By region: American pop - C-pop (Cantopop, Mandopop) - Europop (Nederpop) - Indian pop - J-pop - K-pop To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Mandopop is a colloquial abbreviation for Mandarin pop music. The term refers to C-pop in which the lyrics are in Mandarin Chinese. ... J-pop is an abbreviation of Japanese pop. ... K-pop is an abbreviation for Korean popular music, specifically from South Korea (there is practically no popular music industry in North Korea). ... For Popular music (music that is popular, rather than of a specific genre or style), see Popular music. ... Bubblegum pop (bubblegum rock, bubblegum music) is a genre of popular music and rock and roll. ... Futurepop is a recently-emerging electronic dance music genre, an outgrowth of electronic body music incorporating influences from synth pop (such as song structure and vocal style) and trance (uplifting, grandiose and arpeggiated synthesizer melodies). ... Indie rock is a subgenre of rock music often used to refer to bands that are on small independent record labels or that arent on labels at all. ... Pop punk is used for two separate subgenres of punk rock music: the kind typically found on Lookout! Records, which stray very little from the three-chord formula that The Ramones pioneered, as well as a newer subgenre of melodic, more emotional punk, which includes by bands like NOFX and... Pop rap is simply hip hop (rap) music with a very strong pop music influence. ... Power pop is a long-standing musical genre that draws its inspiration from 1960s British and American pop music. ... Synthpop is a style of popular music in which the synthesizer is the dominant musical instrument. ... Electropop (also called Technopop) is a subgenre of synth pop music which flourished during the early 1980s, although the first recordings were made in the late 1970s. ... Teen pop is a form of pop music that is light and dancey, made for and often by teenagers. ... mainstream pop music Traditional pop music is a genre of music which encompasses music that succeeded big band music and preceded rock and roll as the most popular kind of music in the United States, most of Europe, and some other parts of the world. ... American Pop is a 1981 American animated film directed by Ralph Bakshi. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Mandopop is a colloquial abbreviation for Mandarin pop music. The term refers to C-pop in which the lyrics are in Mandarin Chinese. ... Europop refers to a style of pop music that developed in Europe throughout the 1970s which emphasized catchy beats, slick songs and frothy lyrics. ... Nederpop is a Dutch term that was invented during the early 1980s to name the sudden growth of the Dutch language pop music of the Netherlands. ... Timeline and Samples Genres Classical (Carnatic and Hindustani) - Rock - Pop - Hip hop Awards Bollywood Music Awards - Punjabi Music Awards Charts Festivals Sangeet Natak Akademi – Thyagaraja Aradhana – Cleveland Thyagaraja Aradhana Media Sruti, The Music Magazine National anthem Jana Gana Mana, also national song Vande Mataram Music of the states Andaman and... J-pop is an abbreviation of Japanese pop. ... K-pop is an abbreviation for Korean popular music, specifically from South Korea (there is practically no popular music industry in North Korea). ...