# Pop

> A chronological documentary of 796 moments spanning 1840–2026.
> Source: https://loreline.live/loreline/pop · Loreline (loreline.live)

Pop is the music that had to sell. It begins with a machine, Edison's phonograph in 1877, and everything after is downstream of the fact that a performance could suddenly be a product. The disc, the 45, the transistor radio, the cassette, MTV, Napster, the iPod, Spotify and TikTok each rearranged what a song was allowed to be: how long, how loud, how quickly it had to get to the chorus. Around that machinery grew an industry very good at manufacturing feeling on schedule, Tin Pan Alley, the Brill Building, Motown, the Swedish songwriting camps, the Korean training system, and a century-long argument about whether music made that way can be any good, which mostly ended when the critics lost. The centre of gravity has moved too. The story is not only Elvis and the Beatles and Taylor Swift; it is Teresa Teng and Umm Kulthum, Lata Mangeshkar and Hikaru Utada, Seo Taiji, Daddy Yankee, Burna Boy and Bad Bunny, who won Album of the Year in 2026 with a record in Spanish. This archive is the whole apparatus: the records, the stars, the technology, the machine, the sound, the argument, the show, and where it all stands now.

_Curated by Olivier · last updated 2026-09-03._

## Eras

- **Songs**, The record itself. Three minutes, a hook, a chorus you knew by the second time, from the Brill Building through Motown, disco, the eighties, Britpop and whatever is on the radio this year, heard as the thing people actually played.
- **Records**, The physical object and the formats that carried it. Shellac, vinyl, the 45, the LP sleeve, cassettes and the mixtape, CDs, the pressing plant, the record shop, and the vinyl revival that nobody in 2005 predicted.
- **Singers**, The voice at the front. Sinatra, Aretha, Whitney, Freddie, Prince, Madonna, Beyoncé, the technique, the range, the persona, the career arc, and the performers whose names carried a decade.
- **Rock & Roll**, The 1950s collision that made everything after it. Rhythm and blues meeting country, Sun Studio, Little Richard and Chuck Berry, Elvis, the payola hearings, the moral panic, and the moment pop became a teenage market.
- **Motown**, Hitsville USA on West Grand Boulevard. Berry Gordy's assembly line, the Funk Brothers in the Snakepit, Holland-Dozier-Holland, the Supremes and the Temptations and Marvin Gaye, the charm school, and the sound that crossed over.
- **Concerts**, The show. Stadium tours and their economics, festival headline sets, the residency, the tour rider and the trucks, arena staging and lighting design, television performances from Ed Sullivan to Top of the Pops, and the audience as part of the act.
- **Studios**, Where records get made. Abbey Road, Muscle Shoals, Electric Lady, the desk and the live room, multitrack and overdubbing, the engineer, home recording, and the studios that closed when a laptop could do it.
- **Songwriting**, How a song is built. Chords, form, the middle eight, the hook, topline writing, the writing camp, the Swedish producers behind an improbable share of the charts, credit disputes, and the interviews where someone explains what a song is actually about.
- **Instruments**, The gear that made the sounds. The electric guitar and its amp, the Rhodes and the Hammond, the Minimoog, the DX7, the LinnDrum and the 808, samplers, Auto-Tune, and the software that replaced most of it.
- **Charts**, Measurement as spectacle. The Billboard Hot 100 and the UK singles chart, chart week and midweeks, gold and platinum certification, the Grammys and the Brits, streaming-era chart rule changes, and the games labels play to win the week.
- **Music Business**, The money. Labels and A&R, contracts and recoupment, publishing and mechanicals, managers, catalogue sales, ticketing and the Live Nation question, and the artists who found out how their deal actually worked.
- **Streaming**, Since 2008. Spotify and the playlist as gatekeeper, per-stream rates and the payout arguments, TikTok breaking songs, YouTube as the world's biggest music service, algorithmic recommendation, and the way release strategy bent to fit it.
- **Controversy**, The fights. Lip-syncing scandals, the PMRC and parental advisory stickers, plagiarism suits, feuds and diss records, MeToo in the industry, censored videos and banned singles, and the reputations that went in one news cycle.
- **K-pop**, The Korean system. SM, YG, JYP and HYBE, the trainee years, choreography and the dance practice video, BTS and Blackpink and the generations before them, the fandom machinery, and the export policy that helped build it.
- **J-pop**, Japan's own pop world. City pop rediscovered forty years late, the idol system and its economics, Utada and Hikaru's ten million, anime theme songs as a chart force, Johnny's and the 2023 reckoning, and a market that ran on CDs long after everyone else stopped.
- **Latin Pop**, Spanish and Portuguese-language pop as a global force. Salsa and merengue, the Miami machine, the 1999 crossover, reggaetón from Panama and Puerto Rico to everywhere, Brazilian pop and funk, and the years when the biggest song on earth was not in English.
- **Afrobeats**, West African pop and its export. Lagos and Accra studios, Burna Boy, Wizkid, Davido and Tems, amapiano coming up from South Africa, the diaspora clubs in London, and the point at which the charts stopped treating it as a novelty.

## Timeline

### 1840
- **1840-06-15**, Aileen Mavourneen, ballad. The words by Mrs. S.C. hall, the music by A.D. Roche -…. Title: Aileen Mavourneen, ballad. The words by Mrs. S.C. hall, the music by A.D. Roche / on stone by A. Newsam; P. S. Duval lith. Abstract/medium: 1 print: lithograph; sheet… Photograph/scan dated 1840. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/651aba41-b534-4673-a7f9-583b3dbeea40) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Aileen_Mavourneen,_ballad._The_words_by_Mrs._S.C._hall,_the_music_by_A.D._Roche_-_on_stone_by_A._Newsam_;_P._S._Duval_lith._LCCN2016645687.jpg
### 1900
- **1900**, Musical instrument, music, band, violin, cello, double bass, flute, dulcimer, tabl…. Tags: musical instrument, music, band, violin, cello, double bass, flute, dulcimer, tableau Photographed/dated 1900. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/3b695d58-bafe-4248-9699-3043e0e3e25b) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Musical_instrument,_music,_band,_violin,_cello,_double_bass,_flute,_dulcimer,_tableau_Fortepan_22941.jpg
### 1916
- **1916**, 20109-Bad Elster-1916-Konzert auf dem Badeplatz-Brück & Sohn Kunstverlag. Bad Elster; Konzert auf dem Badeplatz Photograph/scan dated 1916. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/ebdbd8e7-853c-4d2b-af27-0a518af47f06) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:20109-Bad_Elster-1916-Konzert_auf_dem_Badeplatz-Br%C3%BCck_%26_Sohn_Kunstverlag.jpg
- **1916**, 20152-Bad Elster-1916-Konzert auf dem Badeplatz-Brück & Sohn Kunstverlag. Bad Elster; Konzert auf dem Badeplatz Photograph/scan dated 1916. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/5568a8f1-24df-4754-b682-a5b14245e531) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:20152-Bad_Elster-1916-Konzert_auf_dem_Badeplatz-Br%C3%BCck_%26_Sohn_Kunstverlag.jpg
### 1917
- **1917**, 20637-Bad Elster-1917-Auf dem Badeplatz während des Konzertes-Brück & Sohn Kunstve…. Bad Elster; Auf dem Badeplatz während des Konzertes Photograph/scan dated 1917. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/97f85d2c-7cef-49b6-83a3-d41785d9d21e) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:20637-Bad_Elster-1917-Auf_dem_Badeplatz_w%C3%A4hrend_des_Konzertes-Br%C3%BCck_%26_Sohn_Kunstverlag.jpg
### 1918
- **1918**, Bring me a letter from my old home town cover. sheet music cover of "bring me a letter from my old home town" Photograph/scan dated 1918. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/7c46a589-b71a-4672-9f5a-ee3672e18891) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bring_me_a_letter_from_my_old_home_town_cover.jpg
- **1918**, Cheer up, mother. sheet music cover Photograph/scan dated 1918. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/4582e69a-1a84-4db9-8e85-968fb4321002) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cheer_up,_mother.jpg
### 1943
- **1943**, Eddie ó Neil Record Sleeve APR 7 1945. Record Sleeve / Mailing envelope of message sent home to mum in Ireland APR 7 1945 Photograph/scan dated 1943. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/5b2d8481-c1f7-4e96-986d-a347665c094b) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Eddie_%C3%B3_Neil_Record_Sleeve_APR_7_1945.jpg
### 1956
- **1956-01-27**, Elvis Presley - Heartbreak Hotel. Elvis's first RCA single and first US number one, cut at RCA's Nashville studio with Scotty Moore and Bill Black. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/438c0b9b-b908-46bc-a1ba-ab0d5d15cec0) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9BLw4W5KU8
- **1956-06-05**, Elvis Presley on the Milton Berle Show, June 1956. The 5 June 1956 broadcast whose hip movements triggered national press condemnation and led networks to shoot Presley from the waist up. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/a2ea86d0-757a-4e6b-8e3b-422137bf91c6) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vOHTgO-5kA
- **1956-07-13**, Elvis Presley - Hound Dog. Elvis's rewrite of the Big Mama Thornton blues, recorded July 1956 and issued as a double-A side with Don't Be Cruel. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/b88a1fb3-72b6-42f6-ae8e-72201d364d03) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-eHJ12Vhpyc
- **1956-09-09**, Elvis Presley performs Don't Be Cruel on The Ed Sullivan Show. Elvis's first Sullivan appearance, watched by roughly 60 million Americans. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/38ce862c-778f-4823-868a-f6db51e2b531) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N81IktPflsA
- **1956-10-28**, Elvis Presley Performs 'Hound Dog' on Ed Sullivan. The 28 October 1956 Ed Sullivan Show performance, at the centre of the era's moral panic over Presley's stage movement and its television censorship. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/f801131c-04a4-4320-860e-f6843d3cd055) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNYWl13IWhY
### 1958
- **1958-02-22**, Chuck Berry performs Sweet Little Sixteen on the Saturday Night Beech-Nut Show. Berry performs his newly released Chess single on ABC's Saturday Night Beech-Nut Show hosted by Dick Clark. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/9a34249d-6cd9-4179-8010-39237942b70a) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLV4NGpoy_E
- **1958**, Chuck Berry - Johnny B. Goode. The guitar figure and the story of a country boy who could play, the template for rock songwriting. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/9ad3d6e0-e26c-4b02-9948-fa1c2408828e) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-9Y4CCIWnM
- **1958**, Little Richard - Good Golly Miss Molly. One of the defining rock and roll records, cut at J&M Studio in New Orleans and released on Specialty. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/47a46a17-fa66-4a6b-964e-9972262890f9) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVQV-1Fzl3w
- **1958-08-17**, Domenico Modugno sings Volare on The Ed Sullivan Show. The Sanremo-winning Nel blu, dipinto di blu performed for American television at the height of its US chart run. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/f4065cd9-22df-497a-9e95-6bcc7cc87692) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u99ivDAqwSM
### 1959
- **1959-11-01**, Paul Anka sings Put Your Head On My Shoulder on The Ed Sullivan Show. Teen-idol pop at its peak: Anka performs his ABC-Paramount hit for Sullivan's audience. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/3688236a-5c74-4192-af8d-7e43f26233ef) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpGpu-pIVEk
### 1961
- **1961-11-25**, Johnny Hallyday sings Retiens la nuit on French television. France's rock and roll import performs the Charles Aznavour-penned ballad on ORTF at the start of the yé-yé years. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/e99ecd0e-b860-48f0-9dd0-4d3f9f5c2164) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6P99T_R0EQw
### 1964
- **1964-02-09**, The Beatles - I Want To Hold Your Hand, live on The Ed Sullivan Show. The 9 February 1964 broadcast watched by an estimated 73 million Americans, the moment the British Invasion began. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/80855613-26fc-4352-b71e-79494915a3c2) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jenWdylTtzs
- **1964-02-22**, The Beatles return home to England from their first US tour. British Pathe newsreel of the Beatles facing reporters and fans at London Airport after conquering America. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/1847ae01-a2b2-4413-a308-9510970f5776) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6Diyy4SYFE
- **1964-03-19**, The Beatles receive the Variety Club show business award. Newsreel of the Variety Club Showbiz Dinner at the Dorchester Hotel, where Harold Wilson presented the Beatles their award. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/7c395ee9-3268-4833-943e-b928dd885c5c) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AafxlQxXKmE
- **1964-06-10**, The Beatles arrive in Holland. British Pathe newsreel of the Beatles landing at Schiphol to play I Saw Her Standing There in Amsterdam. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/013e97b7-a1c0-414f-9614-a2152fc61640) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YoYwkr1y0UE
- **1964**, The Beatles - Eight Days A Week. A Beatles For Sale track issued as an American single and the group's seventh US number one. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/7387c407-69ec-4b85-b787-7d395fa25e26) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kle2xHhRHg4
- **1964**, The Supremes - Come See About Me. The Supremes' third consecutive American number one for Motown. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/760c04f5-645e-44e0-ad32-f8c75444d45c) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkH_dm9NkxQ
- **1964-06-17**, The Supremes - Where Did Our Love Go. The Supremes' breakthrough number one, the first of five consecutive US chart-toppers. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/0a26b564-8e82-4612-9286-2d185b6ece18) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jt_31gR18NA
- **1964-09-17**, The Supremes - Baby Love. Holland-Dozier-Holland's second number one for the Supremes and the record that made Motown a global pop machine. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/4c8f25fa-e4bd-43f8-badc-1e34051c0bc5) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6QF4sB40gU
- **1964-09-27**, The Beach Boys perform I Get Around on The Ed Sullivan Show. Brian Wilson's group play their first US number one on Sullivan's stage. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/2bb34fce-8d64-4464-be41-487a77362e2d) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruKCw797JM4
- **1964-10-18**, The Animals perform House Of The Rising Sun on The Ed Sullivan Show. The Newcastle band bring their transatlantic number one to American television during the British Invasion. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/3fab1f60-2b77-4044-9d89-8d6bd119a52f) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxrz00XSOAo
- **1964-12-27**, The Supremes perform Come See About Me on The Ed Sullivan Show. A colourised print of the Supremes' Sullivan appearance as Come See About Me topped the American chart. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/1274de3c-87e8-486e-8584-d47e84da9dbc) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYjkG49B3hc
### 1965
- **1965-04-09**, The Beatles - Ticket To Ride. The Help! single McCartney later called one of the first heavy-metal records. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/3734bf06-0f5e-4a11-9ab9-90c5666cb5ab) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyNt5zm3U_M
- **1965**, The Supremes - Stop! In The Name Of Love. Holland-Dozier-Holland's fourth number one for the group, from More Hits by The Supremes. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/91e06688-47e6-44e1-bcde-3b844b35eae0) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=une981B7Q4Y
- **1965-12-03**, The Beatles - We Can Work It Out. A Lennon-McCartney double-A side with Day Tripper, promoted with one of the earliest pop promo films. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/ced4483a-ab16-4b56-8e54-ae64feac0b8c) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qyclqo_AV2M
### 1966
- **1966-05-28**, Mina sings Se telefonando on Studio Uno. Mina gives the first television performance of Ennio Morricone's Se telefonando on RAI's Studio Uno. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/87b31a88-519b-4cb9-8a1b-bf3b6c8b7107) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LOSrvtCegY
- **1966-06-10**, The Beatles - Paperback Writer. The single whose bass sound the group pushed the EMI engineers to make far louder than usual. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/075d0e4d-dbee-4865-9ea3-ea3a6832dafc) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYvkICbTZIQ
- **1966**, The Beach Boys - God Only Knows. Brian Wilson and Tony Asher's Pet Sounds ballad, sung by Carl Wilson. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/baf6b751-31e6-47a9-90a1-cd30d111acdd) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NADx3-qRxek
- **1966**, The Beach Boys - God Only Knows, live in 1966. Official live audio of the Pet Sounds centrepiece from the year of its release. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/e1b3e3aa-99f5-4795-8444-cfb7e30abdbe) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nc9kMktodNs
- **1966-09-25**, The Supremes perform You Can't Hurry Love on The Ed Sullivan Show. Diana Ross and the Supremes deliver the Holland-Dozier-Holland hit on American prime time. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/23d2fe83-9eea-4da2-a085-4611d6f542e9) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Itn438i30hk
### 1967
- **1967-03-02**, Umm Kulthum sings Fat El Maad at Cairo University. A filmed concert by the Arab world's most important singer, with Baligh Hamdi's composition and Morsi Gamil Aziz's lyric. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/32f261f8-62f4-4b23-b5f3-d945d4bc517d) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhdADcHn2oM
- **1967-04-16**, Christophe: I keep singing so I can buy cars. The French ye-ye singer interviewed on ORTF's Bouton rouge about his obsession with fast cars. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/c384efb0-ee96-400e-8fa9-0b5e011e7471) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Bg_4HcEPyU
- **1967-04-29**, Aretha Franklin - Respect. Aretha's rewrite of Otis Redding's song, cut at Atlantic and turned into an anthem of self-assertion. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/0b558e34-2125-4ea9-b15c-36c9a2ce186c) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzqGZjFnYnA
- **1967**, Mina and Celentano sing La coppia piu bella del mondo on Sabato Sera. Italy's two biggest pop stars perform together on RAI's Saturday-night variety show. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/de2062ef-3d5b-46ed-9679-5756ff0f6bee) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wa_xsFGC_gY
- **1967**, Miriam Makeba performs Pata Pata on The Ed Sullivan Show. The exiled South African singer performs the Xhosa-language song that became a worldwide hit. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/ce332e97-548d-4152-bd78-e3a495e98fd2) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNeP3hrm__k
- **1967-09-24**, The Mamas and the Papas perform California Dreamin' on The Ed Sullivan Show. The Los Angeles harmony group play their signature song for Sullivan. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/ca0af5bb-40c8-4d77-a60b-db53fce4563a) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNlwimUxUME
### 1968
- **1968-02-18**, Paul Mauriat plays Love Is Blue on The Ed Sullivan Show. The French orchestra leader performs the instrumental that spent five weeks at number one in America. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/37bef068-7106-4858-9c68-70a03700ceb4) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_jbx0iWl8I
- **1968-03-15**, The Beatles - Lady Madonna. McCartney's Fats Domino-styled piano single, the group's last for Parlophone before Apple. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/33ee22d2-cd06-4f79-afc8-db4ce4eedfa6) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLRiGX3L-kw
- **1968**, Caetano Veloso - Tropicalia. The song that named the Brazilian movement, released the year before Veloso's exile by the military regime. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/5752a4db-1ec8-42e5-ba46-3e4def27c58f) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwfwRULbSA8
- **1968**, Zum Zum Zum, the opening titles of Canzonissima 1968. The title sequence of Italy's flagship song contest television series, with Maestro Canfora's theme. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/fa08110b-a087-47d8-951b-2a7e61d58ddb) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHTK8Sl5G4E
- **1968**, Mina - Che vale per me. A recording from the peak of Mina's imperial run as Italy's dominant pop voice. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/2d1f4d0d-e999-45f1-8108-a03eaf64ef68) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPtRkY0DwFw
- **1968**, Umm Kulthum sings Hazihi Laylati in Omdurman, Sudan. The Georges Jurdak lyric set by Mohammed Abdel Wahab, performed at Umm Kulthum's Sudan concert. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/54ef3bf0-67c6-4fba-8940-f9821f352c3e) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svfsPmqfdiM
- **1968-10-27**, Mary Hopkin sings Those Were The Days on The Ed Sullivan Show. The first Apple Records hit, produced by Paul McCartney, performed on American television. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/a03f91e6-e4b8-4832-bc2d-422974575047) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnxTT7XXMPA
- **1968-12-12**, Dalida breaks down remembering Luigi Tenco on French television. Pierre Tchernia revisits Dalida's career on ORTF and she collapses in tears at archive of Luigi Tenco, who died the previous year. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/c21af2f5-a9f3-49f6-b8ca-4a9f2bebf645) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htK8rhViCvI
### 1969
- **1969**, Fairuz - Al Bostah. The Rahbani Brothers' comic bus song, one of Fairuz's most widely known recordings. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/bd3bd7cd-fc18-416d-be02-b49337b3223a) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FY39uyflT9Y
- **1969**, Kishore Kumar - Tum Bin Jaoon Kahan (Pyar Ka Mausam). R.D. Burman's score for Nasir Hussain's Pyar Ka Mausam, with Majrooh Sultanpuri's lyric. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/800151ee-01f8-45c3-8cc0-1763d4ee49e7) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIKTuZKPThU
- **1969-12-14**, The Jackson 5 perform I Want You Back on The Ed Sullivan Show. Motown's new signings, with a ten-year-old Michael Jackson, make their Sullivan debut. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/96948467-38ce-4bea-af8a-66394d2b2a7d) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2bVIBwpCTA
### 1970
- **1970**, Roberto Carlos - Meu Pequeno Cachoeiro. Roberto Carlos's song for his home town in Espirito Santo. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/ebf30673-50ff-4c99-9c0b-9d18d02a6efc) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z51s_SjvaDk
- **1970**, Mina sings La voce del silenzio in a Carosello advert. Mina performs for Barilla's Carosello slot, directed by Valerio Zurlini - Italian television advertising as pop stage. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/3e7961fd-f08d-44fd-97cb-922999468f40) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMsLj91mI5A
- **1970**, Roberto Carlos - Pra Voce. A ballad from the 1970 album that consolidated Roberto Carlos as Brazil's biggest-selling artist. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/8a47075e-dc4b-49e2-9ee8-847da735c107) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEum7Ve2m2s
- **1970**, Roberto Carlos - Jesus Cristo. The Brazilian singer's most widely covered song, from the album issued as Roberto Carlos 1970. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/3e82599b-ffff-44a9-9321-9593224017b3) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9VS9z3L9RQ
- **1970-10-08**, Barbara: I gave up the civil service of song. The French chanteuse explains why she walked away from the Olympia and the system around it. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/ef6f0c52-a429-4d73-80e9-1fe3889035ba) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cpNM2Xoqgk
- **1970-12-06**, Simone Signoret interviewed on Tete d'affiche. France Roche interviews Signoret on ORTF about her temperament and her life with Yves Montand. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/29c54541-06c1-4f05-8c6c-70fcced91d78) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plu2I_6ok_4
### 1971
- **1971-01-20**, Marvin Gaye - What's Going On. Motown's official video for the 1971 single Berry Gordy tried to block, which became the label's turn towards social commentary. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/c6e70afa-4897-4602-973c-10084ce69b8d) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5TmORitlKk
- **1971**, Roberto Carlos - Detalhes. The Roberto and Erasmo Carlos ballad that became a standard across Latin America. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/876fd6a7-350d-431f-b379-a388c8bb0051) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzrH-bSSD2M
- **1971-11-04**, Johnny Hallyday sings Oh! Ma jolie Sarah before a live audience. Hallyday performs with his orchestra on French television at the height of his 1970s stadium era. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/0886bab1-186a-41a0-94bd-0391dac26f43) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qbk4M9cs7zM
### 1972
- **1972**, Roberto Carlos - A Janela. A Roberto and Erasmo Carlos composition from the singer's Jovem Guarda-to-balladeer transition. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/0087e9af-6110-47cf-a9e1-06dfe564651f) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5iHCHSl3ic
- **1972**, Fela Kuti - Shakara. An early mature Afrobeat record, built on the extended vamp and call-and-response Fela made his signature. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/96088cc5-73d1-4ea5-9949-62f67a9ee57a) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cS4iF1Eggc
- **1972-07-18**, Ella Fitzgerald interviewed in Nice. A regional French news crew catches Fitzgerald in a cafe during her Riviera tour. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/b30ef038-5f1a-4120-81d0-a86869421605) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqh7BY5yErI
- **1972-12-09**, Bill Withers interviewed by Pierre Lattes on Rockenstock. The soul singer talks about his songs, love and friendship on French television. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/6db0ba96-0fb2-4ada-959b-02e61360217c) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4CANu3GT-M
### 1973
- **1973-01-13**, Stevie Wonder performs Superstition on Soul Train. Wonder plays the Talking Book single on Don Cornelius's show as it climbed to number one. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/01f6539e-eb3a-4ffd-afb0-f25bc28b1a52) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GySzVohtHLw
- **1973**, Stevie Wonder - Superstition, 1973. Archive performance footage from Wonder's Innervisions-era touring year, licensed from Reelin' In The Years. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/14406d76-903c-4dd5-9f1a-698ca7643d66) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vc0ReUC4sg
- **1973-09-10**, Dalida sings Je suis malade on Midi Trente. Dalida performs Serge Lama's song on French daytime television, presented by Joe Dassin and Daniele Gilbert. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/bf53f9bf-524c-4960-934c-dfe9f6a82a50) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c25miTmYzro
### 1974
- **1974-01-23**, Stevie Wonder performs Superstition on Musikladen. Wonder plays Superstition for Radio Bremen's Musikladen during his January 1974 German visit. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/20b75edc-13fc-4cd3-886a-9a2e1e9415f8) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97hwNY3ni10
- **1974-02-09**, Jacques Brel: It's not normal to sing in front of people. Brel explains why he will not return to the music hall stage, with a clip of him singing La Biere. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/83e8233a-98fa-4cd9-9fd7-6f2994bc8fc3) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhP3Q8DzQWg
- **1974-04-06**, ABBA perform Waterloo at the Eurovision Song Contest. The Brighton Dome performance that won Eurovision and launched ABBA internationally. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/c62b38e3-9411-423c-9b7a-48427705f497) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XJBNJ2wq0Y
- **1974-04-11**, Dalida sings Il venait d'avoir 18 ans on Domino. Dalida performs the song that became her biggest European hit of the decade on French television. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/43edf325-5c29-46a0-9116-90a7608154b8) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYuGI9kQx7Y
- **1974**, Kool and the Gang perform Jungle Boogie on Soul Train. The New Jersey band play their Wild and Peaceful hit on Soul Train. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/1c563612-b2d0-4730-a05a-c451004b8f5d) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BM5wPOe0xQ
- **1974**, The Soul Train Line dances to War's Ballero. The show's signature two-line dance sequence, filmed during Soul Train's 1974 season. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/e51fcabc-4d52-4266-b813-6ac1df873431) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5oUhUyLqow
- **1974-12-14**, The Isley Brothers perform Summer Breeze on Soul Train. The expanded 3+3 lineup, with Ernie Isley on guitar, perform their Seals and Crofts reworking. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/8e394b1e-bd3c-4012-a752-7c7b51a6e431) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNsRmM26v_c
### 1975
- **1975-02-05**, The funeral of Umm Kulthum, Cairo, 1975 - AP Archive. Associated Press newsreel of the funeral that drew an estimated four million mourners onto the streets of Cairo, larger than Nasser's. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/cfb7a4db-1706-44ca-9b4e-82320ce52e96) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mv6LwWNGdpo
- **1975-02-07**, Nico performs on The Old Grey Whistle Test. The former Velvet Underground singer performs solo with harmonium for the BBC. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/c8d4d107-a691-4281-bf1b-80745e4f6c70) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWTMKVp0D6w
- **1975-06-06**, The Jack Bruce Band perform Spirit on The Old Grey Whistle Test. Bruce with Mick Taylor and Carla Bley on the BBC's serious rock programme. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/54b846d8-1c97-49ad-9050-e0d7a2b03cf6) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfmR-O-qELA
- **1975**, Robert Plant interviewed about Led Zeppelin on The Old Grey Whistle Test. Bob Harris interviews Plant at the Vorst Nationaal in Brussels during Led Zeppelin's 1975 European tour. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/f5e611dd-4a65-46db-84d3-a9a895991f04) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HXD4LevHZ0
- **1975**, Fairuz - Konna Netlaka. A Rahbani Brothers composition from the Lebanese singer's most productive period. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/46599d55-a3f2-4979-b4e5-817640fab2b3) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHYhVQhYEVI
- **1975-10-31**, Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody. The 1975 promo film often cited as the first true music video, made to avoid a Top of the Pops mime. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/cdf238e4-42d1-46d6-a807-9f658361091e) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJ9rUzIMcZQ
### 1976
- **1976**, ABBA - Money, Money, Money. A cabaret-inflected single from Arrival, a number one across much of Europe. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/34fbf82e-dbe1-4410-b3f7-b7934d1747b3) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETxmCCsMoD0
- **1976**, ABBA - Fernando. ABBA's best-selling single, originally written in Swedish for Anni-Frid Lyngstad. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/cb94bf40-b8a0-493f-9eec-06ea26746cfa) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQsjAbZDx-4
- **1976**, Fela Kuti - Zombie. Fela's attack on the Nigerian military, whose release provoked the army raid on his Kalakuta Republic. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/3309aa7f-3dfa-4b7d-b10b-693bec10fc91) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3j0nugz1Pw
- **1976**, ABBA - Dancing Queen. ABBA's only US number one and the record that fixed Swedish pop as a permanent export industry. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/a8c03222-267b-4a1c-8366-846fb32ea2f2) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFrGuyw1V8s
### 1977
- **1977-03-26**, Johnny Hallyday sings La mort d'Ophelie on French television. Hallyday performs the song on ORTF-successor television during his mid-1970s reinvention. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/5ff7c203-90a9-4a4a-ae8c-0c9914010c54) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXv5Vbqex-Q
