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Original Pilipino Music, more commonly referred to as OPM, a commercial acronym coined by Danny Javier of the APO Hiking Society, [8] originally referred only to the pop genre of music from the Philippines, predominantly ballads and novelty numbers, that became popular after the wane of its direct 1970s commercial predecessor, Manila sound.
Filipino pop songs mainly referred to songs popularized since the 1960s, usually sentimental ballads and movie themes.Major 1960s Filipino pop acts include Pilita Corrales and Nora Aunor. 1960s-styled ballads maintained their popularity into the 1970s, led by female balladeers dubbed "jukebox queens" such as Claire dela Fuente, Imelda Papin and Eva Eugenio, and male artists such as Anthony ...
The song has become so famous that, by some counts, it has been recorded in as many as a hundred versions in 23 languages throughout the world. [13] Billboard reported that the song was the number two world hit of the 1980s. According to Billboard, Aguilar was the second best-selling recording artist of 1981 in Europe. [14]
Regine Velasquez is considered as the best-selling artist of all time in the Philippines with 7 million certified albums locally and 1.5 million certified albums in Asia. [7] [8] [9] Other artists such as Eraserheads and Rivermaya have three albums on the list, while Gary Valenciano, Jaya, Jolina Magdangal, MYMP, Smokey Mountain and Westlife ...
Its popularity in the Philippines is such that some think it ought to replace the current national anthem, [7] and that it be played if former American president Barack Obama had made a state visit to the Philippines. [13] It has been covered many times and is a standard on the repertoire of many artists performing Filipino romantic and popular ...
Visayan pop, better known as Vispop (not to be confused with the Scandinavian musical genre), is short for Visayan popular music. Despite its name, it usually refers to popular music in the Cebuano language ; pop music sung in other Visayan languages is known by other terms.
The song, recognized as "the best-selling single of all time", was released before the pop/rock singles-chart era and "was listed as the world's best-selling single in the first-ever Guinness Book of Records (published in 1955) and—remarkably—still retains the title more than 50 years later".
The Metro Manila Popular Music Festival (also known as Metropop) was launched by the Popular Music Foundation of the Philippines in 1977 and held annually from 1978 to 1985. [1] It was "the country's pioneering and once foremost songwriting competition," according to The Philippine Star . [ 2 ]