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hit parade
noun
- a listing or category of popular songs ranked according to their popularity with listeners, usually as shown by sales of records.
- any sequential listing of popular or favorite persons or things.
hit parade
noun
- old-fashioned.a listing or playing of the current most popular songs
Word History and Origins
Origin of hit parade1
Idioms and Phrases
A listing of the most popular or best items or individuals of some kind, as in The library has a veritable hit parade of videos . This expression dates from the 1930s, when it was the name of a weekly radio show featuring the most popular songs as indicated by record sales.Example Sentences
He was fired in 1965, a year after he introduced the first radio hit parade, “Twelve on a Swing,” in the country.
He kept the hit parade going through last weekend’s series against Pittsburgh.
Prior to "Pet Sounds," the Beach Boys were essentially a boy band with soaring vocals and an impressive hit parade.
But then, the two-out hit parade commenced: A line drive single by Wander Franco.
Inevitably, the soundtrack derives from a limited hit parade: the songs in heavy rotation in the 1970s and ’80s.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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