the mines of Mars fights his world's ruling elite.

5  -  The Empty Throne - Bernard Cornwell
(Debut)
Rivals clash over succession when the king of Mercia in 10th century Britain dies without an heir;
the eight volume of the Saxon Tales.

4  -  Insatiable Appetites - Stuart Woods
(Debut)
Distributing the estate of a friend, the New York lawyer Stone Barrington unearths disturbing secrets.

3  -  As Chimney Sweepers Come To Dust - Alan Bradley
(Debut)
The chemist and sleuth Flavia de Luce, now 12 now and in boarding school in Canada, discovers a mummified body.

2  -  Gray Mountain - John Grisham
(12 weeks on list)

1  -  All The Light We Cannot See - Anthony Doerr
(36 weeks on list) (2nd consecutive week at #1)


Thursday, January 22, 2015

Saturday, January 17, 2015

NY Times Hardback Fiction Bestseller List (01/18/2015)

New York Times Bestseller List
Hardback Fiction
Week Ending January 18th 2015


10 - Leaving Time - Jodi Picoult
(12 weeks on list)

9  -  Rain On The Dead - Jack Higgins
(Debut)
The black ops specialists Sean Dillon and Sara Gideon investigate a Chechen attempt to kill a former president on Nantucket.

8  -  Tom Clancy: Full Force and Effect - Mark Greaney
(5 weeks on list)
North Korea becomes even more of a threat for President Jack Ryan

7  -  The Assassination Option - W.E.B. Griffin and William E Butterworth
(Debut)
The second novel in a new series about the Cold War and the early C.I.A.

6  -  Revival - Stephen King
(8 weeks on list)

5  -  Die Again - Tess Gerritsen
(Debut)
The Boston detective Jane Rizzoli and the medical examiner Maura Isles probe the murder of a big game hunter

4  -  The Escape - David Baldacci
(7 weeks on list)

3  -  Hope To Die - James Patterson
(6 weeks on list)

2  -  Gray Mountain - John Grisham
(11 weeks on list)

1  -  All The Light We Cannot See - Anthony Doerr
(35 weeks on list) (1st week at #1)
The lives of a blind French girl and a gadget obsessed German boy before and during World War II.



Tuesday, January 13, 2015

Saturday, January 10, 2015

Sports Illustrated Cover of the Week

January 8th 1968
A preview of Superbowl II


Top Ten Movies of 2014 (US)

Top Ten Movies of 2014
(United States Grosses)

1 - Guardians of the Galaxy 
$332,862,030.00

2 - The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1
$311,329,053.00

3 - Captain America : The Winter Soldier
$259,766,572.00

4 - The LEGO Movie 
$257,760,692.00

5 - Transformers : Age of Extinction
$245,439,076.00

6 - Maleficent 
$241,410,378.00

7 - X-Men: Days of Future Past
$233,921,534.00

8 - Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
$208,545,589.00

9 - Big Hero 6
$203,198,664.00

10 - The Amazing Spider-Man 2
$202,853,933.00

Tuesday, January 6, 2015

Classic Movie Poster of the Week

Beverly Hills Cop
The #1 movie in the United States 
 January 6th 1985