pop
Pop
Pop Music
- Era
- 1950–present
- Origin
- Wherever the radio is
- Student playlists
- None yet
About this supergenre
Whatever is selling. A genre defined less by sound than by intent — radio-ready, mass-market, vocal-led, hook-first. Everything from Sinatra to Swift sits here.
Canonical reference: musicmap.info / pop
Inside pop music · 14 subgenre s on a mini-timeline
Each subgenre at its emergence year, oldest at top. This is what students curate playlists for — the granular level. Click any subgenre chip from the main map and you land on its row here.
- 1900s
- 1910s
- 1920s
- 1930s
- 1940s
- 1950s
- 1960s
- 1970s
- 1980s
- 1990s
- 2000s
- 2010s
- 2020s
- 2030s
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Vocal Pop (Tin Pan Alley)
1900
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Schlager
1950
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Brill Building Pop
1958
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Bubblegum Pop
1968
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Soft / Adult Contemporary
1970
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Dance-Pop
1980
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Synthpop
1980
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Teen Pop
1985
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Indie Pop
1986
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K-Pop
1992
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Britpop
1993
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Electroclash
1999
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Electropop
2005
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Hyperpop
2014
Connective tissue · 7 link s
How pop music relates to the rest of the map. Click any genre to follow the line.
Primary lineage
Direct parents and direct children — the main line.
Other influences
Cousin genres and indirect influences that shaped this supergenre.
Backlash / anti
Reactions against, not descents from — the genres this one defined itself against.
Student curations
No playlists for pop music yet.
This supergenre is waiting for a curator. If you're in MUSA 266 or MUSA 220 and this is your assignment, build a 5–10 track YouTube playlist and submit it through the course form.