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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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Ella Marija Lani Yelich-O'Connor (born 7 November 1996), known professionally as Lorde (/lɔːrd/ LORD), is a New Zealand singer and songwriter. She is known for her unconventional style of pop music and introspective songwriting.
Lorde expressed interest in performing at local venues in her early teens. She signed with Universal Music Group (UMG) in 2009 and collaborated with producer Joel Little in 2011. Their first effort, an extended play (EP) titled The Love Club, was self-released in 2012 for free download on SoundCloud before it was commercially released in 2013. The EP's single "Royals" reached number one in Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States, where it spent nine weeks atop the Billboard Hot 100. It sold 10 million units worldwide, making it one of the best-selling singles of all time. Her debut studio album Pure Heroine was released that same year to critical and commercial success. The following year, Lorde curated the soundtrack for the 2014 film The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1. (Full article...)
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Post is the second studio album by Icelandic singer Björk. It was released on 7 June 1995 by One Little Indian Records. Continuing the style developed on her first album Debut (1993), Björk conceived of Post as a bolder and more extroverted set of songs than its predecessor, featuring an eclectic mixture of electronic and dance styles such as techno, trip hop, IDM, and house, but also ambient, jazz, industrial, and experimental music. Björk produced Post herself with co-producers including Nellee Hooper, 808 State's Graham Massey, and former Massive Attack member Tricky. She wrote most of the songs after moving to London and intended the album to reflect her new life in the city.
The album reached number one in Iceland, number two in the United Kingdom and number 32 in the United States. It was certified gold in New Zealand and Sweden, and platinum in Australia, Canada, the US, and the UK. Six singles were released: "Army of Me", "Isobel", "It's Oh So Quiet", "Hyperballad", "Possibly Maybe", and "I Miss You", with three reaching the UK top 10. Their accompanying music videos were noted for their surrealism, themes of nature and technology, and artistic development of the medium. A remix album titled Telegram was released in 1996. (Full article...)General images
- Image 1English singer Ozzy Osbourne has been identified as the "Godfather of Heavy Metal" and the "Prince of Darkness". (from Honorific nicknames in popular music)
- Image 2Mexican singer Thalía is known as the "Queen of Latin Pop". (from Honorific nicknames in popular music)
- Image 3Britney Spears has been named "Princess of Pop" for revitalizing teen pop in the 2000s. (from Pop music)
- Image 4American musician James Brown was known as the "Godfather of Soul". (from Honorific nicknames in popular music)
- Image 5American singer Donna Summer has been referred to as the "Queen of Disco". (from Honorific nicknames in popular music)
- Image 6Canadian singer Céline Dion is referred to as the "Queen of Power Ballads" and "Queen of Adult Contemporary". (from Honorific nicknames in popular music)
- Image 7American singer-songwriter Stevie Nicks has been called the "Queen of Rock and Roll". (from Honorific nicknames in popular music)
- Image 8Indian singer Lata Mangeshkar is widely acknowledged as the "Queen of Melody". (from Honorific nicknames in popular music)
- Image 9South Korean singer BoA is known as the "Queen of K-pop". (from Honorific nicknames in popular music)
- Image 10American singer Aaliyah is known as the "Princess of R&B". (from Honorific nicknames in popular music)
- Image 11American singer Christina Aguilera is known as the "Voice of a Generation". (from Honorific nicknames in popular music)
- Image 12American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan has been called the "Crown Prince of Folk" and "King of Folk". (from Honorific nicknames in popular music)
- Image 13American musician Prince has been referred to as "The Artist", "The Purple One" and "His Royal Badness". (from Honorific nicknames in popular music)
- Image 14Pakistani singer Ahmed Rushdi is known as "Magician of voice". (from Honorific nicknames in popular music)
- Image 15American singer Beyoncé is frequently referred to as "Queen Bey" and the "First Lady of Music". (from Honorific nicknames in popular music)
- Image 16Spanish singer Enrique Iglesias is known as the "King of Latin Pop". (from Honorific nicknames in popular music)
- Image 18Cuban singer Celia Cruz is referred to as the "Queen of Salsa". (from Honorific nicknames in popular music)
- Image 19American singer-songwriter Madonna is known as the "Queen of Pop". (from Honorific nicknames in popular music)
- Image 20The 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 21American singer-songwriter Mariah Carey is known as the "Songbird Supreme" and "the Queen of Christmas". (from Honorific nicknames in popular music)
