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A girl group is a music act featuring several female singers who generally harmonize together. [1]

223 relations: A cappella, Adele, AKB48, AKB48 Group, All Saints (group), All-female band, American Top 40, Amy Winehouse, Atomic Kitten, B*Witched, Baccara, Bananarama, Barbershop quartet, Beat music, Belle Epoque (band), Billboard (magazine), Billboard charts, Billboard Hot 100, Black people, Black Pink, Blaque, Blush (Asian band), Bossa nova, Boy band, Brill Building, British Invasion, Bubblegum pop, Candies (group), Carole King, Casey Kasem, Close and open harmony, Consumerism, Contemporary R&B, Continental Europe, Country music, CrazySexyCool, Dance-pop, David Gates, Destiny's Child, Disco, Doo-wop, Duffy (singer), Eddie My Love, Electropop, Emma Bunton, En Vogue, Eternal (band), Exposé (group), F(x) (band), Fifth Harmony, ..., First Choice (band), Flans, Frantique, Gaon Album Chart, Gerry Goffin, Girl power, Girl's Day, Girls Aloud, Girls' Generation, Glam rock, Global music industry market share data, Google Books, Gospel music, Great Depression, High Inergy, Hip hop, Honey Cone, Hot (American vocal group), I Got a Boy (song), I Love How You Love Me, J-pop, Japanese idol, Jeans (band), Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, Jump blues, K-pop, Kiss in the Dark (Pink Lady song), Korean Wave, Labelle, Leader of the Pack, List of best-selling girl groups, List of best-selling singles in 2013 (Japan), List of girl groups, List of Oricon number-one singles of 2011, List of Oricon number-one singles of 2012, List of Oricon number-one singles of 2013, List of Oricon number-one singles of 2014, Little Mix, Luv', Mainstream Top 40, Martha and the Vandellas, Mary Jane Girls, MAX (band), Maybe (The Chantels song), McGuire Sisters, Melanie Fiona, Miami, Mis-Teeq, Miss A, Momoiro Clover Z, Morning Musume, Motown, Mr. Lee (song), Music hall, Music industry, Music sequencer, Music Station, New jack swing, NMB48, Nobody (Wonder Girls song), Odyssey (band), One-hit wonder, Oricon Singles Chart, Patti LaBelle, Payola, Phil Spector, Pink Lady (band), Please Mr. Postman, Pop music, Pop punk, Pop rock, Popular culture, Popular music, Postmodernism, Power pop, Red Velvet (band), Reflection (Fifth Harmony album), Rhythm and blues, Riot grrrl, Rock and roll, Round Round, Sally Go 'Round the Roses, Sampler (musical instrument), Sengoku period, Silver Convention, Sistar, Sister Sledge, SKE48, Social effects of rock music, Soldier Boy (song), Soul music, Sound of the Underground (song), Speed (Japanese band), Spice Girls, Stooshe, Sugababes, Sweet Sensation (trio), Swing music, SWV, T-ara, Teen idol, Teen pop, Teenage tragedy song, Teenybopper, The Andrews Sisters, The Angels (American group), The Beatles, The Blossoms, The Bobbettes, The Bonnie Sisters, The Boswell Sisters, The Carefrees, The Chantels, The Chiffons, The Chordettes, The Cookies, The Crystals, The DeCastro Sisters, The Dixie Cups, The Emotions, The Exciters, The Fontane Sisters, The Jaynetts, The Jewels, The Lawrence Welk Show, The Lennon Sisters, The Marvelettes, The Miracles, The Murmaids, The Orlons, The Paris Sisters, The Pointer Sisters, The Pussycat Dolls, The Ronettes, The Saturdays, The Sensations, The Shangri-Las, The Shirelles, The Supremes, The Sweet Inspirations, The Teen Queens, The Three Degrees, The Toys, The Velvelettes, The X Factor (U.S. TV series), Three X Sisters, TI Media, TLC (group), Tonight's the Night (The Shirelles song), Total (group), Traditional pop music, Twice (band), Variety (magazine), Vaudeville, Vicki Wickham, Vocal harmony, Wall of Sound, Want Ads, We Love You Beatles, When Will I See You Again, Will You Love Me Tomorrow, Women in music, Wonder Girls, Worth It, Xscape (group), Yé-yé, Zhané, 1950s in music, 1960s in music, 2013 YouTube Music Awards, 2NE1, 3LW, 702 (group). Expand index (173 more) »

A cappella

A cappella (Italian for "in the manner of the chapel") music is specifically group or solo singing without instrumental accompaniment, or a piece intended to be performed in this way.

