Completeist: January 2015

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

Bee Gees Greatest - The Bee Gees

(1 week at #1)

Track listing[edit]

Side one
No.	Title	Length
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.	Title	Length
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.	Title	Length
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.	Title	Length
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

On The Radio : Greatest Hits Vol 1 and 2 - Donna Summer

(1 week at #1)

Track listing[edit]

Side one
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Album	Length
1.	"On the Radio"	Giorgio Moroder, Donna Summer	Foxes (soundtrack)	4:00
2.	"Love to Love You Baby"	Pete Bellotte, Moroder, Summer	Love to Love You Baby	4:07
3.	"Try Me, I Know We Can Make It"	Bellotte, Moroder, Summer	A Love Trilogy	3:24
4.	"I Feel Love"	Bellotte, Moroder, Summer	I Remember Yesterday	3:20
5.	"Our Love"	Moroder, Summer	Bad Girls	3:43

Side two
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Album	Length
6.	"I Remember Yesterday"	Bellotte, Moroder, Summer	I Remember Yesterday	4:46
7.	"I Love You"	Bellotte, Moroder, Summer	Once Upon a Time	3:12
8.	"Heaven Knows" (duet with Brooklyn Dreams)	Bellotte, Greg Mathieson, Moroder, Summer	Live and More	3:30
9.	"Last Dance"	Paul Jabara	Thank God It's Friday (soundtrack)	4:56

Side three
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Album	Length
10.	"MacArthur Park"	Jimmy Webb	Live and More	3:54
11.	"Hot Stuff"	Bellotte, Faltermeyer, Keith Forsey	Bad Girls	2:54
12.	"Bad Girls"	Joe "Bean" Esposito, Eddie Hokenson, Bruce Sudano, Summer	Bad Girls	3:05
13.	"Dim All the Lights"	Summer	Bad Girls	4:11
14.	"Sunset People"	Bellotte, Harold Faltermeyer, Forsey	Bad Girls	4:32

Side four
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Album	Length
15.	"No More Tears (Enough Is Enough)" (duet with Barbra Streisand)	Jabara, Bruce Roberts	Wet (Barbra Streisand album)	11:41
16.	"On the Radio (Long Version)"	Moroder, Summer	Foxes (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

Old Time Radio Show of the Week

The Great Gildersleeve

"A Mother for Leroy"

January 23rd 1944

Sunday, January 18, 2015

Top 100 K-Pop Songs for January 2015 Week 2

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.