popular music (usually uncountable, plural popular musics)
- (music) Any genre of music that has wide appeal amongst the general public of a society, typically distributed widely by the music industry; typically as seen in contrast to classical music and folk music.
- Synonym of pop music
genre that has wide appeal amongst the general public
— see also pop music
- Arabic: مُوسِيقَى الْبُوب f (mūsīqā l-būb), بُوب m (būb), بُوب m (pop)
- Carpathian Rusyn: попула́рна му́зика f (populárna múzyka)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 流行音樂／流行音乐 (zh) (liúxíng yīnyuè)
- Finnish: populaarimusiikki (fi), pop (fi), pop-musiikki (fi)
- French: musique populaire f
- Galician: música popular f
- Georgian: პოპულარული მუსიკა (ṗoṗularuli musiḳa), პოპ-მუსიკა (ṗoṗ-musiḳa), პოპი (ṗoṗi)
- German: populäre Musik f
- Hungarian: könnyűzene (hu)
- Italian: musica popolare f
- Japanese: ポピュラー音楽 (ポピュラーおんがく, popyurā ongaku), ポピュラー・ミュージック (popyurā-myūjikku)
- Korean: 대중음악 (ko) (daejung'eumak), 팝 음악 (pap eumak)
- Maori: puoro arotini
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: populærmusikk m
- Nynorsk: populærmusikk m
- Portuguese: música popular (pt) f
- Russian: популя́рная му́зыка f (populjárnaja múzyka), поп-му́зыка (ru) f (pop-múzyka), поп (ru) m (pop), попса́ (ru) f (popsá) (slang)
- Spanish: música popular
- Swedish: populärmusik
- Vietnamese: nhạc đại chúng, nhạc phổ thông
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- Grove Music Online
- Encyclopedia Britannica
