Pop
Pop is popular music built around short, catchy songs with clear melodies and choruses, made to reach the widest possible audience.
Most pop songs run about three minutes, follow a verse and chorus pattern, and put the singer and the hook up front. The style took shape in the United States and Britain in the 1950s alongside rock and roll, and it has borrowed from whatever is current ever since: disco, hip hop, electronic dance music, Latin music. Unlike most genres, pop is defined less by a fixed sound than by its aim of mass appeal.
Artists it is known for: The Beatles, Michael Jackson, Madonna, Taylor Swift.
- Family
- Pop
- On Spotify
- A current genre
- What it is
- A broad heading
- From
- United States and United Kingdom, 1950s
- Also called
- pop music, popular music
- Trackify listeners who play it
- 77%
About 64,000 of 83,000 Trackify listeners with public profiles have pop among their top artists of the last four weeks. Rounded; updated 13 November 2026.
Pop artists
The Weeknd
Olivia Rodrigo
Ariana Grande
Taylor Swift
Rihanna
Lana Del Rey
Michael Jackson
Billie Eilish
Bruno Mars
Justin Bieber
The pop artists most Trackify listeners have in their top fifty. Each opens on Spotify.
Sources
The definition is written for this site from open sources, and was checked against them on 13 November 2026.