adult contemporary
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[edit]Noun
[edit]adult contemporary (uncountable)
- A category of music including soft rock, ballads, easy listening, soul, and rhythm and blues.
- Synonym: AC
- 1990 January 2, Robert Christgau, “1980–1989: Rockism Faces the World”, in The Village Voice[1]:
- 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.