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All About Top 40 Music Lyrics

By Jody Leach


Good music, as people say makes the world go round. Music that is good is different with everyone. This is because the taste of music is as diverse as the people themselves. Some prefer loud, others soft, some fast and others slow. However, top 40 music lyrics is a great place to find the hits that are loved by a great deal of people at a go.

Songs are classified into different categories based on year, the artist, the genre or the country of origin. According to the year, you will find all the top 40 songs produced during that year. Sometimes, it is a period of five years or a decade. In other cases you may want all the top 40 songs produced in the last 100 years or the best produced ever.

There are different artists producing different songs. You may get the best forty songs of an artist that include all the best selling songs since he or she started recording. This category is usually for musicians with several albums under their name of course. Genres are a way of classifying music based on the type and are the most commonly used criteria.

The genre is probably the most commonly used criteria in classification. In this category is rock, RnB, electric, and country among others. For example, top forty rock songs are a list of most popular rock song of all time. Country of origin is the last criteria. Popular songs from the United Kingdom are listed under UK songs while those from United States are in the US category. Those from around the world are classified under International music.

More than one category can be used in classification. For instance, top 40 RnB songs of the last decade or best forty by the Beatles. Best forty love songs of 2010 will be all romantic and may be erotic songs released in the year 2010. Forty 2014 summer pop hits will be all the great pop songs that featured prominently in the summer of 2014.

It is often common to wonder how all these lists are arrived at. To start with the number of sales a song is hitting is very important in determining its position on the list. The more it sells, the more people are listening to it and hence the higher the position in the list. ITunes sales and downloads is frequently used to provide this data. Airplay is also important in determining the position.

Airplay is also crucial in determining the list. When people call in to make a request of a particular song, it is entered into a database. If a high number of people request the same song, it has more hits on the database hence gains a higher slot in a list. Downloads of the song in the internet is also used for these statistics. The last criterion is the numbers of people streaming the song live on YouTube and other similar sites.

Regardless of your favorite genre, top 40 is the place to get all the popular hits of your genre as it is based on popularity. And now if you want to influence your favorite song, you know what to do. Top 40 is however so dynamic and can change by the hour as more people listen and buy or download.




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