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 Hot Adult Top 40 Tracks - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Hot Adult Top 40 Tracks (formerly known as Adult Top 40) is a variation on the United States Billboard charts.
Hot Adult Top 40 Tracks's origins can be traced back to the late 1980s, when several Top 40 stations decided to focus on playing artists in an effort to attract the more desired 25-34 demo.
Many Hot Adult Top 40 Tracks stations today are a crossover of Hot AC and Top 40 formats, though it's officially classified as a Hot AC format.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Adult_Top_40   (303 words)

  
 Wikipedia: Billboard magazine
Its "Hot 100" survey ranks the top 100 pop songs and is frequently used as the standard measure for ranking singles in the United States.
The R&B group The Isley Brothers hold a record for being the only act to have had Top 40 hits on the Hot 100 in six consecutive decades: the 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s.
For many years, the weekly syndicated radio program "American Top 40", hosted by Casey Kasem, played the top 40 songs on that Billboard chart in reverse order.
www.factbook.org /wikipedia/en/b/bi/billboard_magazine.html   (535 words)

  
 Billboard 2003 The Year in Music   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Among adult top 40 artists, meanwhile, matchbox twenty may have felt "Unwell" in 2003, but the Atlantic group certainly had a healthy year.
Hill, whose success at AC this year surpassed her chart prowess at top 40 and country, is the No. 3 singles artist in the format.
The song is also the No. 2 hit for the year at adult top 40, earning Uncle Kracker the No. 5 slot among the year's adult top 40 acts.
www.editorandpublisher.com /bb/yearend/2003/adult_albums.jsp   (619 words)

  
 Top 40's Change in the '90s: AT40 with Casey and Shadoe   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
In the early 1990s, both the face of top 40 music and the chart that tracked it underwent major changes, and the top 40 format’s popularity sharply declined.
As top 40 continued to decline in the early ‘90s, the format began to splinter.
Top 40 is known for playing popular songs, generally no matter if the song is rock, soft, RandB, etc. However, with the rise of rap and grunge, many top 40 stations quit playing those songs.
my.core.com /~eswain/at40/top40change.html   (943 words)

  
 WATERMARK ON THE WEB: AMERICAN TOP 40
With that small article began the institution that is "American Top 40." As much a part of the 70s, 80s and 90s as any television program, many people grew up listening to at least part of a show once in their lives.
An interesting sidenote in the history of American Top 40 was the publication of the "Casey Kasem's American Top 40 Yearbook" for 1978 in early 1979.
His "Casey's Top 40" show was one of the few bright spots in the doldrums of CHR radio at the time.
leemichaelwithers.tripod.com /americantop40.htm   (3869 words)

  
 World Adult Top 20 Singles @ Top40-Charts.com - 40 Top 20 & Top 40 Music Charts from 25 Countries
I think that adult chart is for all people not just only whoever is between 18-60 but teenages can listen to in and whoever says that they don't believe that most people listen to arvil lavigne you better think it over that she has 2 songs in No.1.
The adult top 40 is from stations that play more like this chart.
Adult contemporary stations play songs to death like you said and are a bit more mellow.
top40-charts.com /chart.php?cid=29   (695 words)

  
 Welcome To Lippman Entertainment
In the 1980s he led Melissa Manchester to the top of the charts (Grammy Award in hand) and catapulted George Michael to fame during the "Faith" album and tour.
The album has thus far yielded three radio smashes: “Disease,” “Unwell,” and “Bright Lights.” matchbox was named the #1 Adult Top 40 and #1 Modern AC Artist of 2003, with “Unwell” becoming the band’s longest-running #1 single to date.
Not only was “Unwell” the #1 most-played song of the year at both Adult Top 40 and Hot AC radio nationwide, but it was the overall #2 song of 2003 across all radio formats.
www.lippman-ent.com   (929 words)

  
 Christian Activities
Airplay for the year has been tallied and "There She Goes" is the #28th most played song of 2000 in the combined Billboard Modern AC and Adult Top 40 Charts.
Meanwhile, "There She Goes" also cracked the Top 40 most played songs of 2000 on Billboard's AC chart with a #39 showing.
"There She Goes" was even a Top 40 hit on Billboard's Hot 100 chart, despite the absence of a retail single, which impacts positioning on the sales and airplay driven chart.
www.christianactivities.com /thisweek/story.asp?ID=4060   (629 words)

  
 Adult contemporary music - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
AC is generally divided into 4 groups; "Hot AC", also known as "Adult Top 40", "Soft AC", also known as "Lite", and "Urban AC", also known as "Urban Contemporary",and"Christian AC", (family friendly and spiritual lyrics).Some radio stations play only Hot AC; some play only Soft AC, and some play both.
Hot Adult Contemporary was introduced in 1986 as a hybrid of Top 40 and oldies-based Adult Contemporary.
The format was designed to appeal to adults who liked pop music but also liked more era variety than Top 40 offered.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Adult_Contemporary   (2322 words)

