
John M. Cunningham
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John M. Cunningham graduated from Kalamazoo College in 2000 with a B.A. in English. He worked at Britannica from 2004 to 2018.
A student of pop culture and the arts, he wrote about popular (and semipopular) music for several online publications, most notably Stylus Magazine.
In addition, two literary-themed crossword puzzles he constructed can be found in The Penguin Classics Crossword Puzzles (Penguin, 2011).
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Landing a number-one hit on Billboard magazine’s Hot 100—the premiere pop singles chart in the United States—is by itself a remarkable achievement. A handful of recording artists, however, have managed the feat at least 10 times since the 1950s, when the chart originated. As you might expect, the…
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