Grammy Award for Best Pop Vocal Album

Besides , her first debut album also released in October. The album has achieved its success as selling 39,000 copies in its first week and had sold over 5.5 million copies worldwide. It was rising to no.5 on billboard 200. More popular songs were followed such as “Our Song”, “Teardrops On My Guitar”,"Should've Said No" and "Picture to Burn". These songs have been highly recommended on Billboard Hot Country Song Charts. Girls are loving with her music and she has promoted her album in the USA…

Final Paper Pop, a popular music genre that has originated from the Western World that has continued its relevance in the 21st century. It began to be a softer alternative to rock and roll in the 1950s and eventually became one of the most popular genre by the youth; which is where it got its name ‘pop’ from. Pop music is somewhat a contrast to rock and roll. Rock identifies with a particular subculture while pop tends to cut across audiences targeting one crowd. Pop also focuses on vocals and…

McKnight’s Album this song was in reached number one on the Top R&B/Hip Hop Songs, and also reached number thirteen on the Billboard 200 in 1997. End of the Road-- Boyz II Men End of the Road is a breakup song performed by Boyz II Men that was released in 1992. Kenneth Edmonds, L.A. Reid, and Daryl Simmons wrote this song. This song achieved worldwide achievements. This song spent a record breaking thirteen weeks at number one on the Billboard Hot 100. It also won Grammys for Best R&B…

Chapter 15- Rock Traditions and the Business of Change The music industry itself developed and introduced a new idea in selling albums. Starting from the 1970s, with the DIY revolution, to the 1990s, featuring digital recording, prices and accessibility to digital music became cheaper and easier to use. Thus, electronic distribution was the first to revolutionize. Internet sales thrived as compact disks became less of a desire for people to travel to buy; the sales of physical CDs declined…

According to Biography.com, “Reaching the top of the album charts in late 1996, the recording's success was driven in part by the hit single "Just a Girl," which has been seen as an anti-sexism anthem by many” (Biography.com Editors). This song was one of the first songs to reach top of the charts, but after…

While hymns originate before the legalization of Christianity by the Holy Roman Empire, contemporary Christian music is part of a movement created around the peak of Beatlemania. Originally referred to at “Jesus Music”, Christian Rock, Pop, and R&B had expanded into a multimillion-dollar business by the 1980s. This takeover of the music business was not without controversy, with contemporary Christian music being criticized for simple lyrics, repetitious chords, and having disingenuous…

ever since she had covered Joni’s song Both Sides Now. Her cover had peaked in the top ten charts in national music. Not only did this success help Judy Collins but Mitchell as well. This lead and created an enthusiastic expectation for Joni’s second album Clouds. Her songs also inspired folk musicians such as Tom Rush whom she had met in Toronto, Ian and Sylvia, Dave Van Ronk and Buffy Saint Marie to perform and record covers of her…

Garcia is a performer, composer, arranger, producer, clinician, educator and author in both instrumental and vocal genres and Director of Jazz Studies at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU). He has performed as trombonist, bass trombonist, or pianist with 70 major artists including Ella Fitzgerald, George Shearing, Mel Tormé, Billy Eckstine, Doc Severinsen,…

fusion jazz are known to be jazz, rock, bebop, blues, funk, and 20th century classical music. Primary instruments used in fusion jazz consist of electric guitar, piano, electric piano, drums, saxophone, trumpet, electronic keyboards, bass guitar, and vocals. Fusion jazz differs in a way that the amount of musical fusion…

As the years go by, new political dramas and landmarks seem to be a dime a dozen. New wars, scandals, controversies, and otherwise seem to find their way into the mainstream media on the daily. As newer generations find themselves in the midst of it all, gaining a platform to be heard and see the change one desires can feel impossible. Whether it be today, 20 years ago, or 50 years ago, getting your voice heard in the global sphere is troubling for younger generations. This sense of not being…