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The 1950s brings to mind poodle skirts, sock hops, and drive-in movies. I Love Lucy, The Honeymooners, and Leave It to Beaver were popular television shows, and Marilyn Monroe, Frank Sinatra, and ...
Sock hop at Shimer College, Illinois, in 1948. A sock hop or sox hop, often also called a record hop [1]: 199 or just a hop, was an informal (but officially organized) dance event for teenagers in mid-20th-century North America, featuring popular music.
Time-Life, which had been offering books as part of its subscription media offerings since 1961, began offering music the next year. Virtually all of the series issued for the first 20 years catered to adults with high-culture and/or conservative music tastes: classical, jazz, swing and orchestral music; and the music of operas and Broadway theatre.
Spotify's most streamed song for the longest period of time was "Shape of You" (2017) by the English singer and songwriter Ed Sheeran. Currently, 912 songs have surpassed one billion streams on Spotify, [1] 151 have surpassed two billion, 18 have surpassed three billion, and two have surpassed four billion Spotify streams.
During the 1950s European popular music give way to the influence of American forms of music including jazz, swing and traditional pop, mediated through film and records. The significant change of the mid-1950s was the impact of American rock and roll , which provided a new model for performance and recording, based on a youth market.
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As the pop music market exploded in the late 1950s, dance fads were commercialized and exploited. From the 1950s to the 1970s, new dance fads appeared almost every week. Many were popularized (or commercialized) versions of new styles or steps created by African-American dancers who frequented the clubs and discothèques in major U.S. cities ...
Billboard number-one singles charts preceding the Billboard Hot 100 were updated weekly by Billboard magazine and the leading indicator of popular music for the American music industry since 1940 and until the Billboard Hot 100 chart was established in 1958.