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Originally Posted by sxesven
You're both halfway right. Pop is a very broad genre, though it's often only considered as the kind of music that is, indeed, on the Billboard Pop Chart. However, like I said, pop is a very broad genre, and includes pretty much everything leave for a couple of genres (e.g. jazz, avant-garde, classical music).
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Recently, though, I've heard lots about that jazz, classical music, and so on, can be included. It counts as popular music because people listen to it. Especially, there's radio channels with classical music only.
Technically popular music includes everything that a kind of majority listens to.
I think it's about time they actually split it into the genre "pop", which would include the most basic pop sound and anything close enough to be called pop.
And the term "popular music", that includes everything of what pop originally is/means/meant.
Genres is mainly for the ease of categorizing, for the music resellers, anyway
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Nothing is certain, especially when it's all so much based on personal taste. It fluctuates with the opinions of the majority, like everything else that has anything to do with language.