Pop Music

Pop music is an abbreviation of ' popular music'. It is contemporary music as well as a collective name for a wide range of styles in the music, but more focused on the popularity than to the diversity of the music.

The first pop idol, Elvis PresleyThe common denominator of pop music is that a broad public access to the music. In essence, that nowadays always the case, but in time the term came into existence, roughly about after1945, it was the first time that music was accessible to everyone. Buying or listening to music was before often reserved for those who could pay.

The term ' pop music ' is closely associated with terms like youth culture, mass culture and Commerce. Pop music can be seen as one of the achievements of the new cultural experience after the Second World War, in which culture became common for everyone, caused by improvement and availability of the technology. In addition it gave the economic momentum that emerged in the fifties young people the opportunity to be consumers . In the first years of pop music, she is more and more the expression for young people. Musical instruments that are used in pop music are mainly the electric guitar, the drums and the bass guitar, synthesizer.

After the jazz and blues as mainstream variants came into being in the 1950s, the rock-'n-roll. Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley formed the blues to create a faster variant and thus was born the rock and roll and rhythm and blues. The record companies went in this particularly strongly promote ' high school ' blank oriented variant, with Buddy Holly, Jerry Lee Lewis and Elvis Presley, while dark artists such as Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley were also recognized by later generations especially music artists as great examples on musical area.

A characteristic aspect in pop music became visible in the career of Elvis Presley, who first used the medium of television as a continuation of the traditional stage (encouraged by hismanager). Its fame and popularity names for that time unprecedented forms. The concept of pop idol was born. From now on the youth had the pop musician to flip, and motivate. Similar highlights, though to a lesser extent, arose at The Beatles (Beatle-Mania) and the then young Michael Jackson (Michael-Mania). Typical is a constant, sometimes hysterically, shouting from fans at concerts. Performances by musicians take immensely with large masses of people. Was it in the sixties still small rooms with several hundred people, were already in the 1970s, stadiums hired for large-scale world tours, and also the music festival Woodstock made its appearance, with a famous early example is.



Content
[hide] *1 History  ==History[ Edit] == ===Sixties[ Edit] === ====Beat Music[ Edit] ==== <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In the United Kingdom got also interested young musicians for rock and roll and blues, and there began to be a hybrid with the own styles, such as the skiffle. The result was the so-called beat music, with The Beatlesas a pioneer. This shifted the center of gravity of pop music itself also of the United States to Great Britain. In the United States was talked about a British invasion, a wave of British music that overshadowed American bands and artists. Bands like The Monkees were the answer to this British golf. They never sang live. They were also the first of a series of bands that were composed by their producers from the ground up, with a sophisticated look and media support which was addressed a specific fanpubliek .
 * 1.1 1960s
 * 1.1.1 Beat music
 * 1.1.2 Folk
 * 1.1.3 Rock
 * 1.1.4 experimental rock
 * 1.2 1970s
 * 1.2.1 Glamrock
 * 1.2.2 Hard rock
 * 1.2.3 Progressive rock
 * 1.2.4 Synthesizer
 * 1.2.5 Disco and funk
 * 1.2.6 Punk
 * 1.3 1980s
 * 1.4 1990s
 * 1.5 After 2000
 * 1.5.1 Post punk revival
 * Form 2
 * 3 see also
 * 4 external link

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The only American band who were against the tide in more and became more popular, The Beach Boys with their surfpop, which equaled The Beatles in popularity. Between the two bands originated from 1965 a creative competition in which The Beatles released the album Rubber Soul and The Beach Boys reacted with Pet Sounds. With these albums became a new direction in pop music placed in storage; pop music was an art form in which the possibilities of the studio were used and in which more and more albums in the sequel more than collections of songs (concept albums). ====Folk<span class="mw-editsection" len="320" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ==== <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In response to the increasing and megalomanere expressions of pop music at the major popular acts, there arose a counter-current that especially target was on the intimate and nostalgic, which was based on folk music and a simple instruments, such as a solo artist on an acoustic guitar. This is called folk-music. There was a boom to singer-songwriters Bob Dylan which a known male example is Janis Ian and Melanie and his female counterparts. Other examples include Donovan and Joni Mitchell. ====Rock<span class="mw-editsection" len="320" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ==== <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Also arose when the rock styles (among other Steppenwolf, Rolling Stones, Rod Stewart and The Faces) and symphonic rock. ====Experimental rock<span class="mw-editsection" len="334" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ==== <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">At the end of the 1960s, the offer in pop music increasingly more diverse. It was experimented a lot, partly due to the further refinement of the bass guitar and the electric guitar. Expression of this was, among others,Jimi Hendrix and Pink Floyd. Also the pop music went in search of her extremes, both in musical style as lifestyle. Well-known examples include The Velvet Underground and The Doors. Also let bands influence by old styles; the blues (John Mayall's Bluesbreakers) and the jazz (Soft Machine) and in some cases also with the classical music (Mike Oldfield) and modern classical (Frank Zappa).

