Top 40

40 most-popular songs in a particular genre

The Top 40 is a radio format that measures the top forty songs in any music genre. The Top 40 became a dominant radio format in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s.

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  • Pete Battistini, "American Top 40 with Casey Kasem The 1970s", Authorhouse.com, January 31, 2005. ISBN 1-4184-1070-5
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  • David MacFarland, The Development of the Top 40 Radio Format (New York: Arno Press, 1979)

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