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Originally Posted by jbc
I have thought that the term is short for popular and referrs to any music that is popular.
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I think there are two ways of using the word. One definition is what you just described whereby anyone who sells millions of albums is "pop". The other definition relates to pop as a genre. It's a style, usually with a heavy emphasis on vocals, rhythm and catchiness, that can be played by anyone regardless of whether they've sold millions of albums or not.