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Adele

Adele Laurie Blue Adkins (born 5 May 1988) is an English singer and songwriter.

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AKB48

AKB48 (pronounced A.K.B. Forty-Eight) are a Japanese idol girl group named after the Akihabara (Akiba for short) area in Tokyo, where the group's theater is located.

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AKB48 Group

, or AKB48 sister groups, shortened to 48 Group or ALL48, refers to the sister groups of the Japanese idol girl group AKB48.

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All Saints (group)

All Saints are a girl group formed in London in 1993.

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All-female band

An all-female band is a musical group in popular music which is exclusively composed of female musicians.

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American Top 40

American Top 40 (commonly abbreviated to AT40) is an internationally syndicated, independent song countdown radio program created by Casey Kasem, Don Bustany, Tom Rounds and Ron Jacobs.

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Amy Winehouse

Amy Jade Winehouse (14 September 1983 – 23 July 2011) was an English singer and songwriter.

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Atomic Kitten

Atomic Kitten are a British pop girl group formed in Liverpool in 1998 whose current members are Natasha Hamilton and Liz McClarnon.

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B*Witched

B*Witched are an Irish girl group consisting of twin sisters Edele and Keavy Lynch, Lindsay Armaou, and Sinéad O'Carroll.

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Baccara

Baccara is a female vocal duo formed in 1977 by Spanish artists Mayte Mateos (born 7 February 1951, Logroño) and María Mendiola (born 4 April 1952, Madrid).

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Bananarama

Bananarama are a British female pop music vocal group formed in London in 1981 by friends Sara Dallin, Siobhan Fahey and Keren Woodward.

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Barbershop quartet

A barbershop quartet is a group of four singers who sing music in the barbershop genre of singing, which uses four-part harmony without accompaniment by any instruments such as piano, a style called a capella.

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Beat music

Beat music, British beat, or Merseybeat (after bands from Liverpool and nearby areas beside the River Mersey) is a pop and rock music genre that developed in the United Kingdom in the early 1960s.

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Belle Epoque (band)

Belle Epoque (also referenced in some sources as La Belle Epoque) was the name of a female vocal trio, based in Paris, France.

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Billboard (magazine)

Billboard (styled as billboard) is an American entertainment media brand owned by the Billboard-Hollywood Reporter Media Group, a division of Eldridge Industries.

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Billboard charts

The Billboard charts tabulate the relative weekly popularity of singles or albums in the United States and elsewhere.

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Billboard Hot 100

The Billboard Hot 100 is the music industry standard record chart in the United States for songs, published weekly by Billboard magazine.

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Black people

Black people is a term used in certain countries, often in socially based systems of racial classification or of ethnicity, to describe persons who are perceived to be dark-skinned compared to other populations.

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Black Pink

Black Pink (Hangul: 블랙핑크), stylized as BLACKPINK or BLΛƆKPIИK, is a South Korean girl group formed by YG Entertainment, consisting of members Jisoo, Jennie, Rosé and Lisa.

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Blaque

Blaque was an American girl group that charted in 1999–2004.

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Blush (Asian band)

Blush is a Hong Kong-based Asian girl group originally composed of five members from the Philippines, India, China, Japan, and South Korea.

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Bossa nova

Bossa nova is a genre of Brazilian music, which was developed and popularized in the 1950s and 1960s and is today one of the best-known Brazilian music genres abroad.

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Boy band

A boy band (or boyband) is loosely defined as a vocal group consisting of young male singers, usually in their teenage years or in their twenties at the time of formation, singing love songs marketed towards young women.

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Brill Building

The Brill Building (built 1931 as the Alan E. Lefcourt Building and designed by Victor Bark Jr.Gray, Christopher,, The New York Times, December 30, 2009) is an office building located at 1619 Broadway on 49th Street in the New York City borough of Manhattan, just north of Times Square and further uptown from the historic musical Tin Pan Alley neighborhood.

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British Invasion

The British Invasion was a cultural phenomenon of the mid-1960s when rock and pop music acts from the United Kingdom and other aspects of British culture, became popular in the United States and significant to rising "counterculture" on both sides of the Atlantic.

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Bubblegum pop

Bubblegum pop (also known as bubblegum music or simply bubblegum) is a genre of pop music with an upbeat sound contrived and marketed to appeal to pre-teens and teenagers, which may be produced in an assembly-line process, driven by producers and often using unknown singers.

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Candies (group)

Candies (キャンディーズ) was a famous Japanese idol group formed in 1973, their first single being "あなたに夢中" (Anata ni Muchu).

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Carole King

Carole King (born Carol Joan Klein, February 9, 1942) is an American composer and singer-songwriter.

