popular music
Britishnoun
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“Oh, and what’s some new popular music I should be listening to?”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2026
The trio also gained fame for their popular music videos, including "Gimme All Your Lovin,'" going on to win three MTV Video Music Awards.
From Barron's ● Aug. 18, 2026
Yet all of them convey an understanding, even an appreciation, for their close connection to an artist whose influence rippled across popular music.
From Salon ● Jun. 7, 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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