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20-443: The Radio Music Awards is an annual U.S. award that honors the year's most successful songs. Originally a televised show recognizing mainstream radio , nominations were based on the amount of airplay recording artists received on radio stations in various formats using chart information compiled by Mediabase . The awards have now expanded to honor both major label and independent recording artists. Works are committee-reviewed based on

40-479: A day, 7 days a week by Nielsen Broadcast Data System. This data is used to compile the Billboard Hot 100." The radio airplay data was previously collected on a Wednesday to Tuesday weekly cycle prior to July 2015, and on a Monday to Sunday weekly cycle from July 2015 to July 2021. As of the chart dated July 17, 2021, the radio airplay data is collected on a Friday through Thursday weekly cycle, which matches that of

60-416: A day, seven days a week by Nielsen Broadcast Data Systems. Songs receiving the greatest growth receive a "bullet", although there are tracks that also get bullets if the loss in detections doesn't exceed the percentage of downtime from a monitored station. "Airpower" awards are issued to songs that appear on the top 20 of both the airplay and audience chart for the first time, while the "greatest gainer" award

80-487: A more objective and precise way of measuring airplay on radio stations. This data was also used as the airplay component for Hot 100 tabulations. American Top 40 with Shadoe Stevens used this chart for their show from January 1993 to January 1995. Top 40/Mainstream was published in the print edition of Billboard from its debut in October 1992 through May 1995, when both Top 40 charts were moved exclusively to Airplay Monitor ,

100-500: A secondary chart publication by Billboard . They returned to the print edition in the August 2, 2003, issue. The first number-one song on the chart was " End of the Road " by Boyz II Men . There are forty positions on this chart. Songs are ranked based on its total number of spins per week. This is calculated by electronically monitoring Mainstream Top 40 radio stations across the U.S. 24 hours

120-444: A wide variety of music that is generally the most popular songs of the time) to more genre-specific radio stations such as urban radio and country music. Paid plays of a song or treatment as bumper music do not count as an impression. During the early years of the chart, only airplay data from top 40 radio stations were compiled to generate the chart. Effective from issue dated July 17, 1993, adult contemporary stations were added to

140-470: Is given to song with the largest increase in detections. A song with six or more spins in its first week is awarded an "airplay add". If two songs are tied in spins in the same week, the one with the biggest increase that week ranks higher. Since the introduction of the chart until 2005, songs below No. 20 were moved to recurrent after 26 weeks on the chart. Beginning the chart week of December 3, 2005, songs below No. 20 were moved to recurrent after 20 weeks on

160-514: Is one of the three components, along with sales (both physical and the digital ) and streaming activity, that determine the chart positions of songs on the Billboard Hot 100 . Radio airplay has always been one of the component charts of the Hot 100. Prior to the establishment of the Hot 100, Billboard published a radio airplay chart, a singles sales chart and a jukebox play chart, the last of which

180-461: The 75-position Top 40 Radio Monitor chart positions, which ranked songs measured by the number of spins each song on monitored radio stations and the ratings for those stations when the songs were being played based on Nielsen BDS technology. The BDS-measured Top 40 Radio Monitor chart became the official airplay-component of the Hot 100 on November 30, 1991. Each week, the Radio Songs chart ranks

200-989: The artistic and technical merits of the recordings and products submitted. The Radio Music Awards can be found online at www.radiomusicawards.com. Originally conceived as an award show vehicle for The WB in 1999, it was moved to ABC in 2000 and finally to NBC , which promoted it as the music industry's answer to the Golden Globes . In past years, the show included many of the top names in music including NSYNC , Shakira , Backstreet Boys , Green Day , Janet Jackson , Mariah Carey , Train , Elton John , Destiny's Child , Tim McGraw , Kelly Clarkson , Lenny Kravitz , Nelly , Gavin DeGraw , Britney Spears , Avril Lavigne , Lifehouse , and Christina Aguilera , among others. Mainstream Top 40 The chart debuted in Billboard Magazine in its issued date October 3, 1992, with

