Throughout the year, many incredible songs are submitted to NSAI's programs and services, and we are pleased to announce the return of the Top 40 page to highlight and present songs that have stood out to NSAI staff, mentors, and evaluators. We are pleased to announce the return of the NSAI Top 40 in Honor of Bob Kingsley where four times a year, 40 songs are featured right here for you to enjoy.

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Bob KingsleyABOUT BOB KINGSLEY: 

Bob Kingsley (March 19, 1939-October 17, 2019) changed the radio landscape in Country music, becoming Nashville’s global musical messenger via American Country Countdown and Country Top 40 for more than 40 years, reaching millions of listeners around the world each week.

 

One of broadcasting’s most beloved and iconic figures, Kingsley was a mainstay on radio for 60 years and led the way for Country music in syndication. His dominance in the Country format began in 1978 when he took over as host of American Country Countdown after four years as the show’s producer for one of radio’s founding syndication companies, Watermark. In 2006, he established Bob Kingsley’s Country Top 40. Kingsley received many of broadcasting’s top honors and was named to the Country Radio Broadcasters Hall of Fame in 1998 and the National Radio Hall of Fame in 2016. He is the namesake and was the first recipient of the Bob Kingsley Living Legend Award, presented since 2014 at the Grand Ole Opry House and benefitting the Opry Trust Fund.

 

At 18, Kingsley joined the Air Force and served in Keflavik, Iceland, where he jumped at a chance to become an announcer on Armed Forces Radio. That experience and his love of Country music would carry him to legendary stations in the 1960s including KLAC in Los Angeles. In the 1970s he assumed his role as the voice of Drake-Chenault’s Great American Country format, used by hundreds of Country radio stations. His appointment as host of American Country Countdown with Bob Kingsley made him a household name. He supplemented the weekly countdown with Christmas specials, album release specials for artists including Garth Brooks, Alabama, George Strait, Kenny Chesney, Blake Shelton, Taylor Swift, and Carrie Underwood, and for many years a daily artist spotlight called America’s Music Makers. With Kingsley at the helm, the show was named Billboard’s Network/Syndicated Country Program of the Year for 16 years in a row.

 

Kingsley received the Academy of Country Music’s Major Market On-Air Personality of the Year Award in 1966 and 1967 and was named the Country Music Association's National Broadcast Personality of the Year in 2001 and 2003. He was voted National Air Personality of the Year five times by Country Radio Broadcasters and Country Aircheck and won the ACM’s 2007 National Broadcast Personality of the Year Award. He was chosen as the recipient of the 2012 President’s Award by the CRB. In 2017, Bob received the Mae Boren Axton Service Award in recognition of his dedication and service to the ACM, on whose board he served for decades. He was twice the host and emcee of Alabama’s legendary June Jam.

 

Kingsley served in 2004 and 2005 as Master of Ceremonies at the National Veterans Day Ceremonies at Arlington National Cemetery, one of many national and regional events to which he has volunteered time and energy. He was the recipient of the Wounded Warrior Project's Tony Snow Award for the significant difference he has made in the lives of injured servicemen and women. His many charitable endeavors included work for Disabled American Veterans, the Department of Veterans Affairs, and the Wounded Warrior Project. An avid cutting horse enthusiast, he lived and worked with his wife & business partner of 30 years, Nan, on their Bluestem Ranch in Weatherford, Texas until his passing.