top 40
See also: Top 40
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- (music, radio) A radio format for popular music, usually including the 40 most popular songs at a given time.
- Coordinate term: CHR
- I was listening to a top 40 radio station.
- 2014, Eric Weisbard, Top 40 Democracy […] , University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 4:
- Nearly every history of Top 40 launches from an anecdote about how radio station manager Todd Storz came up with the idea sometime between World War II and the early 1950s, watching with friends in a bar in Omaha as customers repeatedly punched up the same few songs on the jukebox.