adult contemporary

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adult contemporary

noun

  1. uncountable A category of music including soft rock, ballads, easy listening, soul, and rhythm and blues. MTV is a singles medium, as is the hottest (warmest?) new radio strategy God help us, “adult contemporary”; even AOR devotes the contemporary portion of its programming to putative singles.

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@misc{adult_contemporary_2026,
  title = {adult contemporary},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/adult%20contemporary},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}