Sentence examples for pop milestones from inspiring English sources

CAKE SHOP 152 Ludlow St. 212-253-0036 Augg 28: Alina Simone, a sprightly Ukrainian-born, suburban-Boston-raised songwriter with a richly textured voice, celebrates the release of her new album, "Placelessness," which evokes but does not mimic many of the pop milestones of the past decade, including the fractured beats of Radiohead and the exuberance of Björk.

One of the first songs he sold, "Don't Be Cruel," turned out to be a major hit and a pop milestone.

Spotted singing in a New York nightclub, she was signed in 1983 by music-biz svengali Clive Davis, who spent two years grooming her for success and ensuring her debut album would be a pop milestone.

As much of a pop milestone as "Downtown" was, who in 1965 would have imagined that Clark would still be singing it, at a swank Park Avenue cabaret no less, almost 50 years later?

The cassette tape doesn't appear to be on track for the same kind of romantic renaissance vinyl has been undergoing over the past decade, but a few pop culture milestones have driven its numbers back up.

All-time record notwithstanding, the season was filled with eye-popping statistical milestones and several firsts for the Warriors.

It's difficult to move without coming up against an elaborate retrospective or 20th anniversary features dedicated to the death of Kurt Cobain or the birth of Britpop, those twin pop-cultural milestones that have been endlessly eulogised over the years to the point that their meaning is now as elusive as their status is iconic.

When the actor Hugh Grant appeared on "The Tonight Show" in 1995, days after he was caught dallying with a prostitute, Jay Leno forged a pop culture milestone by asking the question on everybody's mind: "What the hell were you thinking?" On Friday, talking with another high-flying celebrity brought down by a prostitution scandal, Mr. Leno returned to a bit of the old, blunt magic.

The original song was a pop-culture milestone.

But for jazz vocal aficionados, her signature song, "All About Ronnie," Joe Greene's smoldering ballad of romantic obsession, is a pop-jazz milestone of dreamy cool.

On Tuesday night, in something of a pop-culture milestone for Mr. Scarborough's show, the "Moment of Zen" that always concludes Jon Stewart's "Daily Show" featured an appearance that Mrs. Clinton's campaign chairman, Terry McAuliffe, had made from Washington on "Morning Joe" on Monday, after the Puerto Rico primary.