Christmas music
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Christmas music comprises a variety of genres of music regularly performed or heard around the Christmas season. Music associated with Christmas may be purely instrumental, or in the case of carols, m
The U.S Army Band performs a Christmas concert in 2010.
King's College Chapel, Cambridge, (left) in the snow where the Nine Lessons and Carols are broadcast on the BBC and around the world on Christmas Eve
Child Christmas carolers in Bucharest, Romania 1929
The large repertoire of Advent and Christmas church music plays an important role in services.
Adult contemporary music
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Adult contemporary is a category of popular music catered to adult demographics, including record charts and radio formats that are focused on such music.
Johnny Mathis concentrated on romantic readings of jazz and pop standards for the adult contemporary audience of the 1960s and 1970s.
In terms of record sales and career longevity, Barry Manilow is one of the most successful adult contemporary singers ever and the most best-selling of the 1970s.
"Careless Whisper" stayed at the No. 1 spot in the adult contemporary chart for 5 weeks. The song was George Michael's first solo single.
Latin artist Marc Anthony's self-titled English-language album released in 1999 had singles that crossed over to the AC charts.