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Jazz was also experimented with new styles and the soul-music came on, especially because of the success of Motown. ===1970s<span class="mw-editsection" len="330" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === ====Glamrock<span class="mw-editsection" len="324" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ==== <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The first half of the 1970s was among other things in the sign of the glitter or glam rock ' rock '. Exponents of these were t. Rex with Marc Bolan, David Bowie, Roxy Music, The Sweet, Gary Glitter, KISS and Queen. ====Hard rock<span class="mw-editsection" len="324" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ==== <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">There developed a harder form of rock music. This style, called hard rock, had its roots in the music of 1960s bands like the Small Faces and blues bands such as Fleetwood Mac and The Allman Brothers Band.Famous bands in this genre are Deep Purple and Led Zeppelin. Typical are the longer numbers in which the virtuosity of the band loose. Mixed Black Sabbath Satanic themes with the loud music style, with which they were the founding fathers of heavy metal. ====Progressive rock<span class="mw-editsection" len="334" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ==== <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The tendency of long compositions continues and results in major commercial successes, such as Pink Floyd showed arranged. The bands in this genre are Genesis, The Soft Machine and Rush. A German movement was very active and was called Krautrock . ====Synthesizer<span class="mw-editsection" len="328" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ==== <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Characteristic in the 1970s is that the synthesizer its role in pop music perpetuates. All in progressive rock there is often a synthesizer part of the instruments. There are also bands that make music more prominent with this instrument (Kraftwerk, Roxy Music with Brian Eno) and it comes a lot back in the charts, partly due to the disco. ====Disco and funk<span class="mw-editsection" len="330" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ==== <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The second half of the 1970s was dominated by the disco, a dance-oriented style with striking attire, a hearty rhythm on a fixed four four-time, vocals with a lot of echo and a prominent bass line. Major groups were The Bee Gees, Boney M, Chic, Village People and The Jackson 5. Flush with the disco Funk also came on, which used more complex time signatures (often in semiquavers divided). Known funk artists James Brown andGeorge Clinton. ====Punk<span class="mw-editsection" len="321" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ==== <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The rock music gradually moved away from his roots, which, for example, manifested in the use of complex chord progressions and the use of violins (for example, Electric Light Orchestra). This created becoming acounterculture, which back wanted to straight forward music, rhythm, and three agreements-beat music was widely used in schemes such as the. This was the punk. Original music already existed in the 1960s includingThe MC5 and Iggy Pop and the Stooges as best known for men. However, only in 1976Punk broke. With the form in the 1970s comes again a social movement loose. Anarchy and punk are one. The most famous punk group was the Sex Pistols which, however, was short-lived, but by 1975 to 1977. The flow then takes a mainly underground profile, but remains to this day an active and influential subculture, which still often be copied elements. In America remains the flow going longer and develops into the ultra fast hardcore with bands such as Dead Kennedys, The Exploited and others.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Another style that was made in the 1970s about simultaneous entrance the reggae led by Bob Marley.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Another, less interesting for the mainstream pop music stations, yet very popular music direction was the heavy metal. with Black Sabbath as proto-example and influenced by punk in terms of tempo, intensity and ruggedness, but with more attention to technical game develops the hard rock to heavy metal. Where punk musicians make music, consciously choose simple, primitive heavy metal bands often use the technical virtuosity of the band members. This music style breaks through after groundbreaking work of bands such as Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden and Judas Priest. ===Eighties<span class="mw-editsection" len="330" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The music after the punk new wave is called, as the new golf. This designation, however, quickly comes to stand as the synonymous likewise heavily melancholic, but the melodischere ' nephew ' punk, expressed by Joy Division, The Cure, The Smiths, Siouxsie and the Banshees. Duran Duran was one of the bands that the newwavemuziek mixed with a sophisticated image and applicable fashion and video clips, teen idol-marketing.One speaks also of post-punk new wave of new wave, but instead covers also synthpop-bands like OMD, Human League, Depeche Mode and Pet Shop Boys.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">New wave was mainly a European movement; British, German and, to a lesser extent, French new wave did very well commercially in Europe. But also the Spanish and Finnish music from that time had once described itself with large newwavescenes. In America emerged from the hardcore punk as a counterpart to the college rock with bands such as the Pixies and r.e.m. and a more experimental variant, the Noise rock, No Wave-growing out of the flow, with bands such as Sonic Youth.