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March 16, 1996
- The chart was first published in the March 16, 1996, issue of Billboard; however, historically, the chart's introduction was in October 1995, when it began as a test chart. The Adult Top 40 chart was formed following a split of the "Hot Adult Contemporary" chart due to the growing emergence of Adult Top 40 radio stations in the 1990s.
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In November 1955, a composite standing chart that combined retail sales, jukebox and disk jockeys play charts but counted individual record separately was created as "The Top 100" chart, with "Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing" by The Four Aces its first No. 1. [6] This chart is the direct predecessor to the current Hot 100 chart.
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The Adult Top 40 chart was formed following a split of the "Hot Adult Contemporary" chart due to the growing emergence of Adult Top 40 radio stations in the 1990s. These stations played a wider variety of artists and saw a faster turnover of songs compared to traditional adult contemporary radio.
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In 1996, Billboard created a new chart called Adult Top 40, which reflects radio station programming that exists somewhere between "adult contemporary" music and "pop" music. Although they are sometimes mistaken for each other, the Adult Contemporary chart and the Adult Top 40 chart are separate charts, and songs reaching one chart might not ...
Jul 5, 2020 · AT40’s original host Casey Kasem (from July 1970 – August 1988). The show has since been hosted by Shadoe Stevens and currently Ryan Seacrest, who took over in 2004. This weekend, many of us have been celebrating the show’s 50th anniversary while listening to re-airings of the first episode.
On July 27, 1940, Billboard Magazine published the first national charts to rank the top 10 songs by individual artists according to popularity. There were actually three different charts, the Best Sellers in Stores, the Most Played in Juke Boxes, and the Most Played by Jockeys.
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