Contemporary a cappella includes many vocal groups and bands who add vocal percussion or beatboxing to create a pop / rock sound, in some cases very similar to bands with instruments.

The album's title song received some pop radio airplay and crossed over to No. 96 on the Billboard Hot 100, and " 1974 ( We Were Young )" and " Saved By Love " also charted as Adult Contemporary songs.

Easy listening and Adult Contemporary are related formats that play largely down-tempo pop music of various styles.

The difference is mostly in the era and styles covered -- Easy Listening is mostly older music done in the style of standards from the early 20th century ( typical artists include Johnny Mathis and Frank Sinatra ) combined with Big Band music and more modern performers in the same style such as Céline Dion and Josh Groban, while Adult Contemporary focuses more on newer pop music from the 1970s on.

* 1979 – Jaci Velasquez, American Contemporary Christian and Latin pop singer

Contemporary pop punk fashion sometimes overlaps with skater punk fashion.

The first single from DeYoung's Back to the World, " Call Me ", peaked at No. 6 on the Adult Contemporary chart and was a modest pop hit, peaking at No. 54 on the Billboard Hot 100.

It was less successful on the pop chart ( peaking at No. 60 ) but it reached No. 2 on Billboard's Adult Contemporary chart.

The album nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Pop / Contemporary Gospel Album, combines the pop style of his previous recordings with the religious feel of his two releases in that genre.

Within contemporary forms of music ( sometimes referred to as Contemporary Commercial Music ), singers are classified by the style of music they sing, such as jazz, pop, blues, soul, country, folk, and rock styles.

Two notable songs recorded during this period were " His House and Me " and " Once You Hit The Road " (# 79 pop, # 5 R & B, # 22 Adult Contemporary ) — both of which were produced in 1975 by Thom Bell.

McEntire's music has been described to not only be built upon traditional country music, but also expand into the genres of Country pop, Mainstream pop, Soul, Adult Contemporary, and R & B.

The album leaned more progressively towards Adult Contemporary and mid-tempo pop music.

Jacquelyn " Jaci " Davette Velasquez ( Spanish Jaci Velásquez, born October 15, 1979 in Houston, Texas ) is an American Contemporary Christian and Latin pop singer — in both English and Spanish languages.

Contemporary pop music exchanges between Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore and Brunei are normal since these countries share the Malay language.

Contemporary music includes e. g. a renowned metal music scene, in common with the other Nordic countries, as well as a number of prominent rock and pop bands, jazz musicians, hip hop performers and makers of dance music.

Contemporary Korean music and pop stars are so popular, Asians have designated a word to reflect this fact.

This helped inspire the greatest crossover success of Christian Contemporary Music ( CCM ), as well as the Miami Sound of Cuban pop.

She has toured South Africa with jazz artist Moses Molelekwa, recorded with pop artist Talvin Singh and toured China ( with her own music combining traditional Chinese instruments and electronics ) with Jin Xing's Contemporary Dance Theatre of Shanghai.

Carpenter's version peaked on the U. S. Country chart at No. 4, and was the first of Carpenter's songs to cross over to mainstream pop and adult contemporary charts, charting at No. 57 on the Billboard Hot 100 and at No. 11 on Adult Contemporary.

The only thing that all Downtown music might be said to have in common is that, at least at the time of its original appearance, it was too bizarre – by dint of excessive length, stasis, simplicity, extemporaneity, consonance, noisiness, pop influence, vernacular reference, or other purported infraction – to have been considered " serious " modern music by proponents of " uptown " music performed from the 1960s through the 1980s at the Juilliard School, Columbia University, and Lincoln Center, under the direction of the composers Charles Wuorinen and Harvey Sollberger in concerts by The Group for Contemporary Music, and concerts directed by the French conductor and pianist, Jacques-Louis Monod with the Guild of Composers.

Easton's first three US albums, Sheena Easton ( 1981 ) ( retitled edition of Take My Time ), You Could Have Been With Me ( 1981 ), and Madness, Money and Music ( 1982 ), were all in the same Soft Rock / Adult Contemporary pop vein ( although she made a grab for the New Wave audience with " Machinery ", from the latter album ).

From the latter half of the 20th century to the present day in Western Christendom — especially in the United States and in other countries with evangelical churches — various genres of music, originally often related to pop rock, have been created under the label of Contemporary Christian Music for home-listening and concert use.

In May 2001, NBC began using " Only Time " to accompany commercials for their television series Friends, which helped the song top the Adult Contemporary and Adult Top 40 charts.

" Only Time " peaked at number 10 on the U. S. Hot 100, number 12 on the Pop Chart and hit number one on the Adult Contemporary and Hot Adult Contemporary charts.

" Time After Time " hit No. 1 on both Billboard's Hot 100 and Adult Contemporary charts.

They had a run of hit singles during the 1980s and early 1990s, eventually scoring a total of 19 top-ten singles across the Billboard Hot 100, Adult Contemporary and Mainstream Rock charts.

The album would top the album charts, release five singles on the Adult Contemporary Charts and win the band two Grammys.

Her 1979 single, " I Know A Heartache When I See One ", was a Top 10 Country hit and reached the Top 20 on both the Pop and Adult Contemporary charts.

Anka's final Top-40 hit in the U. S. to date was " Hold Me Til The Mornin ' Comes ", which included backing vocals from then-Chicago frontman Peter Cetera, in the summer of 1983, which also hit number two on the Hot Adult Contemporary charts.

" " Down in the Valley " debuted in the US charts on May 26, 1965, and peaked at # 20 in the R & B charts, # 71 in the Pop charts, and at # 19 in the Adult Contemporary charts.

He also released the self-titled solo album Maurice White in 1985, which included a cover of " Stand by Me " that went to number six on the R & B charts and number eleven on the Adult Contemporary charts.

It also became a Top 10 hit on the Adult Contemporary and R & B charts.

It hit # 1 on the U. S. Pop and Adult Contemporary charts, and sold over a million copies in the United States alone.

Surprisingly it was her last Top 40 Pop hit, but Manchester continued to place singles on the Adult Contemporary charts throughout the 1980s.

The first week of release it went to No. 2 on Billboard charts ' Contemporary Jazz Chart.

His major label debut climbed quickly to the top of the Billboard Contemporary Jazz charts and soon brought him widespread acclaim.

Reddy's recording ( with a different arrangement than the one her character sings in the film ) was released as a single by Capitol Records, reaching # 27 on the Adult Contemporary charts.

Pop would resurface on the charts in the mid-1960s as " Adult Contemporary.

He had less success on the Pop charts soon after, and only had Adult Contemporary hits with " When the Snow Is On the Roses ", " Time Time ", " Pete Raids ", and " Timeless Love ".

" " Hello Stranger " topped the U. S. Adult Contemporary charts for four weeks, and was also a # 15 Pop hit in 1977, while " Love Me " was a # 14 Pop hit in late 1976 / early 1977.

Wonderful reached number 22 and number 2 on Billboards Top Contemporary Christian and Top Gospel Albums charts, respectively, and earned Williams a Gospel Music Association ( GMA ) Dove Award for Best Traditional Black Gospel Recorded Song of the Year.