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Country-Pop is country music that has country instrumentation and song structures yet emphasizes pop melodies and lush, orchestrated production, in order to win a larger audience. The most familiar and popular form of country-pop was the Nashville Sound, which later metamorphisized into Countrypolitain. The Nashville Sound emerged in the '50s as a way to bring country music to a broad pop audience. The movement was led by Chet Atkins, who was the head of RCA Records country division. Atkins designed a smooth, commercial sound that relied on country song structures but abandoned all of the hillbilly and honky tonk instrumentation. He hired session musicians and coordinated pop-oriented, jazz-tinged productions.
