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 formats are available only regionally or through specialized venues such as satellite radio or Internet radio.
[edit] List of music radio speciality formats
- 80s Hits
- Active rock
- Adult contemporary (AC)
- Adult standards/Middle of the road (MOR)
- Adult album alternative (or just Adult alternative) (AAA)
- Adult Hits
- Album Adult Alternative
- Album oriented rock (or Adult oriented rock) (AOR)
- All News
- All Sports
- Alternative Rock
- Big band
- Bluegrass
- Blues
- Canto-pop (Cantonese pop music)
- Caribbean (reggae, soca, merengue, cumbia, salsa, etc.)
- Christian Contemporary (Christian AC, Christian CHR, Christian Rock, Inspo)
- Classic country
- Classic hits
- Classic rock
- Classical
- College radio
- Comedy
- Contemporary hit radio (CHR)
- Country
- Dance/Dance Top 40
- Easy listening/Beautiful Music
- Educational
- Electronica
- Ethnic
- European Hit Radio (EHR)
- Freeform (Disc jockey-selected)
- General service
- Gospel
- Hindi film music
- Hot adult contemporary (Hot AC)
- Hot hits (a form of Hot 100; Top 40; Top 30; Top 20; Top 10. Especially common in Europe following the advent of offshore pirate radio station Laser 558 - briefly reborn as Laser Hot Hits.)
- Hurban a.k.a Latin Urban/Hispanic Rhythmic
- Jack FM
- Jazz
- Mainstream rock
- Mix FM
- Modern adult contemporary (Modern AC)
- Modern rock
- Music Of Your Life
- Music radio
- New adult contemporary/Smooth Jazz (New AC)
- New country/Young country
- Nostalgia
- Oldies
- Polka
- Pop standards
- Progressive rock
- Radio documentary
- Ranchera
- Regional Mexican (Banda, corridos, ranchera, conjunto, mariachi, norteño, etc.)
- Religious
- Rhythmic/Rhythmic Top 40/Rhythmic AC
- Rock
- Rock en español
- Romántica (Spanish AC)
- Smooth jazz
- Soft adult contemporary (Soft AC)
- Soft rock
- Soul music
- Tejano (Texas/Mexican music)
- Top 40(Top 40 Mainstream) (also known as Top 30; Top 20; Top 10. See also Hot Hits.)
- 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)
- Urban oldies
- Urban gospel
- Variety
- World music