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Easy listening music is a style of popular music (and radio format) which emerged in the mid-20th century.^{[citation
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Circa 1980, easy listening was the most listened-to radio format in America.^{[citation
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Use of term and related forms of music

Beautiful music is a subset of easy listening music, since as a radio format, it had rigid standards for instrumentation (e.g., few or no saxophones) and restrictions on how many vocal pieces could be played in an hour.^{[citation
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The term "easy listening" has sometimes been applied negatively in the years since it went out of fashion. It is similar to what is called "lounge" or "lounge core", but lounge music is much more jazz-oriented and dependent on musical improvisation than easy listening. Easy listening music is almost always orchestrated and is more analogous to classical music than to jazz.

Since easy-listening music is rather unknown to the younger generations, the term "easy listening" is often incorrectly when applied to soft pop, Smooth Jazz, or new age music.^{[citation
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Adult contemporary music is a more fashionable form of easy listening and is one of the top radio formats in the USA today.^{[citation
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