- **1977**, Donna Summer - I Feel Love (official visual). The Moroder-Bellotte production presented with the estate's official animated visual. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/cb2b426d-713a-4658-92cb-f85d3815c9f6) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEbaeLv-aOo
- **1977**, Bee Gees - Stayin' Alive. The Saturday Night Fever single that defined disco's commercial peak. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/e09172fe-a6fe-4d87-821d-7b5c07f8731e) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNFzfwLM72c
- **1977**, Teresa Teng - The Moon Represents My Heart. Teng's 1977 recording of the song that became the most widely known Mandarin pop ballad ever written, sung across the Chinese-speaking world. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/c2948fd3-8377-49b9-9548-033e27b8e73c) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TH9JcqxOdjs
- **1977**, David Bowie - Be My Wife. A single from Low, the first of the Berlin albums, with its deliberately blank promotional film. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/ec9582a2-2e16-4dbc-810a-5eaad78ce2c6) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjCM_X3xpRM
- **1977-09-23**, David Bowie - Heroes. Recorded at Hansa Studio by the Wall in Berlin with Brian Eno and Robert Fripp. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/9288ee79-6185-4cce-9815-43aa81fcfb92) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXgkuM2NhYI
- **1977-11-29**, Dalida sings Salma ya salama on Midi premiere. Dalida performs her Arabic-language hit, presented by Daniele Gilbert on French television. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/65940839-3174-475c-b1ce-fe9354276ece) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5P4AGh3tK0
### 1978
- **1978**, Kraftwerk - The Model. The Dusseldorf group's Die Mensch-Maschine track, which topped the UK chart when reissued four years later. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/c8b278ed-d6cc-4fc4-803b-029e3b3d1557) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEnx9xS79Lc
### 1979
- **1979**, Ian Dury and the Blockheads profiled on Nationwide. A BBC news-magazine profile of Dury on his rise with the Blockheads, his East End childhood and Stiff Records. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/264be4dc-6173-42bc-8820-e2c5434032e1) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDeeaxxk_mI
- **1979**, Teresa Teng - Tian Mi Mi. Teng's adaptation of the Indonesian folk melody Dayung Sampan, the best-known Mandopop record ever made. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/a51e16e4-fba5-4ce7-a9e9-955d798692a8) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eF8oOWtsk4
- **1979**, Fairuz - Wahdon. A Ziad Rahbani composition for Fairuz, marking her shift toward jazz-inflected arrangements. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/b5f611a5-737b-446e-a55f-4bf61762ad6d) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3E_6WFdUDg
- **1979-11-10**, Dalida sings Comme disait Mistinguett on French television. Dalida performs with six dancers in the full variety-show staging of her late-1970s act. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/b8ae1d56-12a9-4bcb-afa9-e579c41ec649) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIncquNGoPI
### 1980
- **1980**, Teresa Teng - Ni Zenme Shuo. A Mandarin hit that helped carry Teng's voice across the Chinese-speaking world. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/b7b599c3-c392-4778-94f6-7a6781e174d0) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=et82ZIzMwOY
- **1980**, Maxell cassette commercial featuring Tatsuro Yamashita's Ride On Time. The television advertisement that carried Ride On Time to Japanese ubiquity and launched city pop into the mainstream. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/07b04ee1-0087-4a47-834a-890379f21bf5) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPK2FvBqGsA
### 1981
- **1981**, Teresa Teng sings Ni Zenme Shuo on TTV's Kun Zai Qian Shao. Teng performs for Taiwanese troops on Taiwan Television's forces programme. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/5a022b78-5fc6-4f1c-be99-4d262fb9605c) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOMWwOwjZ2M
- **1981**, Teresa Teng's full Kun Zai Qian Shao concert for TTV. The complete Taiwan Television special in which Teng performed for frontline garrisons - a landmark of her career. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/53254526-cb90-4674-b598-f4edf655fe29) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ok8YzXQy56I
- **1981-07-21**, Seiko Matsuda - Shiroi Parasol. Matsuda's fourth single, written by Takashi Matsumoto and Kazuo Zaitsu, from the peak of Japanese idol pop. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/f6d84744-46f9-454f-9d60-0ff6c58bf3b5) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBKHV3u_6Kk
- **1981-12-22**, Johnny Hallyday sings J'en ai marre on French television. Hallyday appears on a programme devoted to Julio Iglesias and performs J'en ai marre. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/b9d8be4b-28f9-42a9-ac27-fcd02ca3b515) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGIjnyiDTR8
### 1982
- **1982**, Lemmy and the New Wave of British Heavy Metal on Riverside. Steve Blackwell interviews Lemmy Kilmister of Motorhead for a BBC special on the NWOBHM. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/25976604-ff8f-4247-9453-e8f6211305a8) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0bV7OhY2Gg
- **1982**, Australian television introduces the compact disc, 1982. ABC Science period report on the arrival of the CD, when players cost between $900 and $1800 in Australia. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/c94c9a51-1a93-4a3a-a895-fb1519377edb) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Tx6TYnPat8
- **1982**, Anita Mui - Debt of Heart. Mui's debut hit, the theme to TVB's drama, composed by Joseph Koo with lyrics by James Wong. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/89a07878-939f-42a7-a917-2f364264f2cf) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yoImiGQ3eY
- **1982**, Anita Mui - Debt of Heart - the audio-only release. The studio recording that launched Cantopop's most versatile female star. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/b8169b36-68cf-42c4-885e-76d84c2db752) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ng0BfZQHHA
### 1983
- **1983-01-02**, Michael Jackson - Billie Jean. The Thriller single whose Steve Barron video broke MTV's colour barrier. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/01864f4b-e0ed-48e7-9e81-70856111531f) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zi_XLOBDo_Y
- **1983-03-25**, Michael Jackson at Motown 25, 1983 - full footage. The televised Motown 25 special where Jackson performed Billie Jean and first did the moonwalk in public, the single performance most credited with his ascent to global superstardom. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/5e76e062-8b98-4b9f-a26f-131fb074ae00) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlnqu2W7S18
- **1983**, Wham! - Club Tropicana. The single and video that fixed Wham!'s early image, filmed at the Pikes hotel in Ibiza. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/882504aa-af7f-4ea8-b58c-279b12fcfdbe) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYX0sjP6Za8
- **1983**, Cyndi Lauper - Girls Just Want To Have Fun. Lauper's rewrite of Robert Hazard's song, from She's So Unusual. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/974d57f0-4370-4372-8632-7e566e54241d) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIb6AZdTr-A
- **1983**, David Bowie challenges MTV over Black artists, 1983. Bowie presses VJ Mark Goodman on the channel's near-absence of videos by Black artists in this 1983 MTV interview. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/0f7bfc20-80f6-4ebd-8198-75e93670b813) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZGiVzIr8Qg
- **1983**, Anri - Windy Summer. Toshiki Kadomatsu's production for Anri, from the album Timely!! - a foundational city pop record. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/d7f22825-16cd-42c8-85a9-763fd1641f73) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8WTumwpvmg
- **1983**, Anita Mui - Red Doubt. A Cantonese version of a Momoe Yamaguchi song, from Mui's early Capital Artists run. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/707bc868-21f0-41e3-83e9-508716afd15f) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nq0EN9R9weI
- **1983**, Anri - Remember Summer Days. Another Kadomatsu-written Timely!! track, later central to the city pop revival. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/bc80c545-4ba0-4d8d-8db1-3abed2d4e201) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z056hRt23Fo
- **1983-12-02**, Michael Jackson - Thriller. The fourteen-minute John Landis short film that turned the music video into a cultural event and helped make Thriller the best-selling album ever. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/59b2ac7d-058d-4c76-b0d5-1e7c6a052929) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOnqjkJTMaA
### 1984
- **1984-05-16**, Prince and the Revolution - When Doves Cry. The lead single from Purple Rain, recorded without a bass part. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/f9882b95-5d92-4cec-ac75-585bfb0a7418) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UG3VcCAlUgE
- **1984**, Wham! - Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go. George Michael's Motown pastiche, the duo's first UK and US number one. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/00e743db-61e6-408d-89e9-3a792fae1433) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIgZ7gMze7A
- **1984**, Cyndi Lauper - Time After Time. Lauper's first American number one and a standard covered ever since. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/3cabc45f-a94d-41cb-a374-ff9155e119cb) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdQY7BusJNU
- **1984**, Wham! - Last Christmas. George Michael's self-produced Christmas single, one of the best-selling records in British chart history. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/6bb1638b-2baf-4109-aee9-e01d5bff76a8) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8gmARGvPlI
- **1984**, Wham! perform Freedom on Top of the Pops. The duo play their third UK number one on the BBC chart show. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/773b2f81-87e2-46c7-b03a-717e54a44975) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrYk0TqUWMg
- **1984**, Boy George interviewed by Terry Wogan. Culture Club's singer talks to Wogan about breaking America and about being Britain's most talked-about pop star. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/90bc4665-6c5a-413a-b60b-e07c47999189) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7MyKtrOnUY
- **1984**, Wham! perform Freedom live on Wogan. A BBC chat-show performance during the Make It Big campaign. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/a552d98b-92a3-4b3b-b3f9-135afcf8c807) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ag5Qbc1O-c
- **1984**, Cyndi Lauper - She Bop. A top-three hit whose subject matter put it on the PMRC's Filthy Fifteen list. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/dee2c630-5f4c-4eca-90ed-365464e6ec23) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFq4E9XTueY
- **1984**, Juan Gabriel - Besame. A ballad from the same 1984 album that made Juan Gabriel Mexico's dominant songwriter. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/ea69e445-caaf-4190-9b6f-7f289b86d31e) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZEukjCYEQw
- **1984**, Juan Gabriel - Querida. The Mexican singer-songwriter's biggest hit, which held number one in Mexico for a year. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/f3272a2e-5d71-4626-9c9c-356da65e351b) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQOJ4qF0alk
- **1984**, Freddie Mercury: 'A Musical Prostitute' - 1984 interview. A fifteen-minute 1984 interview on Queen Official's own channel in which Mercury talks candidly about performance, image and being written off by critics. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/2130c6b0-d11f-44a7-aad0-e0b9e9c38d96) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RV1kIO6u1mM
- **1984**, Modern Talking - You're My Heart, You're My Soul. The 1984 German single that became the biggest Euro-disco export of the decade, selling in the tens of millions across Europe and Asia. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/8a866449-9269-4ffe-b459-f83a850c606c) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kHl4FoK1Ys
- **1984**, Mariya Takeuchi - Plastic Love. The 1984 city-pop track that YouTube's recommendation algorithm turned into a global cult hit three decades later; this is the artist's official channel upload. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/8b8933e6-ecb7-4b79-920e-810f3ec7215a) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_lC2O1oIew
- **1984**, Anita Mui - Like Flowing Water. Kitaro's melody with Cheng Kwok-kong's lyric, the theme to the film Homecoming. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/370fa06d-04bc-4082-bae7-005ccd1d0a6b) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnYpl2Ef3f4
- **1984**, Madonna - Dress You Up. The fourth single from Like A Virgin, filmed live on the Virgin Tour. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/3d9fe074-41a7-4fd2-8dc0-928c52e60fb3) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWtpd8mS5jw
- **1984**, Alan Tam - City Love Song. A track from Tam's album The Root of Love, the record that made him Hong Kong's biggest male star. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/ad710294-1273-43ed-9da0-2510617da849) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2eGEmVRMo0
- **1984**, Lata Mangeshkar - Aisa Sama Na Hota (Zameen Aasman). R.D. Burman's composition with Anjaan's lyric, sung by Lata Mangeshkar for the film Zameen Aasmaan. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/9a1b92d9-7b64-4a8b-bb3b-42a60234ce33) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDFyP6gliFQ
- **1984-06-28**, Scritti Politti perform Absolute on Top of the Pops. Green Gartside's group play their Cupid and Psyche-era single on BBC television. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/b87d4424-439f-47e9-bcf6-e247f1fcff50) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvBNYrUpIO4
- **1984-07-18**, Prince and the Revolution - Let's Go Crazy. The opening track of Purple Rain and Prince's second American number one. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/f0e4ae49-8a33-42e3-af62-8fb7fb68eb34) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXJhDltzYVQ
- **1984-10-04**, Top of the Pops, 4 October 1984. A full BBC chart show with Bronski Beat, The Cars, Culture Club and Giorgio Moroder with Philip Oakey. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/a9275613-9624-49c8-9881-08682b7d2216) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCpFtUH6oms
- **1984-11-20**, Prince performs I Would Die 4 U in Landover, Maryland. Official concert footage from the Purple Rain tour. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/dde01ce5-0b20-43b1-af4e-bc317086c14d) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVEFRQavTNI
### 1985
- **1985-04-21**, Akina Nakamori performs Kinku on NHK's Let's Go Young. A restored NHK broadcast from the peak of Japanese idol pop, released officially by Warner Music Japan. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/8f04061f-8cb9-4465-a14a-02caa892f596) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7z5NOdGM5vE
- **1985-04-21**, Akina Nakamori performs Second Love on NHK's Let's Go Young. A second restored NHK performance from the same 1985 broadcast. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/e644cd49-d5a5-47f6-a514-fa0985083ecc) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8su5VPADH60
- **1985-05-15**, Falco performs Rock Me Amadeus at the Wiener Festwochen. A live concert performance in Falco's home city during his peak year. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/2aee6758-916e-4870-b545-ad17077327a2) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFtCNRl6Gaw
- **1985-06-01**, Falco performs Rock Me Amadeus on Die aktuelle Schaubude. German television performance during the single's original chart run. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/e6c5f8ab-6982-4e39-b7fc-c7e5fb2e2775) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWUbKsJFXaU
- **1985-06-01**, Johnny Hallyday sings Le chanteur abandonne live on French television. Hallyday performs Michel Berger's song seated on a piano, live on air with his musicians. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/eec5b9a9-16a4-4112-b317-5617a4d08e36) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTPYqxsqtdo
- **1985**, Teresa Teng - Airen. Teng's Japanese-language single, which topped the Japanese charts for weeks. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/2ab9e406-a41b-40f9-92e6-915f37815367) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpC9fBBxV8U
- **1985**, Whitney Houston - How Will I Know. The Narada Michael Walden production that put Houston in heavy MTV rotation. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/2bceb2da-701b-4212-858a-233cefe7d478) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3-hY-hlhBg
- **1985**, The Madonna craze reported on London Plus. A BBC regional news report on young British women copying Madonna's style at the London Hippodrome. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/4128f6ea-9b5f-400e-8660-c536358f859e) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DeqkyjenJL8
- **1985**, Morrissey shows the Oxford Road Show around Manchester. The Smiths' singer takes BBC cameras to the demolished site of his childhood home and his old schools. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/4bcba84b-23d2-4231-9fb7-db8e04621a86) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYabx_Y_xjs
- **1985**, a-ha - Take On Me. The Norwegian trio's pencil-sketch rotoscope video, one of the defining images of MTV-era pop. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/70f0a42b-b9d5-481e-8807-f2dc250fd6cf) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djV11Xbc914
- **1985**, Pet Shop Boys - West End Girls. Stephen Hague's re-recording of the Bobby Orlando original, a number one on both sides of the Atlantic. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/74610f10-4879-4b40-a428-98f5723820b5) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3j2NYZ8FKs
- **1985**, Teresa Teng sings Tsugunai at NHK Hall. Teng performs her Japanese-language hit at NHK Hall in Tokyo. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/895a7122-0ff4-4e4b-8a92-ef0f9812b2e0) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFFc9mXqqKA
- **1985**, Madonna - Into The Groove. Written for Desperately Seeking Susan, the record that made Madonna a dance-floor institution. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/9c2b3d26-8c78-4272-95ed-3705fbcae824) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52iW3lcpK5M
- **1985**, Whitney Houston - Saving All My Love For You. Houston's first American number one, from her debut album for Arista. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/e5f9a570-9602-4bc8-9ed4-3aec3e4bffcd) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewxmv2tyeRs
- **1985**, Gloria Estefan and Miami Sound Machine - Conga. The 1985 single that took Cuban rhythm into American pop radio and made Estefan the first great Latin crossover star of the modern era. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/cef348c8-2ef2-46ad-9b05-3502e7c7a319) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54ItEmCnP80
- **1985**, Madonna - Crazy For You. A ballad recorded for the film Vision Quest, and Madonna's second American number one. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/0df4dc49-13d3-4ad4-adb8-c2c6d039e62d) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHutZXREZ0E
- **1985**, Falco - Rock Me Amadeus. The Austrian rapper-singer's Mozart record, the only German-language single to top the US chart. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/34c72afd-9049-49f5-ba74-5f904156be33) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVikZ8Oe_XA
- **1985-06-29**, Modern Talking perform You Can Win If You Want at Rockpop Music Hall. German television performance of the duo's second number one. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/827cd165-d5fc-4ea5-baef-6e34e26f8d72) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxTsw4kW1Ew
- **1985-07-13**, Queen: Bohemian Rhapsody at Live Aid. Queen's set at Live Aid, Wembley Stadium, 13 July 1985, widely cited as the greatest live rock performance ever televised. Official Live Aid channel upload. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/06d74cf6-e079-423d-a562-8ef5836d33fa) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbvyNnw8Qjg
- **1985-07-13**, Queen: Radio Ga Ga at Live Aid. The moment 72,000 people at Wembley clapped in unison above their heads during Queen's Live Aid set on 13 July 1985. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/4d0abbbe-7060-4587-a6e8-043e5e75a75c) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-0ygW-B_gI
- **1985-07-13**, Live Aid 1985: the broadcast continues, part six. Another restored hour of the 13 July 1985 Live Aid transmission, one of the largest satellite link-ups ever attempted at the time. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/87080b24-43d0-4715-a9ea-414f56275008) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouqoMVeVsJ0
- **1985-07-13**, Queen - We Are The Champions at Live Aid. Queen close their Live Aid set in front of 72,000 people at Wembley. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/88c4b515-8cfb-4c7b-9cd4-f9a3f3c735e3) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FP808MiJUcM
- **1985-07-13**, Queen - Hammer To Fall at Live Aid. Part of the twenty-minute Wembley set widely regarded as the greatest live rock performance. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/8afe1ca9-d9de-406c-a4ee-21fe67c1dfa9) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5bzrb-v9Y0
- **1985-07-13**, Freddie Mercury and Brian May - Is This The World We Created? at Live Aid. Mercury and May return to the Wembley stage for an acoustic coda to the Live Aid finale. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/9574a67b-873b-46e2-b70c-bf85339d0dfd) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=riwDo7_GxjM
- **1985-07-13**, Live Aid 1985: the Wembley broadcast, part three. An hour of the original Live Aid broadcast, restored and released by the official channel for the concert's 40th anniversary in 2025. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/c8227e46-7cc5-4c21-bdda-bd61b97683ea) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVLUjteaPm8
- **1985-09-19**, PMRC Senate Hearing: Snider, Zappa and Denver Testify. Footage of the 19 September 1985 US Senate Commerce Committee hearing on record labelling, at which Dee Snider, Frank Zappa and John Denver argued against the PMRC's proposed warning stickers. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/65389f3a-59ad-4373-9583-db82a80069b5) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ktIxACyGAc
- **1985-09-19**, Frank Zappa testifies at the PMRC Senate hearing on rock lyrics. Zappa's testimony against the PMRC's proposed lyric-labelling scheme at the 1985 Senate hearing. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/ab3dfbd6-30cd-496d-b33a-b1dd2f563da6) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgAF8Vu8G0w
- **1985-09-19**, Dee Snider testifies against record labelling at the PMRC hearing. Full testimony from the 19 September 1985 Senate Commerce Committee hearing on record labelling, which produced the Parental Advisory sticker. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/eac1acf8-658a-4851-b730-bfcdb886c96c) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0Vyr1TylTE
- **1985-11-28**, Modern Talking perform Cheri Cheri Lady at the Goldene Europa awards. An awards-show performance broadcast on German television. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/78796895-e816-40ec-b0f7-30e51d8ae0a6) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCfYh10G1BA
### 1986
- **1986-02-05**, Prince and the Revolution - Kiss. The 1986 single, stripped to guitar and drum machine, that showed how far Prince would strip pop down and still top the chart. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/409fd7cb-261f-481f-a61b-fdc1bd43f092) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9tEvfIsDyo
- **1986-04-03**, Falco performs Rock Me Amadeus on Top of the Pops. Falco plays the BBC chart show as Rock Me Amadeus topped the UK chart. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/98d0c410-da44-4889-924a-2aa8cd90bf5c) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KfGuplhCm4
- **1986**, Anri - All Of You. An Anri composition with Yumi Yoshimoto's lyric, from her mid-1980s run. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/992fa471-b818-473b-9956-e479c16c859d) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSYL4ewX1z4
- **1986**, Modern Talking - Brother Louie. The duo's biggest international hit and a defining Euro-disco record. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/807849a7-42ab-49c9-ae4c-72a77b07c626) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lp2qcCrdBLA
- **1986**, Seiko Matsuda - Ruriiro no Chikyuu. Sony Music Japan's official video for the 1986 song by the singer who defined the 1980s Japanese idol era. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/a037d0f7-9a2a-4dcb-ad53-451fbe1282b7) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cn9_U4_P-I4
- **1986-12-06**, Pet Shop Boys perform Suburbia on Peters Pop-Show. The duo play a Please-era hit on ZDF's cult German chart show. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/cc98f5c2-62b7-4317-9b44-1f3a2e582bfb) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipf8IwXg7-g
- **1986-12-26**, Serge Gainsbourg clashes with Guy Beart on Apostrophes. Bernard Pivot presents a book on Gainsbourg; the exchange with Guy Beart over whether song is a minor art became notorious. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/0a6c17dd-b92d-47c6-a6da-6c8695e41140) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zj5pF8dsOuM
### 1987
- **1987**, Pet Shop Boys - It's A Sin. The Derek Jarman-directed video, the first of several collaborations between the band and the film-maker. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/5110b272-f788-4689-b9c0-6c3667b2dd8d) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRHetRTOD1Q
- **1987**, Whitney Houston - I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me). The lead single from Whitney, a number one in more than a dozen countries. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/722954ae-659d-45d7-b4b8-8d25bf6923ed) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eH3giaIzONA
- **1987**, Meet the goths, reported on London Plus. BBC reporter Antonia Higgs investigates the goth subculture in a London graveyard. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/9500c698-ad42-4a4b-98e7-29feeabab34a) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlxqUP8AZ3s
- **1987-08-15**, Colonel Tom Parker interviewed on ABC Nightline, 1987. Rare on-camera interview with Elvis's manager, originally broadcast 15 August 1987. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/7f7d2a0c-89fc-44b9-bf0d-bd47810ef769) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfsDx4IsQe0
### 1988
- **1988**, Leslie Cheung and Roman Tam sing Silence Is Golden on TVB. Two generations of Cantopop share a stage for the James Wong-penned standard. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/1ab9c9d9-4f57-49ef-b24b-b7432d5d864b) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EU0ySVWIKZU
- **1988**, Leslie Cheung performs Wu Xin Shui Mian at the Jade Solid Gold awards. Cheung performs the song that won him top honours at Hong Kong's biggest music awards. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/0f7fb7a3-cffa-450a-b1c7-ecd0a6278b52) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWWi9viQFd4
- **1988-10-23**, Michael Jackson's Detroit Grand Prix press conference. Jackson answers press questions during the Bad world tour's American leg. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/26069576-c56c-4d00-9ef1-ec0fa4b79ea4) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1klBcgc0Jd8
### 1989
- **1989-04-07**, Serge Gainsbourg on the Antenne 2 lunchtime news. Philippe Lefait interviews Gainsbourg for the release of Gainsbourg au Zenith; provocation as usual. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/24fb95e0-1bbc-44c1-94ca-2197f0459b8e) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-4J0euDZ7Q
- **1989**, Anita Mui - Song of the Setting Sun. Mui's Cantonese adaptation of Masahiko Kondo's Yuhi no Uta, a Cantopop standard. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/1d556d1a-4182-41b0-bf8e-75c9d8ee4231) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnNIPXT9YvE
- **1989**, Luis Miguel - La Incondicional. Juan Carlos Calderon's ballad, with the military-themed video that made Luis Miguel a continental star. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/8034a9be-621e-4706-b185-3f944f563d46) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=by4I_10HbX4
### 1990
- **1990-03-21**, Anri - I Can't Stop The Loneliness. A Kadomatsu-arranged version of Anri's hit, from the album The Anri. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/7f20e154-a62a-49ba-9e78-0a69527b861d) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6q6GtPdVHL4
- **1990**, Miriam Makeba - Pata Pata (Welela version). Makeba's later re-recording of her signature song, mixed in Milan. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/0b82391b-7105-4fd7-be47-4cdd3090b59e) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kaMK3tHy_Ok
- **1990**, Madonna interviewed on ABC News Nightline, 1990. The Nightline interview with Forrest Sawyer, broadcast after MTV banned the Justify My Love video, Madonna's defence of it on national television. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/6977e6c4-4ecd-4f8f-9eab-531ccf8ebaa8) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkk1HzyXRCE
- **1990**, Lata in Her Own Voice - 1990 documentary. A near-complete documentary recorded in 1990 in which Lata Mangeshkar narrates her own career, from child performer to the defining voice of Indian film music. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/fa34a104-c666-4802-b8a9-6364e7fc0ff1) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5Wt5xCzegY
### 1991
- **1991**, Luis Miguel - No Se Tu. The Armando Manzanero bolero that opened Luis Miguel's Romance album and revived the Latin standards repertoire. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/ceedc74f-99c3-4404-b79f-b946b75d309c) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_oE3qkbo5s
- **1991-09-10**, Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit. The 1991 single whose MTV rotation displaced hair metal and pulled alternative rock into the pop mainstream. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/d8799e07-1318-4d8e-a275-710904196f63) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTWKbfoikeg
### 1992
- **1992**, Ace of Base - Wheel of Fortune. An early Swedish single from the Happy Nation sessions. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/fd840979-4f35-4cd2-9187-97a68d787f0d) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qoybSNHMtMY
- **1992**, Cesaria Evora - Petit pays. The morna singer's song of longing for Cape Verde, from the album that made her an international figure. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/92a2120a-3ce5-4f1a-adad-91575e5f3db6) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DeLUGn7qYP8
- **1992**, Ace of Base - Happy Nation. The title track of the album that became one of the best-selling debuts ever recorded. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/f792f03d-583d-4671-ba0e-bdfe7a9c6d49) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWjCStB6k4o
- **1992**, SNAP! - Rhythm Is A Dancer. The Frankfurt production duo's Eurodance record, a number one across most of Europe. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/229d5083-90c5-46f0-ba6e-01d5b9a6cb1a) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYIaWeVL1JM
- **1992**, Selena y Los Dinos - Como La Flor. Selena's signature Tejano single, the record that made her the biggest Latin star in the US before her murder in 1995. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/76b1550f-54d6-475b-a752-7ba0a5c2ffe0) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsUt2jsLM1k
- **1992**, Selena - Como La Flor. The cumbia that made Selena the biggest star in Tejano music, from the album Entre a Mi Mundo. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/a4b28a68-7c05-40e6-9f06-85c075f72988) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3tdl7-puY4
- **1992**, Seo Taiji and Boys - Nan Arayo (I Know). The 1992 debut single that broke Korean pop away from trot and set the template for modern K-pop. Uploaded by Seo Taiji's own channel. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/9beb461f-d3f4-4af5-a7dd-ad4e5443aea5) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEDHEzs5kyk
- **1992**, SNAP! - Rhythm Is A Dancer - the audio-only release. The full-length album version of the Eurodance landmark. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/f33f43c9-4ce9-459f-9353-03ab9c5183ac) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TRrHFUFZNU
- **1992**, Ace of Base - All That She Wants. The Swedish group's reggae-inflected breakthrough, which topped charts across Europe. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/5491b6ac-53bb-481f-bad6-2f058a27219a) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d73tiBBzvFM
