Week onee- What is Popular Music?

Popular music can be broken down into two sections. Popular music can be the music at this current time that is in the charts or in the download charts this is what is popular, although popular music could also bee looking at the music from different decades which where popular then and some music from that time that is still popular. A good example of this are ‘The Beatles’, they were extremely popular when they were recording, and there music is still popular today in that it is still used for various advertising as it relates to the people. Pop music could be a separate music genre on it’s own like Classical music or garage music. Pop music is normally cheesy music from people for instance like the cheeky girls or the spice girls. These groups are given this stereotype for the music that they create, normally up beat catchy songs.