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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. 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 pop became associated with music that was more commercial, ephemeral, and accessible.

Identifying factors of pop music usually include repeated choruses and hooks, short to medium-length songs written in a basic format (often the verse–chorus structure), and rhythms or tempos that can be easily danced to. Much of pop music also borrows elements from other styles such as rock, urban, dance, Latin, and country. (Full article...)

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Peter Gene Hernandez (born October 8, 1985), known professionally as Bruno Mars, is an American singer-songwriter. He is known for his stage performances, retro showmanship, and for singing in a wide range of musical styles, including pop, R&B, funk, soul, reggae, disco, and rock. Mars is accompanied by his band, the Hooligans, whose members are also backup singers and dancers. In 2021, Mars and fellow singer Anderson .Paak formed the musical superduo Silk Sonic.

Mars moved to Los Angeles in 2003 to pursue a musical career. Following a brief contract with Motown Records, he established his name in the music industry as a songwriter and co-founder of the production team the Smeezingtons. He rose to fame as a recording artist following his guest performances on the singles "Nothin' on You" (2009) by B.o.B and "Billionaire" (2010) by Travie McCoy, which reached number one and four on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100, respectively. Mars pop-influenced debut album, Doo-Wops & Hooligans (2010), amassed the number-one singles "Just the Way You Are", "Grenade", and "The Lazy Song". His second album, Unorthodox Jukebox (2012), explored various genres and had two U.S. number one singles, "Locked Out of Heaven" and "When I Was Your Man". (Full article...)

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Independiente is the thirteenth Spanish-language studio album by Guatemalan singer-songwriter Ricardo Arjona, released on 23 September 2011. Recorded in the United States and Mexico, it was produced by Arjona with Dan Warner, Carlos Cabral "Junior", Lee Levin and Puerto Rican singer-songwriter Tommy Torres. The album—the first independent release by Arjona after he was signed by Sony Music in 1993 and Warner Music in 2008—was issued by his own label, Metamorfosis.

Composed and written in a year, the record marks Arjona and Torres' fourth collaboration. For Independiente, Arjona returns to his trademark sound after his stylistic departure for Poquita Ropa (2010). While producing the latter, he had used fewer instruments to simplify his sound, having introduced what had been called a "stripped-down acoustic effort" in his music. Independiente has been compared to his earlier recordings, Historias (1994) and Animal Nocturno (1993). (Full article...)