- **1992**, Cesária Évora - Sodade. The morna that made the Cape Verdean 'barefoot diva' an international star and put Lusophone African music on world stages. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/bb74110c-a2e7-413d-a39c-0a26c7215590) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ku_WZoTtT8Q
- **1992-10-01**, Michael Jackson: Live in Bucharest, the Dangerous Tour. Jackson's full concert at Bucharest National Stadium on 1 October 1992, the sold-out opening leg of the Dangerous World Tour. Official estate channel. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/b1897398-edbe-44ff-8395-b3e085d267cb) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hxgo-Qu-ZZE
- **1992-11-03**, Whitney Houston - I Will Always Love You. Houston's Dolly Parton cover from The Bodyguard, fourteen weeks at US number one and the best-selling single ever by a female artist. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/a69d30a6-f1be-46c0-91c1-a9a4813d2d58) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JWTaaS7LdU
### 1993
- **1993-02-10**, Michael Jackson interviewed by Oprah Winfrey, 1993. The Neverland interview watched by around 90 million people in the US, the first time Jackson spoke at length on live television in fourteen years. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/88bc739a-0103-46f3-9248-2b7f2fcce5c0) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKlqIh4STt8
- **1993**, Ace of Base - The Sign. The single that gave the group an American number one and named their US album. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/ea185e21-1d63-4ae4-bc4c-07546a982f3f) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqu132vTl5Y
### 1994
- **1994**, The 1994 Gangsta Rap Protests. Period news report on Rev. Calvin Butts and the Harlem-led campaign against gangsta rap records, part of the mid-1990s moral panic over rap lyrics. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/58446947-65b3-4410-a7af-64b0036098ad) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wCDHQfLFwo
- **1994**, The 1994 US Senate Gangsta Rap Hearings. Archival footage of the 1994 congressional hearings on the social impact of gangsta rap, with unedited testimony from industry figures including Yo-Yo, Def Jam representatives and critic Nelson George. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/22a4145a-fb98-43ec-98af-9b96d38a0f55) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owpgE24_PPM
- **1994**, Selena interviewed in 1994 - Smithsonian archive. Footage unseen for over twenty years, digitised by the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History; Selena speaking a year before her murder. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/2e420d0b-7aa0-4908-9693-dac840729f61) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVN5akAeL08
### 1996
- **1996**, Amr Diab interviewed live by Emad Eddin Adeeb, 1996. A 71-minute Arabic television interview with Amr Diab from 1996, the year Nour El Ain made him the biggest pop star in the Arab world. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/7c218327-ec36-4340-92c8-ccbaaf3698a8) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8rOVlax1X0
- **1996**, Umm Kulthum: A Voice Like Egypt. Michal Goldman's feature documentary on the Egyptian singer whose monthly radio concerts stopped the Arab world for hours at a time. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/54f455ff-faec-4264-8511-fadd3db93413) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLfONsv8BEI
- **1996**, Amr Diab - Nour El Ain. The 1996 Egyptian single that fused Arabic pop with Spanish guitar and became the biggest-selling Arabic record of its era. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/e69c6c00-2fa9-4332-8975-eaca2bec1ade) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLJA-srM_yM
- **1996-07-08**, Spice Girls - Wannabe. The 1996 debut single, shot in one take at the Midland Grand Hotel, that made the Spice Girls a global phenomenon. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/15e6eb6b-3972-4765-934c-a0309491db7e) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJLIiF15wjQ
### 1997
- **1997**, Tarkan - Şımarık. The 1997 Turkish single, known worldwide as 'Kiss Kiss', that became one of the very few Turkish-language records to chart across Europe and Latin America. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/4a276586-c4c2-44a9-85b8-0c34de7739bf) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpp69ghR1IM
### 1998
- **1998**, Faye Wong - Red Bean. Faye Wong's 1998 ballad, written by Lin Xi, one of the most covered songs in Cantopop and Mandopop; official channel upload. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/d5329848-3b04-48c8-b991-d956caf95429) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wmfXve11rM
- **1998-10-23**, Britney Spears -...Baby One More Time. The 1998 debut single and schoolgirl video that opened the teen-pop era and made Spears the defining pop star of her generation. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/b61b50a6-d184-46de-a1ba-cb73dfd4cb1f) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-u5WLJ9Yk4
### 1999
- **1999-04-12**, Backstreet Boys - I Want It That Way. The 1999 single that defined the boy-band peak and remains the group's signature record. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/2728c43b-7ef3-40a6-83ef-8ca8e33a48ba) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fndeDfaWCg
- **1999-04-28**, Hikaru Utada - First Love. The title track of the best-selling album in Japanese history. Official VEVO upload of the 1999 video. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/b8014e00-ee58-4ed4-a00e-834470a10b0b) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1sUaVJUeB0
- **1999**, Ricky Martin - Livin' la Vida Loca. The 1999 crossover single generally credited with triggering the Latin pop boom in the English-language market. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/845727d3-9289-462e-b0e7-3a6b955759bc) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p47fEXGabaY
### 2001
- **2001**, Lata Mangeshkar on Talking Heads, 2001. A full television interview with the playback singer who recorded for Indian film for over seven decades and shaped what Hindi cinema sounds like. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/58a937a9-155a-4c2e-abad-f4cbefab2fc1) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGtnKzDzgdw
- **2001**, Shakira - Whenever, Wherever. Shakira's first English-language single, the record that made the Colombian singer a global pop star. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/57202a66-0908-4b02-9e19-71b0b05eaeee) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=weRHyjj34ZE
- **2001-10-23**, Steve Jobs introduces the iPod, October 2001. Full Apple music event at which Jobs unveiled the iPod, the device that carried the music library into the pocket. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/6ffdad1f-d65c-4144-a2af-5c3de2fa9a1d) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mc_FiHTITHE
### 2002
- **2002**, BoA - No.1. BoA's 2002 Korean single. As the first Korean artist to top the Japanese Oricon chart she opened the export route K-pop still uses. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/283365a1-5f10-4379-b3db-573cd47bad76) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceZc-5p3g1w
### 2004
- **2004**, Daddy Yankee - Gasolina. The 2004 single that carried reggaeton out of Puerto Rico and onto global radio; official artist upload. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/3b232ffa-e251-487d-a312-a0ca16d50a4c) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCF1_jI8Prk
- **2004-07-11**, Amy Winehouse's full North Sea Jazz set, 2004. A rare hour-long Winehouse concert from the Paulus Potter Hall in The Hague on 11 July 2004, from the North Sea Jazz festival's own archive channel. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/8d43a412-de47-471e-8259-61b0ec924c4d) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68PqecMtkU0
### 2005
- **2005**, Jay Chou - Nocturne. Official MV from the artist's own channel for the 2005 single that anchored his dominance of Mandopop. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/65894ac3-408d-4cbc-bcd8-5f26489c9372) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Q0Pd53mojY
### 2006
- **2006**, SonyWalkmanFamily. Four members of the Sony Walkman line of wearable products for four different physical media: Top left: wearable CD player Sony D-E221 from year 2001 ( model year and tech data… Photograph/scan dated 2006. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/22c9ffbd-637d-455b-82f9-7b1b4ac8749f) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:SonyWalkmanFamily.JPG
- **2006**, Amy Winehouse: Back to Black live at Other Voices, 2006. Winehouse performing Back to Black for the Irish series Other Voices in 2006, released officially by Universal in 2024. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/caff9dab-b71a-48df-91ff-e3d065331df8) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AL-nv-7TIws
- **2006**, Nancy Ajram - Ya Tabtab. Official video from the Lebanese singer who became the biggest female pop star in the Arab world in the 2000s. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/5f7b5bcd-5ba7-4f04-8b7f-d6a7b329604b) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fCBSQjpH8U
- **2006-12-23**, CD arc. Arc on CD. Photograph/scan dated 2006. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/b620bbb6-704d-4e4f-bc97-d86b358cdbf8) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:CD_arc.jpg
- **2006-12-26**, Guitar shop. /scan dated 2006. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/5a52e181-46ea-41d8-aeec-9741a4d8a984) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Guitar_shop_(336353830).jpg
### 2007
- **2007**, Capitol Records Building LA - panoramio. Capitol Records Building LA Photographed/dated 2007. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/8e5df345-6264-4b8c-b017-63c4be555a23) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Capitol_Records_Building_LA_-_panoramio.jpg
- **2007**, Vanessa da Mata - Boa Sorte / Good Luck ft. Ben Harper. The 2007 bilingual Brazilian single that became one of the biggest MPB records of the 2000s. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/7f62a9e7-2b7f-4b9e-81af-c5001a58365d) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4k6JgC7UVA
### 2008
- **2008**, IPod Giga - Flickr - Thristian. On Saturday, I discovered that someone had... modified one of the concrete sewer grates near my house. Photographed/dated 2008. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/51acc419-8b9b-4d39-b3fe-8ef4acc91e2f) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:IPod_Giga_-_Flickr_-_Thristian.jpg
- **2008**, TVXQ! - Mirotic. The 2008 single widely treated as the peak of second-generation K-pop and TVXQ's signature record. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/28d18d1b-4aad-490d-9a5e-999d6ac5a5e3) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtJS32n6LNQ
- **2008**, Wonder Girls - Nobody. The 2008 retro-soul single that became the first K-pop record to enter the Billboard Hot 100. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/721315b8-189f-472a-ae8d-ef7c048c72e4) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZBn1e9pr2Q
- **2008**, A.R. Rahman - Jai Ho. The Slumdog Millionaire song that won the Academy Award for Best Original Song and made Rahman the most visible Indian composer worldwide. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/353a6884-f072-4de1-ae92-39829568edf1) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yc5OyXmHD0w
- **2008-09-02**, JuiceBoxPlayer. JuiceBox (red, SD card adapter and 1GB card shown) Photograph/scan dated 2008. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/0227a1d4-7a48-4a36-a65b-5f9c5aa08a74) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:JuiceBoxPlayer.JPG
- **2008-10-21**, "While Daddy's at the War" patriotic song. Patriotic song written and composed by V. M. Hansen and arranged by Percy Flynn in 1917. Archives New Zealand Reference: PC4/960 Photographed/dated 2008. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/a523644f-4eb2-4c9c-bd8b-4071647b6259) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:%22While_Daddy%27s_at_the_War%22_patriotic_song_(14808404086).jpg
### 2009
- **2009-02-12**, Radio homebrewed2. Integrated circuit - Radio (TA7642 & LM386) in an old speaker enclosure, only broadcast band, homebrewed. Photograph/scan dated 2009. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/2abcfad6-bcc7-465e-b9a9-ee155dc9a2c8) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Radio_homebrewed2.jpg
- **2009**, Girls' Generation - Gee. SM Entertainment's official MV for the single that made Girls' Generation a national act and became a defining K-pop girl-group record. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/82358349-5e90-4333-b48f-84cadc116744) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7mPqycQ0tQ
- **2009-08-03**, Diana Yukawa at Abbey Road in Studio 1. Violinist Diana Yukawa at Abbey Road in Studio 1 with her sister Cassie Yukawa and Producer Andy Wright recording her album, The Butterfly Effect. Photographed/dated 2009. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/1ac50af1-fc96-4506-a26e-8136b29e74e4) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Diana_Yukawa_at_Abbey_Road_in_Studio_1.jpg
- **2009-08-14**, Robyn @ Way Out West 2009 01. Robyn at Way Out West 2009, Göteborg, 14th august 2009. Photograph dated 2009. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/e0596a38-d836-4cc8-94c8-296c427254f5) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Robyn_@_Way_Out_West_2009_01.jpg
- **2009-12-29**, Minimoog (Buffalo Museum of Science). Moog Music Inc, Williamsville, NY/USA, 1970s From the Collection of Van Taylor Who's Keith Lake? Photographed/dated 2009. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/ca8e9afb-6e88-4489-b9a9-a7b330a2e50a) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Minimoog_(Buffalo_Museum_of_Science).jpg
### 2010
- **2010-01-07**, Record Rooter. You know I'm one. Photograph/scan dated 2010. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/3fb92b3c-089c-4f77-ad56-51ad541ad393) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Record_Rooter_(4296205508).jpg
- **2010**, Cesária Évora: Nha Sentimento - 2010 documentary. A feature documentary on Cape Verde's barefoot diva, filmed near the end of her life and career. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/beae3081-05e8-43af-b724-a8924b28525e) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzQWOdojzaA
- **2010**, ZAZ - Je veux. The 2010 single that made Zaz the biggest French-language pop export of her generation, selling millions across Europe and Latin America. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/6202e8b2-66d0-4127-9ab0-3cc212388a34) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TFNGRYMz1U
- **2010-06-29**, Free the iPod. captured and sent from a rooted Android phone:-) Photographed/dated 2010. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/c955d54b-78f6-41b3-9b3e-f721b33a2360) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Free_the_iPod_(4756422181).jpg
- **2010-07-04**, Robyn - Robin Miriam Carlsson - Roskilde Festival 2010. 2010. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/3e6c1890-759f-49f7-b5fb-b3a654e497cc) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Robyn_-_Robin_Miriam_Carlsson_-_Roskilde_Festival_2010.jpg
- **2010-08-05**, At a CD store, Kyoto. 古今亭志ん朝、柳家小さん、柳家小三治、柳家花緑、春風亭昇太、春風亭小朝、桂歌丸 Photograph/scan dated 2010. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/e8bf4e8a-46f2-4320-b24b-a6d7330cd83d) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:At_a_CD_store,_Kyoto_(4863411096).jpg
- **2010-10-22**, John Legend - PopTech 2010 - Camden, Maine. Photo: \<a href=" http://www.staticphotography.com// " rel="nofollow"\>Kris Krüg\</a\> John Legend performing at PopTech Conference 2010 in Camden, Maine on October 22, 2010. Photograph dated 2010. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/58220ac0-c13a-4b52-b0cf-4075edc23b62) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:John_Legend_-_PopTech_2010_-_Camden,_Maine_(5107013261).jpg
### 2011
- **2011-03-06**, Rolling Stones - Metamorphosis - Vinyl. Fotografía tomada por mi del álbum "Metamorphosis" de The Rolling Stones, editado por London Records en 1975 en formato vinilo. Photographed/dated 2011. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/19e226fa-58b8-4e7e-90d1-8104b44ffbc7) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rolling_Stones_-_Metamorphosis_-_Vinyl.JPG
- **2011-03-30**, Baaba Maal performing at the Opening Plenary at the New Theatre. 2011. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/b8028148-5e1f-425a-943d-ea08c5b29521) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Baaba_Maal_performing_at_the_Opening_Plenary_at_the_New_Theatre.jpg
- **2011-06-15**, Ricky Martin Foundation. Logo for Ricky Martin Foundation Photograph dated 2011. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/eab8c0e6-71bc-4f5c-af20-914f80b5180e) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ricky_Martin_Foundation.jpg
- **2011**, Kyary Pamyu Pamyu - PONPONPON. Warner Music Japan's official upload of the 2011 debut single that exported Harajuku kawaii aesthetics worldwide. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/dd7661e7-f628-45b3-a864-c414d6bdaf73) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzC4hFK5P3g
- **2011-06-22**, Un festival de musique en Mauritanie contre lextrémisme. \[Mohamed Wedoud\] The Assalamalekoum Festival is designed to inform youths about the dangers of radicalism. مهرجان السلام عليكم مصمم لتعريف الشباب بمخاطر التطرف Le festival Assal… Photograph/scan dated 2011. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/9648e0a7-232b-402e-8cd4-a062e26e6fae) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Un_festival_de_musique_en_Mauritanie_contre_lextr%C3%A9misme_(5866134367).jpg
- **2011-07-05**, Montreux-galere 32. Die Galere Liberté in Montreux, Schweiz Photograph/scan dated 2011. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/295fcc05-9b08-4f11-816d-09d7e2d22358) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Montreux-galere_32.JPG
- **2011-07-06**, Emile Berliner and the birth of the recording industry. Library of Congress lecture on the inventor of the flat disc record and the microphone, and how the disc displaced the cylinder. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/fb4b197d-9d24-433d-b468-b3f87f426536) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGhhvohTz0E
- **2011-07-31**, Capsule live -D. /scan dated 2011. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/74c647ab-8169-4b2c-bf95-22d2a6a997f2) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Capsule_live_-D_(5997806886).jpg
- **2011-10-03**, Guns N' Roses at Rock in Rio. Guns N' Roses show, Rock in Rio 2011. Photograph/scan dated 2011. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/6e29dce4-c75c-4cd3-abca-77d8c17a0a32) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Guns_N%27_Roses_at_Rock_in_Rio.jpg
- **2011-12-07**, Heatwave single in sleeve. Heatwave autographed record cover 1970. Photograph/scan dated 2011. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/fca029fc-8005-41d6-bbf4-8742785820b4) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Heatwave_single_in_sleeve.jpg
### 2012
- **2012-02-18**, Detail of Architecture Including Capitol Records Building - Hollywood - Los Angele…. /dated 2012. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/01402511-b5bd-47f9-8a99-5d12360ce96c) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Detail_of_Architecture_Including_Capitol_Records_Building_-_Hollywood_-_Los_Angeles,_CA_-_USA_(6914403235).jpg
- **2012-03-07**, BIGBANG - Fantastic Baby. YG Entertainment's 2012 single, one of the earliest K-pop videos to break through to a mass Western audience. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/dc22ea8c-d043-4b3c-9c4a-fdc68f486413) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAbokV76tkU
- **2012-03-09**, Red chairs, Abbey Road Studios, 80th Anniversary, March 9, 2012. the red chairs on which the beatles recorded their music. Abbey Road Studios opens its doors to the public, 80th Anniversary, March 9, 2012 \[1\] Photographed/dated 2012. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/5050b926-378a-4967-93c6-82e3a4c8e98a) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Red_chairs,_Abbey_Road_Studios,_80th_Anniversary,_March_9,_2012.jpg
- **2012-03-09**, Abbey Road Studios opens its doors to the public 3, 80th Anniversary, March 9, 2012. Abbey Road Studios opens its doors to the public, 80th Anniversary, March 9, 2012 \[1\] Photographed/dated 2012. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/6d95eab0-1d9b-4209-a987-21888518a42f) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Abbey_Road_Studios_opens_its_doors_to_the_public_3,_80th_Anniversary,_March_9,_2012.jpg
- **2012-04-03**, Gramophone records. Danmarks Radios arkiv af DRs Kulturarvsprojekt / The archive of the Danish Broadcasting Corporation Photos must be credited "DRs Kulturarvsprojekt" Photographed/dated 2012. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/57271100-7d63-446a-9d45-d7936946f81a) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gramophone_records_(6498605685).jpg
- **2012-04-26**, Dick Clark on the Payola Scandal. Archive of American Television interview in which the American Bandstand host recounts his own involvement in the 1959-60 payola investigations. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/8a2022e3-9b7f-4bab-8fb6-a3f467d90ef1) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oOe3jkXR-w
- **2012-05-12**, 3 vinyl singles-hy. 3 formats of vinyl singles Photograph/scan dated 2012. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/5a253f9c-f26c-49c4-896b-501d0cf4f3f0) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:3_vinyl_singles-hy.jpg
- **2012-05-19**, Drums Used by Larry Mullen Jr. on U2-BB King Sessions - Sun Studio - Memphis - Ten…. /dated 2012. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/057c8f4f-a264-4204-974e-9a7cff259269) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Drums_Used_by_Larry_Mullen_Jr._on_U2-BB_King_Sessions_-_Sun_Studio_-_Memphis_-_Tennessee_-_USA.jpg
- **2012-05-19**, Facade of Sun Studio - Memphis - Tennessee - USA. /dated 2012. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/73f50c7a-3e51-469a-8482-08f9270cc214) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Facade_of_Sun_Studio_-_Memphis_-_Tennessee_-_USA.jpg
- **2012**, Luis Miguel's full set at Vina del Mar 2012. Luis Miguel's complete performance at Chile's Vina del Mar song festival, from the festival's official historical archive channel. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/5c73b331-cede-4740-b012-fe70fbb11c31) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJiOUOLjjlQ
- **2012-07-15**, PSY - Gangnam Style. The first YouTube video to pass a billion views and the record that proved a non-English pop song could top charts worldwide. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/27e94f23-ee55-4e70-9394-723c71b241fb) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bZkp7q19f0
- **2012-07-26**, Computer Tape Cartridge. Two identical computer tape cartridges, front and back, along with an American penny for scale. Photograph/scan dated 2012. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/e54d4390-0510-4ead-829c-85aebebc0576) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Computer_Tape_Cartridge.jpg
- **2012-07-27**, The Stone Roses Fuji Rock Festival 2012. green stage @ fuji rock festival 2012 Photographed/dated 2012. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/4448d7e5-9a34-461b-878b-a5275acfe0b0) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Stone_Roses_Fuji_Rock_Festival_2012.jpg
- **2012-08-02**, Fuji rock. Photograph of Fuji Rock Festival. Photographed/dated 2012. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/daad6bc4-2893-4a5f-bc7f-d3d6d5109a67) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fuji_rock_(7696317362).jpg
- **2012-08-12**, Annie Lennox. 2012. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/d3d3ee57-f58a-45d4-ad98-fae5c266778f) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Annie_Lennox_(7777753760).jpg
- **2012-08-13**, Free Pussy Riot Helsinki. /scan dated 2012. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/4ee59647-afd7-49d3-b08b-51df2dba4dea) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Free_Pussy_Riot_Helsinki.jpg
- **2012-09-24**, 19890516 A&M Studios st A Control Room nf3 0000. /scan dated 2012. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/fa879cbd-65fc-48c2-a38f-3b4c4f14bf48) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:19890516_A%26M_Studios_st_A_Control_Room_nf3_0000_(8019706874).jpg
- **2012-12-25**, Ice psy. 2012. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/5c8756fc-be7b-4cfb-a6ac-2aa41e31dfd8) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ice_psy_(8372227415).jpg
### 2013
- **2013-02-08**, Post Malone. VELD 2016 Photograph dated 2013. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/a0c1b46c-4d39-42d5-85d5-16ab591048f1) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Post_Malone_(28150766563).jpg
- **2013-03-11**, Super Rich Kids - Frank Ocean (CD Single). The promotional CD single of Frank Ocean's "Super Rich Kids" released by Def Jam Recording to radio stations in 2013. Photograph/scan dated 2013. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/14fcbf5c-ed68-4ea1-b15d-77646a4c1795) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Super_Rich_Kids_-_Frank_Ocean_(CD_Single).png
- **2013-03-28**, The A&R Process Explained. BBC Introducing Musicians' Masterclass panel hosted by Mary Anne Hobbs on how A&R works and why a record deal is not the endpoint artists assume. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/b9cbb3db-2211-4837-84cc-4a69695232d4) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPpsOj88UdE
- **2013-06-08**, Antique recording studio, Berlin 2013 (2013-06-08 12.31.22 by Thomas Quine). ) Photograph/scan dated 2013. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/d20f7540-2f94-4b98-a628-bfb1d33b8322) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Antique_recording_studio,_Berlin_2013_(2013-06-08_12.31.22_by_Thomas_Quine).jpg
- **2013**, Ghetto Blaster - panoramio. Ghetto Blaster Photographed/dated 2013. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/dd9011b8-bb75-479a-922a-d1a123f92d76) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ghetto_Blaster_-_panoramio.jpg
- **2013**, AKB48 - Koi Suru Fortune Cookie. The 2013 single from the idol group whose handshake-event and election model reshaped the Japanese music industry. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/68eda7d7-87ae-4d07-bca8-5195055c3033) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFf4AgBNR1E
- **2013-08-05**, The Great Transformation of the Korean Wave - KBS World. A feature-length KBS documentary on how Hallyu was built as a deliberate cultural-export strategy, made before BTS made it obvious to the West. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/d26aff71-0e8e-4979-8a23-40fa5cfdc775) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnmvHf9kIv4
- **2013-09-01**, Rock in Rio 2013 - Rock Street. Rock in Rio 4º dia - 19set13 Photograph/scan dated 2013. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/79c67c26-03ea-4bc9-9fe2-f9ba737635d7) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rock_in_Rio_2013_-_Rock_Street_(10950236813).jpg
- **2013-10-09**, The Roland 808, 909 and 303: BBC Radio 1 Documentary. BBC Radio 1 Stories on the three Roland boxes that defined hip hop and dance music production, with the engineers and artists who used them. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/8dd83edd-d0d8-4a39-bc8f-1f2ba95c992e) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBvmnqeJWl4
- **2013-12-02**, Hard Rock Cafe Atlanta - Steven Tyler, Joe Perry from Aerosmith, Shakira, No Doubt…. Hard Rock Cafe, Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia Photograph dated 2013. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/95f6ab1f-1cb4-4c46-b442-dc928b59e678) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hard_Rock_Cafe_Atlanta_-_Steven_Tyler,_Joe_Perry_from_Aerosmith,_Shakira,_No_Doubt_(panorama).jpg
- **2013-12-02**, Hard Rock Cafe Atlanta Tina Turner. Hard Rock Cafe, Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia Photograph dated 2013. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/b51e5a2a-3254-4cf1-ad66-ccf0c0398597) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hard_Rock_Cafe_Atlanta_Tina_Turner.JPG
### 2014
- **2014-01-25**, KORG RK-100S keytar - angled left - 2014 NAMM Show (by Matt Vanacoro). KORG RK-100S Keytar Photograph/scan dated 2014. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/0a53cb40-5796-460d-8d62-cff81fb5645d) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:KORG_RK-100S_keytar_-_angled_left_-_2014_NAMM_Show_(by_Matt_Vanacoro).jpg
- **2014-02-16**, Mahindra Blues Festival - 001. Photograph taken at an international Blues music concert. Photograph/scan dated 2014. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/f5c8af26-e15b-422f-9219-550be0bf1df9) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mahindra_Blues_Festival_-_001.jpg
- **2014-04-13**, Arcade Fire and Debbie Harry, Coachella 2014. Arcade Fire and Debbie Harry performing at Coachella on April 13, 2014 in Indio, California. Photograph dated 2014. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/bd82b49e-f1f0-4197-ad8a-62baeaa42105) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Arcade_Fire_and_Debbie_Harry,_Coachella_2014_(13943080983).jpg
- **2014-04-19**, Solange - Coachella 2014 (01). Solange performing at Coachella on April 19, 2014. Photograph dated 2014. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/5d171a9e-6a09-4012-b489-d1d99e282ecf) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Solange_-_Coachella_2014_(01).jpg
- **2014-06-09**, Birlikte - Kundgebung - 1748 - Sertab Erener und Demir Demirkan-0990. Birlikte - Kundgebung - Sertab Erener und Demir Demirkan Foto: Sertab Erener Photograph dated 2014. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/40c1f5e8-8e19-4a45-9c66-2a147354d683) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Birlikte_-_Kundgebung_-_1748_-_Sertab_Erener_und_Demir_Demirkan-0990.jpg
- **2014**, Site of Teresa Teng\`s former residence 鄧麗君舊居址 - panoramio. 亞洲歌姬鄧麗君故居 Photograph dated 2014. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/686b9e42-7169-4cc4-b11c-ff88478522b5) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Site_of_Teresa_Teng%60s_former_residence_%E9%84%A7%E9%BA%97%E5%90%9B%E8%88%8A%E5%B1%85%E5%9D%80_-_panoramio.jpg
- **2014-08-06**, 1934-06-09 Deutsche Musik-Premieren-Bühne, Saxonia-Tonplatte, Musikverlag Dresden,…. Deutscher Glaube, Lied für Gesang und Klavier, 1934; Saxonia Schallplatte als Pliaphon-Selbstschnittfolie (Unikat „nur zum eigenen Gebrauch“), Dresden: Musikverlag Saxonia, Landhausstraße 11, mit S… Photographed/dated 2014. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/b5cacf18-0412-4a1c-88ff-afcf580cae97) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1934-06-09_Deutsche_Musik-Premieren-B%C3%BChne,_Saxonia-Tonplatte,_Musikverlag_Dresden,_Pliaphon_(DRGM)_Nr._49,_Theodor_Kr%C3%BCger_(Musiker),_(4).jpg
- **2014-08-31**, Indila et Gonzague Saint-Bris lors de la Forêt des Livres. 31 août 2014 Photograph dated 2014. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/fc92ded5-8dd0-42af-a770-6456ca0a3209) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Indila_et_Gonzague_Saint-Bris_lors_de_la_For%C3%AAt_des_Livres.jpg
- **2014-09-12**, Chupa Chups Spice Girls. 2014. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/0352182e-e7b7-453c-8621-1a81f6fb1811) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chupa_Chups_Spice_Girls.jpg
- **2014-09-14**, Arnaldo Antunes e Marisa Monte em Belo Horizonte, 2014. Festival Natura Musical de 2014, em Belo Horizonte. Photograph dated 2014. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/0f9357f7-040b-4a56-b857-f4d779f5b4d4) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Arnaldo_Antunes_e_Marisa_Monte_em_Belo_Horizonte,_2014.jpg
- **2014-11-17**, P-Square - Shekini. Official video from the Nigerian duo whose 2000s run built the continental audience Afrobeats later exported. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/384cfafe-c813-435b-b7b0-4375ca88e2c0) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCcuzqRRTHQ
- **2014-11-18**, Jukebox, Fanfare 100, NSM Apparatebau GmbH, Bingen, Rhein, 1958 AD, metal, glass,…. Exhibit in the Braunschweigisches Landesmuseum, Braunschweig, Germany. Photographed/dated 2014. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/17b8593b-43e0-4a2a-a9d7-320eaa58914f) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jukebox,_Fanfare_100,_NSM_Apparatebau_GmbH,_Bingen,_Rhein,_1958_AD,_metal,_glass,_etc_-_Braunschweigisches_Landesmuseum_-_DSC04934.JPG
- **2014-11-26**, Who Made Pop Music So Repetitive? You Did. The Atlantic on labels using Spotify and Shazam data to predict hits, and the argument that listener preference drives chart homogeneity. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/fcf77c50-95d3-473f-b736-3acbe948beb6) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYY8UkDg5bs
- **2014-12-08**, Napster and the culture of free. Retro Report for the New York Times on the 1999 file-sharing program built in a Boston dorm room and the shock it delivered to the record industry. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/3885cfcd-7b6b-4dd8-9c76-d3721c4369e8) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKrdsGdLVQ8
