Radio's Top Songs By Genre

Feel like you heard Tim McGraw’s Something Like That about half a million times in the past decade? Well, the ratings folks at Nielsen will back you up on that, with their list of commercial radio’s most-played songs of the decade:

• Country: Something Like That, Tim McGraw, 487,343 plays
• Top 40: Yeah, Usher featuring Ludacris & Lil Jon, 416,267

• Hot adult contemporary: Drops Of Jupiter, Train, 338,749
• Alternative: Last Resort, Papa Roach, 221,767
• Rhythmic: Low, Flo Rida featuring T-Pain 206,864
• Album rock: It’s Been Awhile, Staind, 189,195
• Urban: Drop It Like It’s Hot, Snoop Dogg featuring Pharrell, 169,511
• Urban adult contemporary: Think About You, Luther Vandross, 147,818
• Gospel: Never Would Have Made It, Marvin Sapp, 92,603
• Smooth jazz: Pacific Coast Highway, Nils, 29,328

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