pop music

popular music genre originating in the mid-1950s in the US and UK; initially overlapping with rock and roll, later becoming associated with more commercial, accessible, and ephemeral styles distinct from rock
Class type of: popular music Q37073

Facts

16 properties
Instance of
music genre
Inception
1950[8]
Subclass of
popular music
Short name
pop, поп, поп, pop, pop, popp, popp, pop[13][14][15]
Described by source
DDEX AVS Data Dictionary Version 1[9]
Has characteristic
pop music award[11]
Native label
Pop-music[12]
On focus list of Wikimedia project
Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[21]
Opposite of
antipop[5]
Practiced by
pop singer, pop musician[19][20]
Said to be the same as
popsa[4]
Topic has template
Template:Pop music[10]
🏷️ Also known as
en pop music en pop ar بوب ar موسيقى بوب ar موسيقى البوب ar البوب cs pop-music cs pop cs popmusic da Poporkester da Pop da Popsang da Pop musik da Populærmusik da Pop-musik da popmusik de Pop de Pop-Musik de Populärmusik de Popularmusik
🔖 Identifiers · 62
GND ID
4046781-8
ABC News topic ID
pop
AllMusic genre/style ID
ma0000012254
Archive of Our Own tag
Pop Music RPF
Article ID in the Lithuanian Universal Encyclopedia Online
popmuzika
BBC News topic ID
cnyrm5qv2xzt
BNCF Thesaurus ID
2201
BabelNet ID
00063557n
Bibliothèque nationale de France ID
11957141f
DR topic ID
pop-og-rock
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Dewey Decimal Classification
306.5 (306.5–782.4, n=4)
Discogs genre ID
pop
Encyclopædia Universalis ID
pop-music
Equivalent class
service.ddex.net
Euronews topic ID
pop-music
Every Noise at Once ID
pop
Exact match
service.ddex.net
Freebase ID
/m/064t9
GTAA ID
262960
Gran Enciclopèdia de la Música ID
2515
Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID
popmusikk
Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID (2017)
3158646
HDS ID
024568
Harper's tag
pop-music
IMDb keyword
pop-music, pop
ITunes genre ID (archived)
8.0k (14–8.0k, n=3)
KBpedia ID
PopRockMusic
Klexikon article ID
Popmusik
Last.fm ID
../tag/pop
Latvian National Encyclopedia Online ID
3593
Lex ID
popmusik
Lille norske leksikon ID
popmusikk
Museum-digital tag ID
2372
NL CR AUT ID
ph124352
National Library of Poland MMS ID
9810625996205606
National Library of Spain SpMaBN ID
XX607818
Online PWN Encyclopedia ID
3960406
Quora topic ID
Pop-Music
Rate Your Music genre ID
pop
SVKKL authority ID
h0001928-popularni-hudba
ScienceDirect topic ID
social-sciences/pop-music
SoundCloud ID
tags/pop
Subreddit
popheads
Topic's main Wikimedia portal
Portal:Pop music
Topic's main category
Category:Pop music
Treccani ID
pop
UNESCO Thesaurus ID
concept6477
Vikidia article ID
eu:Pop_musika, fr:Pop
WikiKids ID
Popmuziek
WordNet 3.1 Synset ID
07074002-n
X (Twitter) topic ID
810938279801470977
YSA ID
Y98194
YSO ID
2969
Yandex Music genre ID
pop
Yle topic ID
18-216706
Österreichisches Musiklexikon Online ID
P/Pop-Musik

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🔗 Connections
← Genre 4872+
← Field of work 94+
Subtypes 19+
Country of origin 2
Influenced 2+
Based on 1
Different from 1
Has these parts 1+
Instance of 1
On focus list of Wikimedia project 1
Practiced by 1
Related category 1
Subclass of 1
Topic has template 1
Topic's main Wikimedia portal 1
Topic's main category 1
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Pop music is a music genre that was established in 1950[1].

Why It Matters

pop music has been cited as an influence by pop rap[22], a music genre[23], founded in 1980[24] and pop metal[25], a music genre[26].

FAQs

Who did pop music influence?

pop music has been cited as an influence by pop rap[22] and pop metal[25].

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  14. [15] ↑ . Bokmålsordboka. Retrieved . ordbokene.no. Provenance: wikidata.org.
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Inline context (facts about related entities)

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  3. [26] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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  1. 1d ago · BeckNoDa · 2026-11-13 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    "Added [th] description: แนวดนตรีที่ได้รับความนิยม เกิดขึ้นในช่วงกลางคริสต์ทศวรรษ 1950 ในสหรัฐอเมริกาและสหราชอาณาจักร"
  2. 11w ago · Roberto García Toledo · 2026-08-23 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Different from → popular music, traditional folk song
    "Created claim: Different from: traditional folk song"
  3. 16w ago · MatSuBot bot · 2026-07-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikidata description → popular music genre originating in the mid-1950s in the US a
    "Changed labels, descriptions or aliases: import labels from sitelinks"
  4. 19w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-07-04 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → pop-music
    "Created claim: Harper's tag: pop-music, Matched to pop music (#289950815) in Harper's tag #mix"
  5. 20w ago · Himislav12 · 2026-06-24 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    National Library of Poland MMS ID → 9810625996205606
    "Created claim: National Library of Poland MMS ID: 9810625996205606"
  6. 22w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    SVKKL authority ID → h0001928-popularni-hudba
    "Created claim: SVKKL authority ID: h0001928-popularni-hudba, batch #259495"
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