A history of modern music: Pop – download the playlist

As part of the Guardian’s summer of music, we are releasing a history of modern music starting today with pop. Download the playlist here
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As part of the Guardian’s summer of music, our critics have put together a history of modern music. We’ll be looking at a different genre every day, starting with a history of pop, then moving on to rock, hip-hop and R&B, indie, dance, world and folk, and jazz.

For each genre our team of Guardian and Observer writers have compiled an ultimate playlist featuring the songs and artists that have made music what it is today. Our playlist today features the likes of Frank Sinatra with ‘I don’t know why (I just do)’ in 1946 up to the modern day with Adele’s ‘Someone like you’ released earlier this year.

The list covers 65 years of pop music and contains songs from some of the worlds greatest pop artists such as Michael Jackson, Elton John and Madonna.

You can listen to songs from the playlists on Spotify, build your own playlists, and tell us what we’ve missed over on our music blog.

The table shows the artist, song title and year of release and can be downloaded from the spreadsheet.