'Popular' is defined in the Oxford Dictionary as "liked or enjoyed by a large number of people". The term ‘popular’ has changed through out the century’s; ‘Key words’ by Raymond Williams explains the term ‘popular’ was something for the “common people”, until the 18 century when the meaning became “widely favored”.
Popular music is something that is well loved at a specific time; an example of this is when the BBC had ‘Nessun Dorma’ by Luciano Pavarotti playing during the coverage of the Wold cup. This ‘higher class music’ was distributed to a contrasting audience who would normally have not listen to it. The resulted in an overwhelming increases in the circulation of the song. This shows that ‘popular music’ is something that can’t be defined as a genre, in fact Popular music is something that almost has no definitive definition.
This is a pretty decent summary, although there are one or two dodgy typos, be careful with those.
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