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  2. List of writers on popular music - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of writers on popular music. This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (February 2011. Theodor W. Adorno; Lorraine Ali ...

  3. 1990s in music - Wikipedia

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    Pop music and dance music became popular throughout the 1990s. Popular European pop artists of the 1990s included Seal , M People , 2 Unlimited , and Ace of Base . During the 1990s, some European managers created their own boy band acts, beginning with Nigel Martin-Smith 's Take That and East 17 , which competed with Louis Walsh 's Irish bands ...

  4. List of Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles of the 1990s

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    As the decade progressed, a growing trend in the music industry was to promote songs to radio without the release of a commercially available singles in an attempt by record companies to boost albums sales. Because such a release was required to chart on the Hot 100, many popular songs that were hits on top 40 radio never made it onto the chart.

  5. 1990 in music - Wikipedia

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    January 8 – Irish singer Sinéad O'Connor released her famous single "Nothing Compares 2 U" (originally written, composed and performed by Prince) which was a worldwide success, becoming one of the best selling singles in the world in 1990 and topped the charts in many countries including the United States and the United Kingdom.

  6. List of 1990s albums considered the best - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of 1990s music albums that multiple music journalists, magazines, and professional music review websites have considered to be among the best of the 1990s and of all time, separated into the years of each album's release. The albums listed here are included on at least four separate "best/greatest of the 1990s/all time" lists ...

  7. Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Songwriters of All Time - Wikipedia

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    "The 100 Greatest Songwriters of All Time" is a feature published by the American magazine Rolling Stone in August 2015. [1] The list presented was compiled based on the magazine's music critics, and unlike previous lists the votes came entirely from the magazine's staff.

  8. Rolling Stone - Wikipedia

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    It still had music as the main topic but began to increase its coverage of celebrities, films, and pop culture. It also began releasing its annual "Hot Issue". [28] In the 1990s, the magazine changed its format to appeal to a younger readership interested in youth-oriented television shows, film actors, and popular music.

  9. Mainstream Top 40 is compiled from airplay on radio stations which play a wide variety of music, not just "pure pop", which Billboard defines as "melodic, often synth-driven, uptempo fare". [2] During the 1990s, mainstream top 40 went from R&B dominating the airwaves (and thus the charts) in the early 1990s to rock and alternative music ...