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Popular Music 

AMG: All Music Guide

http://www.allmusic.com 

Search by artist, album, song, style, or label to find biographies, discographies, album tracks, albums; with style definitions, key artists, recordings, and other features.

Barbershop Harmony Society Headquarters

http://www.barbershop.org

Music education, concert schedules, how to find a group to join, free audio files, and more for enthusiasts.

Billboard.com

https://www.billboard.com

Charts, music news, reviews, featured artist of the day, classifieds, tour schedules, etc.

Charts All over the World

http://www.lanet.lv/misc/charts 

What's popular in the U.S.A. and abroad. You can also search for particular artists.

Grammy Awards

http://www.grammy.com 

Winners, news, polls, and features.

Playback.fm

http://playback.fm/birthday-song

Find and listen to the #1 song from the day you were born.

Rolling Stone Network

http://www.rollingstone.com 

News, reviews, interviews, charts, articles, etc.

Woodstock Story

http://www.woodstockstory.com

"A collection of Woodstock facts, figures, stories, photos, current happenings, memorabilia, links, and assorted tidbits," with a full day-by-day list of performers and their songs. 

Popular Music Indexes

Arizona State University Libraries Song Index

http://spmi.lib.asu.edu/songs

Searchable by title, composer, group, and other features.  Results give books in which the songs can be found, and The Newark Public Library includes many of these titles in its collections.

Circulating Music Collection Song Index 

http://legacy.www.nypl.org/research/lpa/songindex

Search The New York Public Library's collection of nearly 40,000 songs.

Popular Song Index

https://pmlib.org/musicindexes/popular-music-index/

Access by song title, composer, or keyword/phrase to “approximately 102,786 entries from 1,118 books”; from the Patchogue-Medford Library.

Sheet Music Consortium

http://digital2.library.ucla.edu/sheetmusic

"The Sheet Music Consortium provides tools and services that promote access to and use of online sheet music collections by scholars, students, and the general public."

Song Index

http://songindex.npl.org/

From the Newark Public Library, a searchable index. We suggest searching by title for best results. 

UTK Song Index 

https://databases.lib.utk.edu/songdb/

An index to approximately 50,000 songs in more than 1,500 published song anthologies; from the University of Tennessee-Knoxville.  

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