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Contemporary hit radio

Index Contemporary hit radio

Contemporary hit radio (also known as CHR, contemporary hits, hit list, current hits, hit music, top 40, or pop radio) is a radio format that is common in the United States, United Kingdom, Ireland, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, Singapore, Trinidad and Tobago, South Africa, and the Philippines, that focuses on playing current and recurrent popular music as determined by the top 40 music charts. [1]

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Adult contemporary music

Adult contemporary music (AC) is a North American term used to describe a form of radio-played popular music, ranging from 1960s vocal and 1970s soft rock music to predominantly ballad-heavy music of the present day, with varying degrees of easy listening, pop, soul, rhythm and blues, quiet storm, and rock influence.

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Adult Top 40

The Adult Top 40 (also known as Adult Pop Songs) chart is published weekly by ''Billboard'' magazine and ranks "the most popular adult top 40 as based on radio airplay detections measured by Nielsen Broadcast Data Systems." It is a format in which the genre is geared more towards an adult audience who are not into hard rock, hip hop, or adult contemporary fare.

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Alternative rock

Alternative rock (also called alternative music, alt-rock or simply alternative) is a style of rock music that emerged from the independent music underground of the 1980s and became widely popular in the 1990s.

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Arizona

Arizona (Hoozdo Hahoodzo; Alĭ ṣonak) is a U.S. state in the southwestern region of the United States.

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Ashland, Kentucky

Ashland is a home rule-class city in Boyd County, Kentucky, in the United States.

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Asia Pop 40

Asia Pop 40 is the first regional weekly chart countdown radio show produced in Asia specifically for Asian radio.

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Atlanta

Atlanta is the capital city and most populous municipality of the state of Georgia in the United States.

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Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and numerous smaller islands.

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Baltimore

Baltimore is the largest city in the U.S. state of Maryland, and the 30th-most populous city in the United States.

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Bartell Group

The Bartell Group, later known as Bartell Broadcasters, Bartell Family Radio, Macfadden-Bartell, and the Bartell Media Corporation, was a family-owned company that owned a number of radio stations in the United States during the 1940s through the 1960s.

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BBC Radio 1

BBC Radio 1 is a British radio station operated by the British Broadcasting Corporation which also broadcasts internationally, specialising in modern and current popular music and chart hits throughout the day. Radio 1 provides alternative genres after 7pm, including electronic dance, hip hop, rock, indie or interviews. It was launched in 1967 to meet the demand for music generated by pirate radio stations, when the average age of the UK population was 27. The BBC claim that they target the 1529 age group, and the average age of its UK audience since 2009 is 30. BBC Radio 1 started 24-hour broadcasting on 1 May 1991.

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Beautiful music

Beautiful music (sometimes abbreviated as BM, B/EZ or BM/EZ for "beautiful music/easy listening") is a mostly instrumental music format that was prominent in American radio from the late 1950s through the 1980s.

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Beyoncé

Beyoncé Giselle Knowles-Carter (born September 4, 1981) is an American singer, songwriter, dancer, actress, and businesswoman.

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Bill Drake

Bill Drake (January 14, 1937 – November 29, 2008), born Philip Yarbrough, was an American radio programmer who co-developed the Boss Radio format with Gene Chenault via their company Drake-Chenault.

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Block programming

Block programming or television block is the arrangement of programs on radio or television so that several items of one general class, such as soap operas or popular music, occur in sequence.

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Boss Radio

Boss Radio was the name of two radio programming formats, both launched in the early 1960s: One in the United States, and one in the United Kingdom.

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Bridge FM (Wales)

Bridge FM is an Independent Local Radio station serving the Bridgend County Borough and surrounding areas of South Wales.

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Bridgend

Bridgend (Pen-y-bont ar Ogwr (Pen-y-bont), meaning "the end (or head) of the bridge on the Ogmore") is a town in Bridgend County Borough in Wales, west of the capital Cardiff and east of Swansea.

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Bridgend County Borough

Bridgend (Pen-y-bont ar Ogwr) is a county borough in southern Wales, UK.

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Britney Spears

Britney Jean Spears (born December 2, 1981) is an American singer, dancer, and actress.

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California

California is a state in the Pacific Region of the United States.

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Capital (radio network)

Capital is a network of twelve independent contemporary hit radio stations in the United Kingdom, broadcasting a mix of local and networked programming.

