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Pop music might include elements of rock, hip hop, reggae, dance, R&B, jazz, electronic, and occasionally folk music and various other styles. Pop music performers typically make use of state-of-the-art technology and recording studios to achieve the sound they want, and record producers might have a heavy influence. Pop music generally uses a simple, memorable melody and emphasizes the rhythm, usually with syncopation, and stripped down to a basic riff or loop which repeats throughout much of the song. Pop music is usually criticized for being overly simple and repetitive.

Popular

Popular music is music belonging to any of a number of musical styles that are accessible to the general public and are disseminated by one or more of the mass media. Popular music is music that is not something else ( again and again ‘folk’ or ‘art’ music). Popular music is associated with (produced for or by) a specific social group. Popular music is disseminated by mass media and/or in a mass market. Popular music is also rarely entirely instrumental. Popular music is not really about ‘being heard’, but rather about ‘being heard again’; and ‘being heard again and again and again’ is what really popular music is really about. Pop is contemporary music and a common type of popular music (distinguished from classical or art music and from folk music).

The term popular music does not refer especially to a single genre or sound, and its meaning is varying depending on the time and place. Within popular music, “pop music” is a number of times distinguished from other sub genres by stylistic traits such as a danceable rhythm or beat, simple melodies and a repeating structure. The wide  appeal of pop music is seen to distinguish it from more specific categories of popular music, and pop music performers and recordings are among the optimum -selling and the majority widely known in many regions of the world. The development of recording methods is seen as a major influence on the sound of pop, distinguishing it from classical music and jazz, as well as from some categories of popular music which might seek a more “natural” sound.

Album

In the recorded music era, the single (a single song) and the album (a collection of tunes ) are the usual methods of distributing pop music. Notable highlights for pop music in the 1980s are Michael Jackson’s second Epic label release, Thriller, which went on to become the perfect -selling album of all time. Jackson has been the the majority successful performer of the 80s, spanning nine #1 singles in the United States alone during that decade, and selling over 133 million copies with only two albums — Thriller, and its follow-up Bad.

Pop music in the 1980s was heavily influenced by an electronic sound with synthesizers and drum machines, and dance type music. Pop music, on the other hand, has primarily come into usage to describe music that evolved out of the rock ‘n roll revolution of the mid-1950’s and continues in a definable path to today. Pop music could range from the highly creative, iconoclastic or virtuosic to easy and downright dumb.