Hot Adult Top 40 Tracks or
Adult Pop Songs (formerly known as
Adult Top 40) is a variation on the
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Billboard charts. It is a format in which the genre is geared more towards an adult audience who are not into
hard rockHard rock or heavy rock is a sub-genre of rock music which has its earliest roots in mid-1960s garage and psychedelic rock and is considerably harder than conventional rock music...
, teen
popPop music is a music genre that developed from the mid-1950s as a softer alternative to rock 'n' roll and later to rock music. It has a focus on commercial recording, often orientated towards a youth market, usually through the medium of relatively short and simple love songs...
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dance musicThis article is about dance music in general. You may also be looking for electronic dance music or dance-pop.Dance music is music composed specifically to facilitate or accompany dancing. It can be either a whole musical piece or part of a larger musical arrangement...
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adult contemporaryAdult contemporary music is a broad style of popular music that ranges from lush 1960s, vocal-based music to predominantly ballad-heavy music with varying degrees of rock influence"...
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Hot Adult Top 40 Tracks's origins can be traced back to the late 1980s, when several Top 40 stations decided to focus on playing artists in an effort to attract the more desired 25-34 demographic.
Hot Adult Top 40 Tracks or
Adult Pop Songs (formerly known as
Adult Top 40) is a variation on the
United StatesThe United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
Billboard charts. It is a format in which the genre is geared more towards an adult audience who are not into
hard rockHard rock or heavy rock is a sub-genre of rock music which has its earliest roots in mid-1960s garage and psychedelic rock and is considerably harder than conventional rock music...
, teen
popPop music is a music genre that developed from the mid-1950s as a softer alternative to rock 'n' roll and later to rock music. It has a focus on commercial recording, often orientated towards a youth market, usually through the medium of relatively short and simple love songs...
,
dance musicThis article is about dance music in general. You may also be looking for electronic dance music or dance-pop.Dance music is music composed specifically to facilitate or accompany dancing. It can be either a whole musical piece or part of a larger musical arrangement...
,
hip-hopHip hop music is a musical genre which developed alongside hip hop culture, and is commonly based on concepts of loop, rapping, freestyle, DJing, scratching, sampling and beatboxing. The music is used to express concerns of political, social, and personal issues...
, or slower
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History
Hot Adult Top 40 Tracks's origins can be traced back to the late 1980s, when several Top 40 stations decided to focus on playing artists in an effort to attract the more desired 25-34 demographic. In 1994, the Adult Top 40 became an official format after years of growth and support from both stations and artists. Most Hot Adult Top 40 Tracks's feature a playlist that include artists like
Matchbox TwentyMatchbox Twenty is a rock band formed in Orlando, Florida. Matchbox Twenty has sold over 45 million albums worldwide from the releases of Yourself or Someone Like You, Mad Season, and More Than You Think You Are. They released their latest album, Exile on Mainstream, on October 2, 2007...
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NickelbackNickelback is a Grammy award nominated Canadian rock band from Hanna, Alberta, formed in 1995. Founded by members Chad Kroeger, Mike Kroeger, Ryan Peake and then-drummer Brandon Kroeger. Nickelback is one of the most commercially successful Canadian groups, having sold 30 million records worldwide...
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Goo Goo DollsThe Goo Goo Dolls is a rock band that formed in 1987 in Buffalo, New York by John Rzeznik and Robby Takac.As of 2009, the band has sold more than nine million records in the United States alone.-Origins and early music :...
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Sheryl CrowSheryl Suzanne Crow is an American singer-songwriter and musician. Her music blends rock, country and pop into one mainstream sound, and she has won nine Grammy Awards...
, Daughtry,
Maroon 5Maroon 5 is an American rock band. Since debuting in 2002, the band has sold over 10 million albums in the United States and nearly 15 million worldwide. While they were in high school, the four original members of Maroon 5 played in a garage band called Kara's Flowers, which was active from 1994...
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The FrayFray or The Fray may refer to:*affray, as in into the fray*unravel, as in a fraying rope*Fray, a Spanish prefix, a shortening of fraile, meaning friar*The Fray , an American rock band...
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No DoubtNo Doubt is an American rock band from Anaheim, California, founded in 1986. The ska-pop sound of their first album, No Doubt , failed to make waves...
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Shania TwainShania Twain, OC is a Canadian country pop artist. Her third album Come on Over is the best-selling album of all time by a female musician and the best-selling album in the history of country music...
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Avril LavigneAvril Ramona Lavigne is a Canadian singer-songwriter, fashion designer, and actress. Lavigne has sold more than 30 million copies of her albums worldwide. She is currently one of the top-selling artists releasing albums in the United States, with over 10.25 million copies certified by the...
