I have been trying to buy a copy of the interactive cd version of the book to no avail.
Has anybody ever seen a copy anywhere?
Anybody got a copy for sale?

Jim

I tried too, but failed so I just use Everyhit.com. works fine on a mobile too.

Jase

I've just had a look at everyhit.com, and it looks like a good resource.

My only complaint, although we shouldn't complain about a free service, is that the archive goes no lower than No. 40 in the charts, which means that Robert Palmer's 'Bad Case Of Lovin' You' isn't listed as it only got to No. 61.

Not to worry - it's useful anyhow.

I wrote to the Guiness Book Of Hit Singles and they said they'd stopped doing the CD version.

I'm wondering just how much longer these books will be published for - after all, most of the information is now available for free on the 'Web.

Having said that, I find it easier to look at a book than a computer screen, plus books take less time to boot up...

I've sent an email to them asking too, no reply as of yet though.

Jim

I also got a reply from them

Has anybody actually seen a copy?

Failing getting hold of a copy I am thinking of using a OCR package to scan my 19th edition so I can use it on my laptop, this is no easy task though, there are over 700 pages and they don't get recognised as tables

Jim

Surely that's a bit overkill and maybe even pointless.

There's a new edition out every year, and by the time you'd finished scanning them in the next edition would be out and yours would be out of date.

OCR software is notoriously innacurate.

To get good enough scans to even allow the software to be as accurate as it can you would have to remove all the pages from the book spine to scan them perfectly flat.

Far easier and much less hassle to get a copy of the book and just carry it with you.


I have a CD called the R.E.D. CDROM, it's a comprehensive list of all the music published in the UK since time began, it's normally only available to record shops and it's very very expensive to subscribe. Have a word with your local shop, they may have an old edition laying around that they will give you. BTW, old means about a month or more, as there's a new edition sent to subscribers every month. You could always subscribe yourself if you want to be bang up to date, if have the money to throw at it.

Yes, the downside is that it is only a Top 40 database but I can tell you that it is very, very accurate.

A challenge - spot a mistake.

I bet you don't find one other than a spelling mistake in the notes for Rod Stewart - 'Get Back' (and I have alerted them to the fact!)

I did find a spelling mistake in an artist name. (Can't remember who now.) When searching by the artist name, the single I was looking for didn't come up in the results, so I searched by the title and there it was, with one letter wrong in the artist name. (I too sent them an Email.)

But otherwise I agree that Everyhit is very useful.

Has anybody got a copy that they are willing to part with?
An out of date version will be fine.

Jim

What is the full title of it (R.E.D.) and do you know if they have a website?