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Polynesia (UK: / ˌ p ɒ l ɪ ˈ n iː z i ə /, US: /-ˈ n iː ʒ ə /; from Greek: πολύς polys "many" and Greek: νῆσος nēsos "island") is a subregion of Oceania, made up of more than 1,000 islands scattered over the central and southern Pacific Ocean.

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At the 2017 census, 89.0% of people living in French Polynesia were born in French Polynesia (up from 87.3% in 2007), 8.1% were born in metropolitan France (down from 9.3% in 2007), 1.2% were born in overseas France outside of French Polynesia (down from 1.4% in 2007), and 1.7% were born in foreign countries (down from 2.0% in 2007).

Its data, published by Billboard magazine and compiled by MRC Data, is based collectively on each song's weekly physical and digital sales, as well as the amount of airplay received on American radio stations and streaming on online digital music outlets. During 2020, twenty singles had reached number-one on the Hot 100, making 2020 the year ...

The music of pre-colonized Polynesia was almost entirely vocal, full of chants and story-songs that interacted intimately with dance. When European settlers came–specifically, when European missionaries came–they brought instruments such as the guitar and ukelele, elaborate church hymns that … Continue reading →