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Casey Kasem

Kemal Amin "Casey" Kasem (April 27, 1932 – June 15, 2014) was an American disc jockey, music historian, radio personality, voice actor, and actor, known for being the host of several music radio countdown programs, most notably American Top 40, from 1970 until his retirement in 2009, and for providing the voice of Norville "Shaggy" Rogers in the Scooby-Doo franchise from 1969 to 1997, and again from 2002 until 2009.

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Charleston, South Carolina

Charleston is the oldest and largest city in the U.S. state of South Carolina, the county seat of Charleston County, and the principal city in the Charleston–North Charleston–Summerville Metropolitan Statistical Area.

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Chicago

Chicago, officially the City of Chicago, is the third most populous city in the United States, after New York City and Los Angeles.

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CIHT-FM

CIHT-FM is a Canadian radio station broadcasting at 89.9 FM in Ottawa, Ontario with a CHR format branded as Hot 89.9.

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Cincinnati

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CKFM-FM

CKFM-FM, also known as 99.9 Virgin Radio, is a Canadian radio station, broadcasting at 99.9 FM in Toronto, Ontario.

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CKIS-FM

CKIS-FM is a Canadian radio station, broadcasting at 92.5 MHz in Toronto, Ontario.

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CKLW

CKLW is a 50,000-watt, Class B, AM radio station broadcasting on the Mexican clear-channel frequency of 800 kHz (800 AM) and located in Windsor, Ontario, Canada, serving Windsor and Detroit.

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Columbia, South Carolina

Columbia is the capital and second largest city of the U.S. state of South Carolina, with a population estimate of 134,309 as of 2016.

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Columbus, Ohio

Columbus is the state capital and the most populous city in Ohio.

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Country music

Country music, also known as country and western or simply country, is a genre of popular music that originated in the southern United States in the early 1920s.

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Dallas

Dallas is a city in the U.S. state of Texas.

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Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex

The Dallas–Fort Worth–Arlington, TX Metropolitan Statistical Area, the official title designated by the United States Office of Management and Budget, encompasses 13 counties within the U.S. state of Texas.

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Dance-pop

Dance-pop is a pop and dance subgenre that originated in the early 1980s.

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Dance/Mix Show Airplay

Dance/Mix Show Airplay (formerly Hot Dance Airplay) is a monitored electronic dance music radio chart that is featured weekly in Billboard magazine.

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Denver

Denver, officially the City and County of Denver, is the capital and most populous municipality of the U.S. state of Colorado.

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Disc jockey

A disc jockey, often abbreviated as DJ, is a person who plays existing recorded music for a live audience.

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Don Pierson

Donald Grey Pierson (October 11, 1925 – March 30, 1996) was a businessman and civic leader in Eastland, Texas.

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Duluth, Minnesota

Duluth is a major port city in the U.S. state of Minnesota and the county seat of Saint Louis County.

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Electronic dance music

Electronic dance music (also known as EDM, dance music, club music, or simply dance) is a broad range of percussive electronic music genres made largely for nightclubs, raves, and festivals.

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Elvis Presley

Elvis Aaron Presley (January 8, 1935 – August 16, 1977) was an American singer and actor.

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Ethnic group

An ethnic group, or an ethnicity, is a category of people who identify with each other based on similarities such as common ancestry, language, history, society, culture or nation.

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Fab 40

The "Fab 40" (i.e. "Fabulous Forty") was a weekly playlist of popular records used by the British "pirate" radio station "Wonderful" Radio London (also known as "Big L") which broadcast off the Essex coast from 1964 to 1967.

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Flo Rida

Tramar Lacel Dillard (born September 17, 1979), known professionally as Flo Rida, is an American rapper, singer, songwriter and composer from Carol City, Florida.

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Full service (radio format)

The full service radio format in the United States consists of a wide range of programming.

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Georgetown, Guyana

Georgetown is the capital of Guyana, located in Region 4, which is also known as the Demerara-Mahaica region.

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Global (company)

Global (also known as Global Media & Entertainment) is a British media company formed in 2007, which owns a large number of radio stations across the country.

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Gordon McLendon

Gordon Barton McLendon (June 8, 1921 – September 14, 1986Texas State Historical Association) was a radio pioneer and pirate radio broadcaster.