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Kelly ClarksonKelly Brianne Clarkson is an American pop singer, songwriter, and occasional actress. Clarkson made her debut under RCA Records after she won the first season of the television series American Idol in 2002....
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Alanis MorissetteAlanis Nadine Morissette is a Canadian-American singer-songwriter, record producer and occasional actress. She has won 12 Juno Awards and seven Grammy Awards. Morissette began her career in Canada, and as a teenager recorded two dance-pop albums, Alanis and Now Is the Time, under MCA Records...
, Jewel,
Vanessa CarltonVanessa Lee Carlton is an American soft rock/pop singer, songwriter, and pianist. She is best known for the single "A Thousand Miles" from her debut album, Be Not Nobody, which was released April 30, 2002, and certified platinum in the U.S.Carlton's second album, Harmonium , debuted at number 33...
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3 Doors Down3 Doors Down is an American rock band from , formed in 1996. Founded by Brad Arnold , Matt Roberts , and Todd Harrell . The band signed to Universal Records after the success of their song "Kryptonite". The band has since sold well over 16 million records worldwide since their debut album, The...
. Its programming is often compared to the musical playlist of the
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Channel (as its programming as seen often as a midway point between Top 40 Mainstream and The Adult Contemporary charts). Many Hot Adult Top 40 Tracks stations today are a crossover of Hot AC and Top 40 formats, though it's officially classified as a Hot AC format.
the Goo Goo Dolls, Matchbox Twenty, and Nickelback are the only bands with three number one hits. However, Daughtry has 4 number one hits and Nickelback holds the record for the most, with five.
MadonnaMadonna is an American recording artist, actress and entrepreneur. Born in Bay City, Michigan, and raised in Rochester Hills, Michigan, she moved to New York City in 1977, for a career in modern dance...
, is the artist with the most placed singles in this chart counting 17 singles.
The artist with the most number one's (female) is P!nk with 3, and also the only artist to have 3 straight number ones.
Billboard first published an Adult Top 40 chart in its March 2, 1996 issue. The first #1 song was "One Sweet Day" by
Mariah CareyMariah Carey is an American R&B singer, songwriter, record producer, and actress. She made her recording debut in 1990 under the guidance of Columbia Records executive Tommy Mottola, and became the first recording artist to have her first five singles top the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart...
and
Boyz II MenBoyz II Men is a Grammy Award-winning American group from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Initiated during 1988 as a quintet which originally included Marc Nelson, Boyz II Men found fame as a quartet, with members Nathan Morris, Michael McCary, Shawn Stockman,and Wanya Morris on Motown Records during...
. The song to spend the longest at #1 was "
Smooth"Smooth" is a collaboration between Santana and Rob Thomas, the latter of the rock group Matchbox Twenty. The song was written by Rob Thomas and Itaal Shur and sung by Rob Thomas. Originally conceived by Shur as a song called "Room 17", the lyrics were stripped off and the track was given to...
", by
SantanaCarlos Augusto Alves Santana is a Mexican-born American Grammy Award-winning rock musician and guitarist. Santana became famous in the late 1960s and early 1970s with his band, Santana, which pioneered a blend of rock, salsa and jazz fusion. The band's sound featured his melodic, blues-based...
(featuring
Rob ThomasRobert Kelly Thomas is an American rock recording artist and songwriter. He is the primary songwriter and lead singer of the band Matchbox Twenty and formerly of the band Tabitha's Secret...
), which was #1 for 25 weeks in 1999 and 2000.
The chart's current number one song (as of September 19, 2009) is "
Use Somebody"Use Somebody" is the second single from Only by the Night, the fourth studio album by Kings of Leon, released on December 8, 2008. The music video was premiered exclusively on the band's MySpace page on November 4, 2008....
" by
Kings of LeonKings of Leon is an American rock band, that formed in Nashville, Tennessee in 1999, consisting of brothers Anthony "Caleb" Followill , Ivan "Nathan" Followill and Michael "Jared" Followill , with their cousin Cameron "Matthew" Followill...
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See also
- Hot Adult Top 40 Tracks number-one hits of 2008
Singles at the number-one position on Billboards Hot Adult Top 40 Tracks chart in 2008:Singles at the number-one position on Billboards Hot Adult Top 40 Tracks chart in 2008:...
- Hot Adult Top 40 Tracks number-one hits of 2009
Singles at the number-one position on Billboards Hot Adult Top 40 Tracks chart in 2009:Singles at the number-one position on Billboards Hot Adult Top 40 Tracks chart in 2009:...
- Adult Top 40 radio panel
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