This is the 9th edition of one of Billboard Books' backlist bestsellers, fully revised and expanded to encompass all the Billboard Top 40 hits and chart data from the years 1955 to 2009. Watson-Guptill's Billboard chart books are perennial The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits, an exhaustive resource of up-to-date chart information on every artist and song to hit the Top 40 on Billboard's pop singles charts since 1955, tops the list, with more than 300,000 copies sold since 1985. Now expanded and updated to encompass all the hits from the past 5 years. The book includes not just America's most popular songs in a quick, easy-to-read guide, but also supplies biographical information on the artists, lists of record holders, top artists by decade and much more.