popular music
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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No popular music genre despises the present as much as country music.
From Salon ● Aug. 3, 2026
Known for an unfailing ear for innovative music and an innate ability to navigate the shifting currents of popular music, Davis ruled Columbia, Arista and J Records.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 22, 2026
Founded in 1969, the Songwriters Hall of Fame annually honours those "whose work represents a spectrum of the most beloved songs from the world's popular music songbook".
From BBC ● Jun. 12, 2026
It’s one of many amusingly dead-on observations about the nature of popular music today, whether at the end that enjoys global adulation or at the opposite extreme.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 28, 2026
These forms came to have enormous influence on twentieth-century music, first in the Americas and then in time around the world, through popular music of countless genres.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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