### 2015
- **2015-01-18**, Vintage Acopian Solar Cell Powered Radio, Model 257 P-E, Broadcast Band Only (MW),…. ), Crystal Reception With Amplification, Earphone Listening Only, Made In USA, Circa 1957 Photographed/dated 2015. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/fccf55ff-8a15-46c9-989d-14d96ac8ddeb) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vintage_Acopian_Solar_Cell_Powered_Radio,_Model_257_P-E,_Broadcast_Band_Only_(MW),_Crystal_Reception_With_Amplification,_Earphone_Listening_Only,_Made_In_USA,_Circa_1957_(16126595547).jpg
- **2015-01-22**, Moog System 35 rear - 2015 NAMM Show. Moog System 35 rear Photographed/dated 2015. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/9062d79f-69d1-4f7d-8e9f-f6d06d4f7b6e) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Moog_System_35_rear_-_2015_NAMM_Show.jpg
- **2015-01-22**, Michael Boddicker Modular System - Moog System 55 (1976), minimoog (1975), Moog Bo…. Michael Boddicker modular synthesizer, exhibited by Bob Moog Foundation on Winter NAMM 2015 1976 Expanded System 55 Moog Modular Synthesizer 1975 Moog Minimoog 1979 Moog Bode Vocoder Bode 7702 Voc… Photographed/dated 2015. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/aafdc894-ec51-4d5c-9da6-2c68a77638e3) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Michael_Boddicker_Modular_System_-_Moog_System_55_(1976),_minimoog_(1975),_Moog_Bode_Vocoder_(1979),_Formula_Sound_Multiple_Resonance_Filter_Array_(1979),_with_Moog_Percussion_Controller_model_1130_(landscape)_-_2015_NAMM_Show.jpg
- **2015-02-14**, Akai Rhythm Wolf - teardown rear (by Pete Brown). Akai Rhythm Wolf Photographed/dated 2015. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/7ff00a81-3fa3-4537-a963-efa1551f5382) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Akai_Rhythm_Wolf_-_teardown_rear_(by_Pete_Brown).jpg
- **2015-02-14**, Akai Rhythm Wolf - panel without knobs (by Pete Brown). Akai Rhythm Wolf Photographed/dated 2015. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/a935834e-44e2-4666-a00b-209395d6549c) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Akai_Rhythm_Wolf_-_panel_without_knobs_(by_Pete_Brown).jpg
- **2015-02-17**, Mills 1934 Jukebox. This jukebox was produced by the Mills Novelty Company in 1934 and plays 78 rpm records. Photographed/dated 2015. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/eea177d5-4dd8-4fe8-86df-355f24a0be20) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mills_1934_Jukebox.JPG
- **2015-02-19**, The anatomy of Taylor Swift's Style. Vox breaks down the musical and visual construction of the record that completed Swift's move from country to pop. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/86a7698e-d96b-4b6f-a4ad-4ecb8c350d9d) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_b86duruvs
- **2015-03-05**, An old gramophone at Dilli Haat, New Delhi. /dated 2015. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/19bc75c2-cb3d-46fe-ac0f-23dc05f8b328) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:An_old_gramophone_at_Dilli_Haat,_New_Delhi.jpg
- **2015-06-19**, Kylie Auldist. During "Tim Rogers and The Bamboos - The Metro - 19th June 2015" Photograph dated 2015. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/eb15879d-1b14-42dc-87b3-2db58d95025f) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kylie_Auldist.jpg
- **2015-07-25**, Gen Hoshino at the Fuji Rock Festival 2015. /dated 2015. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/aa19a347-9aee-4281-8d8d-d5a09359a948) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gen_Hoshino_at_the_Fuji_Rock_Festival_2015.jpg
- **2015-07-30**, Rose et Vianney. 2015. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/04b6babc-1cc5-479c-96e5-8b5851da78c3) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rose_et_Vianney_(20145364946).jpg
- **2015-07-30**, Vianney. 2015. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/196bd265-1541-47e4-a592-648cec781b6b) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vianney_(19572339093).jpg
- **2015-10-27**, Ipod design reincarnated as cheap remote (for a beamer screen).. via Instagram \<a href=" http://ift.tt/1LUvoWb " rel="nofollow"\>ift.tt/1LUvoWb\</a\> Photographed/dated 2015. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/c12d57df-7a00-4e06-ae38-6600edbc8f26) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ipod_design_reincarnated_as_cheap_remote_(for_a_beamer_screen)._(22328435079).jpg
- **2015-11-11**, Jain aux Rendez-Vous Soniques 2015 (10). Jain aux Rendez-Vous Soniques 2015 Photograph dated 2015. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/5710d8f6-4241-4e5d-9040-81bce6fdafcf) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jain_aux_Rendez-Vous_Soniques_2015_(10).JPG
- **2015-11-21**, Celebration Flowers from Production Staffs in AIKATSU☆STARS! Aikatsu! Special LIVE…. Celebration flowers for the performers in the live concert, AIKATSU☆STARS! Aikatsu! Special LIVE 2015 Lovely Party!!. The production staffs of TV animation titled Aikatsu! arran… Photograph/scan dated 2015. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/94fd957d-bcb6-48c2-9de1-35bb3c95fc85) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Celebration_Flowers_from_Production_Staffs_in_AIKATSU%E2%98%86STARS!_Aikatsu!_Special_LIVE_2015_Lovely_Party!!.jpg
- **2015-11-27**, 1973 Moog modular synthesizer. This 1973 Moog modular synthesizer was originally used in the Elektroakusztikus Zenei Stúdió (Electroacoustic Music Studio, shortened to ELZEN) later known as HEAR Stúdió of Magyar Rádió (Hungarian… Photographed/dated 2015. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/e8fd6c2f-9d51-49ed-a806-4b24ebdfde44) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1973_Moog_modular_synthesizer.jpg
### 2016
- **2016-01-09**, CD Korrosion. Destroyed CD (by time) Photograph/scan dated 2016. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/8359a2a0-9161-4799-b351-32679653c953) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:CD_Korrosion.JPG
- **2016-02-13**, 2016 AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am - Justin Timberlake. The 2016 AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am golf tournament was held at Pebble Beach Golf Links. Photograph dated 2016. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/44269399-4f1e-4753-95c8-29e2de532086) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2016_AT%26T_Pebble_Beach_Pro-Am_-_Justin_Timberlake_(25020781621).jpg
- **2016-02-16**, Aitana Ridge Circuit. hikes in the Costa Blanca region, Spain Photograph dated 2016. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/657a09fe-db25-4f01-8e33-12ea0b15fe42) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Aitana_Ridge_Circuit_(26311547103).jpg
- **2016-03-17**, Ben Rector Performing a Live Performance at The Fonda Theatre in Los Angeles - Encore. This image was taken at a Ben Rector show in which he performed in Los Angeles at The Fonda Theatre.This was at the end of his show as he listens to the crowd cheer for an encore. Photographed/dated 2016. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/f559ebb8-c8f1-46c2-a83a-aaa9f45c7b0f) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ben_Rector_Performing_a_Live_Performance_at_The_Fonda_Theatre_in_Los_Angeles_-_Encore.jpg
- **2016-04-22**, Music festival in Abuja. I attended an alternative music festival in Abuja, Nigeria Photograph/scan dated 2016. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/26e4d893-b049-41bb-825a-871118873a06) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Music_festival_in_Abuja.jpg
- **2016-05-20**, Emerson Lake & Palmer - LP with Manticore. LP label of a German edition of "Emerson, Lake and Palmer - Pictures at an Exhibition" with Manticore picture Photographed/dated 2016. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/953bfe0e-2534-480d-b9ab-bd2f4d1b31ad) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Emerson_Lake_%26_Palmer_-_LP_with_Manticore.jpg
- **2016-05-25**, Metro Boomin, Zaytoven and Sonny Digital on the sound of the South. Joint Red Bull Music Academy lecture with three Atlanta beatmakers on how the city's production style was built. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/092d2406-26c2-4c44-a315-f284c2f41c16) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQtL-wJEiO8
- **2016**, DDR Transistor Radio Sternchen. " Photographed/dated 2016. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/9788f33c-ac63-4836-96e2-365d67c4752c) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:DDR_Transistor_Radio_Sternchen.jpg
- **2016-07-12**, Daughter @Montreux Jazz festival, 12.07.2016. /scan dated 2016. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/4e752be7-e06e-49b6-b67e-3fc764f4e152) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Daughter_@Montreux_Jazz_festival,_12.07.2016.jpg
- **2016-07-15**, POS16 F6 YEARS & YEARS 10. 2016. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/33a38ac5-04c4-402a-a3da-9937a5879196) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:POS16_F6_YEARS_%26_YEARS_10_(28417366875).jpg
- **2016-07-15**, POS16 F6 YEARS & YEARS 7. 2016. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/e9c08055-6f70-4e55-ab53-f11d8b1882f3) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:POS16_F6_YEARS_%26_YEARS_7_(28134399220).jpg
- **2016-07-21**, Jain - Paléo 2016. 2016. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/edba4abd-e041-455a-833d-3a07deb8b010) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jain_-_Pal%C3%A9o_2016.jpg
- **2016-07-27**, OYE Records Berlin 2016. The OYE Records record store in Berlin in 2016. Photograph/scan dated 2016. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/ccd5a3ba-c63d-4dac-b0f3-15bbd7e551f8) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:OYE_Records_Berlin_2016.jpg
- **2016-08-04**, Browsing vinyl music at a fair (Unsplash). Shoreditch, London, United Kingdom Photographed/dated 2016. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/977ffa30-8283-498e-a10d-3adf901888e5) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Browsing_vinyl_music_at_a_fair_(Unsplash).jpg
- **2016-08-20**, Concierto Laura Pausini CRC EMCR LMM 20160820 0005. La cantante Italia Laura Pausini en el Estadio Nacional de Costa Rica, el sábado 20 de agosto de 2016 Photograph dated 2016. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/f7709307-6cf6-4a43-91dd-62637fe7d3b7) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Concierto_Laura_Pausini_CRC_EMCR_LMM_20160820_0005.jpg
- **2016-08-27**, Dj Hypnotic Boat Cruise. DJ Hypnotic On Boat Cruise Photograph/scan dated 2016. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/f3aad431-d1c3-4336-aa43-08a8d0610a17) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dj_Hypnotic_Boat_Cruise.jpg
- **2016-09-01**, Kanye West and the human voice as instrument. Vox deconstructs how pitch-shifted and processed vocals became the structural core of West's records. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/75173caa-99ca-40ab-833b-27312971f2f9) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgJyhKEZ8QU
- **2016-09-21**, Disco Demolition: Riot to Rebirth. Red Bull Music Academy documentary on Steve Dahl's 1979 Comiskey Park stunt and the racial and sexual politics behind the anti-disco backlash. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/bfddc773-7392-405f-954c-106f60119dd9) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AiDYGlSJY1E
- **2016-10-12**, Electric Lady Studios. A picture of the front of Electric Lady Studios for Mission #5 - CIS 3750. Photograph/scan dated 2016. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/cc19fb8c-ba8e-4531-b056-3769cc4febf0) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Electric_Lady_Studios.jpg
- **2016-10-18**, Piracy music CD. CD with skull and crossbones icon and "music" text. Photograph/scan dated 2016. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/4e44cde6-9ec9-4dff-a53e-a46d060f8e1b) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Piracy_music_CD.jpg
- **2016-11-10**, Parental angolano. /scan dated 2016. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/3f29496e-2275-474a-8189-a63bf9f4d6e1) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Parental_angolano.png
- **2016-12-02**, The anatomy of a song: verse, chorus, function. 12tone examines pop song form not as labels but as function, asking why verse-chorus structure persists. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/a0dfb396-0370-4103-bf5f-b2de1c02943c) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxyrXqBQEpE
- **2016-12-08**, Susan Rogers on engineering Prince. Prince's staff engineer, later a Berklee professor, on recording Purple Rain and the working method behind his records. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/4d09247b-b4aa-4395-ac09-eb8e1aef97ac) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ON0nQCQF08
- **2016-12-30**, Neve 81 Series Mixing Console. The flagship Neve 81 Series mixing console in the Small Pond studio control room. Photographed/dated 2016. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/09705466-da65-4604-b3e2-c2e878271970) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Neve_81_Series_Mixing_Console.jpg
### 2017
- **2017-01-12**, A visit to Sun Studios (Unsplash). Sun Studio, Memphis, United States Photographed/dated 2017. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/08fef917-2eaf-4702-9cab-1b26cbcf0f05) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:A_visit_to_Sun_Studios_(Unsplash).jpg
- **2017-01-12**, Luis Fonsi - Despacito ft. Daddy Yankee. The most-viewed music video on YouTube for years and the record that put a Spanish-language song at number one in the US for 16 weeks. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/85570b33-2865-4ca6-8a15-1087d9f80459) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJQP7kiw5Fk
- **2017-01-19**, Vintage Advertising For The 1958 Oldsmobile Trans-Portable Radio In The Janesville…. 3, 1957 Photographed/dated 2017. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/9c89081a-343e-441b-921f-68582341fd51) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vintage_Advertising_For_The_1958_Oldsmobile_Trans-Portable_Radio_In_The_Janesville_Wisconsin_Daily_Gazette_Newspaper,_December_3,_1957_(32292168791).jpg
- **2017-02-06**, Andreas Werner (Record Producer). Andreas at Creative Workshop recording studio - Nashville Photographed/dated 2017. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/2e2d56f5-6054-4a5c-990e-d24940fe5a1f) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Andreas_Werner_(Record_Producer).jpg
- **2017-02-22**, Yamaha DX7II-D (2017-02-22 17.28.03 by deepsonic) zoomed 400%. EDIT: based on File:Yamaha DX7II-D (2017-02-22 17.28.03 by deepsonic).jpg zoomed 400% corrected the viewpoint by trapezoid transformation tried to equalize the gradient of lightness tweaked color… Photographed/dated 2017. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/8ee3a3bc-e2fc-477d-80e7-22279e4e8be5) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Yamaha_DX7II-D_(2017-02-22_17.28.03_by_deepsonic)_zoomed_400%25.jpg
- **2017-02-26**, Cassette Tape (Unsplash). London, United Kingdom Photographed/dated 2017. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/283e1cbe-213c-4ea0-9b3b-fbcc6b2d17f2) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cassette_Tape_(Unsplash).jpg
- **2017-02-27**, Minimoog 1979 left 2017 right. Two Minimoogs: from 1979 (left) and 2017 Photographed/dated 2017. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/2423b5a3-5f62-4748-83a9-91bbe9eceab1) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Minimoog_1979_left_2017_right.jpg
- **2017-03-08**, MC Fioti - Bum Bum Tam Tam. A funk carioca track built on a Bach flute partita that became one of the most-viewed Brazilian videos ever, via the KondZilla channel that industrialised the genre. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/b0675782-388f-42f8-a3a9-850dde5d2a63) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_P7S2lKif-A
- **2017-03-25**, Vinyl. A vinyl storeftont. Photograph/scan dated 2017. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/dcc61093-2797-483c-ad26-a0e26f66f2c0) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vinyl_(33643127406).jpg
- **2017-05-19**, Morgan House Kalimpong Testimonial of Kishore Kumar and Amit Kumar. Testimonial of famous singer and actor Kishore Kumar, his wife Leena Chandavarkar and his son singer Amit Kumar. Dated 13th January 1983 Photograph dated 2017. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/8dd490f1-bb72-4209-873f-953bc2e80c85) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Morgan_House_Kalimpong_Testimonial_of_Kishore_Kumar_and_Amit_Kumar.jpg
- **2017-06-02**, The legacy of Denniz Pop and Cheiron Studios. Documentary made with Denniz Pop's son on the Stockholm producer whose Cheiron method trained Max Martin and shaped 1990s pop. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/a2c73736-41a6-4ad4-983c-d7ee3b283926) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gm51knLrJek
- **2017**, Perfume - TOKYO GIRL. Official MV from the technopop trio whose Nakata Yasutaka productions defined a decade of Japanese electronic pop. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/2e57cfe2-f05c-4fd3-88ed-d44721a1ee8b) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxl4gsvgEQY
- **2017-06-17**, Seu Jorge David Bowie Life Aquatic. 2017. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/2880424d-b1ac-498a-8420-73ce487bec42) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Seu_Jorge_David_Bowie_Life_Aquatic_(34533842224).jpg
- **2017-08-18**, The studio accident that gave the 1980s its drum sound. Vox on how gated reverb, discovered by accident at a Peter Gabriel session, became the defining production signature of the decade. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/fc708c77-0945-4300-87cb-57d728fb85a1) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bxz6jShW-3E
- **2017-09-01**, The disappearance of the fade-out. Vox on why the fade-out ending, once standard in record production, has vanished from the modern hit. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/d12aff70-3db1-47b7-a0bf-4ca4953f5005) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpKypvDjiPM
- **2017-09-03**, Bibi Bourelly Bumbershoot 2017 1. Bibi Bourelly performing at Bumbershoot in Seattle, Washington on September 3, 2017. Photograph dated 2017. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/e3b83793-3039-493c-93d0-56747edc5151) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bibi_Bourelly_Bumbershoot_2017_1.jpg
- **2017-09-15**, How the Triplet Flow Took Over Rap. Vox Earworm deconstructs the Migos triplet flow, tracing the rhythmic device backwards and forwards through chart hip hop. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/e4e5624b-5c56-482d-8058-e3f64ca5d414) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3la8bsi4P-c
- **2017-10-03**, Charlie Puth Breaks Down 'Attention'. Rolling Stone films the writer-producer at the keyboard explaining how he built the arrangement and hook of his Top 5 single. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/f6a637ab-4211-4816-9bc1-f0ec62fcd91d) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IU8BEMi8UyM
- **2017-10-13**, Why repetition works in music. Vox Earworm with computer scientist Colin Morris and psychologist Elizabeth Margulis on measured lyrical repetition and why the brain rewards it. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/e4442000-3661-44c3-999b-d76c0f0e2aaf) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzzmqUoQobc
- **2017-11-19**, Gramophone of Chennai. கிராமபோஃன். Photographed/dated 2017. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/f0e5a069-7860-4c62-9cd8-acd99a16c768) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gramophone_of_Chennai.jpg
- **2017-11-26**, Pussy riot Rugby club 2017. PUSSY RIOT at Rugby club, Falmouth 26th November 2017 Photograph/scan dated 2017. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/26459779-1fc4-460a-8481-c5a1ec7401a4) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pussy_riot_Rugby_club_2017.jpg
- **2017-11-27**, Bernie Grundman on mastering and cutting vinyl. The mastering engineer behind Thriller, Tapestry and The Chronic demonstrates his approach and cuts a lacquer on camera. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/aecd4296-29a4-4d5a-9149-c2fcea91d56f) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWqf2dC90Sk
- **2017-12-06**, How J Dilla Humanized the MPC3000. Vox Earworm episode on how J Dilla switched off the drum machine's quantize grid, producing the deliberately unsteady rhythmic feel that reshaped hip hop and modern pop production. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/56eadcdb-37fb-41a6-8f9e-3a76c88948c3) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SENzTt3ftiU
- **2017-12-14**, George Martin, the fifth Beatle. Polyphonic on how the producer's arrangements and studio techniques shaped the Beatles' records. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/84ebd82b-af01-476d-99e3-cb9f02090d88) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WscjZkIYjr8
### 2018
- **2018-01-09**, Ce bielis maninis partitura. Partitura del canto popolare Ce bielis maninis armonizzata per pianoforte e voce nell'edizione del libro Canti di soldati del 1919 Photographed/dated 2018. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/be8a2ca4-11f5-4373-92da-5c11f56fadee) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ce_bielis_maninis_partitura.jpg
- **2018-01-09**, A'l chante 'l gial partitura. Partitura del canto popolare A'l chante 'l gial armonizzata per pianoforte e voce nell'edizione del libro Canti di soldati del 1919 Photographed/dated 2018. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/d4ccc780-10aa-4466-bebd-ccfa79018ea6) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:A%27l_chante_%27l_gial_partitura.jpg
- **2018-01-16**, Atrapar el sonido Fundación Telefónica 08 Fonografo. Fonografo en la muestra Atrapando el Sonido de la Fundación Telefónica. Photographed/dated 2018. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/5c18cb2d-7a38-4cd0-baba-92bf014db816) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Atrapar_el_sonido_Fundaci%C3%B3n_Telef%C3%B3nica_08_Fonografo.jpg
- **2018-01-16**, Atrapar el sonido Fundación Telefónica 09 Fonografo. Fonografo en la muestra Atrapando el Sonido de la Fundación Telefónica. Photographed/dated 2018. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/af610698-945e-4d77-a093-a6c80ade2529) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Atrapar_el_sonido_Fundaci%C3%B3n_Telef%C3%B3nica_09_Fonografo.jpg
- **2018-01-16**, Atrapar el sonido Fundación Telefónica 10 Fonografo. Fonografo en la muestra Atrapando el Sonido de la Fundación Telefónica. Photographed/dated 2018. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/f7a309ce-aeb4-4fd0-97c1-b0413d1f8de2) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Atrapar_el_sonido_Fundaci%C3%B3n_Telef%C3%B3nica_10_Fonografo.jpg
- **2018-02-06**, Paris - RM Sotheby’s 2018 - BMW 633 CSI ABBA - 1977 - 001. Un véhicule exposé lors de la vente RM Sotheby’s 2018 aux Invalides à Paris. Photograph dated 2018. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/8d55e36d-895c-4509-9473-4efa1c1ba931) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Paris_-_RM_Sotheby%E2%80%99s_2018_-_BMW_633_CSI_ABBA_-_1977_-_001.jpg
- **2018-02-08**, The Yamaha DX7 and the sound of the 1980s. Polyphonic on FM synthesis and how one digital synthesiser came to define the decade's pop production, made with Yamaha's synth team. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/9ccb61aa-b6e1-466f-9400-b1f294ca15a6) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1Ha0MMT0aA
- **2018-03-06**, Nile Rodgers on Chic, Bowie and producing hits. Three-hour Red Bull Music Academy lecture on forming Chic and producing Diana Ross, Bowie, Duran Duran and Madonna. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/5fa35840-ea51-4e0c-a539-6cf7fc4fdf20) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTDAa8KT37w
- **2018-03-11**, Vintage records. Photograph of record shop. Photographed/dated 2018. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/ec390352-d365-4784-8329-9ab78722c9a2) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vintage_records.jpg
- **2018-03-25**, Eurorack synth patched. 6U Eurorack modular synthesiser, patched with a monome grid Photographed/dated 2018. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/e3b42302-df56-41d9-b7e9-76a8908f1204) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Eurorack_synth_patched.jpg
- **2018-04-17**, Susan Rogers on Prince, Production and Perception. Prince's 1980s staff engineer, now a cognitive neuroscientist, discusses studio practice and auditory perception at Ableton Loop 2017. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/16d9909a-5bb3-4d30-8f23-c27b312a795a) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgBZHIUUn8Q
- **2018-04-27**, From the phonograph to Spotify: a short history of the music industry. WSJ runs the technology chain from Edison's 1877 phonograph through to the streaming era and asks whether the industry can keep reinventing itself. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/cf52aaee-98a3-48eb-bdd8-1a7ea239471e) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bVketPj5to
- **2018-05-06**, Concordia, containing waltzes, dances, marches LCCN2003653672. Title: Concordia, containing waltzes, dances, marches Physical description: 1 print. Notes: This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card.; Associated name on shelflist card: Fenderi… Photographed/dated 2018. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/3d5d418c-158e-403f-a54e-4f7988ded213) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Concordia,_containing_waltzes,_dances,_marches_LCCN2003653672.jpg
- **2018-05-15**, The Sound That Connects Stravinsky to Bruno Mars. Vox Earworm traces a specific orchestral gesture from 1910 through 1980s pop cliche into Bruno Mars' 'Finesse'. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/328e771e-00f3-4c1a-8ded-8a4d09ebefe0) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8A1Aj1_EF9Y
- **2018-05-19**, A Classical Concert 2. A local band performing a classical concert at the Blue Arena Theatre, Żabbar Malta Photographed/dated 2018. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/2b6eeaed-424c-4b87-8d94-3e2b9f6129f4) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:A_Classical_Concert_2.jpg
- **2018-05-25**, 21 Xero live in concert May, 2018. /dated 2018. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/83980648-6124-4359-9068-b6d016d2b24e) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:21_Xero_live_in_concert_May,_2018.jpg
- **2018-05-27**, The Dembow Beat That Changed Pop Music. AJ+ traces the reggaeton dembow rhythm through Caribbean migration, censorship and Afro-Caribbean identity to its global pop takeover. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/d17ff2c4-035c-4a40-83f2-04fee5c3b8b9) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMhAX3AjnEI
- **2018-05-30**, ROSALÍA - MALAMENTE. The single that introduced Rosalía's flamenco-and-trap fusion and launched El Mal Querer. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/2a0f705c-967a-4117-aaae-236b721ae367) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rht7rBHuXW8
- **2018-07-11**, Maneskin 2018. Band Måneskin Photograph dated 2018. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/b0de37f1-c03b-4713-a9d9-c40a3369af31) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Maneskin_2018.jpg
- **2018-07-28**, Schallplattencover "Elektri-Grammophon" 28072018. Schallplattencover aus vergangenen Zeiten. Photograph/scan dated 2018. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/414c8e28-070c-48f8-8d0c-fc0e6e94d8d6) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Schallplattencover_%22Elektri-Grammophon%22_28072018.jpg
- **2018-09-23**, SEBASTIÁN YATRA EN BABAHOYO 2018. Sebastián Yatra en concierto, en Babahoyo, Ecuador, en 2018. Photograph dated 2018. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/eb5e0ba3-27bb-47a2-8797-f52a35618358) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:SEBASTI%C3%81N_YATRA_EN_BABAHOYO_2018.jpg
- **2018-09-28**, How Sony and Philips built the compact disc. Technology Connections on the engineering negotiation between Sony and Philips that produced the CD standard. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/bfe4fa07-7efb-40e1-9e83-a2e286acb24e) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7olNiMCz9to
- **2018-10-04**, A history of the drum machine. Reverb traces machine rhythm from the 1930s Rhythmicon through Sly Stone and Prince to the programmable drum machines of the 1980s. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/1feeaac7-5152-466f-b574-01c886d399a3) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4d89S-jOsfY
- **2018-11-06**, Danny Majic Studio Photo 2018. /dated 2018. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/fd8971f0-695e-459a-9c2c-1c7629101847) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Danny_Majic_Studio_Photo_2018.jpg
### 2019
- **2019-01-13**, BOSS DR-660 Front View. Front view of the BOSS DR-660 drum machine. Photographed/dated 2019. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/9aea2d95-726f-4cbc-9c88-a1a83f2350bc) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:BOSS_DR-660_Front_View.jpg
- **2019-01-27**, Celebration Flowers for nao B.D. Live(?) orz Lv.34!!. ​2019年1月27日に実施された日本のゲームソング歌手・naoのソロライブイベント「nao B.D. Live(？)orz Lv.34!!なおすん生誕独り会。」にて使用されたフラワースタンド。Zirco Tokyoにて開催された。 Photograph/scan dated 2019. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/e60f4d9f-e69f-47a7-a65e-26ecd0e6e1ea) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Celebration_Flowers_for_nao_B.D._Live(%3F)_orz_Lv.34!!.jpg
- **2019-03-11**, CASSETTE. Public Domain...have fun Photographed/dated 2019. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/580e9c8e-dab3-445e-96a7-cbb9c381aeea) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:CASSETTE.jpg
- **2019-03-13**, The Boy Band Con: the Lou Pearlman story. Documentary trailer tracing how Pearlman manufactured the late-1990s boy-band format and defrauded the acts he created. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/976b4e59-71ad-48f8-aa1b-eb91ca07cb9b) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHavSOAP4BI
- **2019-03-19**, Sampling and Copyright Clearance Explained. Producer and copyright attorney Abid Hussain, an expert witness in infringement cases, explains sample clearance at Ableton Loop. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/4a759be3-c87a-47fa-8e3d-af8736eeada4) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cVpNmgDmWs
- **2019-03-22**, T-Pain on why he started using Auto-Tune. Genius Level interview in which T-Pain explains adopting pitch correction as a deliberate creative voice rather than a fix. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/9eba78a7-42de-4d6f-a09b-d07c0af6d1eb) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmAXRX4e-k8
- **2019-04-25**, How the 12-inch single made pop songs longer. Vox traces how disco DJs and the 12-inch single format stretched the length of the pop record in the 1970s. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/677c067c-a142-4293-967e-d141b523dcd7) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3epEnJAyu4
- **2019-06-12**, Life as a Foreign K-Pop Trainee. CNA Insider follows a Japanese trainee inside the Korean idol academy system, showing the audition, training and contract pipeline that precedes debut. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/ca5bcac8-b4c7-4c77-88d0-8af3febc5154) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G66uRJ6pAfI
- **2019-06-15**, Rock and Roll and Payola: 1974 Special Report. Period television special report on labels paying radio stations for airplay, showing how payola persisted long after the 1950s hearings. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/81218e07-7517-431c-a0d5-2f660514de5c) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fo8-qG6Xdyo
- **2019**, Bob Ludwig and George Massenburg: The Loudness War Is Over. AES 2019 panel with mastering engineers Bob Ludwig, George Massenburg, Young Guru and Tom Lund on whether streaming loudness normalisation ended the loudness war. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/7d4204d1-b61d-414f-9d9f-09e58e528adf) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJDxbG6JDaU
- **2019**, Diamonds shine bright- 100th MXS first sergeant, Senior Master Sgt Michael Jackson. U.S. Air Force Senior Master Sgt. Michael Jackson, 100th Maintenance Squadron first sergeant, poses for a photo at RAF Mildenhall, England, March 6, 2019. Jackson, who was born… Photograph dated 2019. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/a50dfa88-56c7-4441-9cd5-803b525a7ced) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Diamonds_shine_bright-_100th_MXS_first_sergeant,_Senior_Master_Sgt_Michael_Jackson_(5341881).jpg
- **2019**, Nirvana Studios • Custom Circus• One of Dr. Apokalipse's performances • Unite-Tomo…. One of Dr. Apokalipse's performances • Unite-Tomorrowland 2019 Photograph/scan dated 2019. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/b936c53c-2879-4d15-9a97-f09f1fd1683d) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nirvana_Studios_%E2%80%A2_Custom_Circus%E2%80%A2_One_of_Dr._Apokalipse%27s_performances_%E2%80%A2_Unite-Tomorrowland.png
- **2019**, Trivento, la Coachella dello Yarn Bombing.. Trivento, 9 e 10 Agoto Ph. Paolo Scarano Photographed/dated 2019. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/e07dcebc-9337-449d-9f7b-d04c1bfdc995) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Trivento,_la_Coachella_dello_Yarn_Bombing..jpg
