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popular song
noun
- a song that is written to have an immediate and wide appeal and is usually popular for only a short time, but that sometimes is of a sufficiently high quality to become part of the permanent repertoire of popular music and jazz. Compare standard ( def 12 ).
Word History and Origins
Origin of popular song1
Example Sentences
Benson Boone scored the world's most popular song of last year with Beautiful Things - but that success has come with a backlash.
Young penned the popular song “Ridgetop” about his beloved home.
Playing at Radio 1's Big Weekend Festival a month later, he introduced Dizzy as "the 18th most popular song at Eurovision."
This palpable emotion reverberates in Erivo's nearly eight-minute rendition of the musical's most popular song, "Defying Gravity," originally sung by Idina Menzel in the Broadway production.
In the 2010s, Drake was the most-listened to Spotify artist, racking up more than 28 billion streams, with his most popular song, One Dance, played 1.7 billion times alone.
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