“Who's Who, or Music Education in Global Contemporary Popular Music” is a unique musical-historical study of an encyclopedic nature. Alexander Rusakov’s book presents the original author’s concept of the structure of global contemporary popular music and its history. Based on a study of sales statistics in the leading music countries of the world and other information, here for the first time the worldwide cumulative popularity of performers of global contemporary popular music throughout its history is determined, and for the first time, information about the best musicians and works of this meta-genre is fully systematized.