Meaning of top 40 | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Alternative letter-case form of top 40.
   alt-of, countable, uncountable
2. A list of the current 40 songs that are most popular with the general public (variously measured).
   countable
3. A radio format for popular music, usually including the 40 most popular songs at a given time.
   uncountable

Examples

“I was listening to a top 40 radio station.”

“Nearly every history of Top 40 launches from an anecdote about how radio station manager Todd Storz came up with the idea sometime between World War II and the early 1950s, watching with friends in a bar in Omaha as customers repeatedly punched up the same few songs on the jukebox.”

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