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| All Music Guide: Portal built around articles by music journalists describing music genres, with links and reviews. | | American Music Center: Musical Genres: Links to articles and representative artists of styles such as pop, rock, blues, folk, classical, theater, jazz, and world music. | | Audiogalaxy: Glossary of Musical Styles: Hundreds of sub-genres defined in non-technical language mentioning sample artists. Organized under headings such as pop, hip-hop, jazz, blues, classical, Latin, modern rock, rock, and heavy metal. | | Christian Music Place: Artists by Genre: About two dozen musical genres including blues, a capella, dance/techno, and Southern gospel, with as many as several hundred links to Christian music artists in each. | | DataDragon: Music Genre Sampler: Children's site with simple definitions of a few genres including rock, Celtic, and classical with artist and site links. | | Ectophiles Guide by Genre: Self-described "Guide to Good Music" from a group founded in 1991 to support the music of singer Happy Rhodes. Links to artists, almost entirely female vocalists, sorted by genre such as pop, blues, experimental, performance art, beautiful and fierce, and traditional. | | Indiana University School of Music: Genres: Categorized links organized by researchers at the William and Gayle Cook Music Library. Categories include 20th-Century music, ancient music, band music, tango, flamenco, ragtime, and choral music. | | InfoUSA: Musical Genres: Links organized by genre such as blues and jazz, classical and opera, folk and country, and early American music. | | Music Classification by Genre: System Performance: Research project completed in 2003 by Mitali Banerjee at Rice University used automatic process to determine musical genre of audio samples. | | Music Web Hunter: Styles & Genres: Ken Davies has grouped resources in five categories: classical, folk/ethnic/world, jazz, musicals/operas/theater, and pop/rock/country. | | Wikipedia: Musical Genre: Brief explanation of the way styles can be defined by region, chronology, technical requirements, marketing trends, or the ideas of critics. Extensively linked to sub-genres and examples of significant artists. |
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Top 40
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
(Redirected from Top Forty)
- see also Contemporary hit radio for information on the radio format itself
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. According to legend, the Top 40 radio format was created by Todd Storz in Omaha in 1955, after observing customers at a bar playing the same handful of songs on a jukebox over and over again. Storz realized that treating the radio station's playlist as a jukebox would ensure that listeners would always hear popular songs, regardless of what time of the day they tuned in, if the station made an effort to play a smaller group of songs.[citation needed] The music ranged anywhere from country & western to pop music, rock & roll, even instrumentals and novelty songs.
Jingles, contests, listener dedications, news updates, traffic reports, and other features were designed to make Top 40 radio particularly attractive to listeners. By early 1964, the era of the British Invasion, Top 40 radio had become the dominant radio format for North American listeners and quickly swept much of the Western world, being brought into the United Kingdom by offshore stations such as Wonderful Radio London, and later adopted by BBC Radio 1. Some stations tried extremely "tight" radio playlists, going with the Top 30 or even the Top 20 songs, but most industry experts felt that listener fatigue would set in more quickly with smaller lists. Top 40 quickly became the dominant radio format of the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s, although as music formats began to fracture, most stations began to specialize in certain restricted kinds of popular music, usually playing specific types of rock such as mainstream, the so-called "soft rock", or other music charted by radio industry trade publications.
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:
Radio programs that highlight currently popular songs also refer to the "Top 40":
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 1-4184-1070-5.
- Douglas, Susan, "Listening In: Radio and the American Imagination," New York: Times Books, 1999.
- Fong-Torres, Ben, "The Hits Just Keep On Coming: The History of Top 40 Radio", San Francisco: Backbeat Books, 1998.
- MacFarland, David, "The Development of the Top 40 Radio Format", New York: Arno Press, 1979.
- Fisher, Mark, "Something in the Air: Radio, Rock, and the Revolution That Shaped a Generation", New York: Random House, 2007.
- Goulart, Elwood F. 'Woody', "The Mystique and Mass Persuasion: Bill Drake & Gene Chenault’s Rock and Roll Radio Programming", 2006.
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