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For the Lil Rob Album, see Instrumentals .

An instrumental is, in contrast to a Song , a Musical Composition or recording without Lyrics or any other sort of Vocal Music ; all of the Music is produced by Musical Instrument s. Specifically, this term is used when referring to Popular Music ; some Musical Genre s make little use of the Human Voice , such as Jazz , Electronic Music , and large amounts of European Classical Music (although in electronic music the voice can be Sampled just like anything else). In commercial music, some tracks or songs on a Compact Disc include instrumental tracks. These tracks are exact copies of the corresponding song, but do not have vocals.

Instrumentals that have reached #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 include:



Borderline cases

Recordings which include Brief Verbal Interjections , repetitive Nonsense words, or wordless vocal effects (such as Drones , Vocal Percussion , Vonlenska , Yodeling , or Whistling ), or in which sung vocals appear in only a short part of an extended piece (e.g. " TSOP (The Sound Of Philadelphia) ") are sometimes classed as instrumentals rather than songs.


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