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Article Selection
Please list articles that you're considering for your Wikipedia assignment below. Begin to critique these articles and find relevant sources.

Option 1

 * Article title:Interscope Records
 * Article Evaluation:The article talks about the extensive history of the company, current notable artists signed to it, as well as criticisms and controversies. Even when talking about the latter, there was a neutral tone without biases. It seems that every claimed is backed up with a source.
 * Sources:- https://www.nytimes.com/1995/12/03/arts/pop-music-scorned-shunned-and-doing-quite-nicely.html :- https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/interscope-records-inside-the-hit-factory-118720/

Option 2

 * Article title:Pop music
 * Article Evaluation:The article explains the etymology of the word, as well as its characteristics, and development and influence throughout the whole world. All info seems relevant. I wasn't able to find any biases as the info was written neutrally. It looks as though each claim has a citation; these citations are reliable and are from relevant sources. The talk page does bring up the point that the article doesn't differentiate between pop as a genre, and pop meaning all that is widely popular, which encases other genres.
 * Sources:- S. Frith, W. Straw, and J. Street, eds, The Cambridge Companion to Pop and Rock (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), ISBN 0-521-55660-0, pp. 95–105.:- R. Serge Denisoff and William L. Schurk, Tarnished Gold: the Record Industry Revisited (New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 3rd edn., 1986), ISBN 0-88738-618-0, pp. 2–3.

Option 3

 * Article title:Contemporary commercial music
 * Article Evaluation:I stumbled upon this article and was interested to learn more about the emergence and history of the genre, but it didn't clearly talk about the specifics of its history. All the info is relevant to the topic in this article, written in a neutral tone without bias. Reading throughout he article, not every claim is supported with a citation. The talk page is empty,.
 * Sources:- https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/philosophy/article/abs/how-classical-music-is-better-than-popular-music/894A6367A5454D53539CBF5747EAFF9B :- Menger, Pierre-Michel (2018). Le talent en débat. doi:10.3917/puf.menge.2018.01. ISBN 9782130811510.

Option 4

 * Article title:Music industry
 * Article Evaluation:The article's content is relative to the topic, and it is written neutrally without bias. However, not each claim has a citation. It actually seems as though most claims don't have a citation. The citations do have reliable and relevant sources, though. There is an extensive talk page about fixing sentences and updating sources.
 * Sources:- https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2009/08/10/ticketmaster-live-nation-bruce-springsteen :- https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/ifpi-2012-report-global-music-revenue-down-3-sync-pro-digital-1098245/

Option 5

 * Article title:Music leak
 * Article Evaluation:The article talks extensively around the concept of music leaks, from how it happens, to the artist reactions, to the legality of the issue, and prevention of music leaks. It was written neutrally without any biases. It seems that every claim has a citation with a relevant and reliable source. The only negative, though, is that there aren't any relevant examples of recent music leaks.
 * Sources :- https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/jun/17/hackers-music-industry-leaks-radiohead :- https://pitchfork.com/thepitch/652-a-history-of-digital-album-leaks-1993-2015/