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Casey Kasem

Kemal Amin "Casey" Kasem (April 27, 1932 – June 15, 2014) was an American disc jockey, music historian, radio personality, voice actor, and actor, known for being the host of several music radio countdown programs, most notably American Top 40, from 1970 until his retirement in 2009, and for providing the voice of Norville "Shaggy" Rogers in the Scooby-Doo franchise from 1969 to 1997, and again from 2002 until 2009.

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Close and open harmony

Close harmony is an arrangement of the notes of chords within a narrow range, usually notes that are no more than an octave apart.

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Consumerism

Consumerism is a social and economic order and ideology that encourages the acquisition of goods and services in ever-increasing amounts.

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Contemporary R&B

Contemporary R&B (also known as simply R&B), is a music genre that combines elements of rhythm and blues, pop, soul, funk, hip hop, and electronic music.

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Continental Europe

Continental or mainland Europe is the continuous continent of Europe excluding its surrounding islands.

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Country music

Country music, also known as country and western or simply country, is a genre of popular music that originated in the southern United States in the early 1920s.

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CrazySexyCool

CrazySexyCool is the second studio album by American girl group TLC, released on November 15, 1994 by LaFace Records.

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Dance-pop

Dance-pop is a pop and dance subgenre that originated in the early 1980s.

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David Gates

David Ashworth Gates (born December 11, 1940) is an American singer-songwriter, musician and producer, best known as the frontman and co-lead singer (with Jimmy Griffin) of the group Bread, which reached the tops of the musical charts in Europe and North America on several occasions in the 1970s.

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Destiny's Child

Destiny's Child was an American girl group whose final and best-known line-up comprised Beyoncé Knowles, Kelly Rowland, and Michelle Williams.

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Disco

Disco is a musical style that emerged in the mid 1960s and early 1970s from America's urban nightlife scene, where it originated in house parties and makeshift discothèques, reaching its peak popularity between the mid-1970s and early 1980s.

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Doo-wop

Doo-wop is a genre of rhythm and blues music that was developed in African-American communities in the East Coast of the United States in the 1940s, achieving mainstream popularity in the 1950s and early 1960s.

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Duffy (singer)

Duffy (born 23 June 1984 as Amy Anne Duffy) is a Welsh singer, songwriter and actress.

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Eddie My Love

"Eddie My Love" is a 1956 doo wop song.

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Electropop

Electropop is a variant of synth-pop that places more emphasis on a harder, electronic sound.

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Emma Bunton

Emma Lee Bunton (born 21 January 1976) is an English singer, songwriter, actress, and radio and television presenter.

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En Vogue

En Vogue is an American R&B/Pop vocal group whose original lineup consisted of singers Terry Ellis, Dawn Robinson, Cindy Herron, and Maxine Jones.

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Eternal (band)

Eternal were a British R&B girl group formed in 1992 with the line-up consisting of Easther Bennett and her older sister Vernie Bennett, with Kéllé Bryan and her friend and classmate Louise Redknapp who were also recruited into the group by the label.

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Exposé (group)

Exposé is an American Latin freestyle vocal group.

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F(x) (band)

f(x) (Hangul: 에프엑스) is a South Korean girl group formed by S.M. Entertainment in 2009.

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Fifth Harmony

Fifth Harmony is an American girl group based in Miami, composed of Ally Brooke, Normani, Dinah Jane, Lauren Jauregui, and previously Camila Cabello until her departure from the group on December 18, 2016.

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First Choice (band)

First Choice is an American girl group vocal music trio from Philadelphia.

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Flans

Flans is an all-female Mexican group, which enjoyed popularity from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s.

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Frantique

Frantique was an American disco group signed to Philadelphia International Records.

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Gaon Album Chart

Gaon Album Chart, part of Gaon Music Chart, is a national chart that ranks the best-selling albums, including mini and single albums, in South Korea, provided by the Korea Music Content Industry Association.

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Gerry Goffin

Gerald Goffin (February 11, 1939 – June 19, 2014) was an American lyricist.

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Girl power

Girl power is a slogan that encourages and celebrates women's empowerment, independence, and confidence.

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Girl's Day

Girl's Day is a South Korean girl group formed by Dream Tea Entertainment in 2010.

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Girls Aloud

Girls Aloud are an English-Irish pop girl group, which was created through the ITV talent show Popstars: The Rivals in 2002.

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Girls' Generation

Girls' Generation, also known as SNSD, is a South Korean girl group formed by SM Entertainment.