- Image 22English 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)
- Image 23American rapper and singer Lil' Kim is known as the "Queen of Rap". (from Honorific nicknames in popular music)
- Image 24American rapper Eminem has gone by multiple honorifics, such as "King of Hip-Hop" and "King of Rap". (from Honorific nicknames in popular music)
- Image 25American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift has gone by multiple honorifics, such as "America's Sweetheart". (from Honorific nicknames in popular music)
- Image 26American singer Britney Spears is known as the "Princess of Pop". (from Honorific nicknames in popular music)
- Image 27American singer Ella Fitzgerald is known as the "Queen of Jazz" and "First Lady of Song". (from Honorific nicknames in popular music)
- Image 28American singer and entertainer Michael Jackson is known as the "King of Pop". (from Honorific nicknames in popular music)
- Image 29Amr 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 30Known for his flamboyant style and virtuosic piano playing, Elton John became one of the biggest pop stars of the 1970s. (from Pop music)
- Image 31Bing Crosby was one of the first artists to be nicknamed "King of Pop" or "King of Popular Music".[verification needed] (from Pop music)
- Image 32American rapper and singer Lauryn Hill is known as the "Queen of Hip Hop". (from Honorific nicknames in popular music)
- Image 33American singer Gloria Gaynor is known as the "Queen of Disco". (from Honorific nicknames in popular music)
- Image 34Pakistani singer Nazia Hassan is known as "Queen of South Asian Pop". (from Honorific nicknames in popular music)
- Image 35American singer Elvis Presley is known as the "King of Rock and Roll". (from Honorific nicknames in popular music)
- Image 36American entertainer Cher is referred to as the "Goddess of Pop". (from Honorific nicknames in popular music)
- Image 37American singer Aretha Franklin is known as the "Queen of Soul". (from Honorific nicknames in popular music)
- Image 38Dominican singer Milly Quezada is known as the "Queen of Merengue". (from Honorific nicknames in popular music)
- Image 39American singer and actress Whitney Houston is known as "The Voice". (from Honorific nicknames in popular music)
- Image 40Whitney Houston is one of the most successful pop vocalists since the 1980s and has been referred to as ''The Voice'' for her vocal talent. (from Pop music)
- Image 41Puerto 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 42American singer Usher is known as the "King of R&B". (from Honorific nicknames in popular music)
- Image 43American singer Smokey Robinson has been called the "King of Motown". (from Honorific nicknames in popular music)
- Image 44Jamaican musician Bob Marley is known as the "King of Reggae". (from Honorific nicknames in popular music)
- Image 45The 1960s British Invasion marked a period when the US charts were inundated with British acts such as the Beatles (pictured 1964). (from Pop music)
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"Mama" is a song by the British girl group the Spice Girls. It was written by the Spice Girls, Matt Rowe and Richard Stannard, and produced by Rowe and Stannard for the group's debut album Spice, released in November 1996. "Mama" is a pop ballad that features instrumentation from keyboards, a rhythm guitar, a cello, and a violin, and its lyrics deal with the difficulties in relationships between mothers and daughters that appear during their childhood.
It was released as a double A-side with "Who Do You Think You Are", and became the official single of the 1997 Comic Relief. Its Big TV! directed music video, featured the group singing to an audience of children and their own mothers. Despite receiving mixed reviews from music critics, "Mama" was commercially successful. Released as the album's fourth single in March 1997, it became their fourth consecutive number-one single in the United Kingdom, which made the Spice Girls the first act in UK chart history to have its first four singles reach number one. It was certified platinum by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI). The single performed well internationally, reaching the top ten in many European countries and New Zealand, and the top fifteen in Australia. (Full article...)Did you know (auto-generated)
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- ... that 22-year-old singer Milena Warthon has created a new genre, pop andino, by fusing pop and Andean music?
- ... that Pachelbel's Canon is notorious for being widespread in pop music, but it actually isn't?
- ... that the first episode of the British pop music TV show Top of the Pops was broadcast on 1 January 1964 from Dickenson Road Studios, a converted church in Manchester?
- ... that Yoko Ono considered her 1971 song "Listen, the Snow Is Falling" to be the first pop song she ever wrote?
- ... that the alt-pop musician Lucy Tun cites death metal and RuPaul's Drag Race as influences?
- ... that Eternal Blue, a metalcore album, was inspired in part by 1980s pop music?
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