This volume follows the recorded history of popular music through to the end of the 20th century and into the beginning of the 21st. Along with facts, figures, and trivia, the book devotes separate chapters to such categories as the artists, the writers, the producers, the labels, the years and the subjects. Within each chapter, the focus is then narrowed to the best of the best - including The Top 100 Songs of the Beatles, The Top 50 Songs Written by Carole King, The Top 50 Songs Produced by Phil Spector, The Top 100 Songs on Atlantic, The Top 100 Songs of 1999 and The Top 100 Love Songs. In addition, the book contains a list of The Top 5000 Hits of the Rock Era from 1956 through to the end of the 1990s.