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Glam rock

Glam rock is a style of rock that developed in the United Kingdom in the early 1970s performed by musicians who wore outrageous costumes, makeup, and hairstyles, particularly platform shoes and glitter.

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Global music industry market share data

Note that this list ranks markets based on retail value (rather than units) each market generates respectively per year; retail value generated by each market varies from year to year.

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Google Books

Google Books (previously known as Google Book Search and Google Print and by its codename Project Ocean) is a service from Google Inc. that searches the full text of books and magazines that Google has scanned, converted to text using optical character recognition (OCR), and stored in its digital database.

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Gospel music

Gospel music is a genre of Christian music.

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Great Depression

The Great Depression was a severe worldwide economic depression that took place mostly during the 1930s, beginning in the United States.

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High Inergy

High Inergy was an American R&B and soul girl group who found fame on Motown Records in the late 1970s.

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Hip hop

Hip hop, or hip-hop, is a subculture and art movement developed in the Bronx in New York City during the late 1970s.

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Honey Cone

Honey Cone was an American R&B and soul all–girl vocal group, who are best remembered for their Billboard #1 hit single, "Want Ads".

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Hot (American vocal group)

Hot was a vocal trio based in Los Angeles, California, whose membership was Gwen Owens (born June 19, 1953), Cathy Carson (née Catherine Sue Fiebach) (October 8, 1953 – June 26, 2014) and Juanita Curiel (born February 25, 1953).

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I Got a Boy (song)

"I Got a Boy" is a song recorded in Korean language by South Korean girl group Girls' Generation for their fourth Korean-language studio album of the same name.

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I Love How You Love Me

"I Love How You Love Me" is a song written by Barry Mann and Larry Kolber.

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J-pop

J-pop (often stylized as J-POP; ジェイポップ jeipoppu; an abbreviation for Japanese pop), natively also known simply as, is a musical genre that entered the musical mainstream of Japan in the 1990s.

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Japanese idol

In Japanese pop culture is a term typically used to refer to young manufactured stars/starlets marketed to be admired for their cuteness.

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Jeans (band)

Jeans is a Mexican girl group that rose to fame in late 1996 and 1997 and continued until 2008.

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Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller

Lyricist Jerome "Jerry" Leiber (April 25, 1933 – August 22, 2011) and composer Mike Stoller (born Michael Stoller; March 13, 1933) were American songwriting and record producing partners.

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Jump blues

Jump blues is an up-tempo style of blues, usually played by small groups and featuring saxophone or brass instruments.

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K-pop

K-pop (abbreviation of Korean pop) characterized by a wide variety of audiovisual elements.

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Kiss in the Dark (Pink Lady song)

"Kiss in the Dark" was the 14th single released in Japan, and the first single released in America, by Japanese duo Pink Lady.

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Korean Wave

The Korean Wave (a neologism literally meaning "flow of Korea") is the increase in global popularity of South Korean culture since the 1990s.

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Labelle

Labelle is an American all-female singing group who were a popular vocal group of the 1960s and 1970s.

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Leader of the Pack

"Leader of the Pack" is a song written by George "Shadow" Morton, Jeff Barry, and Ellie Greenwich.

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List of best-selling girl groups

A girl group is a popular music act featuring several female singers who generally harmonize together.

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List of best-selling singles in 2013 (Japan)

This is a list of the best-selling singles in 2013 in Japan, as reported by Oricon.

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List of girl groups

This is a list of girl groups of all musical genres.

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List of Oricon number-one singles of 2011

The highest-selling singles in Japan are ranked in the Oricon Weekly Chart, which is published by Oricon Style magazine.

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List of Oricon number-one singles of 2012

The highest-selling singles in Japan are ranked in the Oricon Weekly Chart, which is published by Oricon Style magazine.

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List of Oricon number-one singles of 2013

The highest-selling singles in Japan are ranked in the Oricon Weekly Chart, which is published by Oricon Style magazine.

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List of Oricon number-one singles of 2014

The highest-selling singles in Japan are ranked in the weekly Oricon Singles Chart, which is published by Oricon Style magazine.

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Little Mix

Little Mix are a British girl group formed in 2011 during the eighth series of the UK version of The X Factor.

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Luv'

Luv' are a Dutch girl group that scored a string of hit records in Continental Europe (Benelux, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, France, Denmark) as well as South Africa, Zimbabwe, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and Mexico in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

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Mainstream Top 40

Mainstream Top 40 (also called Pop Songs on billboard.com and sometimes referred to as Top 40/CHR) is a 40-song music chart published weekly by ''Billboard'' Magazine which ranks the most popular songs being played on a panel of Top 40 radio stations in the United States.

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Martha and the Vandellas

Martha and the Vandellas (known from 1967 to 1972 as Martha Reeves and the Vandellas) were an American all-female vocal group formed in 1957.

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Mary Jane Girls

The Mary Jane Girls were an American R&B, soul and funk group in the 1980s.

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MAX (band)

MAX (pronounced "Max") is a Japanese female vocal group.

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Maybe (The Chantels song)

"Maybe" is a song with words and music originally credited to End Records owner George Goldner and "Casey".

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McGuire Sisters

The McGuire Sisters were a singing trio in American popular music.

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Melanie Fiona

Melanie Fiona Hallim (born July 4, 1983), known professionally as Melanie Fiona, is a Canadian R&B recording artist with Guyanese background.

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Miami

Miami is a major port city on the Atlantic coast of south Florida in the southeastern United States.

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Mis-Teeq

Mis-Teeq were a British girl group, consisting of lead singer Sabrina Washington, rapper, singer and songwriter Alesha Dixon and singer Su-Elise Nash.

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Miss A

Miss A (Hangul: 미쓰에이) was a South Korean girl group, formed by JYP Entertainment in 2010, consisting of Fei, Jia, Min, and Suzy.

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Momoiro Clover Z

are a Japanese idol group.

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Morning Musume

, formerly simply and colloquially referred to as, is a Japanese female idol group, holding the second highest overall single sales (of a female group) on the Oricon charts as of February 2012, with the Oricon record of most top ten singles with an amount of 64, and they have sold over 21 million copies in Japan alone.

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Motown

Motown is an American record company.

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Mr. Lee (song)

"Mr.

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Music hall

Music hall is a type of British theatrical entertainment that was popular from the early Victorian era circa 1850 and lasting until 1960.

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Music industry

The music industry consists of the companies and individuals that earn money by creating new songs and pieces and selling live concerts and shows, audio and video recordings, compositions and sheet music, and the organizations and associations that aid and represent music creators.

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Music sequencer

A music sequencer (or simply sequencer) is a device or application software that can record, edit, or play back music, by handling note and performance information in several forms, typically CV/Gate, MIDI, or Open Sound Control (OSC), and possibly audio and automation data for DAWs and plug-ins.

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Music Station

is a Japanese music television program.

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New jack swing

New jack swing or swingbeatSilverton, Peter.

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NMB48

NMB48 (read "N.M.B. Forty-eight") are a Japanese idol girl group that debuted in 2011 as the second sister group to AKB48, produced by Yasushi Akimoto.

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Nobody (Wonder Girls song)

"Nobody" is a song performed by South Korean girl group Wonder Girls, from their first EP, The Wonder Years: Trilogy (2008).

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Odyssey (band)

Odyssey is originally a New York City, United States-based singing group, best known for their 1977 hit "Native New Yorker," and a series of other mainly dance and soul hits in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

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One-hit wonder

A one-hit wonder is any entity that achieves mainstream popularity and success for a very short period of time, often for only one piece of work, and becomes known among the general public solely for that momentary success.

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Oricon Singles Chart

The Oricon Singles Chart is the Japanese music industry standard singles popularity chart issued daily, weekly, monthly and yearly by Oricon.

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Patti LaBelle

Patricia Louise Holt-Edwards known professionally as Patti LaBelle, (born Patricia Louise Holt on May 24, 1944), is an American singer, songwriter, actress, and entrepreneur.

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Payola

Payola, in the music industry, is the illegal practice of payment or other inducement by record companies for the broadcast of recordings on commercial radio in which the song is presented as being part of the normal day's broadcast, without announcing this prior to broadcast.

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Phil Spector

Phillip Harvey Spector (born Harvey Phillip Spector, December 26, 1939) is an American record producer, musician, and songwriter who developed the Wall of Sound, a music production formula he described as a "Wagnerian" approach to rock and roll.

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Pink Lady (band)

is a Japanese female pop music duo of the late 1970s and early 1980s, featuring Mitsuyo Nemoto ("Mie", born March 9, 1958) and Keiko Masuda ("Kei", born September 2, 1957).

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Please Mr. Postman

"Please Mr.

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Pop music

Pop music is a genre of popular music that originated in its modern form in the United States and United Kingdom during the mid-1950s.

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Pop punk

Pop punk (also known as punk-pop) is a music genre that fuses elements of pop music with punk rock.

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Pop rock

Pop rock (also typeset as pop/rock) is rock music with a greater emphasis on professional songwriting and recording craft, and less emphasis on attitude.

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Popular culture

Popular culture (also called pop culture) is generally recognized as a set of the practices, beliefs, and objects that are dominant or ubiquitous in a society at a given point in time.

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Popular music

Popular music is music with wide appeal that is typically distributed to large audiences through the music industry.

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Postmodernism

Postmodernism is a broad movement that developed in the mid- to late-20th century across philosophy, the arts, architecture, and criticism and that marked a departure from modernism.

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Power pop

Power pop is a rock music subgenre that draws its inspiration from 1960s British and American rock music.

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Red Velvet (band)

Red Velvet (Hangul: 레드벨벳) is a South Korean girl group formed by SM Entertainment.

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Reflection (Fifth Harmony album)

Reflection is the debut studio album by American girl group Fifth Harmony.

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Rhythm and blues

Rhythm and blues, commonly abbreviated as R&B, is a genre of popular music that originated in African American communities in the 1940s.

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Riot grrrl

Riot grrrl is an underground feminist punk movement that began in the early 1990s in Washington state (particularly Olympia) and the greater Pacific Northwest.

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Rock and roll

Rock and roll (often written as rock & roll or rock 'n' roll) is a genre of popular music that originated and evolved in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950sJim Dawson and Steve Propes, What Was the First Rock'n'Roll Record (1992),.

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Round Round

"Round Round" is a song performed by British girl group Sugababes.

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Sally Go 'Round the Roses

"Sally Go 'Round the Roses" is the name of a 1963 hit by The Jaynetts, a Bronx-based one-hit wonder girl group, released by J&S Records on the Tuff label.

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Sampler (musical instrument)

A sampler is an electronic or digital musical instrument similar in some respects to a synthesizer, but instead of generating new sounds with filters, it uses sound recordings (or "samples") of real instrument sounds (e.g., a piano, violin or trumpet), excerpts from recorded songs (e.g., a five-second bass guitar riff from a funk song) or other sounds (e.g., sirens and ocean waves).

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Sengoku period

The is a period in Japanese history marked by social upheaval, political intrigue and near-constant military conflict.

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Silver Convention

Silver Convention was a West German Euro disco recording act of the 1970s.

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Sistar

Sistar (often stylized as SISTAR) was a South Korean girl group formed in 2010 by Starship Entertainment.

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Sister Sledge

Sister Sledge is an American musical vocal group from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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SKE48

SKE48 (S.K.E. Forty-eight) are a Japanese idol girl group produced by Yasushi Akimoto.

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Social effects of rock music

The popularity and worldwide scope of rock music resulted in a powerful impact on society.

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Soldier Boy (song)

"Soldier Boy" is a song written by Luther Dixon and Florence Greenberg.

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Soul music

Soul music (often referred to simply as soul) is a popular music genre that originated in the African American community in the United States in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

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Sound of the Underground (song)

"Sound of the Underground" is the debut single by British pop group Girls Aloud, later featured on their debut album of the same name.

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Speed (Japanese band)

Speed (stylized as SPEED) is a Japanese female vocal/dance group comprising Hiroko Shimabukuro, Eriko Imai, Takako Uehara and Hitoe Arakaki.

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Spice Girls

The Spice Girls are an English pop girl group formed in 1994.

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Stooshe

Stooshe are a British girl group from London, consisting of members Alexandra Buggs, Karis Anderson and Courtney Rumbold.

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Sugababes

The Sugababes are a British girl group formed in 1998 by Siobhán Donaghy, Mutya Buena and Keisha Buchanan.

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Sweet Sensation (trio)

Sweet Sensation is an American female Freestyle-Dance music trio from The Bronx, New York, United States.

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Swing music

Swing music, or simply swing, is a form of popular music developed in the United States that dominated in the 1930s and 1940s.

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SWV

Sisters With Voices, better known as SWV, is an American female R&B vocal trio from New York City, New York.

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T-ara

T-ara (티아라) is a South Korean girl group formed in 2009 by MBK Entertainment (formerly known as Core Contents Media).

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Teen idol

A teen idol is a celebrity with a large teenage fan-base.

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Teen pop

Teen pop is a subgenre of pop music that is created, marketed and oriented towards preteens and teenagers.

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Teenage tragedy song

The teenage tragedy song is a style of ballad in popular music that peaked in popularity in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

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Teenybopper

A teenybopper is a young teenager who follows adolescent trends in music, fashion and culture.

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The Andrews Sisters

The Andrews Sisters were an American close harmony singing group of the swing and boogie-woogie eras.

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The Angels (American group)

The Angels are an American girl group, best known for their 1963 No.

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The Beatles

The Beatles were an English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1960.

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The Blossoms

The Blossoms are an American girl-group that originated from California.

