that someone is Word-land coined the term "Britpop" and has mentioned it in the mag before. I think it's one of the Andrews, potentially Mr. Collins.

Geoff Barton maybe?

I know it came up somewhere recently, but wasn't it Mark Ellen who came up with the Fab macca Wacky Thumbs Aloft sobriquet? While we're on the subject, pound for pound, Word does seem to coin more than the average mag.

came up with Britpop apparently, although I think Collins and Quantick also claim they did

Older than you think, and in a different context. The OED dates it to 1977 in the NME 'At home The Sex Pistols are public enemies. In Sweden, they're an important visiting Britpop group.'

(The OED credits the earliest mention of Trip hop to Mixmag in 1994: 'This is trip hop, a deft fusion of head-nodding beats, supa-phat bass and an obsessive attention to the kind of other-wordly sounds usually found on acid house records')

Jerry Wexler, later a very influential record producer, invented the term Rhythm and Blues while working as a journalist on Billboard.

Before that time Billboard's black music chart had been called, first, Harlem Hit Parade, and then Race Records. Wexler's suggestion of Rhythm and Blues was adopted in 1949.

I heard it was first coined around the music of a band called Marden hill. I know them so will try to find out who first said it.........

come up with "Lionpop" or something like that before "Britpop" was coined?

Also - is HJH a Word thing, or does that have another root?

...one and all. Was slightly embarrassed to ask the original question as I feel like I should know all these things (by osmosis if nothing else), so many thanks for all the illuminating responses. Cheers.

One of the defining terms of the late Noughties. Who coined that one?