popular song
Example Sentences
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Each country awards 12 points to its most popular song while the second choice gets 10, and the rest are scored from eight to one.
From BBC
Messy was recently certified as the most popular song of 2025 by a British artist, with more than a billion streams around the world.
From BBC
There’s a scene in Martin Scorsese’s “Rolling Thunder Revue” documentary where Dylan is speaking about Allen Ginsberg and how Ginsberg had achieved heights that no other modern poet had, and he explains that the role that poetry once filled was now instead taken up by popular song: “We still remember those lines today,” he said, referring to poets at the level of recognition of Whitman.
From Salon
Its most popular song, “Lowdown,” was a dance-club hit and peaked at No. 3 on Billboard’s Hot 100 and No. 5 on the R&B chart before winning a Grammy for best R&B song.
It feels like what a musical AI would create when asked to write the most popular song imaginable.”
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
