Thanks to them, this time next year, American pop might have turned around altogether.

"American Pop for us was a new world," he recalled.

It features numerous stars from the American pop and rock music scene of the 1950s.

If American pop has produced anything that could be called a classic style of popular record, this is probably it.

The record became the fastest-selling American pop single in history.

But they are fun, smart and some of the best musicians working in American pop - or whatever their hybrid is called.

It has contributed to the ready acceptance and influence of American pop cultural trends.

The album was strongly influenced by American pop and hip-hop.

American pop has always allowed a strain of pure silliness.

Here, American pop is the innovator, and the rest of the world copiers.