Like Willie Dixon said, "The blues is the roots; everything else is the fruits".
Of course that's exaggerated, considering the bounty of music that came before the blues, but in terms of post-early 20th century popular music? May as well be true.
The reason most popular music is rooted in blues is probably because the blues is easier to work with than classical, jazz, or ethnic styles. And that shouldn't be perceived as a negative comment towards any of these roots styles, it's just that blues is more accessible, generally it's easier to approach and easier to absorb, easier to learn (although as with anything, immensely difficult to master), and easier to extract and build from.
For most listeners and consumers that can't be bothered to dive deeper into genres, blues rooted music is the happy middle ground. Everything else is either too dense (classical, jazz, avant-garde etc), or too dumb (dance music, mainstream rap and hip-hop).
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