What is Popular Music?

Popular music is very difficult to define. There isn’t just one definition, it can be any genre of music that has a wide appeal to lots of ‘common’ people. It can also be music belonging to any of a number of musical styles that are accessible to the general public and distributed through the mass media as a commercial product. The criteria for what counts as popular and its application to specific music styles and genres is open to debate. Record sales, air time on the radio and television are some of the indicators of popularity. Roy Shuker, had the closest definition to what i believe popular music is: Essentially all popular music consists of a hybrid of musical traditions, styles and influences and is also an economic product which is invested with the ideological significance by many of its consumers. In conclusion Popular music is a very broad subject.