Where to listen to US top 40 radio show?

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Is there any radio show online I could listen to that counts down the US top 40 (or 30, or 20, I'm flexible)? The obvious choice doesn't stream or anything AFAIK, and doesn't even air in my state (wtf?). I'd also like to be able to listen to it whenever I want, like BBC's Radio 1 Chart Show, rather than listen to it only as it's being aired by a certain affiliate. Thanks.

― musically (musically), Monday, 26 June 2006 05:08 (twenty years ago)

http://www.rick.com/dees-on-demand4.php

― naus (Robert T), Monday, 26 June 2006 05:27 (twenty years ago)

Sorry for the lack of an explanation. That's Rick Dees' Weekly Top 40, sort of a rival to the AT40. Same shit, they just use a different chart.

― naus (Robert T), Monday, 26 June 2006 05:30 (twenty years ago)

Man, this is depressing.

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Monday, 26 June 2006 11:45 (twenty years ago)

What's depressing? The US charts, Mr. Dees, or the idea of someone wanting to listen to them?

― naus (Robert T), Monday, 26 June 2006 20:06 (twenty years ago)

Does Dees do long distance dedications? Whither, Casey.

― Kate Silver (Kate Silver), Monday, 26 June 2006 20:25 (twenty years ago)

Alternately, if you have a thing for Ryan Seacrest (I don't, alas) or his show, you can go to the American Top 40 list of affiliates (http://www.at40.com/affiliate/affiliate.html) and see if any of them simulcast on the Web.

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 03:15 (twenty years ago)

What's depressing? The US charts, Mr. Dees, or the idea of someone wanting to listen to them?

It's the fucking Billboard American Top 40!! It's been on the air for fifty years!! It's an institution, man! And you can't even listen to it anywhere!!

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 09:27 (twenty years ago)

Actually, no one's done a weekly broadcast using the top 40 of Billboard's Hot 100 for years; all of the (terrestial, at least) radio countdown shows are airplay-only - and mostly use Radio & Records, Cashbox, et.al. (I think they're cheaper to license). Billboard themselves did an online chart show, but I believe discontinued it last year.

― Thomas Inskeep (submeat), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 15:48 (twenty years ago)

You're right, Thomas. I used to listen to it fairly regularly.

It's hard to get anyone to do a full Billboard Top 40 show now because nearly all terrestrial stations are too narrowly defined by genre; you can't abut Rascal Flatts, Snoop, and an AI winner in the way that you used to hear Freddy Fender next to Led Zeppelin next to Barry Manilow. Pity, that. Instead, you get something like Seacrest (which pretends country records don't chart).

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 18:20 (twenty years ago)

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