  
 Billboard Singles Charts - Billboard Top 100 Songs - Billboard Top 100 Singles
Ranks the top 25 titles which have already appeared on the Hot RandB Singles chart for 20 weeks and have dropped below the top 50.
Recurrents are titles which have appeared on the Hot Adult Contemporary chart for 26 weeks and have dropped below the top 15.
Recurrents are titles that have appeared on the Adult Top 40 Airplay Chart for 26 weeks and have dropped below the top 15.
www.vnuemedia.com /bb/biz/currentcharts/currentsingles.jsp   (821 words)

  
 XMFan.com :: #1 Fan Site of XM Satellite Radio :: Adult top 40 XM station???
An Adult top 40 station (basically a pop station without hip-hop and rap).
That is what I hate about mainstream Top 40, too much rap has polluted it.
I remembered years agoi when Top 40 music use to be Top 40 and not 2/3 rap.
www.xmfan.com /viewtopic.php?t=21933   (2565 words)

  
 98.7 KISS fm - The Best Variety of Old School and Today's R&B
However, this programming quickly evolved into an Adult Top 40 format by the end of the year, and Muni and Rosko departed for WNEW-FM where the progressive format would become a huge success.
It played too many oldies to justify being called Top 40, with too many currents to be called oldies, not enough easy listening to be called MOR, and too much rock to be called soft rock.
Still they were considered Adult Top 40 sort of similar to what WNBC evolved to.
www.987kissfm.com /25thAnniversary/history.aspx   (539 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Top Adult Contemporary 1961-2002: Books: Whitburn Joel   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Call it "Adult Contemporary." Call it "Middle of the Road." Call it "Easy Listening." The hard truth is, this is the definitive work on the softer side of pop music.
Joel Whitburn's new Top Adult Contemporary 1961-2001 is an artist-by-artist listing of the nearly 8,000 singles and over 1,900 artists that appeared on Billboard's "Easy Listening" and "Hot Adult Contemporary" singles charts from July 17, 1961 through December 29, 2001.
My only complaint is that with the growing success of adult-rock music, I kind of wish Record Research would have put a special bonus Adult Top 40 section (based on research from Billboard's Adult T40 chart).
www.amazon.ca /Adult-Contemporary-1961-2002-Whitburn-Joel/dp/0898201497   (418 words)

  
 U2 Feedback - Adult Top 40 chart = Modern Rock Chart circa 1992
Adult radio is one of the most popular music formats - either #1 or #2 behing Top 40 ("talk" radio is the most popular format overall).
If a song can crack the Adult Top 20, then it will be a hit on the Billboard Top 100 (most likely in the Top 60).
In contrast, as we witnessed last year, a song in the Modern Rock Top 10 might not even come close to breaking the Billboard Top 100.
forum.interference.com /t60322.html   (606 words)

  
 ohnotheydidnt: American radio hangs up on Madonna
Warner Bros. was aware that the songs on "Confessions" could present challenges at mainstream top 40 radio, acknowledges Tom Biery, the label's senior VP of promotions.
According to Dom Theodore, regional VP of programming for Clear Channel and program director of top 40 WKQI Detroit, today's programmers consider each Madonna song on a case-by-case basis to determine if it fits mainstream top 40, adult top 40 or both.
George Ergatoudis, head of music at BBC Radio 1 in the United Kingdom, says that while U.S. mainstream top 40 radio may be driven by urban, rock and straight-ahead pop, dance records -- house music, in particular -- are very much part of the top 40 radio culture in the United Kingdom and Europe.
community.livejournal.com /ohnotheydidnt/7758660.html   (1094 words)

  
 Airplay Monitor HitPredictor Weekly Top 40 Alert
Songs with a score of 65 or more are judged to have top 10 callout potential, although that benchmark number can fluctuate based on the strength of available music.
Recent HitPredictor act D12 moves to the top of Airplay Monitor's Rhythmic Top 40 chart with "My Band." The track moves 4-1 on the chart, becoming the third title so far this decade to make that three-position or more jump to No. 1.
On Monitor's Adult Top 40 chart, Dido has the only debut with HitPredictor-approved "Don't Leave Home," the follow-up to her smash "White Flag," which peaked at No. 4 on that chart and is still in the top 15 after 42 chart weeks.
www.clayreport.com /pages/airplay.htm   (451 words)

  
 Rock On The Net: Matchbox 20
The live DVD was taped from a June, 2003 performance in Atlanta, Georgia and includes 20 songs and a documentary.
Thomas topped the Billboard Adult Top 40 chart with "
The mission of the concerts was to raise awareness of the on-going poverty in Africa and to pressure the G8 leaders to take action by doubling aid, canceling debt, and delivering trade justice for Africa.
www.rockonthenet.com /artists-m/matchbox20.htm   (1314 words)

  
 Matchbox Feels Very Well about `Unwell': Top Ten `Hot 100' Smash Breaks Radio Records; Tour Rocks on to Audience Raves, ...
With their current smash single, "Unwell," now in its fourth week in the top ten of the Billboard "Hot 100," Melisma/Atlantic rock group matchbox twenty is enjoying one of the biggest hits of their hit-laden career.
"Unwell" has been #1 on the Adult Top 40 chart for the past 11 weeks (with a 12th week on tap), while holding the all-time spin record at the format.
The track is a mainstream Top 40 smash as well, having bulleted this week to #3 on the BDS CHR chart.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_2003_July_1/ai_104577431   (584 words)

