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In a 2007 Valentine's Day special edition of American Top 10 (and explained earlier in Rob Durkee's book American Top 40: The Countdown of the Century), [25] Kasem explained that the LDD feature was intended to be part of the show from the beginning. He knew, however, that it was going to take some time before a listener wrote in with a request ...
The Billboard Hot 100 is the main song chart of the American music industry and is updated every week by the Billboard magazine. During the 1970s the chart was based collectively on each single's weekly physical sales figures and airplay on American radio stations.
July 11 – "American Top 40", hosted by Oakland, California radio personality (and show co-founder) Casey Kasem, is launched in national syndication. Created by Kasem and Don Bustany, and distributed by Watermark Inc., the program features the top 40 hits from Billboard magazine's Hot 100 chart. The show is a success and sets the standard for ...
The Classic Countdown focused on the 20 biggest hits of the current month from a particular year in the past. The year range during the mid-2010s was 1970-1987. As with American Gold's countdowns of past years, Bartley would announce headlines, pop culture trends (such as styles, popular movies and TV shows, etc.) from that particular month.
On November 30, 1991, after 21 years of using the Billboard Hot 100 as their source, American Top 40 started using this chart, which at the time was called the Top 40 Radio Monitor. This relationship ended in January 1993, as American Top 40 switched to the Billboard Mainstream Top 40 chart.
Current events; Random article; ... American Top 40 (19 P) B. Billboard charts (7 C, 231 P) T. ... Casey's Top 40; Cash Box Top 100 Pop Singles;
The current lineup—led by Ronnie's younger brother, Johnny Van Zant, on vocals—continues to tour and has shows slated for 2025. You may also like: The one-hit wonders every rock music fan will ...
The company also produced the "Cruisin'" series of albums, recreating top 40 disk jockey shows of the 1950s and 1960s and released on Increase Records (which at the time was a unit of Watermark), and Jack S. Margolis' comedy album, A Child's Garden of Grass, for Elektra Records.