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Number ones. Bing Crosby had the highest number of hits at the top of the Billboard number-one singles chart during the 1940s (9 songs). In addition, Crosby remained the longest at the top of the Billboard number-one singles chart during the 1940s (55 weeks). Jimmy Dorsey remained at the top of the Billboard number-one singles chart for 32 weeks.
The honky-tonk style of the 1940s and 1950s was overtaken in the 1960s by the "Nashville Sound", a smoother style with a broader appeal. [ 12 ] [ 13 ] In the 1970s, the country-pop style increasingly enabled country artists to achieve success on the pop music charts, [ 14 ] [ 15 ] and in more recent decades, some of the most successful songs ...
Elvis Presley had the highest number of hits at the top of the Billboard number-one singles chart between January 1950 until August 1958 (10 songs) in addition, Presley remained the longest at the top of the Billboard number-one singles chart between January 1950 until August 1958 (57 weeks). Patti Page was the artist with second-longest most ...
Ray Price, traditional country star of the '50s and '60s, who experienced pop success in the '70s and '80s. Charley Pride, the first black country music star in the 1970s and early 1980s. Best known for "Kiss An Angel Good Mornin'." Jeanne Pruett, female vocalist of the 70s, best known for the song "Satin Sheets".
The 1940s and 1950s saw the rise of music that continued to protest labor, race, and class issues. Protest songs continued to increase their profile over this period, and a rising number of artists appeared who were to have an enduring influence on the protest music genre.
The earliest popular Latin music in the United States came with rumba in the early 1930s, and was followed by calypso in the mid-40s, mambo in the late 1940s and early 1950s, chachachá and charanga in the mid-50s, bolero in the late 1950s and finally boogaloo in the mid-60s, while Latin music mixed with jazz during the same period, resulting ...
Alvin and the Chipmunks. Atlantis SquarePantis (animated television film) August Rush. Barbie as the Island Princess (animated direct-to-video) Christmas Is Here Again (animated direct-to-video) Cinderella III: A Twist in Time (animated direct-to-video) Colma: The Musical. Crazy. Enchanted.
Bing Crosby was the best selling pop artist of the 1940s. Ragtime, a genre that first became popular in the 1890s, was popular through about the 1940s. After its best-known exponent, Scott Joplin, died in 1917, the genre faded. As the 1920s unfolded, jazz rapidly took over as the dominant form of popular music in the United States.