📚 Popular Music

The songs of their moment: the industry, the stars, and the argument about what pop was ever for.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject popular music in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Wicked	Stephen Schwartz	2000	69
	Coleção Gilberto Gil	Gilberto Gil	2011	20
	The great rock discography	Martin C. Strong	1994	18
	Rockin' Out	Reebee Garofalo	1996	17
	The sound of the city	Charlie Gillett	1970	15
	Songwriting	Stephen Citron	1985	15
	Weezer	Weezer	1996	15
	Norah Jones - Come Away with Me	Norah Jones	2002	15
	All You Need to Know About the Music Business	Donald S. Passman	1991	13
	Red Hot Chili Peppers - Greatest Hits	Chad Johnson	2004	13
	História do fado	Pinto de Carvalho	1903	12
	Songs of the '40s	Hal Leonard Corp.	1986	12
	Songs of the '70s	Hal Leonard Corp.	1989	12
	Popular World Music	Andrew Shahriari	2010	12
	The song machine	John Seabrook	2015	12
	The Billboard book of top 40 hits	Joel Whitburn	1983	11
	How to write a hit song	Molly-Ann Leikin	1987	10
	American popular music	Larry Starr	2002	10
	Songwriting for dummies	Jim Peterik	2002	10
	Understanding popular music culture	Roy Shuker	2012	10
	Encyclopedia of pop, rock & soul	Irwin Stambler	1975	9
	Brazilian popular music & globalization	Charles A. Perrone	2001	9
	Genre in popular music	Fabian Holt	2007	9
	Michael Buble Crazy Love	Michael Buble	2010	9
	Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!	Bob Stanley	2013	9
	1001 albums you must hear before you die	Robert Dimery	1769	8
	A century of American popular music	David A. Jasen	2002	8
	The Pop, Rock, and Soul Reader	David Brackett	2004	8
	Justin Bieber - Believe	Justin Bieber	2013	8
	The Billboard book of number one hits	Fred Bronson	1985	7

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 06 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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