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The drum machine and sampler are invented and have a big impact on the development of pop music. From New York early 1980sarises, totally independent of what music flow way, a street culture which manifests itself in electric boogie, rap and graffiti art. In the mid-1980s dance music arise typical styles that should be a big influence in later years: acid and house. The heavy techno beat, a huge volume and the rise of the drugEcstasy are model for the flow. The dj Gets an ever more dominant position and receives the same star status as an artist.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In the second half of the 1980s, the phenomenon of nostalgia for arose in response to the house and the music that was made using computers . This taste for music from the 1960s and 1970s resulted in the many radio stations, the sixtiesrevivals, the classic television programs about pop artists of the past (many of whom are again went occur) and the huge sales results of compilation CDs of these musicians. Lenny Kravitz is an artist who is indented on this nostalgia.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Also you see from America a current mainstream hard rock emerged. One speaks of AOR, stadium rock or mockingly Poser rock, because of the show element and bombast. Bands such as Van Halen, Mötley Crue,Bon Jovi, Europe, Def Leppard and Guns 'N Roses.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">A cross-overgenre between rap, funk and heavy metal with bands like The Red Hot Chile Peppers, Primus and the Dutch Urban Dance Squad.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">As the greatest artists of the eighties and early nineties one regards in general Michael Jackson, Madonna and Prince.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-1" len="161" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [1] ===1990s<span class="mw-editsection" len="331" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The large-scale attention to electronic dance music with DJs put in the 1990s by and dominating the music culture. However, there are also against currents. Many DJs are world famous.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Start with the remainder of the 1990s grunge, a reaction against the superficial "maskaradepop" from 1980s. The flow locates in Seattle, around the band Nirvana and its charismatic frontman Kurt Cobain. This band takes city enjoyed as Pearl Jam and Soundgarden to her success, and also Janes Addiction and Faith No More are determining groups within this movement. The genre also means the death blow for the FM-rock from the 1980s (Europe, Def Leppard). The funk rock of the Red Hot Chile Peppers and related remains popular and influential on later bands. During the 1990s, moved the center of the rock itself to Great Britain by the rise of britpop. With this ' new look ' in a Beatles music Oasis and Blur are especially well-known.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">At the same time, there is also a wide range of hitparadepop. In the early 1990s include the 2 Unlimited Dutch and Italian familiar Cappella . Later also know under more boybands as Take That, Backstreet Boys and * NSYNC, the girl band The Spice Girls, and Britney Spears for hypes to ensure, particularly teenagers. Around the turn of the century is a modern variant of urban pop and hip-hop that dominates the charts, led by acts like destiny's Child, r. Kelly, Eminem and Dr. Dre.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">On museological field were there initiatives around the world. Thus, on 1 september 1995 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, Ohio (USA), opened by Yoko Ono. In the Netherlands there were Popmuseum Foundation and the Rock 'n Art Hall of Fame ([1]) was in Germany in July 2004 in Gronau and the Rock 'n Popmuseum ([2]) by Udo Lindenberg opened.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The trend that initiated the funk rock from the late 1980s, continues and develops into a cross pollination with heavy metal to Nu Metal with bands such as Korn, Limp Bizkit and Slipknot. In the late 1990s there in response to the violence of the ' hard angry nu-metal bands' a guitar flow which is classified as 'post-rock', in response to the hard rock revival in the early 1990s. Also the lo-fi comes on with bands such as Beck and The Eels. ===After 2000<span class="mw-editsection" len="324" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Using TV shows as Star Academy, The voice of Holland and Idols try record companies from 2001 new singing talent and especially income to tap. Idols in particular is a global provider of all kinds of markings in thecharts on.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The dance culture changes gradually with the years. In the 1980s were often illegal, small-scale parties. These were always larger in the 1990s and around the turn of the century changed that in true festivals focused on this genre. All kinds of dance festivals come on or start getting larger consequences. So one knows I Love Techno in Belgium and Netherlands, among other Sensationin Dance Valley and Lovefields. Belgian trance groups as [http://www.microsofttranslator.com/bv.aspx?from=nl&to=en&a=http%3A%2F%2Fnl.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FMilk_Inc. Milk Inc.], Sylver and Dutch trance-DJ's as Tiësto, Armin van Buuren and Ferry Corsten are known.