# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/joel-whitburn
# Generated: 2026-08-14T08:28:32.734Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/joel-whitburn"
name: "Joel Whitburn"
slug: "joel-whitburn"
description: "Joel Carver Whitburn was an American author and music historian, responsible for setting up the Record Research, Inc. series of books on record chart placings."
tagline: "American music historian (1939–2022)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1939-11-29"
deathDate: "2022-06-14"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.22
  momentum:             0
  historical:           14.439312
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://www.recordresearch.com/"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%86%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%84_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%A8%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%86"
    title: "چويل وايتبورن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Joel Whitburn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joel_Whitburn"
    title: "Joel Whitburn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joel_Whitburn"
    title: "Joel Whitburn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "جوئل ویتبرن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joel_Whitburn"
    title: "Joel Whitburn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ג'ואל ויטבורן"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joel_Whitburn"
    title: "Joel Whitburn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joel_Whitburn"
    title: "Joel Whitburn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A7%E3%82%A8%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%83%9B%E3%82%A4%E3%83%83%E3%83%88%E3%83%90%E3%83%BC%E3%83%B3"
    title: "ジョエル・ホイットバーン"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joel_Whitburn"
    title: "Joel Whitburn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A3%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%B1%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BD%2C_%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%BE%D1%8D%D0%BB"
    title: "Уитберн, Джоэл"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joel_Whitburn"
    title: "Joel Whitburn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joel_Whitburn"
    title: "Joel Whitburn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://vo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joel_Whitburn"
    title: "Joel Whitburn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/c47cb302-3ff2-4ded-8fbb-62f6659f0bb9"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2251475"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump