pop music

English

Etymology

Shortened form of popular music.

Noun

pop music (usually uncountable, plural pop musics)

1. Music intended for or accepted by a wide audience, usually with a commercial basis and distinguished from other genres such as classical music and folk music.

   Pop music, despite its commercial focus, includes many artistic gems.

Related terms

• pop
• pop culture

Translations

music intended for or accepted by a wide audience — See also translations at popular music

• Arabic: مُوسِيقَى البوب‎ m (mūsīqā al-pop, -bob), مُوسِيقَى شَعْبِيَّة‎ f (mūsīqā šaʿbiyya)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 流行音樂 (zh), 流行音乐 (zh) (liúxíng yīnyuè)

• Dutch: pop (nl), popmuziek (nl)
• Finnish: pop-musiikki (fi), populäärimusiikki
• French: musique pop (fr) f, pop (fr) m
• Georgian: პოპ-მუსიკა (ṗoṗ-musiḳa), პოპი (ṗoṗi)
• German: Popmusik (de) f
• Hindi: पॉप संगीत m (pŏp saṅgīt)
• Hungarian: popzene (hu), könnyűzene (hu)
• Italian: musica leggera
• Japanese: ポップ・ミュージック (poppu-myūjikku), ポップ (ja) (poppu)

• Korean: 팝 음악 (pap eumak), 팝음악 (pabeumak), 팝 (pap)
• Macedonian: поп музика f (pop muzika), поп m (pop)
• Maori: puoro arotini
• Marathi: पॉप संगीत n (pŏp saṅgīt)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: popmusikk m

  Nynorsk: popmusikk m

• Polish: pop-music (pl) f, muzyka pop f
• Portuguese: pop (pt) m, música pop f
• Romanian: muzică pop (ro) f
• Russian: поп-му́зыка (ru) f (pop-múzyka), эстра́дная му́зыка f (estrádnaja múzyka), поп (ru) m (pop), попса́ (ru) f (popsá) (slang)
• Spanish: música pop f, música popular f
• Welsh: cerddoriaeth bop f

Further reading

• pop music on Wikipedia.Wikipedia