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Hot Hits was a radio format created by consultant Mike Joseph in the 1970s. That concept, which helped spur the birth of what is now known as CHR , also revitalized the Top 40 format and would play a role in bringing the format to the FM band throughout the 1980s.
These stations typically are hybrids of the contemporary hit radio (CHR/pop) and Hot AC formats. This format contains a strong focus on current charts, contemporary and recurrent hits as well as placing a minority of older, classic hits from the 2000s and early to mid 2010s onto the playlist.
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 ...
The station moved back to mainstream Top 40 on September 5, 1983, changing its slogan to "Hot Hits". It began using a Hot Hits jingle package and formatics developed by Mike Joseph, who created the Hot Hits format, adopted by numerous radio stations in the early 1980s. KPLZ later changed its moniker to "Z 101.5", before moving back to "101.5 ...
On May 12, 1977, WTIC-FM made a dramatic switch by flipping to a Top 40–CHR format, as "Hot Hits". [7] The station was consulted by Mike Joseph who installed a playlist of all current hits, the 30 to 40 songs on the current charts were repeated frequently, with upbeat DJs and numerous jingles by TM Studios. Once a Hot Hit fell off the charts ...
There’s a new sports talk radio station in town. iHeartMedia Dallas on Monday announced the official changeover of 97.1-FM to a re-branded “hot talk” radio format called “The Freak ...
If you look at Billboard’s latest charts, there’s an anomaly: Oliver Anthony’s “Rich Men North of Richmond” is No. 1 on the Hot Country Songs chart … but nowhere to be found on the ...
Top 40 radio stations played the Top 40 hits regardless of genre. As the texture of much of the music played on Top 40 radio began to soften, the Hot 100 and Easy Listening/AC charts became more similar. Easy Listening radio began playing songs by artists who had begun in other genres, such as rock and roll or R&B.