Pop music sampling (from the 1980s) have also been utilized as methods for the creation and elaboration of pop music. By the early 1980s, the promotion of pop music had been greatly affected by the rise of music television channels like MTV, which "favoured those artists such as Michael Jackson and Madonna who had a strong visual appeal". The latter half of the 20th-century included a large-scale trend in American culture in which the boundaries between art and pop music were increasingly blurred. Between 1950 and 1970, there was a debate of pop versus art. Since then, certain music publications have embraced
Thai pop music of Thai pop culture in the international, such as "lakhon" (Thai television drama), music or movies. It is a term created to compare Korean Wave or K-Wave. In the period since 2000, Thailand has been exporting many kinds of cultural products to many countries especially in ASEAN. They are very popular in Vietnam, Myanmar, Laos, Cambodia or even Mainland China. Thai pop music A Thai pop, or T-pop, is a genre of Thai music roughly equivalent to western pop. It emerged during the 1970s–80s, and was during that period known as String music (). It took over mainstream popularity during