How to Use airplay in a Sentence

airplay

noun

• The superstar brings one of her recent wins back to the Adult Contemporary airplay ranking this week.
  — Hugh McIntyre, Forbes, 6 Oct. 2024
• In 2023, Jimin earned his first smash on the pop airplay list.
  — Hugh McIntyre, Forbes, 12 Sep. 2024
• And local acts, in turn, have felt the impact of that airplay.
  — Ed Masley, The Arizona Republic, 13 Nov. 2020
• Many songs got airplay on U92 before hitting the top of the charts across the country, Cruise said.
  — Palak Jayswal, The Salt Lake Tribune, 25 Aug. 2022
• The title song and FM airplay drove the album to No. 17 on Billboard’s chart.
  — Marc Myers, WSJ, 11 Nov. 2020
• Even so, the song is likely to receive at least some airplay.
  — Los Angeles Times, 13 July 2021
• The Brice hit spent a rare three weeks at No. 1 on the airplay chart and has more than 390 million on-demand streams to date.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 15 Nov. 2021
• The singer and her team wrestled endlessly to find the right sound and the perfect song to snare radio airplay.
  — Dallas News, 16 Sep. 2021
• In the latest tracking week (April 21-27), the song improved in two of the three metrics: sales and radio airplay.
  — Trevor Anderson, Billboard, 3 May 2023
• No song, in fact, by a solo female artist, hit Number One on the airplay charts that year.
  — Marissa R. Moss, Rolling Stone, 15 Feb. 2024
• The song ties for the fifth-steadiest ascent to No. 1 in the airplay chart's history.
  — Xander Zellner, Billboard, 27 May 2017
• Artists of color received a 2.3% share of country radio airplay in the last 19 years.
  — Katie Wiseman, The Indianapolis Star, 1 Mar. 2024
• The song became a Top 40 hit and was the first zydeco to gain airplay on pop, country and rock stations.
  — Wateasa Freeman, Chron, 17 Sep. 2022
• Big hit radio in the summer and received steady airplay.
  — Roy S. Johnson | [e-mail], al, 12 Dec. 2019
• First, though, there's some fine print to explain: The Hot 100 ranks the most popular songs of the week in the U.S. based on a blend of streaming, airplay and sales data.
  — Trevor Anderson, Billboard, 28 Feb. 2018
• The songs got some local airplay, but sales may not have cracked double digits.
  — Noah Schaffer, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Sep. 2022
• Last week, there were only two female artists on the country airplay Top 20.
  — Emily Yahr, Washington Post, 6 June 2019
• Lack of sales and radio airplay led executives to drop the band.
  — Matt Sigur, EW.com, 20 July 2021
• But the song was a hit across the board, and received airplay on secular radio stations as well.
  — Brooklyn White, Essence, 14 Apr. 2020
• This year, the cable channel pledged a 50-50 airplay rule, in which female artists are guaranteed to make up half the videos.
  — Washington Post, 22 Oct. 2020
• Its recording of the cult-classic song was released in March and has gotten a fair amount of local airplay.
  — Andy O'Connor, SPIN, 24 May 2023
• Some of the most airplay-friendly music Lamar has ever recorded is packed in with some of the most avant-garde work of his career.
  — Sheldon Pearce, The New Yorker, 16 May 2022
• As for men and country airplay overall, the growth is paltry but noticeable over the past 20 years.
  — Marcus Dowling, Billboard, 12 Mar. 2021
• One-in and one-out also applied to radio airplay and concert bills.
  — Peter Rubin, Longreads, 1 July 2022
• Of course, just getting some airplay did not guarantee a hit.
  — Michael Goldberg, Rolling Stone, 19 May 2022
• Soon after, the band began getting airplay on his show.
  — Peter Larsen, Orange County Register, 26 May 2017
• That rise aids the track's 19-14 climb on Hot Latin Songs, which blends airplay, streaming data and digital sales.
  — Pamela Bustios, Billboard, 5 Aug. 2020
• It’s been more than half a century, but The Beatles are back at No. 1 on a Billboard airplay chart.
  — Kevin Rutherford, Billboard, 1 Dec. 2023
• And yet … recycling still gets far more airplay than going plane-free.
  — Grace Huckins, Wired, 10 Aug. 2022
• The Blade, a record that got almost no radio airplay but ended up becoming one of the stronger full-length country statements of the decade.
  — Jonathan Bernstein, Rolling Stone, 29 Apr. 2021

Last Updated: 14 Nov 2024