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  1. Darius Rucker Rides 'Wagon Wheel' to Top of Charts

    Thu, 23 May 2013

    working its way toward American classic status. Like "House of the Rising Sun" or "Good Night, Irene," it's now a pop song with a long back story that tantalizingly trickles out before you reach the wellspring. Ketch Secor of Old Crow Medicine Show

  2. Pop Songwriters Find Excitement in Stage Musicals

    Wed, 22 May 2013

    definitely an art to be able to write a song that on one level is a pop song and one that also has to tell a story and keep an audience Green, the Tony-nominated lyricist and composer, says pop song writers who come to Broadway quickly find it's not the best

  3. 'Apple of My Eye' Star Turns to First Love: Music

    Mon, 20 May 2013

    close family member who introduced her to Teng's music. "Uncle Grandpa's Small City Story" is a tribute to the first pop song Chen listened to, Teng's "Small Town Story'," because it was a favorite of Chen's uncle grandpa. Chen sang part of

  4. Blinking Skirts, Fake Tans: It Must Be Eurovision

    Fri, 17 May 2013

    audience of 125 million worldwide, is now in its 58th year. Once again without fail, it has produced a mix of bubble-gum pop songs , somber ballads, bagpipes, accordions and bizarrely kitsch musical productions. The winner, chosen from 40 countries

  5. Laura Benanti Gets in a Cabaret Mood

    Mon, 13 May 2013

    kooky. Besides her original song, she and songwriter Todd Almond, who is her arranger, plan to fuse theater standards with pop songs . What does that mean? She'll take Stephen Sondheim's "One More Kiss" and mix it with Jeff Buckley's "Last Goodbye

  6. Politics Commandeer Stage in Mideast TV Contest

    Sun, 12 May 2013

    singers in evening gowns and smart suits dazzle a TV audience of millions with a repertoire running from Arab classics to modern pop songs . But the Syria crisis, now in its third year, has loomed largest. More than 70,000 Syrians have been killed and millions

News

  1. One Direction's Harry Styles Named 'Villain of the Year'

    Fri, 1 Mar 2013

    (Al Pereira/WireImage) Harry Styles of the band One Direction is guilty of singing pop songs , having floppy hair and causing millions of girls to fall in love with him - but that was enough to win him the "Villain of the

  2. Ke$ha Sets Record Straight About 'Die Young'

    Thu, 20 Dec 2012

    saying that "Die Young" reached 148 million U.S. radio listeners Monday, an 11 percent drop - significant for a top 40 pop song - from the 167 million people who heard it Friday. At least one programming director won't be playing "Die Young" on the

  3. Ke$ha: 'I Understand' Why 'Die Young' Is 'Inappropriate'

    Wed, 19 Dec 2012

    saying that "Die Young" reached 148 million U.S. radio listeners Monday, an 11 percent drop - significant for a top 40 pop song - from the 167 million people who heard it Friday. At least one programming director won't be playing "Die Young" on the

  4. Tarantino Film Premiere Canceled in Wake of Connecticut Tragedy

    Tue, 18 Dec 2012

    S. radio listeners on Friday but fell to 148 million listeners by Monday, an 11 percent drop - significant for a top 40 pop song - from what had been relatively frequent airplay. Reps for Ke$ha and Clear Channel, which tracks radio airplay, did not

  5. 5 Things to Know This Morning

    Thu, 29 Nov 2012

    hit song "Somebody I Used to Know" has been crowned Spotify's top song of the year. The digital music service said the pop song is 2012's most streamed song across the globe. Carly Rae Jepsen's "Call Me Maybe" and "We Are Young" by Fun came in

  6. South Carolina Violinist Makes Pop Music Sound Pretty

    Thu, 4 Oct 2012

    just graduated from Furman University in May, is taking the music scene by storm with his classical renditions of mainstream pop songs . "I did the whole classical thing growing up, taking private lessons, all the stuff that's entailed with that. Then

  7. World News Behind the Scenes: 9/21/2012

    Fri, 21 Sep 2012

    45 a.m. ET Gangnam Style Breaks Record Guinness World Records announced this morning that "Gangnam Style," the Korean pop song by Psy, is now the most liked video in YouTube history. Since being upload on July 15 the music video has had more than 2

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Videos

  1. Violinist Plays Justin Bieber's 'Boyfriend'

    Thu, 4 Oct 2012

    he's 22 years old he's a violinist. Who put the classical spent on pop songs here's his take on beavers hit boyfriend. Nice Hilliard just graduated now with his own YouTube channel. And eighteen. Classical inspired pop songs .

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    22 years old he's a violinist. Who put the classical spent on pop songs here's his take on beavers hit boyfriend. Nice Hilliard just graduated from Furman University has boxing -- -- the scene now with his own YouTube channel. And eighteen. Classical inspired pop songs .
  2. Israeli Pop Song The Bomb

    Wed, 14 Mar 2007

    Israeli pop song "Push the Button" causes controversy.

  3. 'Call Me Maybe': Behind the Song With Carly Rae Jepson

    Fri, 13 Jul 2012

    Singer of the infectious pop song on her inspiration, Justin Bieber and Cookie Monster.

  4. Twin Pop Singers Move On, Embrace Diversity, Medical Marijuana

    Thu, 21 Jul 2011

    Sisters made famous for white-power-themed pop songs now sing different tune.

  5. Documentary Celebrates King of Pop's 'Bad' Album After 25 Years

    Mon, 19 Nov 2012

    went along with it. It was pivotal in his career. The best music of jackson's career came from. In the style of a great pop song . You can catch the documentary 9:30 on abc thursday night. Ooh. Yeah, love michael jackson. My kids love that. They

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    music of jackson's career came from. In the style of a great pop song . You can catch the documentary 9:30 on abc thursday night. Ooh. Yeah, love michael jackson. My kids love that. They still watch
  6. Ezra Miller On Being Queer and 2012 Election

    Fri, 28 Sep 2012

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  7. Top Songs of Summer

    Tue, 26 Jun 2012

    summer's finest. Good morning Pernod filtering can you won't get so what makes a summer Sami Hayek and so catchy has to be a pop song has to have catchy lyrics hooky songs. It's gonna have this. Seeing that years into your brain and it becomes so infectious

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    summer Sami Hayek and so catchy -- -- has to be a pop song -- has to have catchy lyrics hooky songs. It's gonna have this. Seeing that -- years into your brain and it becomes
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Photos

  1. VIDEO: South Carolina musician Seth Gilliard performs covers of pop songs.
  2. PHOTO: Seth Gilliard, 22, of Charleston, S.C., is a violinist that covers mainstream pop songs.
  3. PHOTO: 13 lifeguards and a manager lost their jobs after making a video spoof of the Korean pop song "Gangnam Style," in El Monte, Calif.
  4. VIDEO: Singer of the infectious pop song on her inspiration, Justin Bieber and Cookie Monster.
  1. PHOTO: Loretta Sanchez, a US Representative for California, is seen with her interns learning the dance moves to the pop song "Call Me Maybe" in a video released by Sanchez's office on June 29, 2012.
  2. VIDEO: Sisters made famous for white-power-themed pop songs now sing different tune.

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