The Top Forty or Top 40 is a music industry shorthand for the currently most-popular songs in a particular genre. When used without qualification, it typically refers to the best-selling or most frequently broadcast popular music songs of the previous week. Top 40 became the dominant radio format of the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s.
The term "Top 40" for a radio format appeared in 1951.
The Top 40, or top forty, whether surveyed by a radio station or a publication, was a list of songs that shared only the common characteristic of being newly released. Its popularity coincided with the rapid changes in recording technology in the 1950s and 1960s. In 1954, the recording industry agreed upon a standard recording format for higher fidelity music, so any new record player could play any new record. Also in that year, new single records were released on 45 rpm records, and the Top 40 thereafter became a survey of the popularity of these records (and their airplay on the radio). Tape recording had become perfected, allowing artists more freedom as they composed songs, especially novelty songs.
(Tajima)
Translator: Kirk Cumming
nerae top 40
sore wa fifty fifty
kore wa top 40's song
ikasu top 40
sore wa fifty fifty
kore wa top 40's song
utae top 40's rock
top 40's song
uta wa top 40's rock
top 40's ba ba ba da boo da
top 40
sore wa fifty fifty
kore wa top 40's song
atare top 40
sore wa fifty fifty
kore wa top 40's song
choito top 40's rock
top 40's song
warae top 40's rock
top 40's ba ba ba da boo da
top 40
sore wa fifty fifty
top 40's
top 40
top 40's No. 1!
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aim for top 40
that's fifty-fifty
this is a top 40's song
the cool top 40
that's fifty-fifty
this is a top 40's song
sing top 40's rock
top 40's song
the song is top 40's rock
top 40's ba ba ba da boo da
top 40
that's fifty-fifty
this is a top 40's song
nail the top 40
that's fifty-fifty
this is a top 40's song
a little top 40's rock
top 40's song
laugh top 40's rock
top 40's ba ba ba da boo da
top 40
that's fifty-fifty
top 40's
top 40
top 40's No. 1!
When I make my Top 40
Smash hit
Rock â'n' roll record
Everything is gonna be just fine
When I make my Top 40
Smash hit
Rock â'n' roll disc
I'll be the record company's valentine
No more philosophic melancholia
Eight hundred pounds of electric genitalia
When I make my Top 40
Smash hit
Rock â'n' roll record
Everything's gonna be just fine
When I make my fuzz tone
Wah-wah
Synthesized record
Everything is gonna be just grand
When I make my fuzz tone
Wah-wah
Synthesized disc
I'll have to get myself a moving van
Costume, hairdo, made up cute
A personal connection in a business suit
When I make my fuzz tone
Wah-wah
Synthesized record
Everything is gonna be just grand
When I make my dynamite
Heavy soul
Freaked out record
Everything is gonna be just swell
When I make my dynamite
Heavy soul
Freaked out disc
I'll be living it up pell mell
Mountain top hide away
Three-car garage
Out there hustlin' that sonic massage
When I make my Top 40
Big beat
Heavy soul
Freaked out
Solid gold
Synthesized
Rock â'n' roll record
Everything is gonna be just fine
Idle fame with a plastic smile
Controversial relations keep you on top for a while
At the top of the charts, the bottom of the barrel
Success depends upon the company you keep
Compositions sugar-coated with messages puddle deep
Emotions bought and sold and the going rate is cheap
Gimme gimme gimme a lesson in pop star 101
'Cause I can smile and I can dance
Pull my strings and give me some cash
Because I don't wanna, I don't wanna
Lead a normal life and work like all the others
Top 40 look out, 'cause I'm gonna be number 1
Business tycoons are writing songs in crayon
Consumer reports show what needs good distribution
Appeal to the masses, the best as you can
Radio DJ's spreading your disease
Infectious transmission from sea to shining sea
Music without soul, an empty shell
Gimme gimme gimme a lesson in pop star 101
'Cause I can smile and I can dance
Pull my strings and give me some cash
Because I don't wanna, I don't wanna
Lead a normal life and work like all the others
Top 40 look out, 'cause I'm gonna be number 1
Radio dial, it can be heard for miles
But the only thing coming through is a narrow point of view
Just think one day, this could be you
Gimme gimme gimme a lesson in pop star 101
'Cause I can smile and I can dance
Pull my strings and give me some cash
Because I don't wanna, I don't wanna
Lead a normal life and work like all the others
Top 40 got no soul but it will when I take control
Because I don't wanna, I don't wanna
Lead a normal life and work like all the others
I don't wanna, I don't wanna
Lead a normal life and work like all the others
I don't wanna, I don't wanna
Lead a normal life and work like all the others
I don't wanna, I don't wanna
Lead a normal life and work like all the others
Gimme gimme gimme a lesson in pop star 101
Gimme gimme gimme a lesson in pop star 101
Gimme gimme gimme a lesson in pop star 101
Idle Fame with a plastic smile
Controversial relations keep you on top for a while
At the top of the charts, the bottom of the barrel
Success depends upon the company you keep
Compositions sugar-coated with messages puddle deep
Emotions bought and sold and the going rate is cheap
Gimme gimme gimme a lesson in pop star 101
'Cause I can smile and I can dance
Pull my strings and give me some cash
I don't wanna, I don't wanna
lead a normal life a work like all the others
Top 40 look out, 'cause I'm gonna be #1
Business tycoons writing songs in crayon
Consumer reports show what needs good distribution
Appeal to the masses the best as you can
Radio Djs spreading your disease
Infectious transmission from sea to shining sea
Music without soul, an empty shell
Radio dial can be heard for miles
but the only thing coming through is a narrow point of view
Just thing one day this could be you
Top 40 got no soul but it will when I take control
got the house got the car
got the gold record you're goin' far
there is something that's a bit peculiar here
got the child pretty wife smiles
record sales soar you soar higher
there is something that's a bit peculiar here
you've finally made it you're over the top
but there's only one thing that makes you drop
you've finally made it you're over the top
but there's only one thing that you can't stop
and here you go again
and everything they've given to you
they're gonna take it back