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The Bobbettes

The Bobbettes were an American R&B girl group who had a 1957 top 10 hit song called "Mr. Lee." The group existed from 1955 to 1974 and included Jannie Pought (1945-1980), Emma Pought (born 1942), Reather Dixon (1945-2014), Laura Webb (1941-2001), and Helen Gathers (1942-2011).

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The Bonnie Sisters

The Bonnie Sisters were an American pop group from New York City.

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The Boswell Sisters

The Boswell Sisters were a close harmony singing group, consisting of sisters Martha Boswell Lloyd (June 9, 1905 – July 2, 1958), Connee Boswell (original name Connie, December 3, 1907 – October 11, 1976), and Helvetia "Vet" Boswell (May 20, 1911 – November 12, 1988), noted for intricate harmonies and rhythmic experimentation.

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The Carefrees

The Carefrees were a British group formed in 1964, most known for their song "We Love You Beatles".

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The Chantels

The Chantels were the second African-American girl group to enjoy nationwide success in the United States, preceded by The Bobbettes.

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The Chiffons

The Chiffons were an American all-girl group originating from the Bronx area of New York in 1960.

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The Chordettes

The Chordettes were an American female popular singing quartet, usually singing a cappella, and specializing in traditional popular music.

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The Cookies

The Cookies were an American R&B girl group in the 1950s to 1960s.

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The Crystals

The Crystals were an American vocal group based in New York, considered one of the defining acts of the girl group era in the first half of the 1960s.

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The DeCastro Sisters

The DeCastro Sisters were an American singing group.

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The Dixie Cups

The Dixie Cups are an American pop music girl group of the 1960s.

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The Emotions

The Emotions are an American Grammy Award-winning soul/R&B vocal group from Chicago, Illinois.

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The Exciters

The Exciters were an American pop music group of the 1960s.

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The Fontane Sisters

The Fontane Sisters were a trio (Bea, Geri and Marge Rosse) from New Milford, New Jersey.

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The Jaynetts

The Jaynetts were a Bronx, New York, girl group who became one-hit wonders with "Sally Go 'Round the Roses", which reached No.

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The Jewels

The Jewels (initially The Impalas, later The Four Jewels) were a girl group from Washington, D.C. The group began singing as The Impalas in 1961; at Allmusic.com its members had attended Roosevelt High School and sang in Trinity AME Zion Church.

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The Lawrence Welk Show

The Lawrence Welk Show was an American televised musical variety show hosted by big band leader Lawrence Welk.

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The Lennon Sisters

The Lennon Sisters are an American vocal group initially made up of four sisters from a family that had six sisters in all, and 5 brothers.

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The Marvelettes

The Marvelettes was an American girl group that achieved popularity in the early- to mid-1960s.

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The Miracles

The Miracles (also known as Smokey Robinson and the Miracles from 1965 to 1972) were an American rhythm and blues vocal group that was the first successful recording act for Berry Gordy's Motown Records, and one of the most important and influential groups in pop, rock and roll, and R&B music history.

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The Murmaids

The Murmaids were an American one-hit wonder all-female vocal trio composed of sisters Carol and Terry Fischer; and Sally Gordon from Los Angeles, California who, in January 1964 reached No.

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The Orlons

The Orlons are an American R&B group from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, that formed in 1960.

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The Paris Sisters

The Paris Sisters were a 1960s American girl group from San Francisco, California, United States, best known for their work with producer Phil Spector.

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The Pointer Sisters

The Pointer Sisters are an American R&B singing group from Oakland, California, who achieved mainstream success during the 1970s and 1980s.

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The Pussycat Dolls

The Pussycat Dolls are an American girl group and dance ensemble, founded in Los Angeles, California, by choreographer Robin Antin in 1995 as a burlesque troupe.

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The Ronettes

The Ronettes were an American girl group from New York City.

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The Saturdays

The Saturdays are a British-Irish girl group based in London, England.

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The Sensations

The Sensations were an American doo-wop group from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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The Shangri-Las

The Shangri-Las were an American pop girl group of the 1960s.

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The Shirelles

The Shirelles were an American girl group notable for their rhythm and blues, doo-wop and soul music and gaining popularity in the early 1960s.

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The Supremes

The Supremes were an American female singing group and the premier act of Motown Records during the 1960s.

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The Sweet Inspirations

The Sweet Inspirations were an American R&B girl group founded by Emily "Cissy" Houston (née Drinkard), mother of Whitney Houston, and sister of Lee Warrick (herself the mother of well-known sisters Dee Dee and Dionne Warwick).