- **2019-07-04**, ING Love stage, Beats for Love 2019 01. ING Love stage (main one) at electronic music festival Beats for Love on day; Ostrava, Moravian-Silesian Region, Czechia Photographed/dated 2019. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/0277dcff-bbc4-4459-988d-74b62f62c978) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ING_Love_stage,_Beats_for_Love_2019_01.jpg
- **2019-07-05**, Devastator stage, Beats for Love 2019 02. Devastator stage at electronic music festival Beats for Love in night; Ostrava, Moravian-Silesian Region, Czechia Photographed/dated 2019. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/36b16ff4-976c-42c0-a94f-712922b9577d) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Devastator_stage,_Beats_for_Love_2019_02.jpg
- **2019-07-05**, Jacob Collier Deconstructs a Stevie Wonder Classic. Vox Earworm episode in which the musician takes apart the harmony and voicings of a Stevie Wonder record. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/dcf55870-d68e-4483-bdc1-12719b2dd6db) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZP6nogQYPg
- **2019-08-08**, Hitsville: the making of Motown. Trailer for the documentary built on unearthed Motown archive footage about Berry Gordy's hit factory. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/2230ccbb-2fd4-422c-bb43-e987ae13f0ea) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_tp1wsRUBY
- **2019-08-13**, Measuring pop's falsetto obsession. Vox charts the rise of male singers reaching for high register from the Bee Gees to Justin Timberlake, using pitch data. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/2ee2ef02-2b77-42ec-bdbd-5c400f7f195b) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJT2h5uGAC0
- **2019-08-15**, Flat Pack Pop: Sweden's Music Miracle. Journalist James Ballardie traces how Denniz PoP's Cheiron Studios turned Sweden into the world's dominant exporter of chart songwriting. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/a0b80b7e-be5c-43af-b7e0-ee5218f3b911) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVEH19-ts_c
- **2019-09-26**, What Billboard Hit Songs Have in Common. PBS Sound Field breaks down every song in the Billboard top five across two years to identify shared tempo, key, structure and production traits. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/02e33937-bacf-43bf-ac64-93cae41827c1) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7qKSvCO_MQ
- **2019-10-06**, Show em Rock in Rio. /scan dated 2019. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/16e1d503-17d0-4459-8349-eb6b480f5e8b) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Show_em_Rock_in_Rio.jpg
- **2019-10-27**, 03 Marlin guitar Body Stratocaster style 02. Marlin Slammer guitar body and whammy bar Stratocaster style Photographed/dated 2019. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/dfca06c5-949f-4ef0-86ef-f95f42c35036) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:03_Marlin_guitar_Body_Stratocaster_style_02.jpg
- **2019-11-04**, Pharrell and Rick Rubin in Conversation. GQ films the two producers at Shangri-La discussing production method, the Blurred Lines verdict and how records get made. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/8f28b40e-fa45-46df-9f09-244e782a86d9) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnahkJevp64
- **2019-11-06**, Nine Muses of Star Empire: a year inside K-pop training. Feature documentary following nine Korean women through a year of idol training, scrutiny and group reshuffles under their agency. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/82506ac5-ec09-484a-8a1d-d8ab2438c398) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFt28GPi0_8
- **2019-11-09**, The 1949 format war between the 45 and the LP. Techmoan tells how RCA's rivalry with Columbia over disc speeds settled the shape of the single and the album. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/1f844835-09ba-4147-8795-3b62ad63f361) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbFgVjijrHI
- **2019-11-28**, Chembai sangeetholsavam 2019. /scan dated 2019. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/96a7e27c-d7b3-4fed-8668-e8a92fbc1c55) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chembai_sangeetholsavam_2019.jpg
- **2019-11-28**, Chembai sangeetholsavam Guruvayur 2019. /scan dated 2019. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/f15923da-5a97-4134-bdbe-4575899611af) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chembai_sangeetholsavam_Guruvayur_2019.jpg
- **2019-12-16**, Hit Doctor Studios - High Resolution (2). View of Hit Doctor Studios (2000 S Robertson Blvd) Photographed/dated 2019. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/e566de87-9fe2-489c-8520-7a1e8690befc) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hit_Doctor_Studios_-_High_Resolution_(2).jpg
### 2020
- **2020-01-16**, Why K-Pop Is Musically More Complex Than You Think. PBS Sound Field analyses the genre-splicing structure, key changes and rhythmic layering typical of K-pop arrangements. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/1e3ab389-4e76-4583-8a27-12fb1760fb27) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRvenA5r7R0
- **2020-04-21**, Radiorecorder skr-501 auf schreibtisch crop 1985. Radiorecorder "Steratrans SKR-501", VEB Stern-Radio Berlin, mit Stickern personalisiert, 1985. Photographed/dated 2020. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/24d75600-4e5d-405a-9a25-fdd5627ab8c0) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Radiorecorder_skr-501_auf_schreibtisch_crop_1985.jpg
- **2020-04-22**, FINNEAS on how he builds songs for Billie Eilish. Pitchfork sits with the producer as he pulls apart his own sessions and explains the sound choices behind the hits. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/a3c77ac1-0ca6-4191-9592-68a1ec39794b) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsSkRjgjFvU
- **2020-05-22**, BTS: Another Story - KBS documentary on the ARMY. KBS's documentary strand examining how BTS's fanbase became an organised global force, told largely through the fans themselves. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/083353aa-e5ef-4d8d-b8c4-d54125a4f566) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJx2NON2i2M
- **2020**, Wizkid - Essence ft. Tems. The song widely called the first Afrobeats record to properly cross into the American mainstream, reaching the Billboard Hot 100 top ten. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/b41bb069-625d-4b14-aaf9-c8b88d4ba681) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jipQpjUA_o8
- **2020-07-09**, Korg MS20 Synthesizer Closeup. /dated 2020. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/7732e504-8b71-42f5-b7b8-a7a7e07d9b84) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Korg_MS20_Synthesizer_Closeup.jpg
- **2020-08-09**, Japan's Junior Idols. Channel 4's Unreported World investigates the junior idol trade in Japan, in which schoolgirls perform for adult audiences as a route into pop. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/fc672917-37a6-462b-b774-d3a775028fac) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0df7k__KEHw
- **2020-08-21**, BTS - Dynamite. BTS's first all-English single and their first Billboard Hot 100 number one, official HYBE upload. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/951f28a8-b729-481d-9640-b67398e0f10b) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdZLi9oWNZg
- **2020-09-19**, Pop, As Digested by a Classical Musician. Nahre Sol dissects pop song intros and structural conventions from a conservatory-trained perspective, with Andrew Huang. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/24a2256e-3659-4ca9-b62e-7a3f2a2b336e) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecoIKH2ewrw
- **2020-09-25**, Dave Smith OB-6 Synthesizer Closeup. /dated 2020. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/e82af189-45b8-447e-9ca9-6b4b12f1ca79) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dave_Smith_OB-6_Synthesizer_Closeup.jpg
- **2020-09-30**, Japan's Idols: Devoted Fans and Big Money. FRANCE 24 reports on the economics of the Japanese idol business and the older male fanbase that sustains it. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/a805581a-46f3-4bf4-abe2-a993fd17930b) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXdHlY96QNE
- **2020-10-16**, Jukebox Orphéau - Série Mimosa - 20 disques 33 tours. Orphéau Jukebox with 20 LP records Photographed/dated 2020. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/04421ef0-705e-4a9e-9107-12d1514b03e9) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jukebox_Orph%C3%A9au_-_S%C3%A9rie_Mimosa_-_20_disques_33_tours.jpg
- **2020-10-19**, Mädchen mit Walkman. Skulptur (1985) von Hans Joachim Frielinghaus Photographed/dated 2020. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/0379ff56-6cbb-4ae8-984a-c039b16c9048) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:M%C3%A4dchen_mit_Walkman.jpg
- **2020-11-10**, Looking for Fame in Nigeria's Music Industry. DW report on young Nigerians entering the music business as an employment route in the wake of Wizkid and Burna Boy's international success. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/1930045b-bbdf-4c81-bcea-1ae56e2369ff) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHYggfgLRm0
- **2020-11-30**, Pre-owned old-style records for sale, in an attempt to recycle and reuse. Saligao…. Saligao. Photo by Frederick Noronha. Attribution mandatory. CC4.0-BY-SA. Photographed/dated 2020. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/10a6c6ca-69ab-4dcc-a725-3ca24ce04fd3) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pre-owned_old-style_records_for_sale,_in_an_attempt_to_recycle_and_reuse._Saligao_Institute,_Goa._002.jpg
- **2020-12-05**, Sony CD Walkman D-EJ985 opened. Sony CD Walkman D-EJ985 with the top opened up, introduced to consumers in 2002. Photographed/dated 2020. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/89fa5cab-146a-4ad3-b4a1-450a92e5223b) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sony_CD_Walkman_D-EJ985_opened.jpg
- **2020-12-07**, How Major Labels Discover Artists. Warner Music head of A&R Joe Kentish explains how labels scout, evaluate and sign artists, and what a record deal actually commits both sides to. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/bb01a019-8dbd-47b6-ad1d-fd153669b5dd) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AN_Owj90-P0
- **2020-12-20**, How PC Music defined a new kind of pop. ARTE TRACKS interviews A. G. Cook, SOPHIE and Charli XCX on the hyper-processed, synthetic production aesthetic they built around the PC Music label. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/6489154c-8d79-4fd2-a2f2-950a47ae52a1) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INSugJy1BBw
- **2020-12-23**, Tainy Builds a Reggaeton Track. Pitchfork session in which the producer behind Bad Bunny and J Balvin records deconstructs how he constructs a reggaeton record in the DAW. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/c20bb2da-9ac8-41e7-ba16-cd9c48751c15) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zz21GIt7CUk
- **2020-12-24**, Free Pussy Riot graffiti, Liverpool, England (August 2012). ) Photograph/scan dated 2020. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/97d849c5-7747-4a64-980b-f2cca6b3960b) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Free_Pussy_Riot_graffiti,_Liverpool,_England_(August_2012).png
### 2021
- **2021-01-08**, The music industry strikes back against file sharing. Bloomberg's System Shock on the RIAA lawsuits, anti-piracy campaigns and the fight between labels and Napster, KaZaA and iTunes. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/7fda3974-0a36-44b6-a780-dd3895762703) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01DOCnCA1j0
- **2021-01-08**, An app called Napster. Bloomberg's System Shock episode one on Shawn Fanning's dorm-room program and the moment recorded music stopped being scarce. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/9199ce20-e979-47b1-8ef5-06e70c0a856f) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHVRItc38-c
- **2021-01-28**, Finneas on vocal production for Billie Eilish. Studio breakdown of the vocal layering, comping and processing behind 'Therefore I Am'. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/9ec50a23-71e2-47d9-9baf-400403f52719) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Y6aFCS8evg
- **2021-02-08**, Fally Ipupa au Cameroun 2021. Fally Ipupa au Cameroun pour un concert à Douala et Yaoundé. Il sera accom Photograph dated 2021. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/6ac8fe89-c2be-437c-9464-2553075ad99e) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fally_Ipupa_au_Cameroun_2021.jpg
- **2021-02-16**, Framing Britney Spears. Sky trailer for the New York Times documentary on Spears's rise, her treatment by the press, and the conservatorship. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/9df1c577-9a5b-4848-89f3-96ace6b67280) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GEa844LCoI
- **2021-03-31**, Lives of Idols: The K-Pop Trainee System. Documentary on the Korean trainee pipeline with Super Junior, Wonder Girls and others describing the years of training that precede a debut. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/05b97662-e1ab-4d07-9c3c-32912e69e49a) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkviBNarwQI
- **2021-04-07**, Why Taylor Swift re-recorded her first six albums. Billboard explains the ownership dispute that led an artist to re-record her own catalogue to devalue the originals. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/98d1e996-6f09-4347-ba53-5724af4d5884) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phJQWusDOAo
- **2021-04-14**, How Record Deals Actually Work. FT Film on advances, royalty splits and streaming payouts, including how many streams it takes an artist to earn minimum wage. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/05569e61-4333-4121-a1d7-a475f3f0074a) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIgcP0mfnoc
- **2021-04-16**, The most elegant key change in pop music. Adam Neely analyses a pop modulation in depth, covering voice leading and why key changes are used the way they are in commercial songwriting. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/81b474b1-ad42-461e-9443-116c0727e5f3) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epqYft12nV4
- **2021-04-19**, The Blurred Lines copyright case. Case study of the verdict that found infringement on the feel of a Marvin Gaye record rather than its notated melody, and the chilling effect songwriters feared. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/ac9ca400-a16a-45f2-950b-0001195bd5dc) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYgwAQmS5WE
- **2021-05-01**, The Grammys Scrap Secret Nominating Committees. Reuters reports the Recording Academy abolishing its anonymous nominating committees after corruption allegations over how nominees were chosen. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/59a2de8f-614e-45c3-bbac-8ff197b7dbd8) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhFegWaSK7c
- **2021-06-04**, Oberheim TVS Pro Special Edition back panel. Oberheim TVS Pro Special Edition - rear panel Photograph/scan dated 2021. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/f9b0b9db-ada0-49b3-8696-ee49cf24382c) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Oberheim_TVS_Pro_Special_Edition_back_panel.jpg
- **2021**, Wizkid: Made in Lagos live from the O2 Arena. Wizkid's sold-out O2 Arena finale of the Made in Lagos tour, streamed globally from his own StarBoy TV channel in late 2021. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/bef9179f-83ca-4d2c-9ce3-3cda1a60c54a) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBBv-JT0-gE
- **2021-06-20**, Chebro music shop. /scan dated 2021. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/de7df69a-80c0-48a0-a47f-4ed2abe79b91) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chebro_music_shop_(51260905636).jpg
- **2021-07-13**, Microfono de la redaccion de Carbajosa Noticias. Redacción Carbajosa Noticias Photographed/dated 2021. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/52576a42-a6c7-4910-bd2d-e873f9b54a3b) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Microfono_de_la_redaccion_de_Carbajosa_Noticias.jpg
- **2021-07-18**, SCR-274N Command Radio. 3 receivers (bottom) and 2 transmitters (top) Photograph/scan dated 2021. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/3b8b8a6a-b22a-43e7-adeb-951d5fce2344) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:SCR-274N_Command_Radio.jpg
- **2021-08-21**, How Entertainment Media Treated Young Women Stars. Video essay on decades of tabloid coverage of women in pop and film, from Marilyn Monroe through Britney Spears, and its documented consequences. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/fd5e4a36-265a-4314-8a36-eb8089ed42ca) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6T7kzkAnqQY
- **2021-09-01**, Billboard explains the Hot 100. Short official explainer of how the Hot 100 is compiled from streaming, sales and airplay. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/23ba57fc-3f86-4f75-b7d5-35209b243547) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PynJOOjefSg
- **2021-11-11**, Anitta - Envolver. The single that made Anitta the first Brazilian solo artist to top the Spotify Global chart. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/e5a1460a-444a-49d2-b627-4031eda3c288) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFCjGiawJi4
- **2021-11-21**, Oberheim DSX. /scan dated 2021. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/ff17f02b-ffeb-4b7a-9c2e-505f20105588) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Oberheim_DSX.jpg
- **2021-12-08**, Cd-Radiorecorder Osaka links Aps-Fuji-Nexia-400 2000. Cd-Radiorecorder Osaka Photographed/dated 2021. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/059810cd-f585-41f0-8d80-4ae85a4fcd26) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cd-Radiorecorder_Osaka_links_Aps-Fuji-Nexia-400_2000.jpg
- **2021-12-08**, Saf Holland turntable, fifth wheel 02. Saf Holland tractor truck heavy-duty turntable/fifth wheel coupling in India Photographed/dated 2021. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/bc20e962-cdb9-495f-8b1e-98f8548f997f) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Saf_Holland_turntable,_fifth_wheel_02.jpg
- **2021-12-10**, Brill Building Dec 2021 07. The Brill Building in Manhattan, New York, seen in December 2021. Photographed/dated 2021. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/2fde4d5b-cc97-4aa8-87e7-0470c38db188) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Brill_Building_Dec_2021_07.jpg
- **2021-12-10**, Brill Building Dec 2021 14. The Brill Building in Manhattan, New York, seen in December 2021. Photographed/dated 2021. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/8f9be2b8-4183-409b-9a86-7efce2a9962d) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Brill_Building_Dec_2021_14.jpg
- **2021-12-10**, Brill Building Dec 2021 21. The Brill Building in Manhattan, New York, seen in December 2021. Photographed/dated 2021. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/e5f8469b-5ba4-441c-a4a2-9f91e32ab490) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Brill_Building_Dec_2021_21.jpg
### 2022
- **2022-02-11**, Rema - Calm Down. The Nigerian single that, with its Selena Gomez remix, became one of the most-streamed Afrobeats records in history. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/4cbe32b0-3d64-4b39-b2bc-cda0da0eb1bf) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQLsdm1ZYAw
- **2022-02-13**, Burna Boy on faith, life, death and legacy - ARTE TRACKS. ARTE's arts strand interviewing Burna Boy about what he wants the music to mean beyond the charts. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/91885c97-584a-4a60-bbbe-559a2c6fd3b0) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPK2LKCctBo
- **2022-03-07**, 2022 Gershwin Prize for Popular Song. Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden and Music Division Chief Sue Vita present 2022 Gershwin Prize for Popular Song recipient Lionel Richie with a facsimile copy of sheet music from a 19th century Af… Photographed/dated 2022. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/6b57a2a2-7ee1-4ed7-bbb8-8786affc0f5b) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2022_Gershwin_Prize_for_Popular_Song_(51924149847).jpg
- **2022-03-18**, Feid 2022. Feid for the music video for his single "Castigo" Photograph dated 2022. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/e72a53f6-0f81-4280-a5ca-7058d08b7815) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Feid_2022.jpg
- **2022-04-09**, Rosalía on Motomami - the full interview with Jaime Altozano. An hour-long musicological interview in Spanish in which Rosalía walks through the construction of Motomami track by track. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/d6f8af7f-66ea-4a2d-8655-2685b47030fd) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSGlJ00w8Zw
- **2022-04-19**, SONY WALKMAN NW-E3. /dated 2022. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/c5554184-6a30-47ed-b295-97522e68db07) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:SONY_WALKMAN_NW-E3.jpg
- **2022-04-24**, Choura Events builds Outdoor tent rental for large music festivals and Coachella. /dated 2022. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/4d373154-a278-4363-8cdd-af3a5cdb31fb) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Choura_Events_builds_Outdoor_tent_rental_for_large_music_festivals_and_Coachella.jpg
- **2022-04-28**, Burna Boy: One Night in Space, live at Madison Square Garden. Burna Boy's full headline concert at Madison Square Garden in April 2022, streamed globally and an early marker of Afrobeats at arena scale in the US. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/3507309f-84e1-4602-9a2d-c7410dddab7a) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LB8rrS7sb64
- **2022-05-11**, Eurovision Song Contest 2023 - Liverpool Branding. Eurovision Branding in Liverpool Town Centre Photographed/dated 2022. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/926b2338-c615-410c-b983-52d2f0427fd2) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Eurovision_Song_Contest_2023_-_Liverpool_Branding_-_52902514144.jpg
- **2022-05-13**, Eurovision Song Contest 2023 - Eurovision Village. Eurovision Sam Smith fan in Liverpool town centre Photographed/dated 2022. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/6e26fd88-6503-465f-9ca6-a3f700378989) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Eurovision_Song_Contest_2023_-_Eurovision_Village_-_52902512959.jpg
- **2022-05-31**, What actually happens after a song goes viral on TikTok. Vox and The Pudding built custom datasets tracking songs from TikTok virality through to chart and career outcomes, with input from hit songwriters and label executives. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/e5ac261f-0ae9-4168-aa18-949fd928fab0) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1m-KgEpoow
- **2022**, Festa Italiana 2022 12 (Italian Idol, Jr. contestant). An Italian Idol, Jr. contestant at Festa Italiana 2022 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin ( United States ). Photograph/scan dated 2022. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/c04204ca-9931-4cde-b93f-03cc7f241a7b) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Festa_Italiana_2022_12_(Italian_Idol,_Jr._contestant).jpg
- **2022**, Coldplay: A Sky Full of Stars at River Plate. A full performance from Coldplay's Buenos Aires stadium shows, showing the wristband-and-lighting spectacle that defined the tour's staging. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/fb503d68-70c6-4f40-95c9-29a8ff81b99b) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fpn1imb9qZg
- **2022**, Stromae - Fils de joie. Official video from Multitude by the Belgian artist whose staging and songwriting made French-language pop a global concern again. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/ee6fee4a-f847-4e85-ab26-63bc12d67979) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7Z2tgJo8Hg
- **2022-06-23**, Colonel Tom Parker and the management of Elvis Presley. Feature documentary on the most consequential and most contested manager relationship in pop. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/6b7b8c55-c76b-488f-aa99-34a4249d179b) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7ma-YGM5Bk
- **2022-06-24**, Mark Ronson breaks down Back to Black. Ronson plays the never-before-heard original demo of the Amy Winehouse song and traces it through to the Dap-Kings sessions. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/e94548bf-8698-4f2d-96f7-bab4bd688486) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixPLIfJv2jw
- **2022-07-10**, Record Finder shop sign, Fremantle. Overhead sign of The Record Finder music shop in Fremantle, Western Australia. Photographed/dated 2022. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/28a8e7dd-4771-480b-9ff4-2d125f069623) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Record_Finder_shop_sign,_Fremantle.jpg
- **2022-07-11**, Backstage in Montreux. /scan dated 2022. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/7749de6f-23c4-4550-b723-af77b5152feb) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Backstage_in_Montreux.jpg
- **2022-08-19**, BLACKPINK - Pink Venom. Lead single from Born Pink, the album that made BLACKPINK the first female K-pop act to headline Coachella. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/475bb2f1-3ff1-49a4-a543-7bb7dbef12c4) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQlMMD8auMs
- **2022-09-08**, Parental Advisory - explicit content - label. The Parental Advisory logo Photographed/dated 2022. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/36270cdd-5cf8-4e01-9aa0-ac71a6da26d6) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Parental_Advisory_-_explicit_content_-_label.jpg
- **2022-10-17**, Close-up view of a guitar fretboard showcasing the strings and frets. A detailed view of a guitar fretboard reveals the polished wood and metal frets. This captures the atmosphere of a casual music practice in a cozy indoor setting. Photographed/dated 2022. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/357467b4-c038-4bb9-8063-35db4b4bafa6) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Close-up_view_of_a_guitar_fretboard_showcasing_the_strings_and_frets.jpg
- **2022-10-20**, Stax Records, Memphis. Stax Recording Studio, Memphis, Tennessee, US Photograph/scan dated 2022. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/5cfe4406-8df2-4728-9fa1-d045003e858b) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stax_Records,_Memphis,_TN,_US_(05).jpg
- **2022-10-20**, Stax Records studio front, Memphis. Stax Recording Studio, Memphis, Tennessee, US Mixing board - 20 inputs and eight outputs Photograph/scan dated 2022. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/8fb908f7-5152-4058-be0b-ed6b53f57122) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stax_Records,_Memphis,_TN,_US_(10).jpg
- **2022-10-20**, Inside the Stax museum, Memphis. Stax Recording Studio, Memphis, Tennessee, US Isaac Hayes' custom Cadillac Photograph/scan dated 2022. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/b7976203-5fee-4706-a1f7-31e87cc1d4e9) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stax_Records,_Memphis,_TN,_US_(25).jpg
- **2022-10-30**, Oberheim 4-voice prototype. An early prototype of the Oberheim 4-voice synthesizer. This one was owned by Stevie Wonder, and retains the braille markings on the SEM panels Photograph/scan dated 2022. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/efc2e775-02c2-491c-8db7-78cdcbc0057c) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Oberheim_4-voice_prototype.jpg
- **2022-10-31**, 31.10.2022-Lula e Janja recebem Milton Nascimento - 52469253155. 31.10.2022-Lula e Janja recebem a visita do cantor e compositor Milton Nascimento, no Hotel Intercontinental, em São Paulo. Foto: Ricardo Stuckert Photograph dated 2022. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/50f3a9e0-4696-4d60-9d45-3844710218d4) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:31.10.2022-Lula_e_Janja_recebem_Milton_Nascimento_-_52469253155.jpg
- **2022-11-18**, Muscle Shoals Sound Studio Interior. The photo shows the interior of Muscle Shoals Sound Studio with various instruments. Photograph/scan dated 2022. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/dd9ec0c5-4faf-40d8-baa2-5a76d754f6fa) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Muscle_Shoals_Sound_Studio_Interior.jpg
- **2022-12-08**, The Disappearance of Key Changes in Modern Music. Rick Beato charts the decline of modulation in charting records and argues it flattens the tonal variation of pop. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/f10910a2-3d55-4339-89d9-4a5b8a64cd25) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVllpzhA5VM
- **2022-12-19**, NewJeans - Ditto (side A). The single that made NewJeans the defining act of K-pop's fourth generation, with a camcorder-shot narrative MV by Dolphiners Film. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/c9083b73-2660-426e-81ff-d9ebc616fa5b) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSUydWEqKwE
### 2023
- **2023-01-12**, Man struggles with tangled cassette tape while holding a vintage audio cassette in…. In a softly lit indoor environment, a man grapples with a messy bundle of cassette tape while clutching a vintage audio cassette. The moment captures nostalgia and frustration. Photograph/scan dated 2023. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/a74fb424-54af-47a1-97f8-8c62308eaae9) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Man_struggles_with_tangled_cassette_tape_while_holding_a_vintage_audio_cassette_in_a_dimly_lit_indoor_setting.jpg
- **2023-01-28**, The Global Rise of Afro House - DW Documentary. Deutsche Welle documentary on how South African and Angolan dance music moved from township clubs to international festival stages. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/22ed11e8-f3ae-4f44-ba58-69b05d6530a2) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dm1EdeoIZ94
- **2023-02-01**, How a vinyl record is actually made. WIRED films the full process at Jack White's Third Man Pressing in Detroit, from lacquer cutting to pressing and quality control. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/99ab1477-389c-44ad-9ce2-ae77f7626950) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yd2SW-Fys6I
- **2023-02-12**, Rihanna's Super Bowl LVII halftime show. Rihanna's 2023 return to performing, staged on suspended platforms, and the most-watched halftime show upload on the NFL channel. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/0ccbf978-b63c-4dd8-bec5-fbd07215f0b8) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjBo--1n8lI
- **2023-02-28**, Annie Lennox Gershwin Prize 2023. Annie Lennox poses on the red carpet during an award reception at the Library of Congress for 2023 Gershwin Prize for Popular Song honoree Joni Mitchell, February 28, 2023. Phot… Photograph dated 2023. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/e7fdaf86-fa18-42d2-b053-01f4a96de7e7) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Annie_Lennox_Gershwin_Prize_2023.jpg
- **2023-03-08**, Coldplay: Music of the Spheres live at River Plate. Trailer for the concert film of Coldplay's Music of the Spheres tour, filmed at the sold-out River Plate stadium in Buenos Aires, one of the largest-grossing tours of the 2020s. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/2ebd155e-763b-4246-954e-40839da27ab8) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zROo8T2r2AY
- **2023-03-10**, Turntable, Georgia State Railroad Museum. Georgia State Railroad Museum, Savannah, Chatham County, Georgia Photographed/dated 2023. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/d7ff8477-1bca-4808-8c06-de6f54a58048) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Turntable,_Georgia_State_Railroad_Museum.jpg
- **2023-03-22**, 20230322 112858 Abandoned cassette tape. Abandoned cassette tape (Listening to the Great Teacher. Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania. cste-1). Federal Way, Washington Photograph/scan dated 2023. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/164006dd-45ab-4588-9126-4840645efd1a) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:20230322_112858_Abandoned_cassette_tape.jpg
- **2023-03-23**, DISCOS FIESTA CACHANILLA. Disco original 45rpm lado "B" - Colección personal familia Corpus, Mexicali, Baja California, México. Photograph/scan dated 2023. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/757dbc89-10bb-4d80-8bd4-74f603688b28) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:DISCOS_FIESTA_CACHANILLA.jpg
- **2023-03-31**, What a record label actually does. Billboard explains label functions from A&R and marketing to distribution, and what being signed means now. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/3712da3f-5b86-4834-8f68-d28abbc4ddef) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=paazQjlIjis
- **2023-04-12**, RAYE: Tiny Desk Concert. The British singer's Tiny Desk set, recorded after she left her label and became the first fully independent artist to sweep the BRIT Awards. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/531002b3-3222-4995-9296-836f8158f7e0) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DL1zyUjzwno
- **2023-04-12**, YOASOBI - Idol. Theme to the anime Oshi no Ko and the first Japanese-language song to top the Billboard Global 200 excluding the US. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/f5281175-8f56-4f27-ab57-94b7b42df16e) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRtdQ81jPUQ
- **2023-04-24**, 24.04.2023 - Cerimônia de Entrega do Prêmio Camões a Chico Buarque. 24.04.2023 - Presidente da República, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, durante cerimônia de Entrega do Prêmio Camões a Chico Buarque. Palácio de Queluz, Sala do Trono - Portugal. Foto… Photograph dated 2023. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/0fcb4eed-99d4-4609-8b3c-1957603b1e2d) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:24.04.2023_-_Cerim%C3%B4nia_de_Entrega_do_Pr%C3%AAmio_Cam%C3%B5es_a_Chico_Buarque_(52847315507).jpg
