Pop music Subgenres

This article is about a specific music genre. For popular music in general, see Popular music. For other uses, see Pop music (disambiguation).

"Pop song" redirects here. For other uses, see Pop Song.

Pop music
Stylistic origins	Traditional pop, rock and roll, folk,classical, popular music, soul
Cultural origins	1950s and 1960s, United Kingdomand United States
Subgenres
·         Baroque pop ·         Bubblegum pop ·         Christian pop ·         Dance-pop ·         Electropop ·         Europop ·         J-pop ·         K-pop ·         Operatic pop ·         Power pop ·         Progressive pop ·         Soundtrack ·         Sophisti-pop ·         Synthpop ·         Space age pop ·         Sunshine pop ·         Teen pop ·         Traditional pop
Fusion genres
·         Art pop ·         Bubblegum pop ·         Country pop ·         Disco ·         Experimental pop ·         Indie pop ·         Jangle pop ·         New wave ·         Pop punk ·         Pop rock ·         Psychedelic pop ·         Smooth jazz ·         Urban pop ·         Wonky pop
2015 in pop music

Pop music (a term that originally derives from an abbreviation of "popular") is a genre of popular music, which originated in its modern form in the Western world during the 1950s and 1960s, deriving from rock and roll. The terms "popular music" and "pop music" are often used interchangeably, although the former is a description of music which is popular (and can include any style).

As a genre, pop music is extremely eclectic, often borrowing elements from other styles including urban, dance, rock, Latin and country; nonetheless, there are core elements which define pop. Such elements include generally short to medium-length songs, written in a basic format (often the verse-chorus structure), as well as the common employment of repeated choruses, melodic tunes, and hooks.

So-called "pure pop" music, such as power pop, which has been described as mixture of hard rock and melodic pop musi and tends to be more aggressive than pop rock, features all these elements, using electric guitars, drums and bass for instrumentation.