  
 Artsandentertainment: Radio notes
Stan "The Man" Priest of WFLZ-FM 93.3 was named Mainstream Top 40 music director of the year.
WSSR was named Adult Top 40 station of the year.
WLLD also won a Jammy for Rhythmic/Crossover Top 40 station of the year.
www.sptimes.com /News/101300/Artsandentertainment/Radio_notes.shtml   (485 words)

  
 MP3.com: Akon extends reign on US singles chart (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.isi.jhu.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
The top debut was Daughtry's "It's Not Over" at No. 65, corresponding with the American Idol-bred group's self-titled RCA debut, which opened at No. 2 Wednesday on The Billboard 200 albums chart.
At least one tactic or event preceding the release of Beyoncé's second solo album inspired a bemused three-syllable exclamation from anyone who was paying attention.
The lead single, the late-'70s-funk-inspired "Deja Vu," had the audacity to not be as monstrous as "Crazy in Love" -- its stay at the top of the charts was relatively brief, so...
www.mp3.com.cob-web.org:8888 /news/stories/7341.html   (668 words)

  
 Billboard Top 40 Mainstream Tracks - Billboard Top 40 Mainstream Singles - Top 40 Mainstream Music Chart
When tied songs are each gaining detections or each losing detections, the song being played on more stations is placed first.
Songs below the top 20 become recurrents and are removed from the chart after 26 weeks.
Airpower awarded to songs appearing in the top 20 for both the BDS Airplay and Audience charts for the first time with increases in both detections and audience.
www.photoserve.com /bb/charts/airplay/mainstream_top40.jsp   (226 words)

  
 Radio and Records   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
After more than 18 years at Renda CHR/top 40 KHTT (K-Hits 106.9)/Tulsa, morning goddess Carly Rush is headed down the hall to join forces with Steve Smith in mornings at cluster-consort AC KBEZ.
Justin Kase, PD/MD/afternoon driver of Maverick Media top 40 WZOQ (92 Zoo) and WDOH (Lite Rock 107.1)/Lima, Ohio, has replaced former AC WGFB (B103)/Rockford, Ill., PD Doug Daniels.
The RCA Music Group has bestowed VP of promotion, adult formats stripes on Wendy Goodman, promoting her from director of national adult promotion.
www.radioandrecords.com /radiomonitor/news/format/ac/index.jsp   (788 words)

  
 Record Research Books - "Pop/Rock" - Singles
Debuting in March 1996, the "Adult Top 40" chart is home to a broader diversity of artists than you'll find on the traditional "Adult Contemporary" chart -- with a quicker turnover of songs.
If a song made the "Adult Contemporary" and "Adult Top 40" charts, the title is listed once with its complete chart data from both charts with its higher peak position listed first.
The ranking of the Top 40 hits of each year is based on America's weekly popular record charts and lists complete chart data on every hit (yearly Top 40 ranking, peak chart position, weeks at the peak position, peak debut date, weeks charted, original label and number, gold and platinum certification and more).
www.recordresearch.com /singles.html   (3203 words)

  
 2000 Billboard Music Award Winners--AllYourTV.com
Top 40 Artist of the Year - 'N Sync
Adult Top 40 Track of the Year - "Everything You Want," Vertical Horizon
Adult Top 40 Artist of the Year - Vertical Horizon
www.allyourtv.com /awards/awardsbillboard2000.html   (413 words)

  
 Hotac - promosquad HitPredictor Radio and Records
Also debuting at CHR/Top 40 is AUGUSTANA's "BOSTON".
A big week of debuts at Rhythmic Top 40 as we see appearances from CHRIS BROWN, TAIO CRUZ, NELLY FURTADO, FRANKIE J, and NAS.
SARAH MCLACHLAN debuts this week at Adult Contemporary with "River", the first single from her new release.
hitpredictor.billboardradiomonitor.com /hotac.php   (206 words)

  
 Maroon 5 @ Everett Events Center :: Sat, April 30
They continued their hit streak in 2004 when their single “This Love” was certified platinum after topping Billboard’s Mainstream Top 40, Adult Top 40, Hot Digital Tracks and held the number one spot on charts for four weeks.
In the same year the group’s next single, “She Will Be Loved” rose to number one on the charts and stayed there for five weeks.
“She Will Be Loved” also topped Billboard’s Hot Digital Tracks, Top 40 Tracks, and Mainstream Top 40.
www.hob.com /tickets/eventdetail.asp?eventid=30529   (362 words)

  
 C H A R T S
This album and its singles were in US top 20 albums in 38 weeks!!!.
The Album was in US top 20 more than 3 months.
Por Amor is now #7 on their top picked favorite songs.
www.justsecada.com /charts.htm   (686 words)

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