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10th May 2024, 12:44 AM
	mister_tmg Also on 78rpm Member since Apr 2012 1118 Points	Pridesale wrote: "popular" is an industry genre , as in "jazz" "classical" , not a reporting of massive sales of any kind of discs. In all honesty half at least of the music filed under popular is dire. In the uk although derived from Popular "Pop" is sort of different being generally more upbeat with the likes of Rock as sub genre. Perry Como and Donald Peers were "Popular" Artists, the kind of whoms LPs you bought for you mum's birthday Pop music is just "mainstream" music with mass appeal really, in the form of short pieces, usually with vocals. Isn't it the same definition in the US, and around the world? The genre name doesn't always mean that a record was "popular". I think when you say half of it is dire, it's down to personal taste. One man's meat is another man's poison. Yes, Perry Como and Donald Peers would have been filed under "Pop" at one point, although when their LPs were being bought for your mum's birthday, they had probably become "easy listening". But Mike is referring to the Alan Dean record being "popular" in the sense of achieving big enough sales figures to have qualified for the retrospective "missing charts". Pridesale, an epitaph is what one puts on a gravestone! There are a few definitions of it here. Americans seem to refer to pre-rock music of this nature as "traditional pop".