Country music

====Neocountry====
In 1980, a style of "neocountry disco music" was popularized by the film ''[[Urban Cowboy]]''.<ref name="Workin 1999. page 259">{{cite book| first1 = Gerald W.| last1 = Haslam| first2 = Alexandra Russell| last2 = Haslam| first3 = Richard| last3 = Chon| title = Workin' Man Blues: Country Music in California| date = April 1, 1999| publisher = University of California Press| isbn = 978-0-520-21800-0| page = [https://archive.org/details/workinmanbluesco00hasl/page/259 259]| url = https://archive.org/details/workinmanbluesco00hasl/page/259}}</ref> It was during this time that a glut of pop-country crossover artists began appearing on the country charts: former pop stars [[Bill Medley]] (of [[the Righteous Brothers]]), [[Dan Seals|"England Dan" Seals]] (of [[England Dan and John Ford Coley]]), [[Tom Jones (singer)|Tom Jones]], and [[Merrill Osmond]] (both alone and with some of [[The Osmonds|his brothers]]; his younger sister [[Marie Osmond]] was already an established country star) all recorded significant country hits in the early 1980s. Sales in record stores rocketed to $250&nbsp;million in 1981; by 1984, 900 radio stations began programming country or neocountry pop full-time. As with most sudden trends, however, by 1984 sales had dropped below 1979 figures.<ref name="Workin 1999. page 259"/>