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  • By the 1950s, pop-music production in Manhattan had migrated from Tin Pan Alley, the collection of songwriters and music publishers on West 28th Street, to 1619 Broadway—better known as the Brill Building.

    Awaiting the Day Sheet Music Dies Nick Neyland 2011

  • If you've seen one formula-made pop-music diva playing guitar in her underwear you've seen 'em all.

    On Carrie Underwood And The Humane Society 2009

  • Don Kirshner, 76, a pop-music hit maker who propelled singer Bobby Darin to stardom, hired songwriters who produced hundreds of hit songs and became the musical force behind the Monkees, a popular television-created band of the 1960s, died Jan. 17 at a hospital in Boca Raton, Fla., where he lived.

    Don Kirshner, hit-making rock impresario of the 1960s, dies at 76 Matt Schudel 2011

  • Mr. Otellini's speech concluded with an appearance by pop-music star Will.i.am, who has been consulting with Intel on technology projects including a new effort to make music in various cities.

    Motorola, Lenovo Plan Intel-Chip Smartphones Don Clark 2012

  • "I do credit Peter and the Met with the inception of this piece," said Mr. Wainwright, a 38-year-old pop-music veteran with six studio albums under his belt.

    New Opera's Journey Is Itself Operatic Kimberly Chou 2012

  • And Alex (Ariel Winter) is way too smart and proud to discard her carefully thought-out valedictory speech in favor of a string of pop-music clichés, even if she was trying to spare the feelings of her shallow older sister, Haley (Sarah Hyland).

    Cheers & Jeers: Modern Family Problems 2011

  • Kelly Clarkson, All we Ever WantedBuilt in a lab by a many appropriate pop-music minds in a business, versed with all weapons required to attack a Hot 100, All we Ever Wanted is a musical equivalent of a gigantic, shiny Gundam suit, with Clarkson during a controls.

    Archive 2009-12-01 admin 2009

  • Kelly Clarkson, All we Ever WantedBuilt in a lab by a many appropriate pop-music minds in a business, versed with all weapons required to attack a Hot 100, All we Ever Wanted is a musical equivalent of a gigantic, shiny Gundam suit, with Clarkson during a controls.

    The Best Albums Of 2009, In Bigger Than The Sound | Industry Fokery admin 2009

  • But thus far the crossover seems more wishful than factual; the electronic-dance community, immune to traditional pop-music marketing, didn't seem concerned by, or very interested in, the creeping presence of song-based pop.

    Tiësto: Electronic Music's Superstar Jim Fusilli 2011

  • Yet Kenton was a master of marketing: He packaged and sold the concepts of newness and modernity to a pop-music audience.

    A Restless Soul Revealed Will Friedwald 2011

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