week 1: what is popular music?

Looking at the first three words of popular, which is pop, the first thing that comes to mind is pop music, songs that are within the top 10 charts and commercial music. In the collins English Dictionary the definition of 'pop' means ' Music of general appeal especially to young people'. Music can be widely liked and admired as a lot of people liked The Spice Girl's old and young people, which shows that they would be classed as popular music, but not eveyone has the same taste in music. In our seminar session we shared with each other who our favourite band/artists was, within the class there was a variety of genres from rock, R n B, soul and hip hop. some artists and bands, which were mentioned, i had never come across before. referring back to what is popular music, it's also down to us as consumers as when we purchase albums, singles and download music as to what people are interested in.