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Green Bay, Wisconsin

Green Bay is a city in and the county seat of Brown County in the U.S. state of Wisconsin, at the head of Green Bay, a sub-basin of Lake Michigan, at the mouth of the Fox River.

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Hip hop music

Hip hop music, also called hip-hopMerriam-Webster Dictionary entry on hip-hop, retrieved from: A subculture especially of inner-city black youths who are typically devotees of rap music; the stylized rhythmic music that commonly accompanies rap; also rap together with this music.

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Hit Network

The Hit Network is a network of contemporary hit radio stations run by Southern Cross Austereo in Australia.

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Hit40UK

Hit40UK was a networked Top 40 chart show broadcasting on around 130 UK commercial radio stations every Sunday from 4pm to 7pm.

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Hot Hits

Hot Hits was a radio format created by consultant Mike Joseph in the 1970s.

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Hott 93

Hott 93 (93.5 FM) is a radio station broadcasting from Trinidad and Tobago.

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Houston

Houston is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Texas and the fourth most populous city in the United States, with a census-estimated 2017 population of 2.312 million within a land area of.

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Huntington, West Virginia

Huntington is a city in Cabell County and Wayne County in the U.S. state of West Virginia.

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Huntsville, Alabama

Huntsville is a city located primarily in Madison County in the Appalachian region of northern Alabama.

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Independent Local Radio

Independent Local Radio is the collective name given to commercial radio stations in the United Kingdom.

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Indianapolis

Indianapolis is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Indiana and the seat of Marion County.

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International waters

The terms international waters or trans-boundary waters apply where any of the following types of bodies of water (or their drainage basins) transcend international boundaries: oceans, large marine ecosystems, enclosed or semi-enclosed regional seas and estuaries, rivers, lakes, groundwater systems (aquifers), and wetlands.

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Internet radio

Internet radio (also web radio, net radio, streaming radio, e-radio, IP radio, online radio) is a digital audio service transmitted via the Internet.

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Jukebox

A jukebox is a partially automated music-playing device, usually a coin-operated machine, that will play a patron's selection from self-contained media.

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Kalamazoo, Michigan

Kalamazoo is a city in the southwest region of the U.S. state of Michigan.

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KAMP-FM

KAMP-FM (97.1 MHz, 97.1 AMP Radio) is a commercial FM radio station in Los Angeles, California.

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Kansas City, Missouri

Kansas City is the largest city in the U.S. state of Missouri.

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KBMX

KBMX (107.7 FM, "Mix 108") is an Adult Top 40 (CHR) radio station serving Duluth, Minnesota, and Superior, Wisconsin.

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KCRO

KCRO (660 AM) is an Omaha, Nebraska area Salem Communications-owned Christian radio station.

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KDWB-FM

KDWB-FM (101.3 FM) is an American commercial radio station broadcasting in the Twin Cities region of Minnesota, licensed to suburban Richfield.

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KFCO

KFCO (107.1 FM, Flo 107.1) is a commercial radio station located in Bennett, Colorado, broadcasting to the Denver, Colorado area.

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KFRC (defunct)

610 KFRC was a radio station in San Francisco, California in the United States, which made its first broadcast on Wednesday, September 24, 1924, from studios in the Hotel Whitcomb 1231 Market Street.

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KHJ (AM)

KHJ (930 kHz) is an AM radio station licensed to Los Angeles, California.

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KHKS

KHKS (106.1 FM, 106.1 KISS-FM) is a Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex radio station broadcasting a Top 40 (CHR) format, licensed to Denton, Texas, and is under ownership of iHeartMedia, Inc. (formerly Clear Channel Communications).

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KIIS Network

The KIIS Network is a network of radio stations owned and operated by the Australian Radio Network.

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KIIS-FM

KIIS-FM (pronounced "Kiss FM") (102.7 MHz, "102.7 KIIS FM") is a commercial FM radio station which is licensed to Los Angeles, California and broadcasts to the Greater Los Angeles area.

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KILT (AM)

KILT (610 AM, "SportsRadio 610") is a Sports/Talk formatted radio station in the Houston, Texas, metropolitan area.

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KITS

KITS ("Alt 105.3") is a San Francisco, California, United States-based radio station broadcasting at 105.3 MHz.

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KKCK

KKCK (99.7 FM) is a radio station broadcasting a Top 40 (CHR) format licensed to serve Marshall, Minnesota.

