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popular music

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noun

  1. music having wide appeal, esp characterized by lightly romantic or sentimental melodies See also pop 2

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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“Oh, and what’s some new popular music I should be listening to?”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2026

The trio also gained fame for their popular music videos, including "Gimme All Your Lovin,'" going on to win three MTV Video Music Awards.

From Barron's ● Aug. 18, 2026

Yet all of them convey an understanding, even an appreciation, for their close connection to an artist whose influence rippled across popular music.

From Salon ● Jun. 7, 2026

It’s one of many amusingly dead-on observations about the nature of popular music today, whether at the end that enjoys global adulation or at the opposite extreme.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 28, 2026

These forms came to have enormous influence on twentieth-century music, first in the Americas and then in time around the world, through popular music of countless genres.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall

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