220-523: The chart in 1998. This record run held for almost two decades, but has been surpassed many times since then. Radio stations having more data points, such as streaming, to increase their accuracy at measuring what radio listeners want to hear, have made longer runs more commonplace. Source: Source: † Iggy Azalea is the only act in Mainstream Top 40 history to replace herself at number one with her first two chart entries. †† Ariana Grande became

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240-596: The chart. Since the chart dated December 4, 2010, songs below No. 15 are moved to recurrent after 20 weeks on the chart Whereas the Pop Airplay and Pop 100 Airplay charts both measured the airplay of songs played on Mainstream stations playing pop-oriented music, the Pop 100 Airplay (like the Hot 100 Airplay ) measured airplay based on statistical impressions, while the Top 40 Mainstream chart used

260-466: The first artist to succeed herself at number one as the only act credited on both tracks. Source: Hot 100 Airplay The Radio Songs chart (previously named Hot 100 Airplay until 2014 and Top 40 Radio Monitor until 1991) is released weekly by Billboard magazine and measures the airplay of songs being played on radio stations throughout the United States across all musical genres. It

280-487: The introduction of two Top 40 airplay charts, Mainstream and Rhythm-Crossover . Both Top 40 charts measured "actual monitored airplay" from data compiled by Broadcast Data Systems (BDS). The Top 40/Mainstream chart was compiled from airplay on radio stations playing a wide variety of music, while the Top 40/Rhythm-Crossover chart was made up from airplay on stations playing more dance and R&B music. Both charts were "born of then-new BDS electronic monitoring technology" as

300-423: The number of total detections. Source: In 2012, for the 20th anniversary of the chart, Billboard compiled a ranking of the 100 best-performing songs on the chart over the 20 years, along with the best-performing artists. " Iris " by Goo Goo Dolls ranked as the #1 song on that list. In 2017, Billboard revised the rankings, including the methodologies for how they are calculated. " Another Night " by Real McCoy

320-440: The other Hot 100 metrics (streaming and sales). No. 2 No. 4 No. 6 No. 8 No. 9 Listed here are airplay peaks by song . Even if a song has registered enough impressions to be listed during multiple weeks, it is only listed once. Sources: 4 weeks 5 weeks Source: On November 30, 1991, after 21 years of using the Billboard Hot 100 as their source, American Top 40 started using this chart, which at

340-629: The panel, followed by modern rock few months later. However, beginning in December 1998, the chart profile expanded to include airplay data from radio stations of other formats such as R&B, rock and country. To preserve the notion of the former chart, the Top 40 Tracks chart (now defunct) was introduced at the same time. Per Billboard (as of October 2011): "1,214 stations, encompassing pop, adult, rock, country, R&B/hip-hop, Christian, gospel, dance, jazz and Latin formats, are electronically monitored 24 hours

360-415: The top 100 songs by most airplay points (frequently referred to as audience impressions, which is a calculation of the number of times a song is played and the audience size of the station playing the tune). A song can pick up an airplay point every time it is selected to be played on specific radio stations that Billboard monitors. Radio stations across the board are used, from Top 40 Mainstream (which plays

380-451: Was discontinued in 1959 as jukeboxes lost their popularity. During the 1960s and 1970s, Billboard continued to collect airplay data as a component of the Hot 100 but did not make the chart public. The airplay-only chart debuted as a 30-position chart on October 20, 1984, and was expanded to 40 positions on May 31, 1986. Rankings were based on playlists received by a panel of Top 40 radio stations. On December 8, 1990, Billboard introduced

400-463: Was the new #1 song, while the previous #1 song, "Iris", dropped to #8. Rihanna ranked as the top artist on both all-time charts. Shown below are the top 10 songs and the top 10 artists from the most recent chart. Source: Source: *Year when the songs ended their respective chart runs. Prior to 2018, the song with the most weeks on the chart was " I'll Be " by Edwin McCain , which spent 41 weeks on

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