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Hollywood Records is an American record label owned by the Walt Disney Company focused on pop, rock, and film soundtracks. Founded in 1989, upon its launch the label was initially distributed by Elektra Records in the US and Canada. Distribution in North America switched to PolyGram in 1995.... Hollywood Records also released many film soundtracks from films made by Disney or Disney-owned film studios. These days, its roster tends to be heavily made up of young stars and performers prominently featured on the Disney Channel. However established artists such as Duran Duran, Queen, and Danzig also recorded for the label. Today , the label operates as a unit of the Disney Music Group. In 2003, Mammoth Records was integrated into Hollywood Records. In 2010, it absorbed Disney's country music label, Lyric Street Records, subsequently inheriting its roster of acts. In 2010, Hollywood signed alternative rock band Nickelback as a secondary label. Disney Music Group, the umbrella group of Hollywood Records, had a licensing deal with Warner Bros. Records that ended in 2005.
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Pop music is usually understood to be commercially recorded music, often oriented towards a youth market, usually consisting of relatively short,... simple love songs utilizing technological innovations to produce new variations on existing themes. Pop music has absorbed influences from most other forms of popular music, but as a genre is particularly associated with the rock and roll and later rock style. Hatch and Millward define pop music as "a body of music which is distinguishable from popular, jazz and folk musics". Although pop music is often seen as oriented towards the singles charts, as a genre it is not the sum of all chart music, which has always contained songs from a variety of sources, including classical, jazz, rock, and novelty songs, while pop music as a genre is usually seen as existing and developing separately. Thus "pop music" may be used to describe a distinct genre, aimed at a youth market, often characterized as a softer alternative to rock and roll. The term "pop song," is first recorded as being used in 1926 in the sense of a piece of music "having popular appeal".
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