Pop music has absorbed influences from most other forms of popular music, but as a genre is particularly associated with the rock and roll and later rock style.

Pop music (a term that originally derives from an abbreviation of "popular") is usually understood to be commercially recorded music, often oriented towards a youth market, usually consisting of relatively short, simple love songs utilizing technological innovations to produce new variations on existing themes.

Pop music has absorbed influences from most other forms of popular music, but as a genre is particularly associated with the rock and roll and later rock style.

The term "pop song," is first recorded as being used in 1926 in the sense of a piece of music "having popular appeal“. Hatch and Millward indicate that many events in the history of recording in the 1920s can be seen as the birth of the modern pop music industry, including in country, blues and hillbilly music.

an aim of appealing to a general audience, rather than to a particular sub-culture or ideolog an emphasis on craftsmanship rather than formal "artistic" qualities an emphasis on recording, production, and technology, over live performance a tendency to reflect existing trends rather than progressive developments much pop music is intended to encourage dancing, or it uses dance-oriented beats or rhythms an aim of appealing to a general audience, rather than to a particular sub-culture or ideolog an emphasis on craftsmanship rather than formal "artistic" qualities an emphasis on recording, production, and technology, over live performance a tendency to reflect existing trends rather than progressive developments much pop music is intended to encourage dancing, or it uses dance-oriented beats or rhythms

The main medium of pop music is the song, often between two and a half and three and a half minutes in length, generally marked by a consistent and noticeable rhythmic element, a mainstream style and a simple traditional structure

Russian pop music is Russian-language pop music produced either in Russia or other countries. This is the successor to popular "variety" Soviet music with its pop idols such as Alla Pugachova or Valery Leontiev.

Modern-day mainstream Russian-language pop music is extremely diverse and has many ways to spread through the audience. The most famous pop stars can be seen on general television in music or talk shows, and also on music TV channels such as MTV Russia and Muz-TV. There are also Russian Pop radio stations, and there's been lots of one-hit-wonders in recent years.