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The Teen Queens

The Teen Queens were an American musical group from the 1950s, most remembered for their hit single "Eddie My Love", which reached #14 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 chart and #3 on the R&B Best Sellers charts in March 1956.

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The Three Degrees

The Three Degrees is an American female vocal group, which was originally formed in 1963 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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The Toys

The Toys were an American pop girl group from Jamaica, New York, which was formed in 1961 and disbanded in 1968.

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The Velvelettes

The Velvelettes were an American singing girl group, signed to Motown in the 1960s.

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The X Factor (U.S. TV series)

The X Factor is an American reality television music competition show created by Simon Cowell and produced by FremantleMedia North America and SYCOtv, a partnership between Cowell and Sony Music Entertainment, which aired on Fox from 2011 to 2013.

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Three X Sisters

The Three X Sisters were an American all-girl harmony singing trio, initially known as The Hamilton Sisters and Fordyce.

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TI Media

TI Media (formerly International Publishing Corporation, IPC Media and Time Inc. UK), on the IPC Media website is a consumer magazine and digital publisher in the United Kingdom, with a large portfolio selling over 350 million copies each year.

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TLC (group)

TLC is an American girl group whose original line-up consisted of Tionne "'''T'''-Boz" Watkins, Lisa "'''L'''eft Eye" Lopes and Rozonda "'''C'''hilli" Thomas.

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Tonight's the Night (The Shirelles song)

"Tonight's the Night" is the title and lead track from The Shirelles' 1961 album Tonight's the Night.

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Total (group)

Total is an American girl group and one of the signature acts of Sean Combs' Bad Boy Records imprint during the 1990s.

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Traditional pop music

Traditional pop (also classic pop or pop standards) is music that was recorded or performed after the Big Band era and before the advent of rock music.

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Twice (band)

Twice (Japanese: トゥワイス) is a South Korean girl group formed by JYP Entertainment through the 2015 reality show Sixteen.

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Variety (magazine)

Variety is a weekly American entertainment trade magazine and website owned by Penske Media Corporation.

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Vaudeville

Vaudeville is a theatrical genre of variety entertainment.

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Vicki Wickham

Vicki Heather Wickham OBE (born 1939) is an English talent manager, entertainment producer, and songwriter.

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Vocal harmony

Vocal harmony is a style of vocal music in which a consonant note or notes are simultaneously sung as a main melody in a predominantly homophonic texture.

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Wall of Sound

The Wall of Sound (also called the Spector Sound) is a music production formula developed by American record producer Phil Spector at Gold Star Studios in the 1960s, with assistance from engineer Larry Levine and the session musician conglomerate later known as "the Wrecking Crew".

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We Love You Beatles

"We Love You Beatles" is a song by the Carefrees.

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When Will I See You Again

"When Will I See You Again" is a song released in 1974 by American soul group The Three Degrees, from their third album The Three Degrees.

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Will You Love Me Tomorrow

"Will You Love Me Tomorrow", also known as "Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow", is a song written by Gerry Goffin and Carole King.

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Women in music

Women in music describes the role of women as composers, songwriters, instrumental performers, singers, conductors, music scholars, music educators, music critics/music journalists and other musical professions.

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Wonder Girls

Wonder Girls was a South Korean girl group formed by JYP Entertainment.

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Worth It

"Worth It" is a song performed by American girl group Fifth Harmony, featuring American rapper Kid Ink.

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Xscape (group)

Xscape, styled XSCAP3, is an American female R&B, vocal quartet from Atlanta, Georgia.

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Yé-yé

Yé-yé was a style of pop music that emerged from Italy, France, Switzerland, Spain, and Portugal in the early 1960s.

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Zhané

Zhané (pronounced Jah-Nay) was an American R&B/hip hop soul duo, best known for their 1993 hit "Hey Mr. D.J.", which reached No.

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1950s in music

This article includes an overview of the major events and trends in popular music in the 1950s.

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1960s in music

This article includes an overview of the events and trends in popular music in the 1960s.

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2013 YouTube Music Awards

The 2013 YouTube Music Awards, abbreviated as the YTMA, was the inaugural music award show presented by YouTube.

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2NE1

2NE1 (투애니원) was a South Korean girl group composed of Bom, Dara, CL, and Minzy, formed by YG Entertainment in 2009.

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3LW

3LW (initialism of "3 Little Women") was an American girl group that enjoyed a number of modest hits during the early 2000s.

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702 (group)

702 (pronounced "Seven-Oh-Two"), named after the area code of their hometown of Las Vegas, Nevada, is an American platinum-selling vocal girl group, with the final and most known line up consisting of Kameelah Williams and sisters Irish and LeMisha Grinstead.

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