what is popular music?

Popular music is a very wide area of music, and really could describe any type of music that is listened to by people. Popular music literally means that the music is popular. However, its given a different meaning when shortened to pop music. Pop music is seen as a genre of cheesy music listened to by a lot of people. Hence why it is called popular music. However, other types of music, like indie, rock, dance and hip hop etc can also be described as pop music, simply because all of these types of music are popular. Basically, popular music is the majority of music. Most music is listened to by a large number of people and is therefore popular, making it pop music. It is a very broad area, and one that is very often mistaken as simply cheesy bands like westlife and girls aloud, yet it is not, and people like snoop dogg, who you wouldn’t associate with pop music normally, actually do fall under that category.