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SynopsisCapturing the complete history of America's most home-based of musical forms, The Billboard Book of Top 40 Country Hits provides exhaustive data on every record to score at least one Top 40 hit on the Country Singles charts. Following the popular format of The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits and The Billboard Book of Top 40 Albums, Joel Whitburn's latest offering includes alphabetical listings of every Top 40 hit from 1944 to 1996; detailed chronological listings of each artist's charted hits; complete reporting of each single's peak chart position and date of chart entry; fascinating facts, biographies, and trivia for many artists; and photographs of 96 Top 40 Country jacket covers., This is a comprehensive volume covering half a century of country and western hits and performers, and illustrated with 300 photographs drawn from the author's famous collection. It follows the time-tested lay-out of previous chart-related books: all the artists to have scored at least one top 40 on the country chart since 1944 are listed alphabetically, with their charting hits listed chronologically. Each entry breaks down a record's peak chart position and the date it entered the chart. This is a comprehensive volume covering half a century of country and western hits and performers. It is illustrated with 300 photographs from the author's famous collection.