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Pop Airplay (also called Mainstream Top 40, Pop Songs, and Top 40/CHR) is a 40-song music chart published weekly by Billboard Magazine that ranks the most popular songs of pop music being played on a panel of Top 40 radio stations in the United States.
This is a list of recording artists who have reached number one on Billboard magazine's Pop Airplay chart (previously known as Mainstream Top 40, Pop Songs, and Top 40/CHR). Taylor Swift has the record for the most number-one songs with 13.
To be renamed Top Dance Albums starting with the week dated January 18, 2025. [32] Top Gospel Albums: 40 Top Hard Rock Albums : 25 Ranks the most popular hard rock albums of the week, as compiled by Nielsen Music. Based on multi-metric consumption (blending traditional album sales, track equivalent albums, and streaming equivalent albums)
Occasionally American Top 40 airs special countdowns in place of the regular American Top 40 countdown show. These included: "Top 40 Recording Acts of the Rock Era 1955–1971" (Weekend of May 1–2, 1971) "Top 40 Christmas Songs" (Weekend of December 25–26, 1971) "Top 40 Songs of the Rock Era 1955–1972" (weekend of July 1–2, 1972)
Shortly thereafter WHB debuted the first "top 40 countdown", a reverse-order playing of the station's ranking of hit singles for that week. Within a few years, top 40 stations appeared all over the country to great success, spurred by the burgeoning popularity of rock and roll music, especially that of Elvis Presley. A 1950s employee at WHB ...
The Top 40, whether surveyed by a radio station or a publication, was a list of songs that shared only the common characteristic of being newly released. Its introduction coincided with a transition from the old ten-inch 78 rpm record format for single "pop" recordings to the seven-inch vinyl 45 rpm format, introduced in 1949, which was ...
After his 188-week streak spanning from February 3, 2018–September 4, 2021, Drake was only off the Hot 100 for a single week before beginning a new streak of 32 weeks, stretching between the debut of 21 songs from Certified Lover Boy on September 18, 2021 up until April 30, 2022, when "P Power" spent its final week on the chart. Had he ...
Both versions of American Top 20 had their roots in two other countdowns done by Kasem during his time with the Westwood One Radio Network. In 1992, Westwood One decided to launch a new adult contemporary countdown using the airplay survey data compiled by Radio & Records, the music trade newspaper that at the time was a subsidiary of the company and was already providing information to Kasem ...