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Adult-oriented rock

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Adult-oriented rock or AOR has multiple meanings in the music world. It may refer to:

  • Arena rock (also known as AOR, melodic rock and stadium rock), a style of commercially oriented rock music
  • Album-oriented rock (AOR), a radio format created in the United States in the 1970s
  • Adult-oriented rock, a synonym for soft rock
  • West Coast sound, a mid-to-late 1970s rock subgenre, more recently referred to as yacht rock
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