- **2023-04-26**, The Ed Sheeran and Marvin Gaye copyright verdict. Rick Beato on the trial over 'Thinking Out Loud' and 'Let's Get It On', and what a jury deciding on chord progressions means for songwriters. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/cdc2ebea-b574-4f5d-a10e-606f393d7b26) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9rBN4UtkWQ
- **2023-04-27**, The Economist Tests Max Martin's Songwriting Formula. The Economist applies chart data to the Swedish producer's 25 Billboard number ones to test which of his stated rules actually correlate with success. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/bab08cd3-f102-4214-8c8d-3987cfc2bbf0) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9pIZVFGa7M
- **2023-04-30**, Detailed view of a handcrafted guitar body showcasing intricate woodwork and hardw…. Close-up of a meticulously crafted guitar body, highlighting the smooth wood finish and precision-engineered hardware. The scene captures the artistry involved in instrument making. Photographed/dated 2023. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/ce638689-7b01-4c2b-80ff-1981559b4e6f) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Detailed_view_of_a_handcrafted_guitar_body_showcasing_intricate_woodwork_and_hardware_assembly.jpg
- **2023-05-24**, The rise, fall and rebirth of the vinyl record. WSJ on vinyl passing $1.2bn in 2022 and outselling CDs for the first time since 1987, with Mike Shinoda and industry analysts. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/a2a4da79-562e-4216-99bd-57bd5fa1b569) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ocdHzCwotU
- **2023-05-28**, TINA TURNER STAR ON HOLLYWOOD BLVD 20230528 155650 2. TINA TURNER STAR ON HOLLYWOOD BLVD photo by Steve Shelokhonov on 5/28/2023 Photograph dated 2023. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/b1c98576-9e2d-40a2-9bdb-7e4de7ea695a) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:TINA_TURNER_STAR_ON_HOLLYWOOD_BLVD_20230528_155650_2.jpg
- **2023-06-12**, The playlistification of music. Venus Theory on how playlist-led listening reshapes what gets made, from track sequencing to the incentive to front-load a song. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/83218dc9-bd42-4ba1-893e-30ce4d26870a) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQDudbp-pag
- **2023-06-15**, Virtual avatars and the K-pop industry. BBC World Service on Korean agencies building lifelike digital idols, and what happens to performers when the star can be synthetic. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/d8fef724-42da-454f-bf49-35d43cfce12d) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcRdqRiPWlk
- **2023**, Salif Keita - Alegria - Itmustbelove86. Homenatge de l'afició del València Photograph dated 2023. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/b68464a6-5e71-4a2b-8565-524b6de8fb35) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Salif_Keita_-_Alegria_-_Itmustbelove86.jpg
- **2023**, Salif Keita - Itmustbelove86. Homenatge de l'afició del València Photograph dated 2023. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/b7609c85-d692-4125-ba31-0b42ac74f3a0) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Salif_Keita_-_Itmustbelove86.jpg
- **2023**, Karol G's full set at Vina del Mar 2023. Karol G's complete performance at Chile's Festival Internacional de la Cancion de Vina del Mar, Latin America's oldest and largest televised song festival. Official festival archive channel. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/a926e6cd-d1cc-4e1c-a3cf-fca78434e545) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0elSKNAJ7GQ
- **2023**, Blackpink: Shut Down at Coachella 2023. Blackpink headlined Coachella in April 2023, the first K-pop act to top the bill at the festival. Official YG upload. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/bf81f38e-dff2-43b6-a64a-11dc26bbdbd2) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpVJidAKOqc
- **2023**, Blackpink: Typa Girl at Coachella 2023. A second official clip from Blackpink's Coachella headline set, showing the choreography-first staging that defines the K-pop live show. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/4c639fc4-268d-43c3-9e39-0fe5aab9f77a) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9tifvQSu-g
- **2023**, Tyla - Water. The South African amapiano-pop single that won the first-ever Grammy for Best African Music Performance. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/b45440d1-b682-4662-aa84-f88eb5307a66) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XoiOOiuH8iI
- **2023-07-26**, Sinead O'Connor on tearing up the Pope's photograph on SNL. O'Connor explains the 1992 Saturday Night Live performance that ended in her tearing a photo of John Paul II, in CBC interview footage assembled after her death in 2023. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/23238c42-9143-4cc7-9e0a-6b2133223a25) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LcmJErI8IQ
- **2023-08-02**, Autoclavebeats - Music Producer. /dated 2023. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/5ef2c388-96ae-4c22-8b67-4772930f2a06) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Autoclavebeats_-_Music_Producer.jpg
- **2023-08-10**, The economics of Taylor Swift's Eras Tour. PBS NewsHour on how the Eras Tour's 2023 US leg moved measurable amounts of money through host cities, and what that says about the stadium-tour economy. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/da402fc2-df66-468b-b357-b25b9ba9ab7b) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZJgedd2Fk4
- **2023-08-22**, Burna Boy: The 'I Told Them...' Interview - Apple Music. Long-form interview with the Nigerian artist on the album cycle that took Afrofusion into American stadiums. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/01491e75-4f51-45c4-b0cc-f895a33f8f7c) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r01o45-CoWY
- **2023-09-04**, Are bots buying up your concert tickets?. CNA Insider investigates automated ticket-buying and the resale market that puts face-value seats out of reach of fans. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/d2b75aa4-e079-4648-ae3e-0fc274934d36) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tiwShZMyk4
- **2023-09-21**, Anthony Fantano on Going Easy on Pop. The Needle Drop critic explains his own shift toward poptimist evaluation and what changed in how he rates mainstream pop records. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/89d1f838-1881-406e-a28e-b196183b6f6c) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcgeceLBBU0
- **2023-09-22**, Burna Boy - City Boys. Official video from the Grammy-winning Nigerian artist's album I Told Them..., a record aimed squarely at stadium-scale Afrofusion. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/074b697d-abfd-4d21-aaa3-6e1d36dca3a0) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLDQ88vAhIs
- **2023-10-14**, Audio CD with Copy Protection (Open Jewel Case - With Compact Disc). Open Jewel Case which contains an Audio CD ("Unwritten" by Natasha Bedingfield) with Copy Protection, known to contain a rootkit, installed on it. Photograph/scan dated 2023. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/9f7a6dd2-65e3-475d-a6b9-ea70e0576033) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Audio_CD_with_Copy_Protection_(Open_Jewel_Case_%E2%80%93_With_Compact_Disc).jpg
- **2023-10-14**, A Motown seven-inch single, A-side label. Side 2 (B-side) of a Motown 7" Single, containing "I Keep Running" by the Commodores. Photographed/dated 2023. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/bc4136d8-3b06-40e5-b70c-8e631679395a) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Motown_7%22_Single_(Side_2).jpg
- **2023-10-14**, A Motown seven-inch single, B-side label. Side 1 (A-side) of a Motown 7" Single, containing "Nightshift" by the Commodores. Photographed/dated 2023. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/e48c866e-1071-46f1-a1f5-f4769fadbffe) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Motown_7%22_Single_(Side_1).jpg
- **2023-10-23**, The War on Disco. PBS American Experience on disco's origins in Black and gay clubs and the rock backlash that culminated in Disco Demolition Night. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/f072fced-5fa2-4020-bb73-edb3afd8a7ef) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmkVdpJrQoo
- **2023-11-04**, Autoclavebeats (Nigerian Music Producer). Autoclavebeats - Music Producer Photographed/dated 2023. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/a66a6881-f370-4e23-b6b9-89d11d306ab6) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Autoclavebeats_(Nigerian_Music_Producer).jpg
- **2023-11-09**, Renaissance: a film by Beyonce. Trailer for Beyonce's own concert film of the 2023 Renaissance World Tour, from Stockholm's opening night to the Kansas City finale. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/491793ff-efe8-4535-aa5f-4b2b9e4b7096) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByV3XWl8zWU
- **2023-11-16**, The Rise and Fall of The X Factor. Long-form history of the Simon Cowell format as an industry: how it manufactured One Direction and Little Mix and why the pipeline stopped working. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/2966a8fe-9718-4825-a516-6a44f07576d0) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhytH-WTfNU
- **2023-12-03**, A Quarter of Musicians May Quit the Profession. Sky News on a survey finding a third of musicians report low mental wellbeing and one in four expect to leave the industry within five years. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/4b72044a-2ce0-4718-8efc-e3e5bce36b12) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3qIwORHIN0
- **2023-12-03**, Music festival. This is an image with the theme " Rites and Rituals " from: Photograph/scan dated 2023. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/906f2233-2226-4c36-9f3a-7ed9f5997424) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Music_festival.jpg
- **2023-12-19**, Digital light and sound console Stroud Subscription Rooms Gloucestershire. Digital light and sound mixing console at Stroud Subscription Rooms in Stroud, Gloucestershire, England. Camera: Canon EOS 6D Mark II with Canon EF 24-105mm F4L IS USM lens. Software: RAW file… Photographed/dated 2023. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/41c64413-5e81-460b-a817-f069d7ae2121) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Digital_light_and_sound_console_Stroud_Subscription_Rooms_Gloucestershire.jpg
### 2024
- **2024-01-05**, SZ 深圳 Shenzhen 南山 Nanshan 大時代 Great Time Restaurant 黑膠唱片 LP song records January 2…. SZ 深圳 Shenzhen 南山 Nanshan 大時代 Great Time Restaurant 黑膠唱片 LP records in January 2024 Photographed/dated 2024. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/36cad993-46b8-45a3-a862-ad09003bed57) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:SZ_%E6%B7%B1%E5%9C%B3_Shenzhen_%E5%8D%97%E5%B1%B1_Nanshan_%E5%A4%A7%E6%99%82%E4%BB%A3_Great_Time_Restaurant_%E9%BB%91%E8%86%A0%E5%94%B1%E7%89%87_LP_song_records_January_2024_R12S_100.jpg
- **2024-01-08**, How the Beatles used the middle eight. Analysis of the Beatles' bridge writing and how the middle eight functions inside pop song form. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/2368b46e-7ded-452c-9bee-7a76a5307110) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkC_8wdzGn8
- **2024-02-04**, Tyla wins the first Best African Music Performance Grammy. The South African singer accepting the newly created Grammy category for Water at the 2024 ceremony, the award that formalised Afrobeats and amapiano's arrival at the Grammys. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/53e10f27-024f-493a-8997-8201928b3a1c) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=np9bcBp9pW8
- **2024-02-11**, Beyoncé - TEXAS HOLD 'EM. The Cowboy Carter single that made Beyoncé the first Black woman to top Billboard's Hot Country Songs chart. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/c0e3f7ec-2310-49f0-94ea-dad601e262b7) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=238Z4YaAr1g
- **2024-02-15**, Dua Lipa - Training Season. Official video from Radical Optimism, from the artist who did more than any other to revive disco-facing pop in the 2020s. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/cafc9469-f778-438d-99a3-44dc911d9d49) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjBZ8MUnB0E
- **2024-02-15**, Mike Dean Builds a Track in Analog Synth. Reverb films the producer behind Kanye West, Travis Scott and The Weeknd assembling a track live on his synth rig. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/ee4a8ad2-2b02-4a39-a04c-353028c8b36d) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=moCpKwNA4Cw
- **2024-02-17**, Koffi Olomdé à la célébration du Vodoun Days 2024 a Ouidah au Bénin35. Animation folklorique dans le cadre de vodoun days à Ouidah au Bénin Photograph dated 2024. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/61676d0f-3c79-4911-8975-7193dc5d6de7) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Koffi_Olomd%C3%A9_%C3%A0_la_c%C3%A9l%C3%A9bration_du_Vodoun_Days_2024_a_Ouidah_au_B%C3%A9nin35.png
- **2024-03-19**, Gershwin Prize for Popular Song honoree Elton John looks over a special collection…. … Photograph dated 2024. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/6996856c-f54b-4775-b42e-7373cd02076a) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gershwin_Prize_for_Popular_Song_honoree_Elton_John_looks_over_a_special_collections_display_of_Gershwin_sheet_music_in_the_Library_of_Congress_Main_Reading_Room,_March_19,_2024_-_1.jpg
- **2024-03-19**, 19 03 2024 - Aniversário de Brasília terá mega show do DJ Alok na Esplanada dos Mi…. O artista foi a primeira atração anunciada da programação dos 64 anos da cidade, que se estenderá por toda a semana do dia 21 de abril. Foto: Paulo H. Carvalho/Agência Brasília. Photograph dated 2024. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/7baf9a5e-4317-48e5-80f1-d1c0f68a0738) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:19_03_2024_-_Anivers%C3%A1rio_de_Bras%C3%ADlia_ter%C3%A1_mega_show_do_DJ_Alok_na_Esplanada_dos_Minist%C3%A9rios_(53596789862).jpg
- **2024-03-24**, SZA LOLLAPALOOZA (2024) - IMG 7917. Cantora Sza no Lollapalooza em 2024, vestindo camisa verde do Brasil, com a bandeira do Brasil no fundo. Photograph/scan dated 2024. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/fa34974a-6a84-43b2-a8aa-b69c536a7a14) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:SZA_LOLLAPALOOZA_(2024)_-_IMG_7917.jpg
- **2024-03-25**, Every type of song structure explained. David Bennett works through verse, chorus, pre-chorus, bridge and middle eight, and what the labels actually describe. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/77f6a331-2535-4b32-baa6-e57e41810ffa) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDJwg1JoPtY
- **2024-04-06**, Boycott Eurovision protest, Barcelona. Demonstrators at a 'Boycott Eurovision' march in Barcelona calling for Israel's exclusion from the contest. Photographed 6 April 2024. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/683a32d9-1260-4241-8101-a2bd5529fdc5) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Boycott_Eurovision_-_Stop_Pinkwashing_Israel%27s_20240406_01.jpg
- **2024-04-22**, 25th Laureus World Sports Awards - Red Carpet - Roberto Carlos - 240422 192828. Roberto Carlos, the legendary Brazilian footballer, known for his powerful free kicks and defensive prowess, is accompanied by his daughter at the 25th Laureus World Sports Awar… Photograph dated 2024. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/23878c2c-e4be-4ede-8017-5b48406b0960) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:25th_Laureus_World_Sports_Awards_-_Red_Carpet_-_Roberto_Carlos_-_240422_192828.jpg
- **2024-04-27**, Dalton Rashad Criss ADR High School Honors Gospel Festival 2024. Members of the DRC ADK High School Honors Gospel Festival 2024 Photographed/dated 2024. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/ce456d9a-bca1-4f01-87b7-1e853f4e712c) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dalton_Rashad_Criss_ADR_High_School_Honors_Gospel_Festival_2024.jpg
- **2024-05-03**, Daniele Silvestri, “Festival Canzoni & Parole”, Espace Jemmapes, Paris, France (03…. Daniele Silvestri, Festival Canzoni & Parole, 3 May 2024, Espace Jemmapes, 116 quai de Jemmapes, 75010 Paris, France (digital, 50.80cm x 33.87cm) \[© Danilo Samà \] Photographed/dated 2024. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/5c0590ca-bd4e-48cb-a963-e810ca87437b) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Daniele_Silvestri,_%E2%80%9CFestival_Canzoni_%26_Parole%E2%80%9D,_Espace_Jemmapes,_Paris,_France_(03-05-2024)_%C2%B7_%C2%A9_Danilo_Sam%C3%A0.jpg
- **2024-05-06**, The 3% of Pop That Isn't in 4/4. David Bennett listens through the 40 best-selling Billboard songs of every year this century and catalogues the rare metres that appear. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/a2570e55-48c7-43dc-9853-b9cd6e1e7eb3) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcAUcbwI8QE
- **2024-05-11**, Nemo wins Eurovision 2024 with The Code. Switzerland's Nemo performing the winning entry in the Eurovision grand final in Malmo, May 2024. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/6bd7f836-a71a-4ddc-9c88-d78a851b9f49) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CO_qJf-nW0k
- **2024-05-14**, Me in the Coach House Studio control room. A tour of Rockfield Studios near Monmouth, Wales. So many great records have been recorded at Rockfield that it is difficult to know where to start - beginning with Dave Edmunds… Photograph/scan dated 2024. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/2baf8b62-f579-4e4f-a7b4-e136dd69be46) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Me_in_the_Coach_House_Studio_control_room_(53719506612).jpg
- **2024-05-18**, Burning Sun: the K-pop chat group investigation. BBC Eye's hour-long investigation into K-pop figures sharing evidence of sexual crimes in private chat groups, and the reporters who exposed it. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/446adb2f-cc42-4525-84e0-c5d63619ca0d) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EEp1q_iMYc
- **2024-05-23**, Has Streaming Made It Harder to Love New Music?. PBS Sound Field examines how algorithmic recommendation changes listening habits and the relationship between listener and record. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/f540ad54-41d1-459c-995d-93587a75e745) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Snu8gXnr1Kg
- **2024-05-26**, Inside the K-pop dream factory. Channel 4's Unreported World follows teenage trainees in Seoul's performing-arts academies, in an industry worth $8bn where about 1% make it. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/49df13ec-6443-40f9-ae6f-d1a8d5af9aa7) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FI6otC78gvo
- **2024-05-28**, Bob Moog3 new color (without silhouette). Creative Commons version of File:Bob Moog3.jpg (rev.3). left to right Moog Sonic Six Moog 1150 Ribbon Controller (Manual Ribbon) Moog 1130 Percussion Controller \[1\] Minimoog Moog System 55 → Moog… Photographed/dated 2024. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/27f734e1-9eb6-4e24-a612-49443d051e83) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bob_Moog3_new_color_(without_silhouette).png
- **2024**, ESC fans Eurovision Song Contest 2024 Malmö. ESC fans in selfie mode Photograph/scan dated 2024. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/e7dd039a-0c03-4fd5-ad0f-2f61ddc94153) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ESC_fans_Eurovision_Song_Contest_2024_Malm%C3%B6.jpg
- **2024**, Fan media at Eurovision Song Contest 2024 02. Media at Eurovision Song Contest 2024 Photograph/scan dated 2024. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/2f6d9421-ffda-4378-a5a2-10b3e34effd4) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fan_media_at_Eurovision_Song_Contest_2024_02.jpg
- **2024**, Jovan Radomir Eurovision Song Contest 2024 Final Malmö press conference presenters 01. Jovan Radomir leading press conference with presenters Photograph/scan dated 2024. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/ebd7faea-214b-440c-80b0-48b3d903b80e) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jovan_Radomir_Eurovision_Song_Contest_2024_Final_Malm%C3%B6_press_conference_presenters_01.jpg
- **2024**, Diljit Dosanjh brings Mohammad Sadiq on stage in Ludhiana. Diljit Dosanjh hosting veteran Punjabi folk singer Mohammad Sadiq during the Dil-Luminati tour's Ludhiana show, staging Punjabi musical lineage on a stadium bill. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/eb5caca7-f58b-47cb-9c85-b2e37345e8a6) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVprVMBKHvU
- **2024**, SEVENTEEN perform Water in Goyang. SEVENTEEN's stadium stage in Goyang on the Right Here world tour, a thirteen-member group holding synchronised choreography at scale. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/423d9b08-2200-4ad6-b29f-30089fce6c2e) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmMbm8PUo9I
- **2024**, Babymetal's full set at Rock am Ring 2024. The Japanese metal-idol group's complete festival set in Germany, June 2024, uploaded by the festival itself. Kawaii metal as a Japanese pop export at European festival scale. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/dda8b2b3-7534-482c-aeca-47636add67d5) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmj6QLdLxRY
- **2024**, Billie Eilish - BIRDS OF A FEATHER. The Hit Me Hard and Soft single that became one of the most-streamed songs of the 2020s. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/33cc24b4-2401-4688-8a45-e2ce16a7e1d3) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9PVRfjEBTI
- **2024**, Mana's full set at Vina del Mar 2024. Mexican rock band Mana's complete 90-minute headline performance at the 2024 Vina del Mar festival. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/a37179b0-4087-48e4-9112-7e93af4bdf3a) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAdmhVPQ0DA
- **2024**, Tems - Love Me JeJe. The Nigerian singer's 2024 single, reworking a 1997 Seyi Sodimu record; it won her a Grammy for Best African Music Performance. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/828be279-d251-4920-b589-9c5141b0ac95) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_NTooezadU
- **2024-06-19**, Ellie Goulding.TPWFAward.Photo Lelle Sparringsjö. Ellie Goulding at the 2024 The Perfect World Foundation Award ceremony. Photograph dated 2024. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/28e295f9-bad8-4957-b678-51e28645e19d) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ellie_Goulding.TPWFAward.Photo_Lelle_Sparringsj%C3%B6.jpg
- **2024-06-20**, Four on the Floor: The Drum Beat That Changed Dance Music. PBS Sound Field traces the four-on-the-floor kick pattern from disco through Donna Summer to Beyonce's Renaissance and Charli XCX's Brat. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/3f631ba9-37be-46be-a1a5-910ec44c35a3) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtnXaIz0bSc
- **2024-06-21**, Roskilde Festival 2024, velkommen. Skilt til Roskilde Festival 2024 Photographed/dated 2024. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/00f14a72-930a-47be-8f88-3ad64a2be5de) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Roskilde_Festival_2024,_velkommen.jpg
- **2024-06-21**, KAROL G - Si Antes Te Hubiera Conocido. 2024 single from the Colombian artist who became the first woman to top the Billboard 200 with an all-Spanish album. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/e17c04f8-26b8-4a6b-b7be-9f3b61a3363c) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgsdDfdGdHc
- **2024-06-23**, The Eras Tour and London's economy. Al Jazeera reports on the Eras Tour's Wembley run in June 2024, with roughly 700,000 attendees over three nights and an estimated $380m impact. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/5d34a035-162d-46a3-b7a3-90b484bd91af) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ii5yLjqQwg
- **2024-06-26**, Dirty Pop: the Lou Pearlman boy-band scam. Netflix trailer for the series on the impresario who built Backstreet Boys and \*NSYNC while running a Ponzi scheme. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/1ac7155d-0895-423c-b44b-343aee9ae05f) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSQVWOvNwJw
- **2024-06-30**, Unpacking the Logic session for Charli XCX's Club Classics. George Daniel and A. G. Cook open the actual project file and walk through how the BRAT track was built. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/1cf2dcd6-547f-4eb5-9644-57e6d7becf8a) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQm0McuIA84
- **2024-07-01**, Coke Studio Pakistan: a live rehearsal jam. A filmed rehearsal of Piya Piya Calling from Coke Studio Pakistan season 15, the live-in-studio series that made Pakistani pop a global streaming presence. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/7600a7db-02e9-489e-a2c9-bf3cd37713a8) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfblDS1129I
- **2024-07-13**, Pet Shop Boys al Festival Cruïlla 2024 20240713. Pet Shop Boys al Festival Cruïlla 2024. Photograph dated 2024. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/48636452-7239-4a4a-9f78-a706ccedcfef) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pet_Shop_Boys_al_Festival_Cru%C3%AFlla_2024_20240713.jpg
- **2024-07-13**, Are Key Changes Making a Comeback?. David Bennett tracks the near-extinction of the truck-driver modulation in chart pop and its small recent revival in records like Sabrina Carpenter's 'Please Please Please'. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/feec31a2-0de6-4ba0-bb20-067a19d36ca2) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SM3ga0GrJ90
- **2024-07-15**, Burna Boy: African Giant live in London. Burna Boy's full London concert filmed 15 July 2024 for YouTube Music Nights, marking five years of the African Giant album. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/613e67c5-b43a-443a-b7c5-bb862bce8d7e) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7of6faOge2o
- **2024-07-25**, HIKARU UTADA SCIENCE FICTION TOUR 2024. 2024.07.24 さいたまスーパーアリーナ Photograph dated 2024. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/a7cd0659-f368-4b69-aea8-048478cef691) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HIKARU_UTADA_SCIENCE_FICTION_TOUR_2024_(55092893730).jpg
- **2024-07-26**, Aya Nakamura at the Paris 2024 Olympic opening ceremony. Aya Nakamura performing a medley of her own hits with Charles Aznavour songs on the Pont des Arts during the Paris Olympics opening ceremony, 26 July 2024. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/1df1fbf5-aabb-4ed3-92d1-4dd9b6c103eb) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuHtD8MOaFk
- **2024-07-26**, How K-pop is redefining itself beyond BTS and Blackpink. Bloomberg on the $9.3bn K-pop industry, its touring economics and the agencies' push into global markets. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/2d89eb38-af9a-455a-8e4d-6402a5237c0c) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKNCfhYjCHk
- **2024-08-01**, Artists fight back on AI voice cloning. NBC News on proposed US legislation to punish unauthorised use of artists' voices, and artists licensing their own AI voice models. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/8a0cd0e3-8fd7-4c2a-948f-f0cfab48c6d2) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQ6eDzeJhZ4
- **2024-08-02**, Laufey performing at Lollapalooza in Chicago on August 2nd 2024. /scan dated 2024. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/8dab42b8-fb98-4fc5-8552-ecd1ddff94bb) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Laufey_performing_at_Lollapalooza_in_Chicago_on_August_2nd_2024.jpg
- **2024-08-15**, Lowlandsfestival2024 1. Lowlands festival in 2024. Photograph/scan dated 2024. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/09d2fba7-d55a-420e-9a44-de0f37954791) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lowlandsfestival2024_1.jpg
- **2024-08-15**, Lowlandsfestival2024 3. Lowlands festival in 2024. Photograph/scan dated 2024. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/c13db9d0-da58-41c1-97ee-1faa08374a67) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lowlandsfestival2024_3.jpg
- **2024-08-16**, Lowlandsfestival2024 5. Lowlands festival in 2024. Photograph/scan dated 2024. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/54edb4c4-6da2-4b16-9508-661047641149) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lowlandsfestival2024_5.jpg
- **2024-09-04**, A musician charged over AI-assisted streaming fraud. Local news on the North Carolina case alleging millions in royalties collected by bot-streaming AI-generated tracks. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/23bd6cc6-cd3d-4032-add5-70f8cc2761c9) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgQ9TparK_A
- **2024-09-05**, How the Theremin Went Mainstream. PBS Sound Field on the theremin's journey from science-fiction scores into pop and electronic music production. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/0396bcdd-a4b3-48bd-a7db-8c0f5c8c96e5) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhH39Q8odJs
- **2024-09-05**, How Concert Tickets Stopped Being Cheap. More Perfect Union traces live-music pricing from 1950s ticket stubs to the Live Nation-Ticketmaster era of fees and dynamic pricing. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/e87c83ae-7c50-4523-9940-6609a2ec3c8c) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u--se25_px8
- **2024-09-09**, Michael Gracey, Jonno Davies, and Robbie Williams at the 2024 Toronto Internationa…. (TIFF) for the movie Better Man. Photograph dated 2024. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/51e1d789-9ff1-4dc9-b409-f1a2b12c5da5) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Michael_Gracey,_Jonno_Davies,_and_Robbie_Williams_at_the_2024_Toronto_International_Film_Festival.jpg
- **2024-10-02**, -2025-02-27- Ney Matogrosso 004 Romerito Pontes. 2024. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/453a05a6-69e0-484e-9c15-9c93e6d78e1e) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:-2025-02-27-_Ney_Matogrosso_004_Romerito_Pontes_(54356214444).jpg
- **2024-10-02**, -2025-02-27- Ney Matogrosso 002 Romerito Pontes. 2024. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/827b1f9e-9972-4b5c-ad62-8575ac557c39) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:-2025-02-27-_Ney_Matogrosso_002_Romerito_Pontes_(54356214554).jpg
- **2024-10-02**, -2025-02-27- Ney Matogrosso 003 Romerito Pontes. 2024. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/d0da5c50-1f7e-4ff1-aa5e-35e075d4c403) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:-2025-02-27-_Ney_Matogrosso_003_Romerito_Pontes_(54355131187).jpg
- **2024-10-04**, Jack Antonoff on producing Sabrina Carpenter. Variety's Behind the Song has Antonoff walk through his collaboration on 'Please Please Please'. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/8851cdf9-f1ec-43fd-9189-2ed6b9e2c384) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLAocAthCJ4
- **2024-10-15**, Sony Music's Rob Stringer on the state of the industry. The chairman of Sony Music Group interviewed by Bloomberg's Lucas Shaw at Screentime in Los Angeles, October 2024, on where the major-label business stands. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/9c54a107-493b-4838-af09-805c538d3aa4) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7CAXC0WSng
- **2024-10-18**, Timbaland and Metro Boomin on making hits. Rolling Stone's Musicians on Musicians pairs two producers a generation apart on the difference between a hit and a classic. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/24612681-44be-4ffe-bfd9-d2ea3d5589b9) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEi7qMGKgz4
- **2024-10-20**, Bolis Pupul, “ARTE Concert”, Ground Control, Paris, France (20-10-2024) · © Danilo…. Bolis Pupul, ARTE Concert, 20 October 2024, Ground Control, 81 rue du Charolais, 75012 Paris, France (digital, 50.80cm x 33.87cm) \[© Danilo Samà \] Photographed/dated 2024. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/824526a6-dc3a-428f-a2de-4f7a06ccac23) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bolis_Pupul,_%E2%80%9CARTE_Concert%E2%80%9D,_Ground_Control,_Paris,_France_(20-10-2024)_%C2%B7_%C2%A9_Danilo_Sam%C3%A0.jpg
- **2024-10-21**, aespa - Whiplash. SM Entertainment's official MV for aespa's 2024 single, a defining record of the group's shift to harder club-oriented pop. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/8dd84e3f-1f8d-4982-a3b5-83329d791d80) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWQx2f-CErU
- **2024-10-23**, The new Latin music business. Billboard Latin Music Week 2024 panel with Rancho Humilde's Jimmy Humilde and label executives on how Latin deals are now structured. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/7c3d6a67-0000-4886-b0a5-37adef763cec) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WNm-4IhzME
- **2024-10-24**, Susan Rogers on Music and the Brain. The Berklee professor and former Prince engineer presents research from the Berklee Music Perception and Cognition Laboratory on how listeners process records. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/6c4824a4-f4cb-4b8f-b0e9-927d65b7aa64) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPyjXHSmrws
- **2024-10-25**, Dua Lipa: Tiny Desk Concert. NPR institutional performance series; Dua Lipa reworking her catalogue acoustically behind the desk. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/b8b2b1f8-3337-45ef-9831-2eaa1795e738) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y38qQRg3UDI
