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A music download is the digital transfer of music via the Internet into a device capable of decoding and playing it, such as a home computer, MP3 player or smartphone.

This term encompasses both legal downloads and downloads of copyrighted material without permission or legal payment.

According to a Nielsen report, downloadable music accounted for 55.9% of all music sales in the US in 2012.

By the beginning of 2011, Apple's iTunes Store alone made 1.1 billion of revenue in the first quarter of its fiscal year.

Pop music is a genre of popular music that originated in its modern form in the United States and United Kingdom during the mid-1950s.

The terms "popular music" and "pop music" are often used interchangeably, although the former describes all music that is popular and includes many different styles.

"Pop" and "rock" were roughly synonymous terms until the late 1960s, when they became increasingly differentiated from each other.

'Afrobeat is a music genre which developed in the 1960s to 1970s when African musicians began combining elements of West African musical styles such as highlife, fuji music with American funk and jazz influences, with a focus on chanted vocals, complex intersecting rhythms, and percussion.

Hip hop music, also called hip-hop or rap music, is a music genre developed in the United States by inner-city African Americans in the 1970s which consists of a stylized rhythmic music that commonly accompanies rapping, a rhythmic and rhyming speech that is chanted.

It developed as part of hip hop culture, a subculture defined by four key stylistic elements: MCing/rapping, DJing/scratching with turntables, break dancing, and graffiti writing.

Other elements include sampling beats or bass lines from records (or synthesized beats and sounds), and rhythmic beatboxing.

While often used to refer solely to rapping, "hip hop" more properly denotes the practice of the entire subculture.

The term hip hop music is sometimes used synonymously with the term rap music, though rapping is not a required component of hip hop music; the genre may also incorporate other elements of hip hop culture, including DJing, turntablism, scratching, beatboxing, and instrumental tracks.

A music video is a short film that integrates a song with imagery, and is produced for promotional or artistic purposes.

Modern music videos are primarily made and used as a marketing device intended to promote the sale of music recordings.

There are also cases where songs are used in tie-in marketing campaigns that allow them to become more than just a song.

Tie-ins and merchandising can be used for toys or for food or other products.

Although the origins of the music video date back to musical short films that first appeared in the 1920s, they again came into prominence in the 1980s when the channel MTV (originally "Music Television") based their format around the medium.

Prior to the 1980s, these kinds of videos were described by various terms including "illustrated song", "filmed insert", "promotional (promo) film", "promotional clip", "promotional video", "song video", "song clip" or "film clip".