Music

The Pop 100 was a weekly music chart launched by Billboard magazine in February 2005, designed to rank songs based on their mainstream pop appeal. Conceived by Michael Ellis, it combined airplay from Mainstream Top 40 radio stations with physical singles sales and digi...

Franklin Electronic Publishers, originally founded in 1981 as Franklin Computer Corporation, began its journey by manufacturing popular clones of the Apple II computer. This led to a landmark 1982 copyright infringement lawsuit filed by Apple Computer, which Franklin ultimately lost, establishing crucial legal preceden...

The Love & Hip Hop franchise is a highly popular reality television series on VH1, which first premiered on March 6, 2011. It chronicles the personal and professional lives of hip hop and R&B musicians, performers, managers, and producers in major U.S. cities, quickly expanding with successful ...

Jazz at Lincoln Center (JALC), founded in 1987 as part of New York City's prestigious Lincoln Center, is a prominent organization dedicated to representing the totality of jazz music through education, performance, and archival efforts globally. Led by artistic director Wynton Marsalis, JALC presents i...

Classical mechanics is a foundational physical theory explaining the motion of objects ranging from projectiles to planets and galaxies. Its initial formulation, known as Newtonian mechanics, stemmed from the 17th-century works of Sir Isaac Newton, along with mathematical contributions...

Musical analysis is the systematic study of musical structure in compositions or performances, aiming to answer "How does it work?" This scholarly approach emerged around the 1750s, though its roots as an auxiliary tool extend back to the Middle Ages. The field encompasses diverse methodologies, from Donald Tovey's accessible ...

The World Music Awards was an international award show established in 1989 by co-founder John Martinotti and under the patronage of Prince Albert II of Monaco, held annually in Monte Carlo. The event honored the world's best-selling artists across various categories and territories, with past recipients including global superstars like...

Neofolk, also known as apocalyptic folk, is a music genre that emerged in the 1980s, blending acoustic folk instrumentation with elements of dark wave and industrial music, often originating from post-punk circles. Its sound draws influences from 1960s folk artists like Leonard Cohen and Comus, with early pioneers incl...

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (RRHOF), or Rock Hall, is a prominent museum in downtown Cleveland, Ohio, dedicated to preserving and documenting the history of rock music and celebrating the artists, producers, and figures who shaped its development. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Foundation was established on April 20, 1983