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Definition of 'popular music'

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popular music in British English

noun
music having wide appeal, esp characterized by lightly romantic or sentimental melodies.
See also pop2
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It was something new in popular music and it worked.
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It was something new in popular music and it worked.
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It used to be classical and popular music.
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 Elderly ladies want to be popular music fans.
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He chose not popular music, but classical compositions, from the last century.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
Which, you have to admit, is hardly a new theme within popular music.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
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