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
Pakistani pop music Many new bands are still performing but unfortunately Pakistani music channels are not giving enough time to these emerging talents, instead they are playing Bollywood music all the time. Moreover, the new wave of cinema in Pakistan is supporting the pop/rock music scene, as most of the background scores and OSTs of new movies are being produced by pop/rock artists. Pop/rock artists like Atif Aslam, Rahat Fateh Ali Khan and Ali Zafar are equally popular in India through their Bollywood acts. With the change in times, most pop songs are undermined with political messages like the Aalu Anday by the