Styles of pop music
Pop music is a genre of popular music that originated in its modern form during the mid-1950s in the United States and the United Kingdom. The terms popular music and pop music are often used interchangeably, although the former describes all music that is popular and includes many disparate styles. During the 1950s and 1960s, pop music encompassed rock and roll and the youth-oriented styles it influenced. Rock and pop music remained roughly synonymous until the late 1960s, after which pop became associated with music that was more commercial, ephemeral, and accessible.
Although much of the music that appears on record charts is seen as pop music, the genre is distinguished from chart music. Identifying factors usually include repeated choruses and hooks, short to medium-length songs written in a basic format (often the verse-chorus structure), and rhythms or tempos that can be easily danced to. Much pop music also borrows elements from other styles such as rock, urban, dance, Latin, and country.
Below are list of styles of pop music.

Stylistic origins
Traditional pop
Traditional pop (also known as classic pop and pre-rock and roll pop) is Western popular music that generally pre-dates the advent of rock and roll in the mid-1950s. The most popular and enduring songs from this era of music are known as pop standards or American standards. The works of these songwriters and composers are usually considered part of the canon known as the "Great American Songbook". More generally, the term "standard" can be applied to any popular song that has become very widely known within mainstream culture.
AllMusic defines traditional pop as "post-big band and pre-rock & roll pop music".

Rock and roll
Rock and roll (often written as rock & roll, rock 'n' roll, or rock 'n roll) is a genre of popular music that evolved in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950s. It originated from black American music such as gospel, jump blues, jazz, boogie woogie, rhythm and blues, as well as country music. While rock and roll's formative elements can be heard in blues records from the 1920s and in country records of the 1930s, the genre did not acquire its name until 1954.

Earliest form
Early pop music drew on the sentimental ballad for its form, gained its use of vocal harmonies from gospel and soul music, instrumentation from jazz and rock music, orchestration from classical music, tempo from dance music, backing from electronic music, rhythmic elements from hip-hop music, and spoken passages from rap.

Subgenres
Below are genres that exclusively considered as subgenres of pop.
Note that music styles like dance, electronic, opera, and orchestra are not considered as standalone genres.

Art pop
Brill Building
Bubblegum
cringe pop
Dance-pop
Electropop
Operatic pop
Orchestral pop
Sad pop
Schlager
Sophisti-pop
Sunshine pop
Teen pop
Wonky pop
Fusion genres
Below are styles of pop music that mixed with other standalone genres.

Ambient pop
Country pop
Dancehall pop
Folk-pop
Hip pop
House-pop
House-pop (sometimes also called "pop-house") is a crossover of house and dance-pop music that emerged in early '90s. The genre was came for make house music more radio friendly. The characteristic of house-pop is similar to diva house music, like over-the-top vocal acrobatics, bubbly synth riffs, and four-on-the-floor rhythm. House-pop also has hip-hop influence.

Jazz pop
Pop-R&B
Pop rock
Baroque pop
Cowboy pop
Emo pop
Goth pop
Indie pop
Jangle pop
Pop metal
Pop punk
Power pop
Pop-soul
Pop soul is a genre of soul music that has upbeat tempo and given a commercially viable, crossover production. The vocals are still raw, but the material and the sound of the record could easily fit onto pop radio stations' playlists. Motown was the pioneering label of pop soul, and through much of the 1960s, it was one of the most popular pop music genres. In the 1970s, pop soul became slicker, and it eventually metamorphosed into disco. Luther Vandross is an example of pop soul musician.

Beach
Psychedelic pop
Hypnagogic pop
Space age pop
Synth-pop
Worldbeat
Avant-garde related genres
Below are pop music that related to avant-garde culture.

Experimental pop
Hyperpop
Industrial pop
Noise pop
Progressive pop
Regional scenes and subgenres
Popular music scenes
Other related genres
Contemporary Christian music
Motown
New wave
Rock music
Smooth jazz
Smooth soul
Other genres
Below are 'pop' genres that are not considered as pop musics.

Avant-pop
Bitpop
Britpop
Chamber pop
Dream pop
Futurepop
Swamp pop


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