Uncharted Territory provides an entertaining and empirical look at how the Billboard chart has changed over the decades.

Economist

Just the ticket for those who love music and numbers.

Booklist

Unapologetically funny, opinionated, and data-driven.

Significance: The Royal Statistical Society

Dalla Riva mixes data analysis with music criticism in this scrupulous debut analysis of popular music trends from the 1950s to the present ... Data-minded music fans will relish this deep dive.

Publishers Weekly

It's easy to forget that sitting around and talking music with friends is about as fun as it gets. Chris Dalla Riva captures the feeling of spirited in-person discourse about records in book form. He brings to the table a raft of knowledge bolstered by deep analysis of relevant data, so you'll learn something new on every page. But he also realizes that numbers in music are more useful for starting conversations rather than ending them, so you'll walk away remembering his ideas and opinions rather than stats.

Mark Richardson, rock and pop music critic, Wall Street Journal; former Editor-in-Chief, Pitchfork

Chris Dalla Riva's beautiful mind navigates the intersection of culture and data, making us appreciate art by looking and listening again and again.

Will Page, author of Tarzan Economics and former Chief Economist of Spotify