Top 40

Or Top For·ty,

[top fawr-tee]

plural noun

1. (sometimes lowercase),  the 40 most popular or best-selling recordings, songs, etc., within a stated time period.

adjective

1. pertaining to, designating, or being the Top 40.

Example Sentences

On “New Heights” she and Kelce talked about the new album as a “180” from the moody confessions of “Tortured Poets,” whetting appetites for the kind of crisply hooky Taylor Swift songs that blanketed Top 40 radio in the mid-2010s.

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Then again, another unprecedented chart achievement from the album’s first week is already shedding some light on the matter: “The Fate of Ophelia,” the album’s lead single, is the first song ever to debut inside the top 10 of Billboard’s Pop Airplay chart — an indication of the heavy Top 40 radio play it’s getting along with the millions of daily streams that have kept it atop Spotify’s U.S.

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She has had three UK top 40 singles and one top 10 album.

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That person might start the year vibing with Sudanese jazz, only to take a “recommended” detour through indie electronica, before flirting with Britpop and finally scream-singing Top 40 like it’s the only music that matters.

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Although album sales lagged behind “Faith,” the record spawned three top 40 U.S. singles, including the No. 1 hit “Praying For Time”; landed at the top of the U.K. album charts; and sold eight million copies globally.

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