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  2. Popular music - Wikipedia

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    Popular music is a generic term for a wide variety of genres of music that appeal to the tastes of a large segment of the population, [8] whereas pop music usually refers to a specific musical genre within popular music. [9] Popular music songs and pieces typically have easily singable melodies.

  3. Mass media - Wikipedia

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    Mass media includes the diverse arrays of media that reach a large audience via mass communication . Broadcast media transmits information electronically via media such as films, radio, recorded music, or television. Digital media comprises both Internet and mobile mass communication. Internet media comprises such services as email, social ...

  4. Popular culture - Wikipedia

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    Popular culture. Popular culture (also called mass culture or pop culture) is generally recognized by members of a society as a set of practices, beliefs, artistic output (also known as popular art or mass art) [1] [2] and objects that are dominant or prevalent in a society at a given point in time. Popular culture also encompasses the ...

  5. Billboard charts - Wikipedia

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    The Billboard charts tabulate the relative weekly popularity of songs and albums in the United States and elsewhere. The results are published in Billboard magazine. Billboard biz, the online extension of the Billboard charts, provides additional weekly charts, [1] as well as year-end charts. [2] The two most important charts are the Billboard ...

  6. Pop music - Wikipedia

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    Pop music. 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. [4] During the 1950s and 1960s, pop music encompassed rock and roll and the youth-oriented styles it influenced. Rock and pop music remained roughly synonymous until the late 1960s, after which ...

  7. 2020s in music - Wikipedia

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    Media outlets and fans online observed a music trend called "Sad Girl Autumn" or "Sad Girl Fall" in the early 2020s, which refers to the release of melancholic and introspective music by female artists during autumn, such as Swift's Red (Taylor's Version), Adele's 30, Clairo's Sling, Phoebe Bridgers' Punisher, and Mitski's Laurel Hell; it is a ...

  8. Music genre - Wikipedia

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    Music genre. A music genre is a conventional category (i.e, genre) that identifies some pieces of music as belonging to a shared tradition or set of conventions. [1] Genre is to be distinguished from musical form and musical style, although in practice these terms are sometimes used interchangeably. [2]

  9. List of most-liked YouTube videos - Wikipedia

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    The music video for LMFAO 's song " Party Rock Anthem " stood as the most-liked video on YouTube in 2012, with 1.56 million likes, until the video for Psy 's " Gangnam Style " surpassed it in September that year with more than 1.57 million likes. Following this accomplishment, "Gangnam Style" entered the Guinness World Records book as the most ...