What Is Popular Music?

What Is Popular Music? Thats a good question. To me, popular music is exactly what it says. In my opinion, it doesnt matter how popular the music is, its the fact that someone likes it that makes it so. It isnt genre specific, so it could be Jazz, Metal, Rock, Pop, whatever. My old exaplanation would have been music that was in the charts, commercial, and generally music that involved the singers having everything done for them, except the vocals which they would record and then use pro-tools to polish up on. Whilst I believe this to still be generally true, I have come to realise that it doesnt have to be any of the above, but these are, to me, general conventions of what makes popular music, but are specifically associated with the genre of pop music, rather than the term. Its important listeners can distinguish between the two.