Maybe it's because One Direction was just on 'SNL,' or because I'm playing The Wanted on my Top 40 show, but in terms of boy bands, we're seeing this resurgence, and it's happening, whether you like it or not!
I listen to top 40, old country, blues... I'm really into Roger Miller.
It's a surreal experience filming promotion with Ryan Seacrest and meeting Top 40 pop artists.
I love all types of music. I love top 40 dance pop, hip-hop, I don't even know what they call it now. I'm a huge fan of all that.
My friends are mostly familiar with music that plays on the mainstream radio.
I got my influences from '70s bands - Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, blah blah blah. When I was growing up, we had all these crazy bands on the Top 40. Today, if Pink Floyd released 'Money,' it wouldn't even get played.
Quite honestly, I was running from myself. But I knew how to work Top 40 radio.
This music isn't Top 40, we really stand out from anyone.
When I was in top 40 bands, I always had to learn new material and new styles.
I think hip-hop is actually one of the most challenging things that's happened in music in a long time. The people who are in charge of what people see or hear are afraid. What you hear on top 40 or what you see on BET or MTV is not a fair representation of what is really going on...
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.
I'm a Top 40 record guy. I remember the hits and don't remember the flops. Something in my brain blocks them out.
I have specific playlists for arrivals in different cities. Tokyo skews new wave, Paris more jazz, and New York is Top 40.
Right now I'm listening to a lot of Top 40 music, because THAT'S MY JOB.
The only criterion we used in doing cover material was we wanted to do songs that we wished bands would play when we went out. We were doing Yardbirds and Rolling Stones cover songs-which is not any big deal, but where we were from, all we were getting were Top 40 bands.
I'm a businesswoman. I am a music lover. I like for people to like my music. When you listen to top 40 radio, you hear pop stuff. You hear rock stuff. You hear all these different influences.
I credit God with giving me the idea for 'Top 40.'
My biggest influences when I was a kid - I listened to a lot of top 40 radio, so whatever the big artists were, so, like, the mid-'80s.
I don't like a lot of pop music. But I like the idea of pop music.
I love Top 40 pop, don't get me wrong; I just don't think that there's anyone in Top 40 pop that's 'real.'
It's just that a lot of songs that are popular right now, they don't have any meaning.
I want to go back to the format that radio started with rock n' roll, with country artists and rhythm and blues with that oldies type feeling. I want to put it all together and create a Top 40 of rhythm and blues and country and straight blues with Wolfman at the reins.
I had always sung in my dad's shop. I worked there after school, and I'd be singing along with the top-40 records of the day.
If I can sing along to it, it's pop music.
Being shoved into the top-40 scene was an unusual experience. It was great I'd become accessible to a huge audience but not terribly fulfilling.
