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Back in the 1920's, jazz, rock and roll, and a few other genres of music inspired pop music many years later. It later started other music things, such as R&B, dance, and many more. -
Bing Crosby was the one who started pop music, he was the first pop music artist. For this, he was known as the king of pop. -
Pop music started in the United states and the United Kingdom. -
Slightly before rock and roll started, pop rock started to become popular in the late 1950s. -
In the 1960s, pop music started to form into smaller genres, such as this one. It became a big hit in this time period. This decade was also known as the best era of pop music. -
Right before pop music became super popular, one thing that got so many people to listen is by having a portable radio. Pop music rose after soon many people were buying them. -
Disco started to awaken pop music. Micheal Jackson and Madonna were known as the queen and king of pop when this happened. -
In the 1980s, dance pop was invented after many artists started using synthesizers and electric sounds in their music. This was very revolutionary for pop. -
In the 1980s, digital recording was found, which helped pop artists and the genre in general more appealing. Pop music became more popular and appealing to others. -
in the 1990s after pop started to become a big thing, girl groups and boy bands started to become popular. -
In the early 2000s, pop music started to find new genres, such as hip hop and grunge. Hip hop ended up revolutionizing pop music for forever. -
As Micheal Jackson and Madonna were the king and queen of pop in the 1980s, Britney Spears took this role in the early 2000s when her music became popular. -
Around the mid 2000s, artists such as Taylor Swift, Katy Perry, and more started making this genre into their own style. They grew fame quickly. -
By the end of the 2000s, pop music starts to evolve from rock to hip hop. Rock music started the decade strong but slowly died down as hip hip took that fame. -
Pop music has never really been its own genre, when it first started in the 1920s, it started from jazz music, and then soon evolved into many other genres, which is why there are so many pop genres out there today.