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KLIF (AM)

KLIF (570 AM) is a commercial radio station licensed to Dallas, Texas.

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KLIF-FM

KLIF-FM (93.3 FM, branded as "Hot 93.3") is a radio station licensed to serve Haltom City, Texas, United States.

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KNHC

KNHC (C-89.5) is a Class C1 Non-Commercial FM high school radio station based in Seattle, Washington, primarily broadcasting dance, electronic, and contemporary hit music.

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KPWR

KPWR (105.9 FM, Power 106) is a commercial radio station in Los Angeles, California, broadcasting to the Greater Los Angeles area on an analog signal and in HD Radio.

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KRBE

KRBE (104.1 KRBE), is a Top 40 (CHR) radio station based in Houston, Texas, United States.

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KSXY

KSXY (100.9 FM, "The 101") is an alternative rock formatted radio station licensed to Forestville, California, United States.

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KTSA

KTSA (550 AM & 107.1 FM) is a news-talk formatted radio station in San Antonio, Texas.

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KVIL

KVIL (103.7 MHz, Alt 103.7) is a commercial FM radio station dual-licensed to Highland Park and Dallas, Texas, serving the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex in North Texas.

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KYLD

KYLD (94.9 FM, WiLD 94.9) is a commercial radio station in San Francisco, California, serving the San Francisco Bay Area.

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Latin pop

Latin pop (Spanish and Portuguese: Pop latino) refers to pop music that contains sounds or influence from Latin America, but it can also mean pop music from anywhere in the Spanish-speaking world.

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List of Billboard number-one singles

This is a list of songs that have peaked at number one on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 and the magazine's national singles charts that preceded it.

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Long Island

Long Island is a densely populated island off the East Coast of the United States, beginning at New York Harbor just 0.35 miles (0.56 km) from Manhattan Island and extending eastward into the Atlantic Ocean.

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Los Angeles

Los Angeles (Spanish for "The Angels";; officially: the City of Los Angeles; colloquially: by its initials L.A.) is the second-most populous city in the United States, after New York City.

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Louisiana

Louisiana is a state in the southeastern region of the United States.

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Mainstream Top 40

Mainstream Top 40 (also called Pop Songs on billboard.com and sometimes referred to as Top 40/CHR) is a 40-song music chart published weekly by ''Billboard'' Magazine which ranks the most popular songs being played on a panel of Top 40 radio stations in the United States.

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Marshall, Minnesota

Marshall is a city in Lyon County, Minnesota, United States.

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Miami

Miami is a major port city on the Atlantic coast of south Florida in the southeastern United States.

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Minneapolis

Minneapolis is the county seat of Hennepin County, and the larger of the Twin Cities, the 16th-largest metropolitan area in the United States.

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Mix 90.1FM

Mix 90.1 FM is a radio station broadcasting in Guyana owned and operated by Trinidadian Company Guardian Media Limited as part of The TBC Radio Network.

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Modern rock

Modern rock is an umbrella term describing rock music made between the late 1970s to present day.

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Movin' (brand)

“Movin'” (capitalized as “MOViN'”) is a brand name used for a variety of rhythmic AC and top 40 radio stations in numerous broadcast markets in the United States.

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Ne-Yo

Shaffer Chimere Smith (born October 18, 1982), known professionally as Ne-Yo, is an American singer, songwriter, record producer, dancer, and actor.

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New Orleans

New Orleans (. Merriam-Webster.; La Nouvelle-Orléans) is a major United States port and the largest city and metropolitan area in the state of Louisiana.

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New York City

The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.

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North Sea

The North Sea (Mare Germanicum) is a marginal sea of the Atlantic Ocean located between Great Britain, Scandinavia, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, and France.

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Nova (radio network)

The Nova Network is a group of five Australian radio stations owned wholly or in part by NOVA Entertainment.

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Ofcom

The Office of Communications (Y Swyddfa Gyfathrebiadau), commonly known as Ofcom, is the UK government-approved regulatory and competition authority for the broadcasting, telecommunications and postal industries of the United Kingdom.

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Omaha, Nebraska

Omaha is the largest city in the state of Nebraska and the county seat of Douglas County.

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Ottawa

Ottawa is the capital city of Canada.

