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Pop Music History

Pop eras, charts, record formats, and landmark artists.

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40 basic cards for Trivia Music Theory. It opens with "Which British rock band led the British Invasion of the US charts in 1964?" and "In what year did MTV first launch as a music video network?". More Hobbies and Everyday Life decks are listed below.

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Which British rock band led the British Invasion of the US charts in 1964?
Show answerThe Beatles
In what year did MTV first launch as a music video network?
Show answer1981
What Motown label, founded in Detroit, became the sound of the 1960s?
Show answerTamla Motown (or just Motown Records)
Which Elvis Presley song was his first #1 hit on the Billboard Hot 100?
Show answerHeartbreak Hotel
What decade is known as the era of disco music?
Show answerThe 1970s
In what year did David Bowie release the album The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars?
Show answer1972
Which grunge band released the album Nevermind in 1991?
Show answerNirvana
What record format became the primary way people listened to pop music in the 1980s?
Show answerCassette tape
Which artist's 1982 album Thriller became one of the best-selling albums of all time?
Show answerMichael Jackson
What was the primary hit single format in the 1950s and 1960s?
Show answer45 rpm vinyl single
In what year did Britney Spears release her debut single ...Baby One More Time?
Show answer1998
Which singer is known for the 1984 album Like a Virgin?
Show answerMadonna
What woodstock festival in 1969 became a defining moment for rock and pop culture?
Show answerWoodstock Music Festival
Which British rock band, formed in 1962, competed with The Beatles for chart supremacy?
Show answerThe Rolling Stones
What music chart, first published in 1945, remains the primary measure of pop success in the US?
Show answerBillboard Hot 100

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