popular song
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of popular song
First recorded in 1835–45
Example Sentences
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Messy was recently certified as the most popular song of 2025 by a British artist, with more than a billion streams around the world.
From BBC • Mar. 5, 2026
Born as an opera aria, it became a popular song, a jazz standard, and finally a cultural touchstone.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 5, 2025
The AI group's most popular song has been streamed more than three million times.
From Barron's • Nov. 12, 2025
Megan Stielstra touches on this in her essay about “Nothing Compares 2 U,” the most popular song pitched to the co-editors.
From Salon • Aug. 5, 2025
As we passed Capistrano she sang a popular song that I’d heard on the radio: “When the swallows come back to Capistrano.”
From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou
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