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">This trend has not only the dance music. Admittedly, the expansion of dance festivals, but also on a smaller scale level you see a hankering for live music played by bands. The mp3 causes that cd and lp-platenkast sales fall and give people less to their collection. As a result, increase the amount of visitors of live concerts and festivals are increasingly organized. In the 1980s there were several dozen, now there are only a few hundred yearly festivals in Netherlands. The impact of internet on the turnover of record companies is by streaming oppressive, yet. Online services such as Spotify does his entrede and, in particular, major record labels as Universal and EMI lay off many staff in the course of the Decade. More than ever, one uses the term indie. In the 1980s the term was still used for independent bands (independent) coming through gigs, without record labels, be known, at their commercial break-through own record companies or to sign a record deal. From the mid-2000s is that more and more often without record companies and the artists known through festivals and the internet. Some musicologists are of the opinion that pop music is less and less commercial, while those in the 20th century alone but more commercial seemed to be. ====Post punk revival<span class="mw-editsection" len="332" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ==== <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Just after the turn of the century is there in the alternative music all of a sudden a group of bands that the experimental rate drop and harking back to the music of protopunkrockhelden of yesteryear such as the Velvet Underground and The Stooges. The most famous bands of the post-punk revival are The White Stripes, The Strokes, Franz Ferdinand, Arctic Monkeys, Bloc Party, Yeah Yeah Yeahs. Since 2008, and even earlier, there is a revival of the synthpop in the 1980s, as a direct result of the post-punk revival. La Roux, Little Boots and Ladyhawke are a clear examples of this. Also the British band O Children brought in 2009 some singles which she uses new wavesynthesizers, but then mixed with dark coldwave. The music seems so picked from the 1980s. With In This Light And On This Evening in October 2009, also the clear direction in store Editorsof the 80s.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">At the same time, especially in America, a movement that mixes for polyrhythmic drums in her music, bands like Yeasayer, Vampire Weekend, Animal Collective and The Dodos. One speaks of New Weird America as we talk about this movement has.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Since 2007 there is a trend of female singer-songwriters, such as Katie Melua, Duffy, Adele, Amy Winehouse and Amy Macdonald. ==Form<span class="mw-editsection" len="321" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Pop music was in the first years especially released on gramophone record (vinyl, the replacement for the very fragile shellac). The first images of pop music were especially singles, with a number on both sides, or sometimes more (ep). The songs were therefore short (2 to 3 minutes). In the 1960s came the LP album (lp), in which a band performed more songs with a total length of 45 minutes or less. The new single was the promoter for an lp, but remained because of the price measure of popularity. The LP's if collection of simple numbers were often also concept albumssuch as The Beatles with Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band in1967 did.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In the mid-1980s came the compact disc on the market. The record industry seized the opportunity to LPs to cd, again for a higher price. The youth of then it was now older, bought all favorite music again on cd and the existing youth became richer. Yet the CD prices remained at the same level after vinyl from the shops of the major record chains was gone. The single (cd-single) remained measure of popularity, because that was the cheapest.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In the mid-1990s, however, a small vinyl revival started by an increasing popularity of the Professional dj, especially in the environment of drum and bass, house, goa and other forms of music with a heavy beat. This was because many of these DJs would rather work with vinyl, saying they felt the music better and so can better mixes. This renewed interest in vinyl went through in the years 2000, where now the general public got renewed attention for the LP.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-2" len="161" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [2]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Also came with the new media new forms of the carrier about it: MP3 is used since 1994 (and according to among other things the record companies abused) by P2Pservices, such as Napster and Kazaa. Ringtonesalso became popular for mobile telephony. The record industry's profits fell, and in 2003 they made more profit for the first time on ringtones than on cd-singles. Pounding the plates were more anxious for their future.They called the increasing piracy as main threat; consumers complained mostly about the high prices. The first successful legal music services in 2003 were Weblisten and the iTunes Store (iTS).

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The marketing around pop music is changed over the years. At the beginning of the 21st century, especially the website MySpace becoming increasingly popular among bands, and various artists gained their fame here before taking the leap into the mainstream media. Two examples are Arctic Monkeys and Lily Allen. Other websites, such as PureVolume (among other Panic! at the Disco) boden novice bands a springboard. Further experiments the artist Prince with new sales models. In 2005 he comes on 1 in in the charts of America partly because the cd is being sold along with tickets for its tour, and in 2007 he closes a deal with the British Sunday newspaper The Mail on Sunday that the album on July 15, released as free cd at the newspaper.