Pop music is popular, so pop music is seen as a combination of different genres musicales1 2 that are highly popular in society. This type of music is made to be highly commercialized.
Pop music is often seen as oriented towards the singles charts it is not the sum of all chart music, which has always contained songs from a variety of sources, including classical, jazz, rock, and novelty songs, while pop music as a genre is usually seen as existing and developing separately. The term "pop song," is first recorded as being used in 1926 in the sense of a piece of music "having popular appeal". Hatch and Millward indicate that many events in the history of recording in the 1920s can be seen as the birth of the modern pop music industry, including in country, blues and hillbilly music.
American pop singer Maddona is one of the most recognizable figures in music; various artists of the 2000s, such as Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera, Lady Gaga and Rihanna have named her as one of their influences.
Musicologists often identify the following characteristics as typical of the pop music genre:
- an aim of appealing to a general audience
- an emphasis on craftsmanship rather than formal "artistic" qualities
- an emphasis on recording, production, and technology, over live performance
- a tendency to reflect existing trends rather than progressive developments
- much pop music is intended to encourage dancing, or it uses dance-oriented beats or rhythms
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