List of music radio formats
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Music radio formats constantly evolve and each format can often be sub-divided into many speciality formats. Many of the following formats are available only regionally or through specialized venues such as satellite radio or Internet radio.
List of music radio speciality formats
- 80s Hits
- Active rock
- Adult contemporary (AC)
- Adult standards/Middle of the road (MOR)
- Adult album alternative (or just Adult alternative) (AAA)
- Adult Hits
- Album oriented rock (or Adult oriented rock) (AOR)
- Alternative Rock
- Big band
- Blues
- Canto-pop (Cantonese pop music)
- Caribbean (reggae, soca, merengue, cumbia, salsa, etc.)
- Christian Contemporary (Christian AC, Christian CHR, Christian Rock, Inspo)
- Classic country
- Classic hits
- Classic rock
- Classical
- College radio
- Comedy
- Contemporary hit radio (CHR)
- Country
- Dance/Dance Top 40
- Easy listening/Beautiful Music
- Educational
- Electronica
- Ethnic
- European Hit Radio (EHR)
- Freeform (Disc jockey-selected)
- General service
- Gospel
- Hindi film music
- Hot adult contemporary (Hot AC)
- Hot hits (a form of Hot 100; Top 40; Top 30; Top 20; Top 10. Especially common in Europe following the advent of offshore pirate radio station Laser 558 - briefly reborn as Laser Hot Hits.)
- Hurban a.k.a Latin Urban/Hispanic Rhythmic
- Jazz
- Mainstream rock
- Mix FM
- Modern adult contemporary (Modern AC)
- Modern rock
- Music Of Your Life
- Music radio
- New adult contemporary/Smooth Jazz (New AC)
- New country/Young country
- Nostalgia
- Oldies
- Polka
- Pop standards
- Progressive rock
- Radio documentary
- Ranchera
- Regional Mexican (Banda, corridos, ranchera, conjunto, mariachi, norteño, etc.)
- Religious
- Rhythmic/Rhythmic Top 40
- Rock
- Rock en español
- Romántica (Spanish AC)
- Smooth jazz
- Soft adult contemporary (Soft AC)
- Soft rock
- Soul music
- Tejano (Texas/Mexican music)
- Top 40(Top 40 Mainstream) (also known as Top 30; Top 20; Top 10. See also Hot Hits.)
- Tropical (salsa, merengue, cumbia, etc.)
- Urban contemporary (mostly rap, hip-hop, soul, and R&B artists)
- Urban adult contemporary (Urban AC) (R&B, soul and sometimes gospel music, without rap)
- Urban oldies
- Urban gospel
- Variety
- World music
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