Pop music genres

Europop (also Euro pop) refers to a style of pop music that originated in Europe during the late-1960s and developed to today's form throughout the late 1970s.

Yé-yé (French pronunciation: ​[jeje]) was a style of pop music that emerged from France, Italy, Spain and Portugal in the early 1960s.

Teen pop is a subgenre of pop music that is created, marketed and oriented towards preteens and teenagers.

Country pop is a subgenre of country music and pop music that developed as a result of the country genre's desire to reach a larger, mainstream audience.

Kayōkyoku (歌謡曲, literally "Pop Tune") is a Japanese pop music genre, which became a base of modern J-pop.

Adult contemporary music (AC) is a style of music, ranging from 1960s vocal and 1970s soft rock music to predominantly ballad-heavy music of the present day, with varying degrees of easy listening, pop, soul, rhythm and blues, quiet storm, and rock influence.

Sophisti-pop is a subgenre of pop music that emerged during the mid-1980s in the UK.

Manele (from Romanian, fem. sg. manea; pl. manele, the plural form being more common) is a music style from Romania.

Crunkcore (also called crunk punk, screamo crunk, crunk rock, and scrunk) is a musical genre that combines crunk with the vocal style of screamo.

Turbo-folk (Serbian: турбо фолк, turbo folk), is a musical genre that originated in Serbia.

Bubblegum pop (also known as bubblegum music or simply bubblegum) is a genre of pop music with an upbeat sound contrived and marketed to appeal to pre-teens and teenagers, that may be produced in an assembly-line process, driven by producers and often using unknown singers.

Lounge music is a type of easy listening music popular in the 1950s and 1960s.

Smooth jazz is a popular genre of music that grew out of jazz and is influenced by rhythm and blues, funk, rock and roll, and pop music styles (separately, or, in any combination).

Chillwave (also referred to as glo-fi, downtempo pop, or hypnagogic pop) is a genre of music characterized by a faded or dreamy retro pop sound and use of lo-fi recording techniques, effects processing, vintage synthesizers, and other attempts to loosely emulate 1980s electronic music aesthetics as well as engage with notions of memory and nostalgia.

Pop-rap (also known as hip pop) is a genre of music fusing the rhythm-based lyricism of hip hop music with pop music's preference for melodious vocals and catchy tunes, which gained mainstream popularity during the 1990s.

The California Sound refers to a popular music aesthetic engendered by American pop and rock recording artists from Southern California in the 1960s.

Orchestral pop refers to popular music that has been arranged and performed by a symphonic orchestra.

Skiladiko or Skyladiko Greek pronunciation: [sciˈlaðiko], (Greek: Σκυλάδικο), is a derogatory term to describe a branch of laiko music and some of the current nightclubs in Greece in which this music is performed.

Hokkien pop (福建話流行音樂), also known as Taiwanese pop (台語流行音樂), Tai-pop, T-pop, and Taiwanese song (台灣歌), Fukienese pop, Southern Min pop (閩南語流行音樂), Minnan pop, Minnopop, Hoklo pop, and Holo pop, is a C-pop genre sung in the Hokkien dialect and produced mainly in Taiwan.

Piano rock is a style of rock music which features the piano, typically replacing guitar as the lead instrument, as opposed to the majority of rock subgenres.

Thai pop music is a genre of Thai music roughly equivalent to western pop.

Austropop is pop music from Austria, which came into use in the late 1960s, but had its heyday in the 1970s and early and up until the mid 1980s.

Hypnagogic pop is a musical sensibility that emerged in the mid-2000s and was marked by a preoccupation with cultural memory and nostalgia, particularly in relation to 1980s music, popular culture, and technology.

Neon pop is a subgenre of pop punk.

Group Sounds (G.S.) is a genre of Japanese rock music which became popular in the mid to late 1960s and initiated the fusion of Japanese kayōkyoku music and Western rock music.

Vispop is the Swedish name for a genre of music which became popular in the Scandinavian countries in the mid-1960s.

Swamp pop is a musical genre indigenous to the Acadiana region of south Louisiana and an adjoining section of southeast Texas.

Sundanese pop or Pop sunda is Indonesian pop music which is a blend of traditional Sundanese music with contemporary western pop music.

Space age pop is a music genre associated with Mexican and American composers and songwriters in the space age of the 1950s and 1960s.

Sunshine pop (first known as soft pop) is a subgenre of pop music originating in Southern California in the mid-1960s, although it only acquired the name later.

Experimental pop is pop music that cannot be categorized within traditional musical boundaries or which attempts to push elements of existing popular forms into new areas.

Wong shadow was a genre of Thai pop music current in the early 1960s.

Italo dance, also known as nu Italo disco, nu-Italo or just Italo, is an offshoot of the Eurodance music genre, which was especially popular in Europe in the late 1990s to the early 2000s.

Brill Building (also known as Brill Building pop or the Brill Building Sound) is a subgenre of pop music named after the Brill Building in New York City, where numerous teams of professional songwriters penned songs for girl groups and teen idols in the early 1960s.

Popcorn (sometimes Belgian popcorn or oldies popcorn) is a style of music and dancing first established in Belgium in the 1970s and 1980s.

The Nashville sound originated during the mid 1950s as a subgenre of American country music, replacing the chart dominance of the rough honky tonk music which was most popular in the 1940s and 1950s with "smooth strings and choruses", "sophisticated background vocals" and "smooth tempos".

Nederbeat (also: Nederbiet) was the Dutch rock boom of mid-1960s influenced by British beat groups, led by The Beatles and The Rolling Stones and, much like British freakbeat, it is essentially the Dutch counterpart to American garage rock.

Čalgija or Chalgiya (Macedonian language: Чалгија; Bulgarian language: Чалгия) is a Macedonian and Bulgarian music genre, often referred to as Pop-folk, which also is a subgenre of the old urban traditional folk music (starogradska muzika) of Republic of Macedonia and Bulgaria.

Slutwave is a pejorative applied as if it were a musical genre to female pop music stars which emerged in the late 2000s.

Tallava or Talava is a music genre originating in Kosovo, also popular in Albania and in the Albanian-speaking communities in the Republic of Macedonia.

Mexican pop is a music genre produced in Mexico, particularly intended for teenagers and young adults.

Chalga is a Bulgarian music genre, often referred to as pop-folk, short for "popular folk".