Adult-oriented pop music

Adult Oriented Pop Music is a term used in music radio programming. Although the specific composition of this genre of radio programming is debatable, it generally combines music selections from established formats such as Adult Contemporary (AC), Hot Adult Contemporary (Hot AC), Contemporary Hit Radio (CHR), and Gold.

One subjective element of defining this term rests on the definition of an "Adult listener". This may vary depending on the radio station's view of where the adult market starts and ends. While one station may chose to consider an audience in the, for example, 16+, 18+, 25+ or 35+ age group as adult listeners, another station may consider that the ages of 55 or 65 represent a "natural audience parameter".

General forms of
Western popular music

Major genres	Country Folk (contemporary) Jazz R&B Pop Rock

Song types	Car song Cover version Illustrated song Jingle Novelty song Pocket symphony Sentimental ballad Slow jam Standard Three-minute

Topics specific to
pop music style

Subgenres (by style)	Art Baroque Brill Building Bubblegum Chamber Country Dance Dark Dream Electronic Experimental Folk Hypnagogic Indie Jangle Noise Operatic Rap Reggae Rock Soul Progressive Psychedelic Sophisti-pop Surf Sunshine Swamp Synthpop Teen Tropical Twee Wonky Yé-yé

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Other topics

Regional scenes

Asia	Arabic Assyrian Chinese Mandarin Taiwanese Hong Kongese Cantopop Hong Kong English pop Indian Iranian Japanese Korean Global Pakistani Indonesian Lao Malaysian Philippine Thai Vietnamese Turkish

America	American Popular music Pop music Brazilian Latin Colombian Mexican

Europe	Azerbaijani British Europop Austropop French Greek Hungarian Italian Nederpop Serbian Swedish Russian SFR Yugoslavia Ukraine

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