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American Top 40 (abbreviated to AT40) is an internationally syndicated, independent song countdown radio program created by Casey Kasem, Don Bustany, Tom Rounds, and Ron Jacobs. The program is currently hosted by Ryan Seacrest and presented as an adjunct to his weekday radio program, On Air with Ryan Seacrest.
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.
Country Top 40 with Fitz (sometimes abbreviated as CT40), formerly known as Bob Kingsley's Country Top 40, is an American country music radio countdown show created by former American Country Countdown host Bob Kingsley, who hosted the show from its January 2006 debut until shortly before his death in 2019.
Robert Gibson Kingsley [3] (March 19, 1939 – October 17, 2019) was an American country music radio personality and a member of the National Radio Hall of Fame.He was best known as the host of two nationally syndicated radio programs: American Country Countdown (ACC) and Bob Kingsley's Country Top 40.
Every song to top the Hot Country Songs listing during the year also topped Billboard ' s all-genre multimetric songs chart, the Hot 100, [9] highlighting country music's unprecedented level of mainstream success in 2024. [10] In November, "A Bar Song (Tipsy)" tied the record for the longest-running number one in the history of the Hot 100. [11]
American Country Countdown; American Top 40; C. Casey's Top 40; Cash Box Top 100 Pop Singles; Cashbox (magazine) CCM AC chart; Country Countdown USA; Country Top 40 ...
A new chart, the Country Airplay chart, was created using airplay exclusively from country radio stations. Following the change, songs that were receiving airplay on top-40 pop were given a major advantage over songs popular only on country radio, and as an unintended consequence , such songs began having record-long runs at the top of the chart.
Although Westwood One had several country programs mainly broadcast on its co-owned Mutual network, the company didn't have a weekly country countdown show. At the time, the leader was American Country Countdown with Bob Kingsley (now hosted by Ryan Fox). It was a traditional countdown show modeled after Casey Kasem’s American Top 40.