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PAMS

PAMS (an acronym for Production, Advertising, Merchandising Service), based in Dallas, Texas, was one of the most famous jingle production companies in American broadcasting.

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Payola

Payola, in the music industry, is the illegal practice of payment or other inducement by record companies for the broadcast of recordings on commercial radio in which the song is presented as being part of the normal day's broadcast, without announcing this prior to broadcast.

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Philadelphia

Philadelphia is the largest city in the U.S. state and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and the sixth-most populous U.S. city, with a 2017 census-estimated population of 1,580,863.

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Pirate radio

Pirate radio or a pirate radio station is a radio station that broadcasts without a valid license.

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Pitbull (rapper)

Armando Christian Pérez (born January 15, 1981), known by the stage name Pitbull (also known as Mr. Worldwide), is an American rapper.

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Pop music

Pop music is a genre of popular music that originated in its modern form in the United States and United Kingdom during the mid-1950s.

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Port of Spain

Port of Spain (also spelled Port-of-Spain) is the capital city of Trinidad and Tobago and the country's third-largest city, after Chaguanas and San Fernando.

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Portsmouth, Ohio

Portsmouth is a city in and the county seat of Scioto County, Ohio, United States.

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Radio & Records

Radio & Records (R&R) was a trade publication providing news and airplay information for the radio and music industries.

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Radio Caroline

Radio Caroline is a British radio station founded in 1964 by Ronan O'Rahilly to circumvent the record companies' control of popular music broadcasting in the United Kingdom and the BBC's radio broadcasting monopoly.

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Radio drama

Radio drama (or audio drama, audio play, radio play, radio theater, or audio theater) is a dramatized, purely acoustic performance.

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Radio format

A radio format or programming format (not to be confused with broadcast programming) describes the overall content broadcast on a radio station.

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Rhythm and blues

Rhythm and blues, commonly abbreviated as R&B, is a genre of popular music that originated in African American communities in the 1940s.

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Rhythmic adult contemporary

Rhythmic adult contemporary is the name of a popular format used on radio stations in the United States and Canada.

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Rhythmic contemporary

Rhythmic contemporary, also known as Rhythmic Top 40, Rhythmic CHR or rhythmic crossover, is a primarily American music-radio format that includes a mix of EDM, upbeat rhythmic pop, hip hop and upbeat R&B hits.

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Rick Dees Weekly Top 40

Rick Dees Weekly Top 40 (sometimes known as The Weekly Top 40) is an internationally syndicated radio program created and hosted by American radio personality Rick Dees.

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Rick Sklar

Rick Sklar (November 21, 1929 – June 22, 1992) was an American radio program director who, while at New York City's WABC, was one of the originators of the Top 40 radio format.

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Rihanna

Robyn Rihanna Fenty (born 20 February 1988) is a Barbadian singer, songwriter, actress, and businesswoman.

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Rock and roll

Rock and roll (often written as rock & roll or rock 'n' roll) is a genre of popular music that originated and evolved in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950sJim Dawson and Steve Propes, What Was the First Rock'n'Roll Record (1992),.

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Rock music

Rock music is a broad genre of popular music that originated as "rock and roll" in the United States in the early 1950s, and developed into a range of different styles in the 1960s and later, particularly in the United Kingdom and in the United States.

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Ryan Seacrest

Ryan John Seacrest (born December 24, 1974) is an American radio personality, television host, and producer.

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Saint Paul, Minnesota

Saint Paul (abbreviated St. Paul) is the capital and second-most populous city of the U.S. state of Minnesota.

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San Francisco

San Francisco (initials SF;, Spanish for 'Saint Francis'), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the cultural, commercial, and financial center of Northern California.

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Santa Rosa, California

Santa Rosa (lit. Spanish for "Saint Rose") is a city in and the county seat of Sonoma County, California, United States.

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Sean Hamilton

Sean "Hollywood" Hamilton is an American radio personality.

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Seattle

Seattle is a seaport city on the west coast of the United States.

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Soul music

Soul music (often referred to simply as soul) is a popular music genre that originated in the African American community in the United States in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

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South Bend, Indiana

South Bend is a city in and the county seat of St. Joseph County, Indiana, United States, on the St. Joseph River near its southernmost bend, from which it derives its name.

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St. Petersburg, Florida

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Star 947

Star 947 (94.7 FM) is a radio station broadcasting from Trinidad and Tobago.

