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  2. Popular music - Wikipedia

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    The early popular music performers worked hand-in-hand with the sheet music industry to promote popular sheet music. One of the early popular music performers to attain widespread popularity was a Swedish opera singer Jenny Lind , who toured the US in the mid-19th century.

  3. List of best-selling music artists - Wikipedia

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    The following list of best-selling music artists includes musical artists from the 20th century to the present with claims of 75 million or more record sales worldwide. The sales figures are calculated based on the formula detailed below.

  4. List of best-selling singles - Wikipedia

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    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".

  5. Pop music - Wikipedia

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    Pop music is a genre of popular music that originated in its modern form during the mid-1950s in the United States and the United Kingdom. [3] During the 1950s and 1960s, pop music encompassed rock and roll and the youth-oriented styles it influenced.

  6. American popular music - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  7. List of music genres and styles - Wikipedia

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    Fabbri, Franco (1982) A Theory of Popular Music Genres: Two Applications. In Popular Music Perspectives, edited by David Horn and Philip Tagg, 52–81. Göteborg and Exeter: A. Wheaton & Co., Ltd. Frith, Simon (1996) Performing Rites: On the Value of Popular Music. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press.

  8. Category:Popular music - Wikipedia

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    Sakara music; Salegy; Sawt (music) Schlager music; Secular hymn (genre) Sentimental ballad; Session musician; Side project; Sitar in popular music; Song of the summer; Song structure; Soul music; Standard (music) Summer hit; Swing time

  9. Styles of pop music - Wikipedia

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    Pop music is a genre of popular music that originated in its modern form during the mid-1950s in the United States and the United Kingdom. [1] The terms popular music and pop music are often used interchangeably, although the former describes all music that is popular and includes many disparate styles.