How to Use airplay in a Sentence

airplay

noun
  • Even so, the song is likely to receive at least some airplay.
    — Los Angeles Times, 13 July 2021
  • And local acts, in turn, have felt the impact of that airplay.
    — Ed Masley, The Arizona Republic, 13 Nov. 2020
  • The songs got some local airplay, but sales may not have cracked double digits.
    — Noah Schaffer, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Sep. 2022
  • In 2023, Jimin earned his first smash on the pop airplay list.
    — Hugh McIntyre, Forbes, 12 Sep. 2024
  • Of course, just getting some airplay did not guarantee a hit.
    — Michael Goldberg, Rolling Stone, 19 May 2022
  • And yet … recycling still gets far more airplay than going plane-free.
    — Grace Huckins, Wired, 10 Aug. 2022
  • That roundup includes five that focus on radio airplay.
    — Hugh McIntyre, Forbes.com, 20 June 2026
  • Lack of sales and radio airplay led executives to drop the band.
    — Matt Sigur, EW.com, 20 July 2021
  • One-in and one-out also applied to radio airplay and concert bills.
    — Peter Rubin, Longreads, 1 July 2022
  • The former cracked the top 10 on Spain's radio airplay chart.
    — Ralphie Aversa, USA Today, 19 June 2026
  • Hot 100's top ten due to a lack of airplay in the United States.
    — Peter Suciu, Forbes, 16 Dec. 2024
  • But the song was a hit across the board, and received airplay on secular radio stations as well.
    — Brooklyn White, Essence, 14 Apr. 2020
  • 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
  • This week, Lisa manages to tie her own record on one of Billboard’s pop airplay tallies.
    — Hugh McIntyre, Forbes.com, 7 July 2025
  • Last week, there were only two female artists on the country airplay Top 20.
    — Emily Yahr, Washington Post, 6 June 2019
  • 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 list blends streaming, radio airplay, and sales, though streams appear to be largely keeping her tunes afloat.
    — Hugh McIntyre, Forbes.com, 10 Aug. 2025
  • Since then Alt Nation has gone on to lead the way nationally in airplay.
    — Jem Aswad, Variety, 27 Jan. 2025
  • 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
  • As for men and country airplay overall, the growth is paltry but noticeable over the past 20 years.
    — Marcus Dowling, Billboard, 12 Mar. 2021
  • 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
  • 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
  • That’s a new high for the single, which needed 65 stays somewhere on the airplay roster to crack the top 10.
    — Hugh McIntyre, Forbes, 1 Jan. 2025
  • Radio is local, Smith explains, and getting airplay helps build a fanbase in that market.
    — Glenn Peoples, Billboard, 18 Sep. 2025
  • Amazingly, two of the five K-pop artists that have landed on the airplay chart are Blackpink members.
    — Hugh McIntyre, Forbes, 15 Jan. 2025
  • 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
  • Radio airplay continued to build for a second week, rising to 127% of last week’s points.
    — Billboard Japan, Billboard, 30 Oct. 2025
  • Songwriters do receive royalties for radio airplay, but the artists who performed on the recordings do not.
    — Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 10 Dec. 2025
  • That latter list includes purchases, streams, and radio airplay, while the former looks only at sales, as its name suggests.
    — Hugh McIntyre, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
  • 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

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