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

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.

Contemporary pop charts such as Billboards Hot 100 are based on radio play and digital downloads, which do not have “ sides ” so the terms are becoming antiquated.

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.

Contemporary cultural movements began in the city, such as the Amazonian pop art and Amazonian graffiti — with Pukuna 8990 being the most revolutionary graffiti movement —, Iquiteño music subgenres of electronica, hip hop, rap, heavy metal, French jazz, punk, psytrance / full-on, next to tradicional Amazonian music.

Contemporary Paganism has been characterized as " a synthesis of historical inspiration and present-day creativity ", in this manner drawing influences from pre-Christian, folkloric and ethnographic sources in order to fashion new religious movements.

Contemporary aircraft were built around wooden frames constructed in a rib-and-stringer fashion, reinforced with wires, and covered with a stretched fabric.

Contemporary Mexican journalists and foreigners who knew these women in the first half of the nineteenth century call attention to the way in which the fashion of peasant women showed off their feminine forms, or were an appropriate feature of all the graces that were attributed to these women.

Contemporary Indian society is depicted in a very real fashion, without glorifying it so that it has the effect of being ' in-your-face '.

Contemporary amphitheatres often include standing structures, called bandshells, sometimes curved or bowl-shaped, both behind the stage and behind the audience, creating an area which echoes or amplifies sound, making the amphitheatre ideal for musical or theatrical performances.

Contemporary art can sometimes seem at odds with a public that does not feel that art and its institutions share its values.

Contemporary classical music sometimes uses computer-generated sounds, either pre-recorded or generated / manipulated live, in conjunction or juxtaposition with classical acoustic instruments.

Although the lyrics of Vector's music did not always contain the overt lyrics of Christian Contemporary Music with which the band was sometimes associated, Vector's albums were released under Christian labels, and were an example of Christian rock.

Contemporary Kabbalists, Tosafists and Rationalists continue to engage in lively, sometimes caustic, debate in support of their positions and influence in the Jewish world.

Despite her declining success on the Hot 100, Francis remained a top concert draw, and her singles – now following a more mature style – were charting on the top quarter of Billboard's Adult Contemporary ( AC ) Charts and sometimes even reached Billboard's Country Charts.

Contemporary jian are also sometimes forgeries ( artificially aged and misrepresented as original antiques ), for sale to tourists and collectors who cannot distinguish them from true antiques.

Contemporary sources, however, sometimes imply that clibanarii were in fact a heavier type of cavalryman, or formed special-purpose units ( such as the late Equites Sagittarii Clibanarii, a Roman equivalent of horse archers, first mentioned in the Notitia Dignitatum ).

She contributed regularly to periodicals, sometimes under the pseudonym James Lincoln, including Atlantic Monthly, Congregationalist, Boston Evening Transcript, Christian Century, Contemporary Verse, Lippincott's and Delineator.

Contemporary illustrations of both secular and religious buildings are sometimes found in Illuminated manuscripts.

Contemporary interpretations of the Arthurian myth ( notably the film Excalibur where she is called ' Morgana ') sometimes assign to Morgan the role of seducing Arthur and giving birth to the wicked Mordred, though traditionally Mordred's mother was Morgause, another sister.

Contemporary qualitative data analyses are sometimes supported by computer programs, termed Computer Assisted Qualitative Data Analysis Software.

writing on water ( 1999 -), commissioned by Matthew Herbert and released on the Accidental label, is an expanding collection of short ( sometimes only 20 seconds long ) works using recorded acoustic instruments ; and shadow grounds ( 1999 ), commissioned by the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival for the ensemble recherche as part of their In Nomine Broken Consort Book, a 3 minute non-miniature of suspended sound.

Contemporary philosophy of sex is sometimes informed by Western feminism.

Contemporary advocates tend to favour the use of tariffs to protect infant industries in developing nations and sometimes specific sectors ( e. g. agriculture ) in developed ones.

Contemporary governance practice and theory sometimes questions this distinction, premising that both " governance " and " politics " involve aspects of power.

Contemporary editions are sometimes for multiple voices, with or without lute tablature ; occasionally keyboard scores survive.

Contemporary t ' ai chi ch ' uan is typically practised for a number of widely varying reasons: health, external / internal martial art skills, aesthetics, meditation or as an athletic / competition sport ( sometimes called " wushu tai chi ").

The Contemporary Resort also offers suites, as well as two levels of concierge ( sometimes referred to as " club ") service on the 12th and 14th floors.

Contemporary Western cultures permit displays of cleavage in appropriate social contexts, but exposing the areolae and nipples is usually regarded as immodest and is sometimes prosecuted as indecent exposure.

Contemporary accounts referred to him as an " Arabized black "; " Moor ", a term sometimes used for Berber natives ; and " black African ".

Contemporary illustrators sometimes prefer to add color afterwards in Adobe Photoshop Corel Painter, CorelDRAW or Adobe Illustrator.

On the other hand, Southern Gospel lyrics are typically overt in their Christian message unlike Contemporary Christian music ( CCM ) which sometimes has " double entendre " lyrics which could be interpreted as being about a devout love for God or an earthly love for a man or woman.