5 pop songs that defined the 1970s. Story by Jonathan Eig • 1w. T o musical bluebloods, or blue-ears, or whatever you might call them, pop music has always been seen as an opiate for the masses.

These pop one-hit wonders from the 1970s were megahits back in the day, but they probably wouldn't chart as well in the 21st century.

Disco music was one of the predominant forms of pop music in the 1970s.While subsequent generations made disco songs, the genre never again reached the same level of cultural saturation it did ...

You can learn a lot about any given year by listening to its most popular songs. In 1970, the No. 1–selling single was Simon & Garfunkel’s “Bridge Over Troubled Water,” an ode to ...

Today, it’s his most popular song on Spotify with more than 78 million streams, ... When many modern fans of country music think of the 1970s, they think of Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson.

A&E; Pop culture; Roberta Flack, popular song stylist of the 1970s, dies at 88 Feb. 24, 2025 Updated Mon., Feb. 24, 2025 at 10:12 p.m. American jazz, soul and folk musician Roberta Flack performs ...

An analysis of 50 years of popular music lyrics reveals a number of trends. ... After analyzing 12,000 English-language pop, rock, rap, R&B, and country songs released between 1970 and 2020, ...