- **2024-11-14**, Gramophone 3. Gramophone Photographed/dated 2024. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/ae28f795-d94a-4618-9700-d0649939d8dc) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gramophone_3.jpg
- **2024-11-15**, Quincy Jones on Getting Started in Music. PBS American Masters interview footage recorded in 2001 in which Jones describes his path from arranger to the era's most powerful pop producer. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/0adcdfbb-0f64-4336-b17a-08999e79da4d) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2BA8Ze525Y
- **2024-11-15**, Tin Pan Alley and the birth of the popular song. Lucasfilm documentary on how new demand for entertainment created the industrialised songwriting trade of Tin Pan Alley. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/ecd33d08-1eaf-4593-a7c4-371a43f5b225) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lv9udSlovIs
- **2024-12-01**, Madonna: Live To Tell from the Celebration Tour. Madonna's Celebration Tour performance of Live To Tell, edited from Rio and other 2023-24 dates and released for World Aids Day 2024. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/0deb4279-22b6-4775-8991-299a0859364b) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_eteXgf7qs
- **2024-12-02**, Superfans, the music industry's new goldmine. A KindredCast discussion of superfan monetisation, sizing the opportunity at roughly $4.5bn and forecasting $3.3bn of additional music revenue by 2030. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/e70df412-5920-47ec-9fc0-fd2098fcecd3) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5LZUmuObiA
- **2024-12-06**, How the internet changed the music video. Polyphonic's 46-minute history of the music video after MTV, covering YouTube, viral video and the form's reinvention online. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/d39ba2c2-8825-4b20-b7e3-af775ff13f4b) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNqqFrEobyI
- **2024-12-07**, The Brill Building: Pop's First Hit Factory. David Bennett on the New York office block where staff songwriters produced the bulk of early-1960s American pop hits under a publisher-driven system. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/c87850b8-80ad-48a5-a6c4-e57a37cc6be3) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulh3Izep0SU
- **2024-12-10**, DPR IAN on the K-pop industry and his mental health. The former C-Clown member describes how the idol system intensified his dissociative identity disorder. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/bfffc885-1f24-40e7-8ef0-1859a46d40bd) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jw_id6Otd0
- **2024-12-13**, Peso Pluma - Hollywood. Official video from the artist who took corridos tumbados, regional Mexican music fused with trap, to global streaming charts. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/46cad52a-433e-4d3d-899a-3a287df2bf97) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCL8-CiGSmc
### 2025
- **2025-01-01**, Bogato Records jpg. The official logo of the music label Bogato Records Photographed/dated 2025. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/e2eee755-0127-4bb8-8bee-dcc47d32f902) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bogato_Records_jpg.jpg
- **2025-01-11**, Second-Saturday Synthfest at Stage 33 33 Bridge Street Bellows Falls VT January 20…. Second-Saturday Synthfest at Stage 33, 33 Bridge Street in downtown Bellows Falls, Vermont. Photograph/scan dated 2025. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/a910e9e5-b404-4d3f-925c-624a90e78a8b) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Second-Saturday_Synthfest_at_Stage_33_33_Bridge_Street_Bellows_Falls_VT_January_2025_01.jpg
- **2025-01-16**, Ivete Sangalo live: O Verao Bateu Em Minha Porta. Official live video from Brazilian axe star Ivete Sangalo, one of the country's biggest live draws and a fixture of Salvador's carnival circuit. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/f07406ce-c827-4469-b10a-c0f4f897b013) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13MqkelD09E
- **2025-01-18**, Britney Unfiltered - ARTE documentary. Feature-length ARTE film on Britney Spears as a test case for how modern celebrity and the tabloid press operate. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/5efcce60-233f-4b8e-8980-e3bbabc88ae9) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WLe41lmi6w
- **2025-01-24**, Björk: The Cornucopia Interview - Apple Music. A fifty-minute interview with Björk about the staging of Cornucopia, from an artist who has spent thirty years refusing conventional pop formats. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/5b7bd27b-d2a4-4594-a696-fc8a40e890eb) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mGUk6WEUu4
- **2025-02-01**, Peak positions of Miley Cyrus' Flowers in charts. Peak positions for Miley Cyrus 's song Flowers in national official charts. Countries in which the song peaked at number 1 on the official chart. Countries in which the song pea… Photograph dated 2025. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/12ffc215-481b-4f9e-a0ed-3b88d70efb61) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Peak_positions_of_Miley_Cyrus%27_Flowers_in_charts.png
- **2025-02-09**, Kendrick Lamar's Super Bowl LIX halftime show. Kendrick Lamar's 2025 halftime show, staged as a pointed piece of theatre with Samuel L. Jackson as narrator and SZA as guest. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/b96a3642-cff6-447a-b5e0-6e69300153bb) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDorKy-13ak
- **2025-02-15**, How music streaming fraud works. BBC World Service on the North Carolina musician charged with stealing millions from streaming services using bot-played AI tracks. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/1a419484-8de3-45f8-906d-91d361d08930) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RpxiEuGuUw
- **2025-02-25**, A thousand musicians release a silent album against AI copyright reform. BBC News on the February 2025 protest album released by more than 1,000 artists including Kate Bush and Damon Albarn, against UK plans to ease AI training on copyrighted work. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/b0d1afb6-2fc3-4d2e-840c-e600808bf593) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvofqJoyT_c
- **2025-02-26**, The Cult of Kawaii: Inside Japan's Idol Industry. Long-form essay on the idol business, tracing its lineage from geisha and host clubs to the contemporary agency-managed idol economy. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/498a5b58-d0d5-4166-8402-1cddd0d1864f) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2g0xpQ-v8s
- **2025-02-27**, Peak positions of The Weeknd's Hurry Up Tomorrow in charts. Peak positions for The Weeknd 's album Hurry Up Tomorrow in national official charts. Countries in which the album peaked at number 1 on the official chart. Countries in which t… Photograph dated 2025. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/1186f89d-bc79-488f-90e4-80d6b1d095bd) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Peak_positions_of_The_Weeknd%27s_Hurry_Up_Tomorrow_in_charts.png
- **2025-03-02**, Compact Cassette 12. نوار کاست ضبط صدا. Photographed/dated 2025. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/34266f74-9436-498b-a6c2-4d408de194e1) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Compact_Cassette_12.jpg
- **2025-03-05**, Diljit Dosanjh sings Khuda Gawah on the Dil-Luminati tour. Punjabi star Diljit Dosanjh on his Dil-Luminati tour, the run that took Punjabi-language pop to stadium scale in India and abroad. Official artist channel. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/3ce6c3f6-b19e-47e6-b83e-803fa6eed3c0) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-V2D7pZtYA
- **2025-03-08**, 5 Concert ONB Oran 2025. Photos du concert de l'orchestre national de barbés au théatre la fourmi, à Oran, en mars 2025 Photographed/dated 2025. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/19d55915-ace2-44eb-8a3b-1a9722b810a5) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:5_Concert_ONB_Oran_2025.jpg
- **2025-03-21**, Musicians push back on dwindling streaming payments. PBS NewsHour on how Spotify conquered distribution while many of the artists who supply the catalogue see shrinking per-stream income. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/bc173b02-d2b2-4d97-9d15-a0bda1c0d8da) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk0A_ZWGVew
- **2025-03-24**, IFPI's chief executive on what is driving industry growth. Euronews interviews Victoria Oakley, head of the global recording-industry body IFPI, on the 2025 Global Music Report and where streaming revenue is coming from. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/42e47aba-f097-4668-bfd4-0e8d2c3bfb8c) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSpfNMdoCis
- **2025-03-25**, Charity-merch-sziget. Благодійні футболки Music Saves Ukraine на Sziget 2022 Photographed/dated 2025. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/8a860990-9c76-4b6b-a5e2-182240447f18) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Charity-merch-sziget-2022.jpg
- **2025-03-28**, Online Poptimism, or How We Learned to Love Pop Music. Video essay tracing the rise of poptimism in internet music criticism and the displacement of rockist evaluation standards. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/cbf00ebf-c133-4abb-bbd2-290b98a8dae2) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fvh8QY3RkK4
- **2025-04-04**, The state of the music business in 2025. An hour-long SXSW 2025 keynote panel on how global streaming and direct distribution have reshaped the balance of power between artists, labels and platforms. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/9e0bed64-1e81-46a9-92b5-193b00c6f08c) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kInm5xD3RYo
- **2025-04-07**, Bad Bunny: Tiny Desk Concert. NPR's Tiny Desk with the biggest Spanish-language artist in the world, performing with a full Puerto Rican band. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/974e37f8-51ec-4b46-9fa0-4c39fe028060) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouuPSxE1hK4
- **2025-04-11**, Senators reintroduce the NO FAKES Act on voice cloning. Recording Academy footage from Capitol Hill as Senators Coons, Blackburn and Klobuchar reintroduce legislation on unauthorised AI replicas of voice and likeness. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/4d156045-2973-41ca-a2a2-7375ea9a673c) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3SvXtOtpng
- **2025-04-22**, Karol G: Tomorrow Was Beautiful - Netflix trailer. Trailer for the Netflix documentary following Karol G's stadium tour, from the first woman to top the Billboard 200 with an all-Spanish album. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/69f531bd-7879-4e74-ab22-4a06da56e9cb) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qE6Lez9aGHA
- **2025-04-27**, All My Loving A. The Beatles, A-Seite: All my Loving, Ask me why; B-Seite: Money, PS I Love You Photograph/scan dated 2025. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/3fcfa4af-09de-4345-a450-63a86206b068) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:All_My_Loving_A.jpg
- **2025-05-01**, Hikaru Utada on SCIENCE FICTION, touring and fame - Zane Lowe interview. A fifty-six-minute Apple Music interview with the artist behind Japan's best-selling album, covering her retreat from fame and her return to touring. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/bb7aabbf-b462-404b-b35d-fe03db4dba4f) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBdpIcZC9ag
- **2025-05-02**, How Live Nation came to dominate live music. WSJ on the $23bn company that owns Ticketmaster, roughly 390 venues and controlling stakes in major festivals. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/df438203-22ad-43c7-9c3a-3c38500354ff) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0OP525STto
- **2025-05-09**, Goon Flavour, Master KG and Eemoh - Ngishutheni. A 2025 South African amapiano video from the Wanitwa Mos camp behind Jerusalema, the genre now dominating dance music across the continent. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/b41a6bc1-e934-4dac-a5b7-67aa6697cfbf) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=756YdTT-WJ0
- **2025-05-10**, 2025-05-10 ESC Basel Drumherum 003. Eurovision Song Contest 2025 in Basel (Schweiz) - «Eurovision Village» auf dem Basler Messerplatz. Photograph/scan dated 2025. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/6d522b2e-85ab-41e1-ac8a-13471aa59057) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2025-05-10_ESC_Basel_Drumherum_003.jpg
- **2025-05-10**, 2025-05-10 ESC Basel Drumherum 006. Eurovision Song Contest 2025 in Basel (Schweiz) - Die SRG auf dem «Eurovision Village». Photograph/scan dated 2025. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/c78bb6a5-ed5c-41cf-8934-f9b14cf73312) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2025-05-10_ESC_Basel_Drumherum_006.jpg
- **2025-05-10**, 2025-05-10 ESC Basel Drumherum 008. Eurovision Song Contest 2025 in Basel (Schweiz) - Die SRG auf dem «Eurovision Village». Photograph/scan dated 2025. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/d91821e3-618e-47f5-ab3b-29f645090be0) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2025-05-10_ESC_Basel_Drumherum_008.jpg
- **2025-05-17**, Eurovision 2025: the full grand final from Basel. The complete four-hour Eurovision grand final broadcast, live from Basel on 17 May 2025, the annual scale of Europe's biggest live pop institution. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/2a799dc5-ff7c-4515-ae5a-b96856446186) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPSn888JAFU
- **2025-05-17**, JJ wins Eurovision 2025 with Wasted Love. Austria's JJ performing the winning song in the Eurovision grand final in Basel, 17 May 2025. Official contest upload. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/d0d42ab5-d3ed-44d1-9df7-58b56acb66e3) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onOex2WXjbA
- **2025-05-17**, Tommy Cash: Espresso Macchiato at Eurovision 2025. Estonia's entry in the 2025 grand final, one of the contest's biggest viral performances of the year at roughly 50 million views. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/df0b9267-f798-4636-bf8a-a5c74b2a658f) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9b9Z5HSCXOI
- **2025-05-20**, Taylor Swift debuts a Reputation re-recording. TODAY on the May 2025 release of the first Reputation (Taylor's Version) track, the longest gap in the re-recordings project she began to reclaim her catalogue. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/a62d7695-f87c-4664-9578-e73e8a4506f2) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LM2LZjvK1Ho
- **2025-05-21**, Inside the World's Largest Songwriting Camp. Danny Ross, founder of Anti Social Camp and a Berklee NYC professor, explains how large-scale songwriting camps are organised and how credits and placements come out of them. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/64e0da4f-f77a-4813-b5b9-159368a701ea) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zM5SUFnTJd4
- **2025-05-27**, How musicians actually make money from streaming. BBC World Service explains the royalty chain and why artists from Taylor Swift down have contested label payouts. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/372ecefa-2537-452a-b0e6-037a94372fe4) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jitkNdSf66g
- **2025-05-27**, The Cast of Buena Vista Social Club: Tiny Desk Concert. NPR's Tiny Desk with the Cuban ensemble whose 1997 album became one of the best-selling world-music records ever made. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/a07cb4aa-5024-42bb-b0ce-575c82ab637f) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1bx9_TL20A
- **2025-05-30**, Building an Afrobeats Career: Tems' Manager. Donawon describes the management and release systems he built around Tems, and how the Nigerian industry differs from Anglo label structures. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/7b482b5f-3586-4acb-a066-8593ba3262a0) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJNHlN7c9i4
- **2025-06-02**, What Taylor Swift buying back her masters changed. Variety's music editor tells CBS Mornings how Swift's May 2025 repurchase of her first six albums reshaped how artists and fans think about ownership. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/4ad575bc-3cd6-437f-a304-a5894cabb07c) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1h2S_gL1N9k
- **2025-06-06**, Sabrina Carpenter - Manchild. Lead single from Man's Best Friend, from the artist whose 2024-25 run made her one of pop's biggest new headliners. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/cbee58e1-2756-4ffd-af71-710b4e6966a7) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSugSGCC12I
- **2025-06-08**, Mixing console setup in a modern studio showcasing professional sound equipment an…. /dated 2025. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/96ed3d9e-1304-4e78-bc69-a095c5d06427) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mixing_console_setup_in_a_modern_studio_showcasing_professional_sound_equipment_and_controls_undefined.jpg
- **2025**, Shakira and Wyclef Jean reunite on Hips Don't Lie. Shakira and Wyclef Jean performing Hips Don't Lie together in Charlotte on the Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran world tour, twenty years after the song's release. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/8fc742cf-7fba-415f-aeae-5b50f073adfd) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Ndra-1Pwug
- **2025**, Carin Leon's full set at Vina del Mar 2025. Mexican singer Carin Leon's complete performance at Vina del Mar 2025, the festival appearance that carried regional Mexican music to a pan-Latin television audience. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/58f32b09-6c9d-47e4-bf05-2f337a6654d6) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZRcYMgqQl0
- **2025**, Sebastian Yatra's full set at Vina del Mar 2025. The Colombian singer's complete performance at Vina del Mar 2025, Latin America's most-watched televised song festival. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/b4b732bb-617a-49e9-89b4-912b3af90998) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXbtEuhOzo8
- **2025**, TWICE's full Lollapalooza Chicago set, 2025. TWICE's complete 88-minute headline performance at Lollapalooza Chicago in August 2025, released on the group's own channel with a full setlist. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/6f133c01-5a39-44bb-aa4e-cb4172d3535e) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ay1wB-2npMQ
- **2025**, TWICE perform This Is For in Incheon. The Korean group's live stage from the This Is For world tour opening in Incheon, July 2025. Official JYP upload. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/8e6d3ca9-fbd8-4e0a-ae23-37cca5bc8b71) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rf_858Gcqbk
- **2025**, Fuji Rock Festival 2025 aftermovie. The official film of Japan's Fuji Rock at Naeba in July 2025, from the festival's own channel, three days of the country's largest international music gathering. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/9ed579c0-a684-47e9-bf94-7c5fbe526052) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sh5X7uwQWxk
- **2025**, Marc Anthony's full set at Vina del Mar 2025. Marc Anthony's complete 79-minute performance at the 2025 Vina del Mar festival in Chile, from the festival's official archive channel. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/c0d55ef9-79a1-4eaa-9e1b-a63984415229) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kG5ORmm0clY
- **2025-06-28**, Pulp play Common People at Glastonbury 2025. Pulp's surprise Glastonbury 2025 set closing with Common People, from the BBC's official festival channel. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/ea65a7ae-fccc-462b-a438-87449f52594d) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NC42DqhQC6U
- **2025-06-29**, Zach Bryan headlines BST Hyde Park. Zach Bryan performing Pink Skies at his BST Hyde Park headline show on 29 June 2025, from the festival's official channel. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/b98440c2-b3f4-4354-8f9d-075f1c7b48ac) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqoWq6n2GR4
- **2025-07-01**, What Happened to the Bridge in Pop Songs. Analysis of the disappearing middle eight in charting pop and the streaming-era pressure toward shorter song forms. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/ab422ee9-aa3c-4af4-9948-d496ea0246c4) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBY_SQNlr58
- **2025-07-04**, Were Oasis fans misled by ticket prices?. BBC News on the UK ticketing controversy around the Oasis reunion, after some of the roughly 900,000 tickets sold at prices far above those advertised. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/65aac9d8-1296-4c8c-8ade-c8afb4bd167b) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hX4JvJMRCk
- **2025-07-20**, David Guetta's mainstage closing set at Tomorrowland 2025. Guetta's full 75-minute closing set on Tomorrowland's mainstage on Sunday 20 July 2025, with a published tracklist. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/f098a9ad-e07f-424b-a7a7-4c98c38e31ce) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cus3nFOjXb0
- **2025-07-25**, The argument over what a stream is worth. More Perfect Union's investigation into why streaming revenue keeps growing while most working musicians' incomes do not, published July 2025. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/133917fe-a3f0-4699-b839-e5507fb5cbf4) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8zBkQFDpsg
- **2025-07-25**, IJahman Levi, Red Stage, Ostróda Reggae Festiwal, 2025, SOULinPIX, KsP 354. Ijahman Levi performing on the Red Stage during Ostróda Reggae Festival 2025 in Ostróda, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, Poland, on 25 July 2025. The photograph shows a concert… Photograph/scan dated 2025. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/b43d741f-b131-4293-8505-bdd82ec7893e) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:IJahman_Levi,_Red_Stage,_Ostr%C3%B3da_Reggae_Festiwal,_2025,_SOULinPIX,_KsP_354.jpg
- **2025-07-29**, Tomorrowland 2025: the official aftermovie. The festival's own film of Tomorrowland Belgium 2025, where more than 400,000 people attended across 16 stages, the scale of the modern electronic festival. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/53e0ece6-0710-4f30-9ba4-248b5ec80329) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryIz5jiT6Pc
- **2025-08-01**, Chappell Roan - The Subway. Official 2025 single from the artist whose theatrical drag-inflected pop made her the breakout act of the mid-2020s. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/9f82d326-64f6-4007-ad9c-7e56f37ad5a9) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=woLfAvD5iXI
- **2025-08-03**, Jorja Smith at 2025 Newport Jazz Festival 02. Jorja Smith at the 2025 Newport Jazz Festival in Newport, Rhode Island. Photograph dated 2025. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/9364901d-8b5c-42f3-899b-5c625192faa7) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jorja_Smith_at_2025_Newport_Jazz_Festival_02.jpg
- **2025-08-03**, Jorja Smith at 2025 Newport Jazz Festival 03. Jorja Smith at the 2025 Newport Jazz Festival in Newport, Rhode Island. Photograph dated 2025. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/c0229037-f6ca-4b1f-b70a-97d77cae8cdc) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jorja_Smith_at_2025_Newport_Jazz_Festival_03.jpg
- **2025-08-06**, 1975-06-27-Roskilde-02. Roskilde Festival 1975 - program Photographed/dated 2025. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/c4f49def-8229-4d82-af95-795aac354a96) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1975-06-27-Roskilde-02.png
- **2025-08-06**, 1975-06-27-Roskilde-01. Roskilde Festival 1975 - program Photographed/dated 2025. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/c51cd428-6509-4487-93ae-ade3dddb6084) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1975-06-27-Roskilde-01.png
- **2025-08-15**, How Gated Reverb Defined the Sound of the 1980s. Reverb traces the gated drum sound from Peter Gabriel's 'Intruder' to its saturation of 1980s pop production, explaining the studio accident and signal chain behind it. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/464ccbb6-a013-4b47-995f-32cfd8eba498) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PV1QqbVCmBM
- **2025-08-16**, AI-Generated Music Sparks Industry Concern. CBS reports on the ethical and commercial questions raised by tracks that can be generated in two minutes. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/5926775a-b5dc-4ab2-8c48-ed7e64d22a34) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uf8CCTItVo
- **2025-08-21**, Is AI ruining music?. TED talk by Dustin Ballard of There I Ruined It on what makes music real when instruments, voice and intention can all be synthesised. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/67ead413-500c-445d-b807-463ff38fca92) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZ0BOEOtD2U
- **2025-08-21**, How Taylor Swift got her masters back. LegalEagle walks through the contract law behind master ownership, the re-recording clause and Swift's eventual buy-back of her catalogue. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/9831fcb3-4a35-4e5b-9b5c-3e40a6fcac3f) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLHU0ZUbXX8
- **2025-08-25**, Bootleg music on SD cards. Bootleg copies of musical albums being sold on SD cards in Mexico City. Photograph/scan dated 2025. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/452fa474-5d63-4808-b5ad-310805a36399) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bootleg_music_on_SD_cards.jpg
- **2025-08-26**, Tin Pan Alley Aug 2025 12. Tin Pan Alley in Manhattan, New York, seen in August 2025 Photographed/dated 2025. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/1e4d1acc-f8af-4232-9fcd-d584effc5ea4) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tin_Pan_Alley_Aug_2025_12.jpg
- **2025-08-26**, Tin Pan Alley Aug 2025 01. Tin Pan Alley in Manhattan, New York, seen in August 2025 Photographed/dated 2025. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/f3fdc4ae-34f3-4b1e-8454-3a3e38f84453) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tin_Pan_Alley_Aug_2025_01.jpg
- **2025-08-27**, KPop Demon Hunters breaks Netflix and Billboard records. Korean broadcaster MBN on the animated film's soundtrack dominating the charts in 2025, the year a fictional K-pop group outsold most real ones. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/71bae084-7636-45ad-b8e5-10bb9be7f5d1) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hVCPrUEi-I
- **2025-08-30**, BUCKLE N BOOTS performing live at The British Country Music Festival 2025. BUCKLE N BOOTS performing live at the TBCMF 2025 Photographed/dated 2025. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/f4d720e4-1904-4e34-8a27-958aefb801f8) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:BUCKLE_N_BOOTS_performing_live_at_The_British_Country_Music_Festival_2025.jpg
- **2025-09-07**, Ricky Martin's Latin Icon medley at the 2025 VMAs. Ricky Martin performing a career medley on receiving MTV's 2025 Latin Icon award, from MTV's own channel. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/48dbb3a3-95b4-4827-ade0-9e23a28437ed) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4Z4F6p9wP0
- **2025-09-07**, KATSEYE perform Gabriela at the 2025 VMAs. The multinational HYBE-Geffen group's VMA performance in September 2025, an example of the K-pop training system applied to a globally cast lineup. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/eaaf05cc-1668-4ea2-87e0-78776acc0b36) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gySVoFo_KHE
- **2025-09-09**, Deezer's CEO on the battle against AI music. Critic Anthony Fantano interviews Deezer chief executive Alexis Lanternier at length about how a streaming service can identify and handle AI-generated uploads. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/2e62f4e6-27af-47f1-8a71-665f07711595) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9XRVKDKwlA
- **2025-09-19**, The FTC sues Ticketmaster over concert pricing. News report on the September 2025 Federal Trade Commission action alleging Ticketmaster and Live Nation deceived artists and fans about the real price of a ticket. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/4dadb197-66c4-4e45-a2e0-6a0b210b402e) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qko1m0sDJAI
- **2025-09-19**, Confronting the music industry's mental health toll. PBS NewsHour reports from a festival built around the psychological cost of a touring and recording career. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/75de0bd9-dc65-4f24-9793-720d2488ba5d) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Flv72QwBGgw
- **2025-09-19**, Bad Bunny closes his 30-night Puerto Rico residency. The Coliseo de Puerto Rico's own recap of the final weekend of No Me Quiero Ir De Aqui, Bad Bunny's thirty-show 2025 residency staged deliberately at home rather than on a world tour. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/f4c6b505-3eda-4779-802f-dd8fe37d71f7) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAIr34YQDVE
- **2025-09-22**, How Rhythm Guides the Brain. Berklee Online lesson from Susan Rogers' Music and Neuroscience course on how the brain entrains to musical rhythm. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/422f27b4-254a-4e54-8706-43128bac57ca) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5Upu5Y0gYQ
- **2025-09-28**, A decade of Super Bowl halftime shows. The NFL's own compilation of ten consecutive halftime shows, useful as a record of how the format became pop's largest single stage. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/f11709c7-4df8-4479-b33c-7ddaf1813b34) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMc3vJonBb4
- **2025-10-05**, Taylor Swift - The Fate of Ophelia. Lead single and video from The Life of a Showgirl, released at the height of Swift's commercial dominance. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/c32937ea-be61-4475-8876-546c80b2a3c8) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ko70cExuzZM
- **2025-10-05**, Burna Boy tops Spotify's global Afrobeats ranking for 2025. Nigerian broadcaster TVC News on Spotify's 2025 Afrobeats data and what the streaming numbers say about the genre's export position. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/ec1cf4de-f495-4b23-8030-2e4a8a136ad1) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jm6ud-nFkTM
- **2025-10-18**, Nathy Peluso en el 53° Festival Internacional Cervantino, 2025 02. Nathy Peluso en el 53° Festival Internacional Cervantino (FIC), 2025. Presentación como parte de su gira "Grasa Tour" en Los Pastitos en Guanajuato, México. Photograph dated 2025. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/e4155edd-9105-47b2-9e71-6ad7ef1de5b2) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nathy_Peluso_en_el_53%C2%B0_Festival_Internacional_Cervantino,_2025_02.jpg
- **2025-10-21**, Selena y Los Dinos - Netflix documentary trailer. Trailer for the 2025 documentary built from the Quintanilla family's own home-video archive of Selena's career. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/cf539f8c-3539-4797-b873-b8578aac13ef) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNIbJywaCq0
- **2025-10-24**, Asake: Tiny Desk Concert. The Nigerian Afrobeats singer stripped back behind NPR's desk in October 2025, a format that has become a standard credibility test for a live vocalist. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/1807b6e1-dd14-43b9-a23c-1af27690ebcf) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eo0UxS6lnjA
- **2025-10-27**, ROSALÍA - Berghain ft. Björk and Yves Tumor. The lead single from LUX, sung in German, Spanish and English over orchestral scoring, a deliberate rejection of streaming-era pop convention. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/acfaa255-8019-4bfb-b925-0e72bd8b9321) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htQBS2Ikz6c
- **2025-10-28**, Billboard's new Hot 100 recurrent rules, and what they miss. Chart analysis of Billboard's 2026 rule change sending songs recurrent sooner, ending marathon runs like Teddy Swims' 112 weeks. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/65bebf4e-0b80-4296-9448-d1926ace425c) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgOxKmXNwQc
- **2025-10-30**, How the Billboard charts evolved, with Keith Caulfield. Billboard's own charts director explains the origins of the Hot 100 and Billboard 200 and how the formula now blends radio, sales and streams. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/be932151-3197-4581-87c9-00f0f0e4a024) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhwpqNLASNE
- **2025-10-31**, Le Badaboum Paris concert stage. Concert stage in the nightclub Le Badaboum in Paris, France Photographed/dated 2025. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/7498e8d8-5b6b-4f71-af91-90fb50b05078) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Le_Badaboum_Paris_concert_stage.jpg
- **2025-11-04**, An AI-generated act reaches a Billboard radio chart. CBC on Xania Monet entering Billboard's Adult R&B Airplay survey, the first known AI act on a Billboard radio chart. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/7545b310-2494-4228-8cb0-9b50aad7dd53) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lv2GooT7Gyc
- **2025-11-07**, The Seven Dimensions of Musical Pleasure. Berklee Online lesson in which Susan Rogers sets out the dimensions along which listeners' musical taste and pleasure vary. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/4f010258-c41d-4498-bcb8-94007e154f6a) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8MT6SQnqeM
