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popular music

music genres distributed to large audiences and considered to have wide appeal
Intangible music_genre Q373342
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Summary

popular music is a music genre[1]. It ranks in the top 1% of music genre entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (14,372 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Subclass of: music[3]
  • Commons category: Popular music[4]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Popular music[5]
  • Partially coincident with: entertainment music[6], trivial music[7], vernacular music[8]
  • Different from: pop music[9]
  • History of topic: album era[10]
  • Has list: list of popular music genres[11]
  • Exact match: http://cv.iptc.org/newscodes/subjectcode/01011004[12], http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85088865[13]

Why It Matters

popular music has Wikipedia articles in 26 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[14] It is known by 43 alternative names across languages and contexts.[15]

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References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [14] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [15] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 7d ago · عُثمان · 2026-10-13 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Isocat id → 3831
    Sitelink count → 50
    Wikipedia languages → ['ar', 'arz', 'bg', 'bo', 'ca', 'cs', 'cy', 'de', 'en', 'es', 'et', 'eu', 'fa',
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Isocat id: 3831, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/7331663|popular music (#7331663)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/125|ISOCAT]] #mix'n'match"
  2. 8w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-08-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → popular-music
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: popular-music, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289950836|popular music (#289950836)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's ta"
  3. 18w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → u0002438-popularni-hudba
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: u0002438-popularni-hudba, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259495|batch #259495]]"
  4. 21w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    History of topic → album era
    Different from → pop music
    Subclass of → music
    Instance of → —
    + 6 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|8 */ Yso id: 3064, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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