Christian contemporary hit radio

The term "Christian top 40" is also used to refer to the actual list of hit songs, and, by extension, to refer to contemporary Christian music in general.

Similarly, bilingual French Christian CHRs are common in some Canadian markets, and combine anglophone and French Christian pop hits.

Gold-based Christian CHRs combine a more limited base of currents and recurrents from the Christian, rhythmic and/or adult CHR formats with a broader playlist of gold from the 2000s and 2010s.

Similar to gold-based mainstream CHR, stations from this format may also be called Christian rhythmic hot AC if their library is particularly rhythmic-leaning.

As with pure mainstream dance-music radio stations (as opposed to CHR/rhythmic and rhythmic AC formats), pure Christian dance-music radio stations (as opposed to Christian CHR/rhythmic and Christian rhythmic AC formats) are not very common but tend to have loyal audiences in the markets where they do exist.