- **2025-11-12**, An AI-generated song tops a Billboard chart. Good Morning America on Walk My Walk, an AI-generated country track that reached number one in November 2025, and the backlash from country artists. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/0ef25648-e041-4a2c-9bf8-bd0cccdf279c) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZLR5b3YuL8
- **2025-11-12**, Rick Beato on the first AI number one. Musician and analyst Rick Beato examines what it actually means that an AI-generated song reached the top of a Billboard chart in late 2025. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/eab60a23-3f0a-494b-8d61-5cc9d7a4dff4) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGremoYVMPc
- **2025-11-16**, The problems inside the Japanese idol industry. Japanalysis on the economics and working conditions of J-pop idol groups, including contract structures and fan-monetisation practices. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/8850d40d-a539-4622-b008-9e71c0572b72) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvjnZfLGsUE
- **2025-11-20**, AI music generator Suno raises $250m at a $2.45bn valuation. Forbes on Suno's November 2025 funding round, and the tension between its rising valuation and artists generated on it appearing on the charts. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/c393410c-9bef-49ad-acfa-a2508facf237) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIx9XQxD0cs
- **2025-11-20**, Muscle Shoals Sound Studio, recording booth, 2025. /scan dated 2025. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/c4529018-6aa9-459d-a41b-5e5c2f94ceed) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Muscle_Shoals_Sound_Studio,_recording_booth,_2025.jpg
- **2025-11-20**, Muscle Shoals Sound Studio, main area, 2025. /scan dated 2025. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/f5c84a5e-c096-465f-9d89-df346374772d) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Muscle_Shoals_Sound_Studio,_main_area,_2025.jpg
- **2025-11-24**, Wizkid: Long Live Lagos - HBO trailer. Trailer for HBO's 2025 documentary on Wizkid and the Lagos scene that produced modern Afrobeats. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/89d118f5-a58c-43c1-8437-62f96afe9ee8) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRXUSCBzDIg
- **2025-11-25**, What does the future of the music industry look like?. Al Jazeera's The Stream convenes critics and industry figures on a decade of streaming dominance and the online reviewer economy. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/7f057b87-1e40-4491-8a4e-cd309c0937ba) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-8KBOK9Fqk
- **2025-11-27**, Stray Kids - DIVINE. Official JYP music video; Stray Kids have taken consecutive albums to number one on the Billboard 200, an unprecedented run for a K-pop group. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/70624e60-42d9-4614-b3ee-57d914666542) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8i32NXMxnc
- **2025-11-27**, 7 inch Vinyl Record and Compact Disc Size Comparison. A 7 inch vinyl record (left) and a Compact Disc (right) shown side by side for size comparison Photograph/scan dated 2025. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/78d955fc-e48a-4149-875c-24641cb17ec3) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:7_inch_Vinyl_Record_and_Compact_Disc_Size_Comparison.jpg
- **2025-11-29**, Stray Kids at the 2025 MAMA Awards. Stray Kids' thirteen-minute medley at the 2025 MAMA Awards, K-pop's own annual awards spectacle and a showcase for large-scale set-piece choreography. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/29b85696-0d26-47d7-bc1a-bb1d6cb737de) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRYTFhPxiyA
- **2025-12-09**, Ryan Tedder on How Pop Hits Get Written. OneRepublic's frontman and hit-for-hire songwriter walks Rick Beato through the writing process behind credits for Beyonce, Adele and others. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/f949c367-1443-437f-9571-7dc8d05633b2) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiJswpzcZQE
- **2025-12-11**, Does radio still matter in 2026?. SoundExchange CEO Michael Huppe on why the US is the only major market where artists are not paid for FM/AM radio play. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/ca620111-5469-4e0e-987c-74ebd865fc39) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmv0JHTDbks
- **2025-12-13**, Why going to concerts is harder than ever. Business Insider traces the rise in ticket prices from about $5 for the Beatles to a $136 US average in 2024, and the resale market that roughly doubles it. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/9d2b486a-9470-43c1-8199-bca222c086c1) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sN1AVSZyFbY
- **2025-12-13**, Few Sample Gramophone Record from Iqbal Matin's Archive 08. Iqbal Matin's Gramophone Archive Photographed/dated 2025. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/cada9bf6-2716-43c9-aac3-529d9e86c2d3) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Few_Sample_Gramophone_Record_from_Iqbal_Matin%27s_Archive_08.jpg
- **2025-12-13**, How Roland's Rejected Drum Machine Shaped Hip Hop. Traces the TR-808 from commercial failure to the defining low-end sound of forty years of hip hop and pop production. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/f4a8ed56-8027-48fd-8cd5-5a3daf5dbad6) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afKokJ2184g
- **2025-12-17**, AI rewrites the rules in music. France 24 reports on the surge of AI-generated tracks in December 2025, and how convincingly they now fool listeners. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/d468b766-6426-406d-a89f-b88666c09de1) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zViDdIrMDE
- **2025-12-19**, After the TikTok deal, an uncertain future. Reuters analysis of ByteDance's binding agreement to hand TikTok's US operations to an investor group including Oracle, and what it means for the platform. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/62bcd1fd-389d-4d87-8e30-bdb87e7feaf7) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPHFFpdZzAQ
- **2025-12-19**, Should AI artists be allowed to chart?. Billboard hosts a debate between the manager of AI artist Xania Monet and a critic of AI music, on whether synthetic acts should compete on the same charts as humans. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/a558c376-007a-49d4-9867-33c07907601b) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYKi7J4FTqc
- **2025-12-19**, YouTube pulls its streaming data out of the Billboard charts. News report on YouTube ending its data supply to Billboard from 16 January 2026, citing how ad-supported streams are weighted. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/c18eb8ed-474b-4b6a-9ae1-51c3e030fbec) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWEFROZ0r9g
- **2025-12-28**, The year in music, 2025. PBS NewsHour reviews 2025's chart-toppers and breakout artists with critic Maura Johnston, including the fierce argument over AI-generated acts. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/0f465097-92b3-4ebb-b50e-05c1788e8ecc) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7MdIFgcRIU
### 2026
- **2026-01-01**, K-pop's growth trap and widening divide. KBS's flagship nine o'clock news examines how K-pop's global success has produced sharp polarisation between the biggest acts and everyone else. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/92f1f072-031f-4fc2-ba92-a8eee2d0de1d) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OByEFk8iABA
- **2026-01-09**, How AI is changing the music industry. A Bloomberg Tech Europe episode from January 2026 on artificial artists, AI-remixed records and what generative tools are doing to the streaming business. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/f96823b7-4e73-41eb-b5eb-2cfbc356541c) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4rjoItWbb8
- **2026-01-14**, A.R. Rahman on Roja, the Oscars and AI - BBC Asian Network. An 86-minute BBC interview covering Rahman's whole career from the 1992 film Roja through Slumdog Millionaire to his views on AI in music. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/cf42a2f2-9a21-4bc3-9004-2f3d986af188) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvRPrjPyC8c
- **2026-01-14**, Fairlight CMI at the SMEM Schaulager 09. Synthesizers at the Schaulager (collection) of the Swiss Museum & Center for Electronic Music Instruments (SMEM) Photographed/dated 2026. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/d0632a0e-e7c5-4110-ae72-461617238002) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fairlight_CMI_at_the_SMEM_Schaulager_09.jpg
- **2026-01-14**, Roland TR-808 Drum Machine at SMEM Playroom 07. Roland TR-808 Drum Machine on display at the Playroom of SMEM (Swiss Museum and Centre for Electronic Music Instruments) Photographed/dated 2026. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/fb63b8a3-5a86-4dad-bbfa-80de7fc4401d) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Roland_TR-808_Drum_Machine_at_SMEM_Playroom_07.jpg
- **2026-01-22**, How top songwriters craft a pop song. TED-Ed's Think Like A Musician has working songwriters explain hook construction and what separates a great pop song. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/862128ee-06a7-4cf7-8906-d77bdb0f7032) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lq_TYsGwTfM
- **2026-01-22**, TikTok finalises its US joint venture. Reuters on ByteDance completing the majority-American-owned joint venture in January 2026, ending the ban threat over an app used by more than 200 million Americans. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/df07e97f-06e2-4b66-b6e7-141f1e9343b2) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCK8mKcjMzU
- **2026-01-24**, Drum set ready for practice in a music studio with microphone and cymbals. A drum set is positioned in a music studio. There are cymbals and a microphone near the drums. The space is well lit, suggesting late afternoon. This setup is for music practice or recording. Photographed/dated 2026. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/cfec02d9-c656-4578-b9e3-bafa3e34a9e6) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Drum_set_ready_for_practice_in_a_music_studio_with_microphone_and_cymbals.jpg
- **2026-01-30**, Fela Kuti is the first African given a Lifetime Grammy. Africanews on the Recording Academy awarding the Afrobeat pioneer a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2026 ceremony, thirty years after his death. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/94a48e69-daaf-4651-8686-b84b0c7b926f) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pF9_N9NfA_Q
- **2026-02-01**, Bad Bunny's Grammy Win Becomes a Protest. FRANCE 24 on Bad Bunny becoming the first Spanish-language artist to win album of the year, dedicating the 2026 award to migrants amid ICE enforcement. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/7d1625fa-b93c-4275-8d23-c6966defb037) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4gCEwUy3Xo
- **2026-02-01**, Bad Bunny wins Best Musica Urbana Album at the 2026 Grammys. Bad Bunny's acceptance speech for DEBI TIRAR MAS FOTOS at the 2026 ceremony, from the Recording Academy's own channel. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/c11596b7-b1ca-43d5-bff6-9875f28aa615) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhvdOTvdpjs
- **2026-02-02**, Harry Styles wax figure. A wax figure of Harry Styles at Madame Tussauds Sydney at Darling Harbour in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Please attribute to Gage Skidmore if used elsewhere. Photograph dated 2026. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/120e39ca-68c2-4bc1-a0e6-fb4fd05837b4) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Harry_Styles_wax_figure_(55128941221).jpg
- **2026-02-02**, Who won at the 2026 Grammys. BBC Newsround's plain summary of the 68th Grammy Awards results in February 2026. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/e4ca82f9-dc80-4347-911a-4b3d6580fb90) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVlQ4ueoRw8
- **2026-02-03**, Gedenktafel Tamara-Danz-Str 11 (Frhai) Billie Eilish. Photograph of Billie Eilish, taken in 2026. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/6956e1e9-3153-41d3-a71a-cd334ac714e6) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gedenktafel_Tamara-Danz-Str_11_(Frhai)_Billie_Eilish.jpg
- **2026-02-05**, The Recording Academy president on the threat of AI music. BBC News interviews Panos A. Panay, president of the body that runs the Grammys, on how AI and streaming are reshaping the business at artists' expense. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/0079b6c0-4837-4052-80cc-82db1404f2d2) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YXQnopdktY
- **2026-02-08**, Bad Bunny's Super Bowl LX halftime show. Bad Bunny performed the Apple Music halftime show at Super Bowl LX in February 2026, a largely Spanish-language set on American football's biggest stage. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/00f7f691-5c04-4c65-887e-720e0071805a) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6FuWd4wNd8
- **2026-02-09**, The cultural impact of Bad Bunny's halftime show. PBS NewsHour unpacks the symbolism of Puerto Rican pride and independence in the 2026 Super Bowl halftime show, and the political backlash that followed it. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/28f7ee79-ef9f-4337-ba04-38db6cb1314f) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmP601v497Y
- **2026-02-09**, A. G. Cook on hyperpop and meeting SOPHIE. The PC Music founder traces his own musical history, from pitched-up pop obsessions to the SOPHIE collaboration and his work with Charli XCX. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/9b8204d6-9c57-44fa-bc0e-7d216310026f) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWnVfPBbvLY
- **2026-02-14**, Dua Lipa-69803. Singer Dua Lipa as a guest at the premiere of Rosebush Pruning at the 2026 Berlin International Film Festival Photograph dated 2026. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/07ee36a0-900c-4312-897e-91e1eaccd3ea) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dua_Lipa-69803.jpg
- **2026-02-14**, Dua Lipa-69798. Singer Dua Lipa as a guest at the premiere of Rosebush Pruning at the 2026 Berlin International Film Festival Photograph dated 2026. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/daf2b445-888e-4393-b66b-38dfb0d66a8b) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dua_Lipa-69798.jpg
- **2026-02-24**, A Classical Musician Listens to Bad Bunny. Nahre Sol analyses the harmonic and rhythmic construction of Bad Bunny's records from a compositional standpoint. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/fe68f2de-ee4a-4ec3-a11f-848bb0bfcc5f) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gr-upidU2Q
- **2026-02-28**, Bruno Mars "The Romantic" promotional truck, without flowers, Toronto 2026. This picture was taken after the truck had run out of roses to give to passerby. The last one is being given away to a woman on the far left side of the image. Lou-Lou's Flower… Photograph dated 2026. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/527f28e4-02a4-4f73-903d-e6f8a6edff7a) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bruno_Mars_%22The_Romantic%22_promotional_truck,_without_flowers,_Toronto_2026.jpg
- **2026-02-28**, Bruno Mars "The Romantic" promotional truck, Toronto 2026. This truck, promoting Bruno Mars' new album The Romantic, was handing out roses to passerby. Lou-Lou's Flower Truck. Photograph dated 2026. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/c88abf8e-b343-4675-bfc1-86cd178b868b) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bruno_Mars_%22The_Romantic%22_promotional_truck,_Toronto_2026.jpg
- **2026-03-01**, Perrygrove Railway engine sheds and turntable. Coleford. Forest of Dean. /dated 2026. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/645cf95f-0167-4239-9602-ad261c4397fa) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Perrygrove_Railway_engine_sheds_and_turntable._Coleford._Forest_of_Dean.jpg
- **2026-03-09**, Live Nation and Ticketmaster settle with the Justice Department. CNN on the March 2026 settlement over allegations that Ticketmaster's practices amounted to a monopoly in live events. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/0643b433-e6fd-425a-9ef2-2cb25db51d09) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCOxWk45SaQ
- **2026-03-17**, Diljit Dosanjh - Ranjha ft. Sia and David Guetta. A 2026 Punjabi-language collaboration from the artist who became the first Punjabi singer to headline stadium tours in North America and Europe. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/9d22d17a-5486-4654-932b-3fc60436e719) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wTEmuv6SvU
- **2026-03-18**, Audu Maikori on Who Owns Afrobeats. The founder of Chocolate City, Nigeria's longest-surviving record label, on label structure, intellectual property and the platform economics behind afrobeats. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/7ebc5f5c-7be4-4943-9c1c-56588353523c) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2glnOXKEMGc
- **2026-03-19**, Graetz DG 5 - microphone, case opened. Microphone of the dictation machine Graetz DG 5 Photographed/dated 2026. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/3256320d-0907-4bb1-8ef2-0362e221d79a) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Graetz_DG_5_-_microphone,_case_opened-0031.jpg
- **2026-03-19**, Asake and DJ Snake - WORSHIP. A 2026 Afrobeats, electronic collaboration, an example of how routinely Nigerian pop now works with European dance producers. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/73a886f6-4dd3-4415-b5bb-68e3ddd502ea) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQOg16kmFJM
- **2026-03-21**, Breaking down how Spotify pays musicians. CBS Saturday Morning visits Spotify's offices to explain how streaming royalties actually reach artists. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/35bc2b66-2ee7-4281-8a2a-062b958889bf) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1_YETpj66k
- **2026-03-23**, Vinyl passes $1bn and overtakes the CD. Report on vinyl surpassing $1 billion in 2025 US sales and outselling CDs for the first time in decades. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/a4d72c04-9a58-4e6b-8805-8b9a9e2a7e2f) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8cAjpNCbxk
- **2026-03-29**, The hidden business of AI music flooding streaming. Le Monde's investigation into AI tracks saturating Spotify, Deezer and Apple Music, reporting 60,000 AI songs uploaded to Deezer every day in January 2026. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/f8fd09ab-e7ac-48bf-b7a7-76bbf1c3d054) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3d8wBOLS2c
- **2026-04-02**, Jay Chou - I Do. Jay Chou's 2026 single on his official channel, showing the Mandopop star still releasing at scale twenty-five years into his career. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/6d00b58e-739b-4e3b-ab21-d2ddf5fb0fe0) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIgduzASI6A
- **2026-04-10**, BTS launch the Arirang world tour. Arirang News on BTS opening their Arirang world tour in Goyang on 9 April 2026, the group's return to global stadium touring after military service. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/efe3f4b3-29ca-4eae-ac07-87639edf4dcc) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YThGOQfXKdQ
- **2026-04-15**, Jury finds Ticketmaster held an unlawful monopoly. A Manhattan federal jury concluded in April 2026 that Live Nation and Ticketmaster held an unlawful monopoly in parts of live entertainment. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/ae2c3e1f-97c7-4373-a623-e7253de21055) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PntsEUp66R0
- **2026-04-15**, Breaking Down the Live Nation Antitrust Verdict. Bloomberg analyst explains the ticketing monopoly finding and the calculated $1.72 per-ticket overcharge. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/b87197d7-5c46-4bf3-927c-c2229fbd13da) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RL_L8EJd8kE
- **2026-04-16**, Jury Finds Live Nation Acted as a Monopoly. Forbes reports the New York jury verdict that Live Nation and Ticketmaster operated as a monopoly and overcharged ticket buyers. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/4bdbb815-58fc-4725-afa3-89058bd0b88f) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTOxlvhS4sY
- **2026-04-21**, The vinyl resurgence keeps accelerating. CBS News on 2026 data showing vinyl demand still rising, driven by social media and artist-specific special editions. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/7efebe5e-22ad-4de2-ac16-1ac62dbd5a9a) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Le0hhlgpIyY
- **2026-05-04**, Taylor Swift on the stories behind her biggest songs - New York Times Popcast. A thirty-minute New York Times interview in which Swift walks through the writing of her best-known records. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/b71eceeb-2d1c-47cc-925d-8549d477978c) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5B8-TJ8vsKY
- **2026-05-05**, Hikaru Utada - PAPPAPARADISE. A 2026 release from Utada's official channel, more than a quarter-century after First Love made her Japan's best-selling artist. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/7dffc137-36ef-408e-99f9-326e4bab57ee) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5JN8l4pgOo
- **2026-05-05**, Songwriters Got Poorer, and AI Is Next. Rick Beato in conversation on the collapse of songwriter income under streaming economics and what generative AI does to the writing profession. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/a837a504-f54c-4d64-9a96-1e81d4dc53f6) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHvR_QThCI0
- **2026-05-07**, The hidden fraud behind the AI music boom. Sky News reports that Deezer receives nearly 75,000 fully AI-generated tracks a day, about 44 percent of daily uploads, and traces the streaming-fraud economics behind them. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/1a5043b3-9679-4925-b54e-e8bd36b7ed97) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xkZDgMPgVI
- **2026-05-08**, Faye Wong - The Lead (Zhujiao). A 2026 release from Faye Wong's official channel, a television drama theme, her first major new recording in years. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/8ca35866-84e6-4452-8232-1aad86502246) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adsrNFdIxLg
- **2026-05-10**, 20260510 Senhit Boy George NZ93429. Eurovision Song Contest 2026 Vienna, Picture shows:Senhit and Boy George of San Marino Photograph dated 2026. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/a9a2d04f-8a45-436c-8d06-bed1bb65ea79) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:20260510_Senhit_Boy_George_NZ93429.jpg
- **2026-05-20**, Polaroid 600 Spice Cam 2026 05. a photo of the Polaroid 600 Spice Cam Photograph dated 2026. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/d682fdd4-c428-42fe-ac39-34e80182b02c) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Polaroid_600_Spice_Cam_2026_05.jpg
- **2026-05-26**, Asake - Gratitude. Official 2026 video from the Nigerian artist whose fuji-and-amapiano hybrid became one of Afrobeats' most distinctive strands. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/e73b5828-7570-48f9-92bf-ba8a1ae9758f) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z22zRnTlgMg
- **2026-06-08**, Ayra Starr: Tiny Desk Concert. Nigerian singer Ayra Starr's Tiny Desk set, recorded for NPR's Black Music Month programming in June 2026. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/a5899964-5971-42f0-9328-b28e44821ffe) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4JVg4JDxMU
- **2026-06-12**, Olivia Rodrigo - stupid song. A 2026 official music video from Rodrigo, who went from Disney television to three Grammys in a single cycle. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/193565d4-b6a8-40d5-9c0d-5d857003afb4) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rt9tW3cMLhI
- **2026**, Eve Rak official studio portrait 2026. Official studio portrait of Eve Rak, an Emirati-American singer and music artist, recorded during a professional studio session. This image represents the official promotional portrait of Eve Rak. Photographed/dated 2026. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/093eae17-b0a0-42d1-8b15-7ff5475fd5d3) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Eve_Rak_official_studio_portrait_2026.png
- **2026**, Justin Bieber's full Coachella headline set. Bieber's complete 88-minute Coachella weekend-one headline set, released with a full timestamped setlist on his own channel. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/015fc2a0-3c5a-4853-aae7-f2ac6d1fbacf) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_iCC1D0DT8
- **2026**, The KPop Demon Hunters singers perform Golden at the BRITs. EJAE, Audrey Nuna and Rei Ami, the singing voices behind the Netflix film's soundtrack, performing Golden at the 2026 BRIT Awards in Manchester. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/18799cd0-7101-42fd-af9a-050410fe1750) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBV2X2E9tek
- **2026**, Ludmilla's full set at Planeta Atlantida 2026. Brazilian funk and pop star Ludmilla's complete hour-long festival set at Planeta Atlantida 2026, from the festival broadcaster's channel. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/bd0ef9c5-b6d9-448c-b54f-c0045416b51c) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AThq8tG6tRw
- **2026**, Aya Nakamura's Stade de France concert, in full. France Televisions broadcasts the complete concert film of Aya Nakamura's three-night Stade de France run in May 2026, the biggest French-language pop live event of the year. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/e641facc-0923-4c4b-a088-328f26ee3a85) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CJxfAh4JUI
- **2026**, Rosalia performs Berghain with Bjork at the BRITs. Rosalia's LUX-era performance with Bjork at the 2026 BRIT Awards, an art-pop staging on a mainstream British awards show. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/fffba6b4-d530-4770-8b6f-fc1532ab0c0e) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fyufPkXLbs
- **2026-06-30**, Mike Elizondo: The Writer Behind the Hits. The producer and songwriter behind Dr. Dre and Eminem records describes the session-player-to-hitmaker career path and how uncredited craft underpins chart pop. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/91947e89-0dc3-4a00-958d-f90044f408d0) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IX_8gUNqye0
- **2026-06-30**, Tidal begins labelling AI music and cutting its royalties. Tidal's editor-in-chief explains a 2026 policy flagging fully AI-generated tracks and denying them royalty payments. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/f6672fc2-7b4c-4d41-ac25-25767a1d634f) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzZr5Csmvxg
- **2026-07-02**, NewJeans may return as a four-piece. Yonhap's Korea Now on the state of the NewJeans and ADOR dispute in mid-2026, with members seen in the US while the legal conflict continues. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/2af07411-f947-43c5-bb42-a83aa23262ef) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytt2gdw6DDM
- **2026-07-15**, Passion K-pop - ARTE Regards. ARTE's reportage on European K-pop fandom, following fans for whom the music is a whole social world. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/bdfc7271-59b9-491f-8c2f-a77371f9da41) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yc9FTxiXFuI
- **2026-07-20**, Radio WWOZ studios, New Orleans, 20 July 2026 - Break room radio and paper towels. Radio WWOZ studios, New Orleans, 20 July 2026 Photograph/scan dated 2026. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/d8388a13-61cd-49e8-b2ae-f0275aa70d6f) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Radio_WWOZ_studios,_New_Orleans,_20_July_2026_-_Break_room_radio_and_paper_towels.jpg
- **2026-07-29**, BTS Will Not Enter the 2027 Grammy Awards. CBC News report on the group's withdrawal a month after the Recording Academy announced the new Asian pop category. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/7518aa25-7778-4ef9-acfb-96f5ea78f0e1) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1CY7nfjSYg
- **2026-07-29**, Dua Lipa and the future of pop. ARTE's feature documentary on how a contemporary pop star is built and marketed across streaming, touring and image. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/9c94cacc-e4b4-470f-aa3b-a4af7f7e9936) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cf9FC9VTMNQ
- **2026-07-30**, FearlessV Wacken 2026. Bandmitglieder im Interview Photograph/scan dated 2026. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/696e5eb7-11b5-442c-9394-570c5a75c174) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:FearlessV_Wacken_2026.jpg
- **2026-07-30**, BTS Boycott the Grammys Over the Asian Pop Category. BTS declined to submit their first album in six years after the Recording Academy created a separate best Asian pop performance category, reviving the argument over segregated award categories. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/ff304444-140b-49c6-bc52-99e93a40e65f) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgBO3Q3Ci4o
- **2026-07-31**, Why modern pop all sounds the same. Rick Beato examines the melodic pattern Carl E. Martin calls the Gen Alpha Melody and traces its origin and theory. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/62cf08e0-97ce-4cf1-8d62-a798670267a4) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zb8OxVuPdD8
- **2026-08-01**, Billie Eilish iChoc Chocolate Bar. 2026. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/786ea05f-a6a0-412f-825d-d0fb971ecb24) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Billie_Eilish_iChoc_Chocolate_Bar.jpg
- **2026-08-04**, The average K-pop idol career lasts 4.12 years. KBS News reports on new data showing most K-pop idols disappear within a few years of debut, behind the handful of globally visible groups. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/e367b854-0bd8-403f-b21f-2e34a71a0f51) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkwaqSePpGc
- **2026-08-08**, Why Does the Spotify Top 10 Sound Like AI?. Rick Beato works through the current Spotify chart asking whether generative tools have already reshaped what reaches the top of streaming. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/6a4152a7-8c0a-4d20-9f78-bf24dec7fd29) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNnvWLQlQM0
- **2026-08-11**, RAYE and the Fight Against AI Voice Clones. Traces how the British singer built her sound and then confronted unauthorised AI-generated recordings using her cloned voice. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/20325704-f876-45c1-bf9a-36d8d3de000d) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VulAJvDbzsQ
- **2026-08-11**, Spotify will label AI music and stop recommending it. CBS News on Spotify's August 2026 decision to tag AI-generated tracks and keep them out of its recommendation system. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/f1b8308e-2026-4cc1-a365-024d2f655ebd) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rj_ZuSkbb40
- **2026-08-12**, What Makes Driving Music Work. PBS Sound Field on the tempo, rhythmic feel and history behind songs that suit the road, released August 2026. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/02887564-18d8-441b-aa4e-c4a38d0d6551) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLL5aDTAblU
- **2026-08-14**, Baby Lasagna Sziget Fesztivál 2026. Baby Lasagna, Croatian singer at the Sziget Fesztivál 2026 in Budapest, Hungary Photographed/dated 2026. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/06868219-f487-4c62-a8f4-da511d1a5e23) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Baby_Lasagna_Sziget_Fesztiv%C3%A1l_2026.jpg
- **2026-08-14**, Why AI music is now labelled on streaming sites. BBC World Service on the rise of AI personas and fully AI-generated releases, and the platforms' labelling response. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/63865d70-69bc-4ca0-9dcc-04aad25e6757) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOkgFUnwySs
- **2026-08-14**, Sigrid Sziget Fesztivál 2026. Sigrid, Norwegian singer at the Sziget Fesztivál 2026 in Budapest, Hungary Photographed/dated 2026. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/88dcc0a9-cb52-40b8-8ace-07325f878f8c) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sigrid_Sziget_Fesztiv%C3%A1l_2026.jpg
- **2026-08-14**, Japan's Idol Industry Sells Access, Not Music. Economic breakdown of the Japanese idol business, showing how records lose money while handshake events, merchandise and voting drive the revenue. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/91c99f09-ca8b-4195-8ff3-2de4e8793e74) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id69uFVoMFE
- **2026-08-19**, AI Music and the Threat to Working Musicians. CTV News reports on musicians describing what the flood of AI-generated tracks means for their livelihoods. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/90f27379-d499-473c-85ec-a40b54b2feb7) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZn1Uvusyy8
- **2026-08-19**, The K in K-pop reconnects and reshapes. Arirang's Press Perspective from Seoul, August 2026, on Korean audiences reclaiming K-pop as global fans demand a bigger say, and where Korean cultural policy sits. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/pop/scene/bd81ca3a-d7d7-4af4-b4ab-45d44d1e139f) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSBNpQDIqNo

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