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The show was a vehicle for former American Top 40 host and co-creator Casey Kasem and ran for over nine years. Like Kasem's prior show, Casey's Top 40 aired on weekends, emanated from Hollywood, California, and was a countdown of the 40 biggest hits of the week on the
Kemal Amin "Casey" Kasem (April 27, 1932 – June 15, 2014) was an American disc jockey, actor and radio presenter, who created and hosted several radio countdown programs, notably American Top 40. He was the first actor to voice Shaggy Rogers in the Scooby-Doo franchise (1969 to 1997 and 2002 to 2009) and Dick Grayson/Robin in Super Friends ...
Billboard publishes annual lists of songs based on chart performance over the course of a year based on Nielsen Broadcast Data Systems and SoundScan information. This is a list of the magazine's Top Hot 100 songs of 2008. [1] The #1 song on the list was "Low" by Flo Rida and T-Pain, after having released the song in 2007 and spent 10 weeks at ...
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Casey Kasem, the internationally famous radio broadcaster with the cheerful manner and gentle voice who became the king of the top 40 countdown with a syndicated show that ran ...
After Kasem's initial contract expired in 1993, Westwood One renewed it for four more years. Kasem had launched an adult contemporary countdown in 1992 as a companion to Casey's Top 40 called Casey's Countdown, and in 1994 he added a third countdown for hot adult contemporary stations titled Casey's Hot 20. Things were not all positive, though.
The Mainstream Top 40 chart ranks the top-performing singles on contemporary hit radio, compiled by Nielsen SoundScan based collectively on each single's weekly airplay, and published in Billboard magazine. The following are the songs which reached number one on the chart during the year 2008 in chronological order.
List of Billboard Hot 100 top ten singles which peaked in 2008 Top ten entry date Single Artist(s) Peak Peak date Weeks in top ten Singles from 2007; November 24 "Low" † (#1) Flo Rida featuring T-Pain: 1 January 5 23 "Paralyzer" Finger Eleven: 6 January 5 9 Singles from 2008 January 5 "Love Song" (#7) Sara Bareilles: 4 March 8 19 January 26 ...
Casey Anthony was acquitted of murdering her young daughter in 2011 -- a look into her life five years later.