Top Forty
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The Top Forty or Top 40 is a music industry shorthand for the currently most-popular songs in a particular genre. When used without qualification, it typically refers to the best-selling or most frequently broadcast pop music songs. Other lists of hit songs may include a different number of entries, such as a "Top 50" or "Top 100".
The current top songs are tracked by a variety of trade publications, such as:
- Top 40 Mainstream, a chart of current popular songs in the United States compiled by Billboard Magazine, and its various predecessors
- UK Top Forty, a British version of the same concept.
- Dutch Top 40, the Dutch music chart.
- Top 40 (radio format), a radio format based on playing the top 40 popular songs of the week (may or may not be based on Billboard's chart), also known as "contemporary hit radio."
- American Top 40, a weekly syndicated radio show originally hosted by Casey Kasem.
Further reading
- Durkee, Rob. "American Top 40: The Countdown of the Century." Schriner Books, New York City, 1999.
- Battistini, Pete, "American Top 40 with Casey Kasem The 1970s." Authorhouse.com, January 31, 2005. ISBN 1418410705.
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