: the playing of a musical recording on the air by a radio station
a song getting a lot of airplay
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Hot 100 combines physical and digital sales, audio streams, radio airplay, video views and karaoke data.
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Billboard Japan, Billboard, 16 Jan. 2025
Amazingly, two of the five K-pop artists that have landed on the airplay chart are Blackpink members.
—Hugh McIntyre, Forbes, 15 Jan. 2025
Its analysis used 23 trillion data points from thousands of artists and data from more than 500 partners spanning digital, retail, and airplay.
—Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Jan. 2025
That’s a new high for the single, which needed 65 stays somewhere on the airplay roster to crack the top 10.
—Hugh McIntyre, Forbes, 1 Jan. 2025
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Billboard Japan, Billboard, 16 Jan. 2025
Amazingly, two of the five K-pop artists that have landed on the airplay chart are Blackpink members.
—Hugh McIntyre, Forbes, 15 Jan. 2025
Its analysis used 23 trillion data points from thousands of artists and data from more than 500 partners spanning digital, retail, and airplay.
—Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Jan. 2025
That’s a new high for the single, which needed 65 stays somewhere on the airplay roster to crack the top 10.
—Hugh McIntyre, Forbes, 1 Jan. 2025
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“Airplay.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/airplay. Accessed 21 Jan. 2025.
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