Welcome to The Top 40 Channel
Prepare to experience the sound of todays world hits on our top 40 station.

The Top 40, whether surveyed by a radio station or a publication, was a list of songs that shared only the common characteristic of being newly released. Its popularity coincided with the rapid changes in recording technology in the fifties and sixties. In 1954, the recording industry agreed upon a standard recording format for higher fidelity music, so any new record player could play any new record. Also that year, new single records were released on 45 rpm records and the Top 40 thereafter became a survey of the popularity of these records. In the newer days of Top 40, between two and seven songs would enter and leave the survey each week. Chart runs could range from a week or two, to several months. Generally, only the biggest hits of a given year would remain on the charts for fifteen weeks or more. Fans would associate seasons and semesters with the songs they remembered from the juke boxes or the radio.