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Swansea

Swansea (Abertawe), is a coastal city and county, officially known as the City and County of Swansea (Dinas a Sir Abertawe) in Wales, UK.

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Swansea Bay Radio

Swansea Bay Radio is a British Independent Local Radio station serving the Swansea Bay area of West Wales.

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Swinging Radio England

Swinging Radio England ("SRE") was a top 40 offshore commercial station billed as the "World's Most Powerful" that operated from 3 May 1966 to 13 November 1966 from a ship in the North Sea, four and a half miles off Frinton-on-Sea, Essex, England.

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Take 40 Australia

Take 40 Australia was Australia's first and longest-running music countdown.

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Tampa, Florida

Tampa is a major city in, and the county seat of, Hillsborough County, Florida, United States.

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Tejano music

Tejano music or Tex-Mex music (Texan-Mexican music) is the name given to various forms of folk and popular music originating among the Mexican-American populations of Central and Southern Texas.

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Texas

Texas (Texas or Tejas) is the second largest state in the United States by both area and population.

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Texas Triangle

The Texas Triangle is one of eleven ''megaregions'' in the United States.

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The Net 40

The Net 40 was a weekly Internet chart show which was broadcast live from the studios of Sound Liverpool.

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The Official Vodafone Big Top 40

The Official Vodafone Big Top 40 is a radio chart show hosted by Marvin Humes and Kat Shoob.

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The Wave 96.4 FM

96.4 The Wave is a British Independent Local Radio station that serves the Swansea Bay area of West Wales.

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Todd Storz

Robert Todd Storz (May 8, 1924 – April 13, 1964) headed a very successful chain of American radio broadcasting stations and is generally credited with being the foremost innovator of the Top 40 radio format.

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Top 40

In the music industry, the top 40 is the current, 40 most-popular songs in a particular genre.

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Toronto

Toronto is the capital city of the province of Ontario and the largest city in Canada by population, with 2,731,571 residents in 2016.

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Trinidad and Tobago

Trinidad and Tobago, officially the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, is a twin island sovereign state that is the southernmost nation of the West Indies in the Caribbean.

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UK Singles Chart

The UK Singles Chart (currently entitled Official Singles Chart) is compiled by the Official Charts Company (OCC), on behalf of the British record industry, listing the top-selling singles in the United Kingdom, based upon physical sales, paid-for downloads and streaming.

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United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain,Usage is mixed with some organisations, including the and preferring to use Britain as shorthand for Great Britain is a sovereign country in western Europe.

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Urban contemporary

Urban contemporary is a music radio format.

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Usher (musician)

Usher Raymond IV (born October 14, 1978), is an American singer, songwriter and dancer.

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WABC (AM)

WABC (770 AM), known as "77 WABC" is a radio station licensed to New York City and is owned by the broadcasting division of Cumulus Media.

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Wales

Wales (Cymru) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and the island of Great Britain.

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WARQ

WARQ is a radio station licensed to Columbia, South Carolina and serves the Columbia market.

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Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington or D.C., is the capital of the United States of America.

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WBBM-FM

WBBM-FM, known on air as "B96", is a Top 40 (CHR) radio station in Chicago owned by Entercom.

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WCIS-FM

WCIS-FM is a Contemporary Christian radio station serving the Central New York Region.

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WDVD

WDVD is a Hot Adult Contemporary radio station in Detroit, Michigan, broadcasting at 96.3 MHz on the FM dial.

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WEPN-FM

WEPN-FM (98.7 MHz) branded as "ESPN New York 98.7 FM", is an all-sports radio station licensed to New York City.

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WEZB

WEZB (97.1 FM, "B97 FM") is a radio station licensed to New Orleans, Louisiana.

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WFBL

WFBL (1390 kHz AM) is a commercial radio station licensed to Syracuse, New York and owned by Wolf Radio, Inc.

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WFLZ-FM

WFLZ-FM (93.3 FM, "93-3 FLZ") is a Top 40 (CHR) station broadcasting in the Tampa Bay area, Florida, United States.

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WHB

WHB (810 kHz, "Sports Radio 810 WHB") is a commercial AM radio station in Kansas City, Missouri, United States.

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WHBQ (AM)

WHBQ is an AM radio station in Memphis, Tennessee, in the United States of America.

