week1 what is popular music?

When defining what popular music is, it can be quite difficult to bring it down to just one particular definition. It is easy to say that popular music is any type or genre of music that is liked or admired by many people or saying that popular music is what is most successful in the charts. But this is not enough as we all have different tastes and enjoy various types of music. What you like may not be what other people like and that is what makes answering this question quite flexible. Although popular or pop music is a genre of music it still includes other musical styles such as rock, r n b, hip hop etc. Popular music can also be identified as the music and musical styles that are accessible to a wide audience and distributed through the mass media, basically music that sells.