Top 40
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.
Music charts
- Adult Top 40 (Billboard)
- Pop Songs (Billboard)
- UK Singles Chart
- Dutch Top 40 (is a Dutch music chart)
- Los 40 Principales (in Spain)
- Ö3 Austria Top 40 (the official Austrian music chart)
Books
- Pete Battistini, "American Top 40 with Casey Kasem The 1970s", Authorhouse.com, January 31, 2005. ISBN 1-4184-1070-5
- Susan Douglas, Listening In: Radio and the American Imagination (New York: Times Books, 1999)
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- Ben Fong-Torres, The Hits Just Keep On Coming: The History of Top 40 Radio (San Francisco: Backbeat Books, 1998)
- Elwood F. 'Woody' Goulart, The Mystique and Mass Persuasion: Bill Drake & Gene Chenault’s Rock and Roll Radio Programming Archived 2008-05-10 at the Wayback Machine (2006)
- David MacFarland, The Development of the Top 40 Radio Format (New York: Arno Press, 1979)
Other websites
- Billboard Top 40 Mainstream Archived 2009-05-20 at the Wayback Machine
- Public Radio documentary featuring a history of Top 40
