Here are the online press kits of 9 professional New York pop trios and pop trios who will travel to New York to perform at your event. Please check off all the pop trios you wish to contact, and when you’re finished, click the ‘Done’ button which is located near the bottom of this page. Please note, in addition to New York City, these pop trios will also travel to Long Island City, Brooklyn, North Bergen, Bronx, West New York, Union City, Weehawken, Flushing, Fairview, Edgewater, Hoboken, Jersey City, Ridgefield, Cliffside Park, Palisades Park, Fort Lee, Secaucus, Ridgefield Park, Leonia, Englewood Cliffs and many other locations in and around the New York City area.

Sweden has quite a record of international successes in the pop music biz — just think of ABBA, Roxette, Cardigans, Robyn, Eagle-Eye Cherry and Ace of Base. Swedish producers and songwriters continue to be in high demand worldwide, making music that has won respect from all corners. Pop stars such as Britney Spears, Backstreet Boys, ‘N Sync, Jennifer Lopez, Ricky Martin and many more owe their success to Swedish producers and songwriters. In spite of its small size, Sweden ranks third in the world after the U.S. and U.K. as a music-exporting nation.

With Billboard Magazine’s Fred Bronson as moderator and EMA Telstar’s Staffan Holm as keynote speaker and introduction by Mona Sahlin, Minister, Ministry of Industry, the seminar will be held at the Tribeca Grand Hotel in New York City, October 17.

From the moment that it became big business, pop music came largely from Tin Pan Alley’s publishing houses. Tin Pan Alley thrived on the opera, ragtime, cakewalk, foxtrot and show tunes. As the latter came to represent more and more of the songwriter’s business, in the 1930s Tin Pan Alley moved north, near the Broadway theaters, between 42nd and 49th street. Unfortunately for them, before World War II the market came to be dominated by the “Big Bands”, that accounted for almost 85% of the best-sellers between 1937 and 1941. Big bands tended to perform the music written by the bandleader, thus the publishing house were the real losers.

Surprisingly, World War II fostered an economic boom and, indirectly, helped the music industry develop in different directions. It was during the war that Bing Crosby’s White Christmas (1942) became the best-selling song of all times (and would remain so for 50 years) It was during the war that the first “disc jockeys” followed the American troops abroad. It was during the war that Capitol was founded in Hollywood, the first major music company not to be based in New York (1942), and Mercury was founded in Chicago (1945). It was during the war that the “barber-shop quartets” evolved from the slow, melancholy style of the Ink Spots to the casual, innovative style of Ravens, Orioles, Clovers. At the end of the war, the American nation was electrified. War was over, the USA had won, peace reigned, and wealth was spreading. The new mood helped popular music too.

Any contemporary music not categorizable as jazz or classical. Pop music contains strong rhythms of African origin, simple harmonic structures often repeated to strophic melodies, and the use of electrically amplified instruments. Pop music generically includes the areas of rock, country and western, rhythm and blues, soul, and others. Pop became distinct from folk music with the development of sound-recording techniques; electronic amplification and other technological innovations have played a large part in the creation of new styles. The traditional format is a song of roughly three minutes with verse, chorus, and middle eight bars.