Pop music is defined as being a body of music which is distinguishable from popular, jazz and folk musics. usually understood to be commercially recorded music, often oriented toward a youth market, usually consisting of relatively short, simple songs utilizing technological innovations to produce new variations on existing themes.
According to grove music online the term POP music originated in Britain in 1950s however, pop has had the special meaning of non-classical music, usually in the form of songs, performed by such artists as the Beatles. ABBA and the rolling stones. Grove Music Online also states that " in the early 1960s the term ‘pop music seems to be a spinoff from the term pop culture. By the early 1980s, the promotion of pop music had been greatly affected by the rise of Music Television channels like MTV, which favored those artists such as Michael jackson, Madonna and other pop artists who had a strong visual
appeal. Today we have a lot of pop genre in the charts mixed in with electro and dance.
The UK top 40 chart first begun in the 1960s early 70s. I clicked on the www.bbc/radio1/top40.co.uk to look at this weeks single top 40 charts, I discovered that majority of the chart is full of pop and dance artists. Here are some examples of the pop genre being the biggest music genre to be in the chart for example these are some of the mainstream artists which are high in the charts Nicki Minaj, Pixie Lott, Olly Murs and LMFAO.
Lauren
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