#top 40

When I was in top 40 bands, I always had to learn new material and new styles. ↗

— Kenneth Edmonds

#bands #had #i #i always #learn

In the Top 40, half the songs are secret messages to the teen world to drop out, turn on, and groove with the chemicals and light shows at discotheques. ↗

— Art Linkletter

#drop #groove #half #light #messages

You still have Top 40 radio now, but it's 40 different stations. There aren't many hits that everybody knows, and there aren't many real superstars. ↗

— Al Yankovic

#everybody #hits #knows #many #now

There's no pressure for me to go out there and say, I've got to have a top 40 hit because it's not going to happen. ↗

— Elton John

#go #going #got #happen #hit

Super casual music listeners. That's most of the people in the world. And you have to understand, that's why Top 40 radio exists. It's not there for people who seek out music and who love music. ↗

— Michael Stipe

#exists #listeners #love #most #music

When I was young, I used to hear people say, 'He's a golden boy. Look at that guy. Can you imagine what he's going to be like when he grows up?' Well, I unfortunately bought into that. And I hadn't even found myself. Quite honestly, I was running from myself. But I knew how to work Top 40 radio. ↗

— Glenn Beck

#boy #even #found #going #golden

The Top 40 is geared toward 20 and under, not 20 and up. That's the audience I'm geared to. ↗

— Michael Bolton

#geared #i #top #top 40 #toward

When I used to play nightclubs, you had to play Top 40 or favorite oldies that maybe people could relate to. ↗

— Rick Danko

#favorite #had #i #maybe #nightclubs

Drugs, sex, booze, all the stuff that we wanted to do. The problem was that we didn't want to learn the top 40 'cause most of the music was awful and we had this other idea about what we wanted to do. ↗

— Wayne Kramer

#awful #booze #cause #had #idea

My audience is the baby-boomers, the bulk of the population. This is also a group that is being ignored by most record companies because they're not the Top 40 hit singles market. They forget these people still listen to music. ↗

— Helen Reddy

#audience #because #being #being ignored #bulk