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Image 1American singer and entertainer Michael Jackson is known as the "King of Pop". (from Honorific nicknames in popular music)
Image 2American musician James Brown was known as the "Godfather of Soul". (from Honorific nicknames in popular music)
Image 3American singer-songwriter Madonna is known as the "Queen of Pop". (from Honorific nicknames in popular music)
Image 4Indian singer Lata Mangeshkar is widely acknowledged as the "Queen of Melody". (from Honorific nicknames in popular music)
Image 5American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift has been referred to as "America's Sweetheart". (from Honorific nicknames in popular music)
Image 6American singer Aaliyah is known as the "Princess of R&B". (from Honorific nicknames in popular music)
Image 7Amr Diab, Egyptian pop star, named "El-Hadaba", for achieving high records sales in the Middle East and Africa for the last three decades (from Pop music)
Image 8American singer Smokey Robinson has been called the "King of Motown". (from Honorific nicknames in popular music)
Image 9Puerto Rican singers Don Omar (left) and Daddy Yankee (right) are both referred to as the "King of Reggaeton". (from Honorific nicknames in popular music)
Image 10American singer Usher is known as the "King of R&B". (from Honorific nicknames in popular music)
Image 11American singer-songwriter Mariah Carey is known as the "Songbird Supreme" and "the Queen of Christmas". (from Honorific nicknames in popular music)
Image 12American entertainer Cher is referred to as the "Goddess of Pop". (from Honorific nicknames in popular music)
Image 13Pakistani singer Nazia Hassan is known as "Queen of South Asian Pop". (from Honorific nicknames in popular music)
Image 14American singer Elvis Presley is known as the "King of Rock and Roll". (from Honorific nicknames in popular music)
Image 15American singer-songwriter Stevie Nicks has been called the "Queen of Rock and Roll". (from Honorific nicknames in popular music)
Image 16American singer Gloria Gaynor is known as the "Queen of Disco". (from Honorific nicknames in popular music)
Image 17Cuban singer Celia Cruz is referred to as the "Queen of Salsa". (from Honorific nicknames in popular music)
Image 18American rapper and singer Lauryn Hill is known as the "Queen of Hip Hop". (from Honorific nicknames in popular music)
Image 19South Korean singer BoA is known as the "Queen of K-pop". (from Honorific nicknames in popular music)
Image 20Spanish singer Enrique Iglesias is known as the "King of Latin Pop". (from Honorific nicknames in popular music)
Image 21The Oxford Dictionary of Music states that the term "pop" refers to music performed by such artists as the Rolling Stones (pictured here in a 2006 performance). (from Pop music)
Image 22English singer Ozzy Osbourne has been identified as the "Godfather of Heavy Metal" and the "Prince of Darkness". (from Honorific nicknames in popular music)
Image 23American singer Beyoncé is frequently referred to as "Queen Bey" and the "First Lady of Music". (from Honorific nicknames in popular music)
Image 24American singer Donna Summer has been referred to as the "Queen of Disco". (from Honorific nicknames in popular music)
Image 25The Beatles are known as "The Fab Four". (from Honorific nicknames in popular music)
Image 26Mexican singer Thalía is known as the "Queen of Latin Pop". (from Honorific nicknames in popular music)
Image 27Dominican singer Milly Quezada is known as the "Queen of Merengue". (from Honorific nicknames in popular music)
Image 28Jamaican musician Bob Marley is known as the "King of Reggae". (from Honorific nicknames in popular music)
Image 29The 1960s British Invasion marked a period when the US charts were inundated with British acts such as the Beatles (pictured 1964). (from Pop music)
Image 30Canadian singer Céline Dion is referred to as the "Queen of Power Ballads" and "Queen of Adult Contemporary". (from Honorific nicknames in popular music)
Image 31American singer Britney Spears is known as the "Princess of Pop". (from Honorific nicknames in popular music)
Image 32American singer and actress Whitney Houston is known as "The Voice". (from Honorific nicknames in popular music)
Image 33American rapper and singer Nicki Minaj is known as the "Queen of Rap". (from Honorific nicknames in popular music)
Image 34Pakistani singer Ahmed Rushdi is known as "Magician of voice". (from Honorific nicknames in popular music)
Image 35American singer Ella Fitzgerald is known as the "Queen of Jazz" and "First Lady of Song". (from Honorific nicknames in popular music)
Image 36Known for his flamboyant style and virtuosic piano playing, Elton John became one of the biggest pop stars of the 1970s. (from Pop music)
Image 37American rapper Eminem has gone by multiple honorifics, such as "King of Hip-Hop" and "King of Rap". (from Honorific nicknames in popular music)
Image 38Britney Spears has been named "Princess of Pop" for revitalizing teen pop in the 2000s. (from Pop music)
Image 39Bing Crosby was one of the first artists to be nicknamed "King of Pop" or "King of Popular Music".^{[verification needed]} (from Pop music)
Image 40American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan has been called the "Crown Prince of Folk" and "King of Folk". (from Honorific nicknames in popular music)
Image 41American singer Christina Aguilera is known as the "Voice of a Generation". (from Honorific nicknames in popular music)
Image 42American musician Prince has been referred to as "The Artist", "The Purple One" and "His Royal Badness". (from Honorific nicknames in popular music)
Image 43American singer Aretha Franklin is known as the "Queen of Soul". (from Honorific nicknames in popular music)
Image 44English singer Vera Lynn was known as the "Forces' Sweetheart" for her popularity among the armed forces during World War II. (from Honorific nicknames in popular music)

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"New Rules" is a song by English and Albanian singer Dua Lipa from her eponymous debut studio album (2017). The song was written by Caroline Ailin, Emily Warren, and Ian Kirkpatrick. Kirkpatrick also handled the production and offered it to Lipa after it was rejected by multiple artists. The song was released through Warner Bros. Records for digital download and streaming on 7 July 2017 as the album's seventh single. It is an electropop and tropical house track with an EDM production that includes dance-pop beats and dancehall rhythms. The lyrics see Lipa giving herself a set of rules in order to get over a former boyfriend. Lipa stated that it was the breakup song that she wished she had when she was breaking up with someone.

"New Rules" was met with acclaim from music critics. The song was nominated for British Single of the Year at the 2018 Brit Awards and appeared on year-end lists from publications including Billboard, The Guardian and The New York Times. Commercially, the song became Lipa's first number one single on the UK Singles Chart and reached that position in five other territories. As of March 2021^[update] it is the most streamed song by a British female in the UK and it broke the record for the most weeks on the US Mainstream Top 40 chart. It was the second-most played song of the 2010s decade on the format. Additionally, it became Lipa's first top 10 entry on the US Billboard Hot 100, peaking at number 6. The song is certified multi-platinum in 13 territories, including quintuple platinum in the UK and diamond in Canada, France, and Poland. The song's commercial success has been attributed to the popularity of its music video. (Full article...)

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Lina Rafn (b. 1976) is a Danish singer, songwriter and producer active with the band Infernal. She had previously been a VJ on the show The Voice TV Danmark.

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