Otherwise, "Pop music" is just whatever you hear on Top 40 radio, and for the most part driven by corporate interests which push whatever trends are bringing in the most money at the time.

Absolutely PERFECT spot on definition of what pop is!

Pop music is basically anything that's popular or easy to listen to.

hm.......
 

I just wonder
Can you really label a song as pop if it isn't popular at all

Maybe you should take the time to read other people's posts before putting up your own.

Yes.

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According to good ol' Wiki, But honestly it's like God, everyone has a different idea about it's meaning

Do people think pendulum are pop? they are my fav artist at the mo, and are played on radio one all the time, so i guess that makes them pop? When i first like them i would say they were dnb, now they are almost rock. Still love them tho, best live act Ive seen! What do peeps think?

This peep thinks pop is indeed a very slippery definition - by all means a song can definitely have a "pop" sound - ie, if it has a good layer of radio sheen, if you can tell it was at least designed to appeal to a wide audience, even if it doesn't... it could be called a "pop" song...

Nonetheless, sometimes songs that aren't particularly designed to be mass appealing songs, suddenly, strangely, gain a mass audience, and get somewhat canonized into the realms of "pop" music... and thus they fit a different, more loose definition of "pop" music... music that has sold alot of copies, has alot of listeners, etc...

But hey, before you panic, folks, this is just a basic description of how the whole world of musical innovation works... underground invents, gains p[opularity, the face of music changes, the newly born style gets insanely popular, runs out of steam, making way for a new underground to rise, and the process starts agains...

"and it's all just a little bit of history repeating..."

They were never Drum 'n Bass really but yes I would say they were pop. They are commercially successful enough now to be considered pop music.

They always sounded pretty poppy to me... so yeah, they're pop!