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Meanings of popular music in English

Russian
популярная музыка
Portuguese
música popular
Catalan
música popular
Spanish
música popular

Musical work composed for mass appeal and usually dependent on mass media for transmission to large audiences.

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        популярная музыка
        Portuguese
        música popular
        Catalan
        música popular
        Spanish
        música popular

        Any genre of music having wide appeal (but usually only for a short time)

              música popular
              Synonyms
              Examples for "popular music genre"
              Examples for "popular music genre"
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              It's also the most downloaded genre online and this year overtook rock to become the most popular music genre in the US.
              Radio NZ
              2
              One of the popular music genres in South Africa is Zulu folk music, known as Maskandi.
              BBC
              Usage of popular music in English
              1
              One octave is the range in which popular music should be written.
              Writing for Vaudeville
              2
              Bette Midler The greatest voice in American popular music has been stilled.
              The South African
              3
              If there's no Louis Armstrong, there's no modern music or popular music.
              Ebony
              4
              It's popular music and it's the oom-pah songs that usually get through.
              The Guardian
              5
              I'd hate to tell you how unpopular popular music is with me.
              The Best Short Stories of 1915, and the Yearbook of the American...
              6
              The stars will work their way back through 40 years of popular music.
              The Irish Times
              7
              Sidemen were the foot soldiers of popular music in a time long past.
              The Irish Times
              8
              Currently, the top-ranked app in the competition is Pandora, a popular music-streaming service.
              Wired
              9
              Soul music is a wonderfully short but fertile period in American popular music.
              Reuters
              10
              It's interesting that a popular music form is taking this on.
              The new yorker
              11
              Kyary represents a new kind of J-Pop, or Japanese popular music.
              BBC
              12
              They meet to discuss Greek mythology, Renaissance art and popular music.
              The Irish Times
              13
              They performed Tejano music, a form of folk and popular music by Mexican-Americans.
              Ebony
              14
              Putland has photographed some of the most historic moments in popular music's history.
              The Guardian
              15
              I know a place where they play all the popular music.
              The Double Life Of Mr. Alfred Burton
              16
              Ode to Joy It's not just popular music The Muppets cover.
              Radio NZ
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              Translations for popular music
              Portuguese
              música popular
              Popular music through the time
              Popular music across language varieties
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              Ireland
              Common
              United States of America
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