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If two or more artists have the same claimed sales, they are then ranked by certified units. The claimed sales figure and the total of certified units (for each country) within the provided sources include sales of albums, singles, compilation-albums, music videos as well as downloads of singles and full-length albums.
The following songs were extracted from records included in Joel Whitburn's Pop Memories 1890-1954, [1] record sales reported on the "Discography of American Historical Recordings" website, and other sources as specified.
The Great Depression in the United States, which started with the 1929 Wall Street crash, had a severe impact on the country. In 1932, 25 percent of American men were unemployed. [1] [2] After his appliance business went bankrupt, Yip Harburg had gone into the music business, working as a lyricist. [3]
Cole Porter was a popular music artist in the 1930s, with two of his songs, "Night and Day" and "Begin the Beguine" becoming No. 1 hits in 1932 and 1935 respectively. The latter song was of the Swing genre, which had begun to emerge as the most popular form of music in the United States since 1933.
During the 1930s, [1] the United States was facing its longest and deepest economic downturn, the Great Depression. Spending money on entertainment was out of the question for most people. The United States put the nation back to work, including artists and entertainers in its assistance programs. [2] [3] [circular reference] [4] [circular ...
Like most of Guy Maddin's films, The Saddest Music in the World is filmed in a style that imitates late 1920s and early 1930s cinema, with grainy black-and-white photography, slightly out-of-sync sound and expressionist art design. A few scenes are filmed in colour, in a manner that imitates early two-strip Technicolor.
Marty Robbins, one of the most popular artists in country music history. Named artist of the decade (1960–1969) by the Academy of Country Music; Jeannie C. Riley, sexy girl in a miniskirt who socked it to the pop charts with "Harper Valley PTA." Kenny Rogers, unique-voiced storyteller who also recorded love ballads and more rock material. He ...
[106] [107] It is the best-selling song of country music's first decade. [108] Bix Beiderbecke joins the Wolverine Orchestra, making his first recordings; he will be more influential than any white composer or performer in Chicago in the era, [70] and will be perhaps the first white jazz performer to be widely respected by African-American jazz ...