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The countdown itself features the top 40 country songs of the week, played in ascending order starting with #40 and ending with #1. Each segment includes from two to four songs, with at least one of those songs having a story about the song or its recording artist; some songs are also accompanied by interview snippets from the artist.
30 September – Mark Goodier replaces Bruno Brookes as host of BBC Radio 1's Top 40 show. 1991. 6 January – For the first time, BBC Radio 1's Sunday chart show plays all 40 tracks and the show is renamed as The Complete Top 40. [3] This becomes possible due to an extension of the programme's duration – starting half an hour earlier at 4:30 ...
The Weekly Top 40 debuted in September 1983, after Rick's then-station, KIIS-FM, lost American Top 40 to a rival station, KIQQ (now KKLQ) over the playing of network commercials. [1] KIIS-FM re-obtained the rights to carry AT40 in 1988, after Shadoe Stevens took over as host.) [ 2 ] Initially syndicated by United Stations , the show was ...
American Country Countdown was conceived as a spinoff program from American Top 40 (AT40), which had premiered in 1970 and showcased the week's most popular singles.The new program was a creation of Casey Kasem and Don Bustany, the same duo behind AT40, with Tom Rounds as co-creator and Watermark Inc. distributing.
Occasionally American Top 40 airs special countdowns in place of the regular American Top 40 countdown show. These included: "Top 40 Recording Acts of the Rock Era 1955–1971" (Weekend of May 1–2, 1971) "Top 40 Christmas Songs" (Weekend of December 25–26, 1971) "Top 40 Songs of the Rock Era 1955–1972" (weekend of July 1–2, 1972)
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 ...
TRL's Number Ones is the collection of music videos that had reached the number-one spot on the daily music video countdown show Total Request Live which aired on MTV from 1998 to 2008. Usually, the same video would stay at the number-one spot for a significant period of time until it was retired or honorably discharged from the countdown and ...
In 2002 the show was renamed CMT's Country Countdown USA, as part of the newly launched collaboration with CMT. When Radio & Records was merged into Billboard in 2006, CMT's Country Countdown USA continued using the Mediabase 24/7 chart, which is also used by Bob Kingsley's Country Top 40. Concurrently, in August 2006 Lon exited Radio & Records ...