popular song
a song that is written to have an immediate and wide appeal and is usually popular for only a short time, but that sometimes is of a sufficiently high quality to become part of the permanent repertoire of popular music and jazz.: Compare standard (def. 12).
Origin of popular song
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How to use popular song in a sentence
The most popular song of the year was “Happy Days Are Here Again!”
John O’Hara’s Mean, Lean Debut Novel Never Gives In to Despair | Nathaniel Rich | April 30, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThis “popular song” music video is The Addams Family meets… Wicked.
Empire of the Sun & More of the Best Music Videos of the Week (VIDEO) | Jean Trinh | May 5, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTItalians gave the world grand opera, and in Sinatra, Italian culture gave the world the foremost craftsman of popular song.
Softly Amy began to hum a popular song, but Mollie interrupted her impatiently.
The Outdoor Girls in the Saddle | Laura Lee Hope"My Maryland" was then the popular song of the South, sung in camp, on the march, and in parlors and concert-halls.
The Boys of '61 | Charles Carleton Coffin.
It was half-past eleven, when Kitty came home humming the chorus of a popular song.
The White Shield | Myrtle ReedJerrys imitation of a phonograph rendering a popular song of her own impromptu composition ended suddenly.
Marjorie Dean College Freshman | Pauline Lesterpopular song of fourteen years ago just reached our nearest neighbour in the Solar System.
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