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The following is a list of notable soft rock bands and artists and their most notable soft rock songs. This list should not include artists whose main style of music is anything other than soft rock, even if they have released one or more songs that fall under the "soft rock" genre. (Such songs can be added under Category:Soft rock songs.)
KSOF (98.9 FM "Soft Rock 98.9") is a commercial radio station licensed to Dinuba, ... the station's HD2 subchannel plays 1980s music branded as "Lost 80s Hits", ...
By 1977, some radio stations, notably New York's WTFM and NBC-owned WYNY, had switched to an all-soft rock format. [18] Chicago's WBBM-FM adopted a soft rock/album rock hybrid format in 1977 and was known as "Soft Rock 96" presenting the "Mellow sound of Chicago". Five years later, they would flip to a "Hot Hits" top 40 format.
The 1980s produced chart-topping hits in pop, hip-hop, rock, and R&B. Here's a list of the best songs from the time, ranging from Toto to Michael Jackson.
Adult contemporary music (AC) is a form of radio-played popular music, ranging from 1960s vocal and 1970s soft rock music [1] to predominantly ballad-heavy music of the 1980s to the present day, with varying degrees of easy listening, pop, soul, R&B, quiet storm and rock influence.
Rock music continued to enjoy a wide audience. [9] Soft rock, [10] glam metal, thrash metal, shred guitar characterized by heavy distortion, pinch harmonics, and whammy bar abuse became very popular. [11] Adult contemporary, [12] quiet storm, [13] and smooth jazz gained popularity.
The British-Australian soft rock duo Air Supply (pictured in 2006) had two spells at number one with "Lost in Love". In 1980, Billboard magazine published a chart ranking the top-performing songs in the United States in the adult contemporary music (AC) market.
As an AM radio format in the United States and Canada, MOR's heyday was the 1960s and the 1970s. [7] The 50,000-watt AM radio stations WLW in Cincinnati, Ohio; WJR in Detroit, Michigan; WNEW in New York City, New York; WCCO in Minneapolis, Minnesota; KMPC in Los Angeles, California; KIRO and KOMO in Seattle, Washington; WTIC in Hartford, Connecticut; and Canadian stations CFRB in Toronto ...