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In January 2009, Dees and the Weekly Top 40 returned to ABC Radio, which has since been acquired by Citadel Broadcasting, with ABC Radio's programming division renamed as Citadel Media. [3] Reruns of the Rick Dees Weekly Top 40 from the 1980s began airing on the TKO Radio Network in 2010 after a trial run on WQMA in Marks, Mississippi. A few ...
Dees continues distribution of his Rick Dees Weekly Top 40 Countdown globally to terrestrial radio stations and streaming in the U.S., making it the longest continuously running countdown featuring pop music in the world. He also continues to host the syndicated Daily Dees show, and can be heard in Hawaii on Kohala Radio KNKR 96.1 FM each ...
Janet Jackson earned six number-one songs on the Billboard Hot 100 chart during the 1990s. Whitney Houston's cover of "I Will Always Love You" spent 14 weeks at the top of the Billboard Hot 100, which at the time was a record. [4] [5] Lisa Loeb became the first artist to score a #1 hit before signing to any record label, with "Stay (I Missed You)".
Mainstream Top 40 is compiled from airplay on radio stations which play a wide variety of music, not just "pure pop", which Billboard defines as "melodic, often synth-driven, uptempo fare". [2] During the 1990s, mainstream top 40 went from R&B dominating the airwaves (and thus the charts) in the early 1990s to rock and alternative music ...
Plaid shirts, scrunchies, Doc Martens, tights under shorts, sagging jeans, Hot Topic, stussy signs on binders, Seinfeld, raver pants, America Online, mixtapes…there’s so much about the ‘90s ...
"All My Life" by K-Ci & JoJo (1997) "Close to me you're like my father, Close to me you're like my sister, Close to me you're like my brother" Well, OK—that seems weird, but I'm still down with it.
In 1988, Kasem left American Top 40 because of a contract dispute with ABC Radio Network. He signed a five-year, $15 million contract with Westwood One and started Casey's Top 40 , which used a different chart, the Radio & Records Contemporary (CHR) /Pop radio airplay chart (also employed contemporaneously by Rick Dees Weekly Top 40 ). [ 20 ]
"The Top 40 Songs of the Disco Era 1974–1979" (weekend of July 7–8, 1979) "The Top 50 Songs of the 1970s" (weekend of January 5–6, 1980) "AT40 Book of Records" (weekend of July 5–6, 1980) "Top 40 Hits of the Beatles: Together and Apart" (weekend of July 4–5, 1981) "Top 40 Acts of the 1980s, So Far" (weekend of July 2–3, 1983)