Streaming Music

Pop music is a type of popular music distinguished from classical or art music and from folk music . The term indicates specific stylistic traits, but the genre furthermore includes musicians working in a lot of styles such as rock, hip hop, rhythm and blues ( R&B ), and country, making it a flexible category. The expression “pop music” could furthermore be used to refer to specific sub genres (within the pop music genre ) that are in some cases referred to as soft rock and pop/rock.
Characteristics as a sub genre
Pop “is designed to appeal to everyone” and ” does not come from any specific place or mark off any specific taste.” In musical terms, it’s essentially “conservative” in that it attempts to resonate with a large segment of its target demographic rather than pushing artistic boundaries. It is ” offer d from on high (by record organizations, radio programmers and performance  promoters) rather than being made from below…” (Frith 2001, p.95-96). But over time, pop has gone from “popular in general” to “a genre ” described as sounding musically similar to rap, but with singing. This is due to radio stations labeling themselves as “pop stations” taking heavy prefer ence over certain sounds, tossing other popular bands who do not fit into the sound or other types like rock into the “alternative” label.
generally used to describe the current popular genres of music of any given time, the term “pop” can’t be used describe any one specific style.
History of pop music
1930s and 1940s
Styles influencing the later development of pop include the Blues (Chicago), and Country (Tennessee)
1950s
Early Pop music musicians include Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Bobby Darin, and Peggy Lee, but other musicians like Bill Haley and his Comets, Fats Domino and Elvis Presley become popular with the young generation.
1960s
The decade begins out with such Teen Idols such as, Johnny Tillotson, Bobby Vee, Brian Hyland, Tommy Roe, Gene Pitney, and Frankie Avalon. It explodes midway with Carole King, Neil Diamond, Burt Bacharach, Aretha Franklin, Isley Brothers, Ray Charles, Stevie Wonder, The Supremes, Marvin Gaye, Bob Dylan, and Simon and Garfunkel. It can be said that The Beatles led the British Invasion in this decade.
1970s
A proliferation of new sounds from the disco of the BeeGees, the piano sounds of Billy Joel and Elton John, the country of the Eagles, the rock-influenced pop of musicians like Rod Stewart, Steely Dan, and Fleetwood Mac. ABBA has been a swedish performer who grew to fame after winning Eurovision Song Contest and starting a whole new revolution of pop music.
1980s
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, and Madonna albums ” like a Virgin”, “True Blue”, ” like a Prayer” . Michael Jackson has been every now and then referred to as “The King of Pop” and Madonna has been named “The Queen of Pop”. Other musicians included Michael Bolton, Prince, Janet Jackson, Duran Duran, The Police, ABBA, Cyndi Lauper, Whitney Houston, Phil Collins, Kylie Minogue and Culture Club.
1990s and 21st century
The 1990s and 21st century were marked by a resurgence of boy performer and girl group trends. From the United Kingdom came the likes of Take That, Blue, the Spice Girls, a highly successful formula. Irish boy bands of the time include Boyzone and Westlife. The United States had New Edition, New children On The Block followed by the Backstreet Boys, Hanson, girl trio Destiny’s Child and then ‘N Sync and Pop Princesses Willa Ford, Mandy Moore, Britney Spears, Gwen Stefani and Christina Aguilera. Canadian Avril Lavigne became popular with her album Let Go. Australia had Boys from Oz. 1999 saw the rise of the Latin explosion with Ricky Martin at the forefront with his globally smash hit “Livin’ La Vida Loca”. Other latin musicians to follow were Jennifer Lopez, Shakira, Enrique Iglesias, and Marc Anthony. In 2002, Justin Timberlake had critical and commercial acclaim with his “Justified” album, emerging as the new “Prince of Pop”, Jesse McCartney has emerged from Dream Street as a high-rating singer with songs like She’s No You, Lindsay Lohan and Hilary Duff has become popular in the 2000s. musicians like Mariah Carey, Whitney Houston, Kylie Minogue, Celine Dion, Garth Brooks, Shania Twain and Madonna have furthermore been highly successful. Reality TV shows, such as American Idol, begin producing multi-platinum musicians like Kelly Clarkson and Clay Aiken. British pop rock groups such as McFly emerge.
Sound and themes
Pop music, in whatever musical influence form it derives from, can be produced by a more standard songwriting approach and arrangement. The emphasis is generally on a easy r melody, which makes the songs more memorable, and could use stripped-down rhythms. The mixture of the melody and the rhythm allows for harmony to be a driving force of the song. Themes range from individual songs to vivacious gathering jams. Nonetheless, the most common theme deals with the expansive  range of feelings which stem from physical or emotional love.
Music videos and live shows are generally used for exposure in the media, and musicians could have extravagant stage shows and use choreographed dancing. a lot of pop tunes are used in both Dance clubs and Sport club s.