List of music radio formats
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Music radio formats constantly evolve and each format can often be sub-divided into many speciality formats. Many of the following radio formats are available only regionally or through specialized venues such as satellite radio or Internet radio.
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[edit] List of music radio speciality formats
- Active rock
- Adult contemporary music (AC)
- Adult standards/Nostalgia - pre rock
- Adult album alternative (or just Adult alternative) (AAA or Triple-A)
- Adult hits
- Album rock
- Alternative Rock/Modern rock
- Big band
- Bluegrass
- Caribbean (reggae, soca, merengue, cumbia, salsa, etc.)
- contemporary rock
- Classic hits
- Classic rock
- College radio
- Comedy
- Contemporary hit radio (CHR), occasionally still informally known as Top 40
- Contemporary Christian (which is also known as CCM)
- Country Music
- New country/Young country
- Dance (Dance Top 40)
- Educational
- Radio format (Disc jockey-selected)
- General service
- Hot adult contemporary (Hot AC)
- Hot hits (a form of Hot 100; Top 40; Top 30; Top 20; Top 10.
- Hispanic Rhythmic
- Indian Music
- Mainstream rock
- Middle of the road (MOR)
- Modern adult contemporary (Modern AC)
- Music radio
- New adult contemporary/Smooth Jazz (New AC)
- Oldies - Primarily 1940s, 1950s
- Progressive rock
- Psychedelic rock
- Quiet Storm (most often a "day-part" format at Urban Stations, i.e. 7p-12 midnight,)
- Radio documentary
- Ranchera
- Regional Mexican (Banda, corridos, ranchera, conjunto, mariachi, norteño, etc.)
- Revolution CHR
- Rhythmic adult contemporary
- Rhythmic contemporary (Rhythmic Top 40)
- Rock
- Rock en español
- Romántica (Spanish AC)
- Smooth jazz
- Soft adult contemporary (Soft AC)
- Soft rock
- Soul music
- Space music
- Tejano (Texas/Mexican music)
- Top 40
- Traditional pop music
- Tropical (salsa, merengue, cumbia, etc.)
- Urban contemporary (mostly rap, hip hop, soul, and R&B artists)
- Urban adult contemporary (Urban AC) (R&B, soul and sometimes gospel music, without rap)
- Variety
