Popular music is music with wide appeal that is typically distributed to large audiences through the music industry. These forms and styles can be enjoyed...

In popular music, interpolation (also called a replayed sample) refers to using a melody‍—  or portions of a melody (often with modified lyrics)‍—  from...

When describing popular music artists, honorific nicknames are used, most often in the media or by fans, to indicate the significance of an artist, and...

contemporary genres of African popular music build on cross-pollination with Western popular music. Many genres of popular music like blues, jazz, salsa, zouk...

The Encyclopedia of Popular Music is an encyclopedia created in 1989 by Colin Larkin. It is the "modern man's" equivalent of the Grove Dictionary of Music...

American popular music (also referred to as "American Pop") is popular music produced in the United States and is a part of American pop culture. Distinctive...

Swedish popular music, or shortly Swedish pop music, refers to music that has swept the Swedish mainstream at any given point in recent times. After World...

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Nordic popular music, also referred to as Scandinavian popular music, includes pop and rock music of the Nordic countries. The musical scene is known...

The following is a list of notable performers of rock music and other forms of popular music, and others directly associated with the music as producers...