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WHTZ

WHTZ (100.3 FM) – branded Z100 – is a commercial Top 40 (CHR) radio station licensed to Newark, New Jersey and serving the New York City metropolitan area.

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WHYI-FM

WHYI-FM, better known as Y100, is a heritage FM Top 40 (CHR) that broadcasts at 100.7 MHz.

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WIHT

WIHT (99.5 FM) - branded as "HOT 99.5" - is a Top 40 (CHR) formatted radio station that serves the greater Washington, D.C. metropolitan area.

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WIOQ

WIOQ (102.1 MHz, "Q102") is a commercial FM radio station licensed to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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WIXX

WIXX (101.1 FM) is a Top 40 (CHR) radio station licensed to and serving Green Bay, Wisconsin, along with Appleton-Oshkosh.

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WKFR-FM

WKFR-FM, also known as KFR, is a Top 40 outlet serving the Kalamazoo, Michigan radio market.

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WKRQ

WKRQ, known on-air as Q102, is a radio station located in the Cincinnati, Ohio area and broadcasts at 101.9 FM.

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WKSC-FM

WKSC-FM (103.5 FM) – branded as 103.5 KISS FM –is a Top 40 (CHR) radio station serving the Chicago area, owned by iHeartMedia (formerly Clear Channel Communications until September 2014).

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WLS (AM)

WLS (890 kHz, "89 WLS") is a commercial AM radio station in Chicago, Illinois.

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WMXZ

WMXZ (95.9 FM, "Mix 95.9") is a radio station licensed to Isle of Palms, South Carolina, United States, serving the South Carolina Lowcountry.

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WNCI

WNCI (97.9 FM) is a Top 40 (CHR) radio station in Columbus, Ohio.

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WNDV-FM

WNDV-FM (92.9 FM, "U93") is a radio station broadcasting an Top 40 format.

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WNVZ

WNVZ (104.5 MHz "Z104") is a commercial FM radio station licensed to Norfolk, Virginia, serving Hampton Roads.

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WOGL

WOGL (98.1 FM, "98.1 WOGL") is a commercial FM radio station licensed to serve Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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Wonderful Radio London

Radio London, also known as Big L and Wonderful Radio London, was a top 40 (in London's case, the "Fab 40") offshore commercial station that operated from 23 December 1964 to 14 August 1967, from a ship anchored in the North Sea, three and a half miles off Frinton-on-Sea, Essex, England.

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WPAY-FM

WPAY-FM (98.3 FM) is a radio station broadcasting a country format.

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WPTY

WPTY (105.3 FM, "Party 105") is a Rhythmic/Dance Hits station licensed to Calverton-Roanoke, New York and serving the Long Island market, mostly throughout eastern Long Island.

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WQHT

WQHT (97.1 FM) – also known as "Hot 97" – is an American radio station licensed to New York City under the corporate ownership of Emmis Communications.

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WQNO

WQNO is a station based in New Orleans, Louisiana.

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WRKO

WRKO (680 AM) is a talk radio station in Boston, Massachusetts, owned by iHeartMedia.

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WSPK

WSPK (104.7 FM, "K-104.7") is a Top 40 (CHR) radio station licensed to Poughkeepsie, New York and broadcasting from studios at 715 Rt.52 in Beacon, New York.

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WTIC-FM

WTIC-FM is a commercial radio station primarily serving the Hartford market, though its signal can be picked up throughout most of Connecticut and into Springfield, Massachusetts.

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WWKB

WWKB is an AM radio station in Buffalo, New York, operating on a frequency of 1520 kHz.

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WWMX

WWMX (106.5 FM), known on-air as Mix 106-5, is a Top 40/CHR radio station with a heavy slant towards Hot AC in Baltimore, Maryland.

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WWWQ

WWWQ FM 99.7, known as "Q100", is an Atlanta radio station airing a top-40/CHR format.

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WZPL

WZPL (99.5 FM) is a radio station based in Greenfield, Indiana, and serving the Indianapolis metropolitan area.

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WZYP

WZYP (104.3 FM, "104.3 'ZYP") is a Top 40 (CHR) music-formatted radio station licensed to serve Athens, Alabama, and broadcasting in the Huntsville, Alabama, area.

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951 Remix

951 Remix (95.1 FM) is a radio station broadcasting from Trinidad and Tobago owned and operated by Guardian Media Limited.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contemporary_hit_radio

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