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'''Pop Airplay''' (also called '''Mainstream Top 40''', '''Pop Songs''', and '''Top 40/[[contemporary hit radio|CHR]]''') is a 40-song music chart published weekly by [[Billboard (magazine)|''Billboard'' Magazine]] that ranks the most popular songs of [[pop music]] being played on a panel of [[Top 40]] radio stations in the United States. The rankings are based on radio [[airplay]] detections as measured by [[Nielsen Broadcast Data Systems]] (Nielsen BDS), a subsidiary of the U.S.' leading marketing research company. Consumer researchers, [[Nielsen Audio]] (formerly ''Arbitron''), refers to the format as [[contemporary hit radio]] (CHR).