10 Facts About Crossover music

Classical crossover broadly encompasses both classical music that has become popularized and a wide variety of popular music forms performed in a classical manner or by classical artists.

Particular works of classical Crossover music have become popular among individuals who mostly listen to popular Crossover music, sometimes appearing on non-classical charts.

Crossover music's recording of "Be My Love" from his second film, The Toast of New Orleans, hit Number One on the Billboard pop singles chart in February 1951 and sold more than two million copies, a feat no classical artist before or since has achieved.

Country-western Crossover music, up through the early 1950s, had a distinct, Appalachian sound that was generally popular only in rural areas in the south and west; for others, it was an acquired taste.

The first sustained and deliberate attempt to aim country Crossover music at a mainstream pop audience was the Nashville sound; Patsy Cline was a particularly successful example of this style, charting several pop and country hits from the late 1950s until her death in 1963.

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Crossover music followed up with the hit "She's All I Ever Had", which peaked at No 2 on The Billboard Hot 100.

Thanks to other successful crossover acts, Latino artists and music had a great surge in popularity in mainstream music.

Crossover music released a little known, commercially unsuccessful Christian album in 2001 under her birth name, Katy Hudson.

Crossover music then went on to release commercially successful secular albums in 2008,2010, and 2013.

Example albums of crossover jazz plus classical music were albums of Deodato, Jean Luc Ponty and Bob James.