Pop music

:This article mainly describes "pop" as used in its more recent sense, as a subgenre of popular music.

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Pop music is a common part of popular music, sometimes regarded as a subgenre of its own, generally featuring memorable melodies with strong recognizable rhythms and catchy refrains. Often regarded as the most mainstream form of popular music now, it has been around at least since the 1950s and is especially popular in the last three decades, owing to its commercial viability and successes of its many recording artistes. Pop songs' popularity can be explained by its 'hook': they often have one or more musical ideas intended to gain a listener's interest. A hook can be any part of the song: the music, the vocals, the lyrics, or, as is often the case, a combination of all of these. Pop is usually written directly and explicitly for the sole sake of selling an album; sometimes it is composed from the most mainstream-friendly, or "poppy", form of another popular music genre (such as rock or hip hop) toned down for accessibility, just as many other popular genres often incorporate elements of the pop mainsteam into their music.

Related Topics:
Popular music - Subgenre - Melodies - Rhythm - Refrains - Recording artiste - Hook - Album - Rock - Hip hop

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