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Pop music has been dominated by the American and (from the mid-1960s) British music industries, whose influence has made pop music something of an international monoculture, but most regions and countries have their own form of pop music, sometimes producing local versions of wider trends, and lending them local characteristics. [52]
The song, recognized as "the best-selling single of all time", was released before the pop/rock singles-chart era and "was listed as the world's best-selling single in the first-ever Guinness Book of Records (published in 1955) and—remarkably—still retains the title more than 50 years later".
The origins of rock and roll are complex.Rock and roll emerged as a defined musical style in the United States in the early to mid-1950s. It derived most directly from the rhythm and blues music of the 1940s, [1] which itself developed from earlier blues, the beat-heavy jump blues, boogie woogie, up-tempo jazz, and swing music.
American popular music (also referred to as "American Pop") is popular music produced in the United States and is a part of American pop culture. Distinctive styles of American popular music emerged early in the 19th century, and in the 20th century the American music industry developed a series of new forms of music, using elements of blues ...
Songs by the year in which they were written, or first performed, published, recorded, or released. This is a container category. Due to its scope, it should ...
An overdubbed version of The Wiz song "You Can't Win" (1978) Later released on The Essential Michael Jackson 3.0 (2008), several editions of King of Pop (2008),The Ultimate Fan Extras Collection (2013) and Thriller 40 (2022) [44] "Can't Let Her Get Away" 1991: Dangerous: Michael Jackson Teddy Riley: Recorded and mixed by Bruce Swedien and Riley ...
Taylor Swift took a big swing when she released 1989 in October 2014. While the singer dipped her toes into the pop world on her 2012 record, Red, with songs like “We Are Never Ever Getting Back ...
"But that music is a language by whose means messages are elaborated, that such messages can be understood by the many but sent out only by the few, and that it alone among all language unites the contradictory character of being at once intelligible and untranslatable—these facts make the creator of music a being like the gods and make music itself the supreme mystery of human knowledge."