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A contest (the Weekly Top 40 Challenge) and a pre-recorded interview ("special in-studio guest") were other enduring features that helped give Rick's show a younger more contemporary sound when compared to American Top 40. By 1985, the Rick Dees Weekly Top 40 could be heard on radio stations around the world as far away as New Zealand.
Rigdon Osmond Dees III (born March 14, 1950), best known as Rick Dees, is an American entertainer, radio personality, comedian, actor, and voice artist, best known for his internationally syndicated radio show The Rick Dees Weekly Top 40 Countdown and for the 1976 satirical novelty song "Disco Duck".
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 ...
That year, 15 acts earned their first number one songs, such as The Bay City Rollers, C. W. McCall, Rhythm Heritage, Johnnie Taylor, The Bellamy Brothers, The Sylvers, Starland Vocal Band, The Manhattans, Kiki Dee, Wild Cherry, Walter Murphy, Rick Dees, and Chicago.
Casey's Top 40; Cash Box Top 100 Pop Singles; Cashbox (magazine) ... Country Top 40 with Fitz; H. Hawaiian Island Charts; M. Mediabase; R. Rick Dees Weekly Top 40 ...
This list spans from the issue dated January 1, 1955 to the present. Prior to the creation of the Billboard Hot 100 , Billboard published four weekly singles charts: "Best Sellers in Stores", "Most Played by Jockeys", "Most Played in Jukeboxes" and "The Top 100" (an early version of the Hot 100).
Rick Dees Weekly Top 40; American Top 40; Sean “Hollywood” Hamilton; The Official Big Top 40, Global Radio's nationally syndicated chart show in the United Kingdom, airing on both the Heart and Capital networks. It was previously known as Hit40UK. Asia Pop 40, a Top 40 chart program in the Asian region; The World Chart Show
With Dees in mornings, KIIS became a CHR powerhouse in Los Angeles. Rick Dees in the KIIS studio, 1986. In 1985, KIIS (AM) returned to a Top 40 format and simulcast KIIS-FM's morning and afternoon shows, while all other dayparts had different disc jockeys.