Pop music is a music genre that developed from the mid-1950s as a softer alternative to rock 'n' roll and later to rock music. It has a focus on commercial recording, often orientated towards a youth market, usually through the medium of relatively short and simple love songs. While these basic elements of the genre have remained fairly constant, pop music has absorbed influences from most other forms of popular music, particularly borrowing from the development of rock music, and utilizing key technological innovations to produce new variations on existing themes. (via Wikipedia)

About Pop music

Name: Pop music

Origin: 1950s, United Kingdom and United States

Instruments: Vocals • Electric guitar • Bass guitar • Drums • Keyboards • Synthesizer • Drum machine • Sequencer • Sampler

Subgenre: Baroque pop • Bubblegum pop • Dance-pop • Electropop • Mashup • Operatic pop • Power pop • Sophisti-pop • Space age pop • Sunshine pop • Teen pop

Stylistic Origins: Rock and roll • Jazz • Doo-wop • Folk • Dance music