Popular music is music with wide appeal that is typically distributed to large audiences through the music industry. These forms and styles can be enjoyed...

In popular music, interpolation (also called a replayed sample) refers to using a melody‍—  or portions of a melody (often with modified lyrics)‍—  from...

list of notable performers of rock music and other forms of popular music, and others directly associated with the music as producers, songwriters or in...

contemporary genres of African popular music build on cross-pollination with Western popular music. Many genres of popular music like blues, jazz, salsa, zouk...

Swedish popular music, or shortly Swedish pop music, refers to music that has swept the Swedish mainstream at any given point in recent times. After World...

When describing popular music artists, honorific nicknames are used, most often in the media or by fans, to indicate the significance of an artist, and...

American popular music (also referred to as "American Pop") is popular music produced in the United States and is a part of American pop culture. Distinctive...

Encyclopedia of Popular Music is an encyclopedia created in 1989 by Colin Larkin. It is the "modern man's" equivalent of the Grove Dictionary of Music, which Larkin...

list of notable performers of rock music and other forms of popular music, and others directly associated with the music as producers, songwriters, or in...

Nordic popular music, also referred to as Scandinavian popular music, includes pop and rock music of the Nordic countries. The musical scene is known for...

seventh "most musical" city by PRS for Music per head to some bemusement. Manchester's biggest popular music venue is the Manchester Arena, which seats...

Malaysian popular music, sometimes called shortly Malaysian pop (Malay: Pop Malaysia) or abbreviated as M-pop, refers to popular music forms in Malaysia...

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list of notable performers of rock music and other forms of popular music, and others directly associated with the music as producers, songwriters, or in...

Birmingham's culture of popular music first developed in the mid-1950s. By the early 1960s the city's music scene had emerged as one of the largest and...

list of notable performers of rock music and other forms of popular music, and others directly associated with the music as producers, songwriters, or in...

British popular music and popular music in general, can be defined in a number of ways, but is used here to describe music which is not part of the art/classical...

Música popular brasileira (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈmuzikɐ popuˈlaʁ bɾaziˈlejɾɐ], Popular Brazilian Music) or MPB is a trend in post-bossa nova urban...

Pakistani popular music or shortly Pakistani pop music refers to popular music forms in Pakistan. Pakistani pop is a mixture of traditional Pakistani classical...

abbreviated form "pop" for "popular", as in "pop music", dates from the late 1950s. Although the terms "pop" and "popular" are in some cases used interchangeably...

Pop music is a genre of popular music that originated in its modern form during the mid-1950s in the United States and the United Kingdom. During the...

example, in common time, also called 4/4, the most common metre in popular music, the stressed beats are one and three. If accented chords or notes are...

The Western-influenced popular music of Vietnam (Tân nhạc Việt Nam, "New music of Vietnam") developed from the 1940s–1980s. The Vietnam War and the plight...

between classical music (or "art" music), and popular music (or commercial music – including non-Western styles of rock, country, and pop music-related styles)...

Popular music in Yugoslavia includes the pop and rock music of the former SFR Yugoslavia, including all their genres and subgenres. The scene included...

Croatian popular music is the popular music of Croatia. Prominent mainstream pop artists include: Oliver Dragojević, Gibonni, Dino Dvornik, Toni Cetinski...

can be broadly divided into classical music, traditional/folk music and popular music and all of them have produced internationally successful acts,...

among the most popular being Ranchera, Corrido, Huapango, Chotís, Polka, Redova and Banda. Norteño folk music is some of the most popular music in and out...

Italian popular music refers to the musical output which is not usually considered academic or Classical music but rather has its roots in the popular traditions...

popular music of any genre composed and performed by Filipinos, originating from the Philippines. Before the emergence of OPM in the 1970s, popular music...