I find pop music fascinating but have trouble understanding what is actually considered pop music.
Its a type of genre. its really popular in the us and uk through the 1950s
Oh wow that far back? 
oh yea. pop music is known to be popular music also. they are usually used interchangeably.
I never realized that. Im sure its a big market?
The music industry in america is pretty diverse. it supports alot of regional styles.
Do other people in the world enjoy pop music as much as the Americans?
They say pop music is eclectic. it gets its style from other genres like rock, latin music and country.
Very cool. Ill have to check out some more pop music.
J-pop
J-pop (, "jeipoppu"; often stylized as J-POP; an abbreviation for Japanese pop), natively also known simply as , is a musical genre that entered the musical mainstream of Japan in the 1990s. Modern J-pop has its roots in traditional Japanese music, but significantly in 1960s pop and rock music, such as The Beatles and The Beach Boys, which led to Japanese rock bands such as Happy End fusing rock with Japanese music in the early 1970s. J-
Pop music
Pop music is a genre of popular music that originated in its modern form in the United States and United Kingdom during the mid-1950s. The terms "popular music" and "pop music" are often used interchangeably, although the former describes all music that is popular and includes many diverse styles. "Pop" and "rock" were roughly synonymous terms until the late 1960s, when they became increasingly differentiated from each other.
Although much of the music that appears on record charts is seen as pop music