Pop music originated around 50 years ago and began gaining mainstream popularity with Elvis Presley in the 1950s. Pop music is characterized by short, simple songs that utilize technology to produce variations on familiar themes and are often aimed at a youth audience. Key figures like Michael Jackson and The Beatles helped establish pop music as a commercial genre that absorbed influences from other popular styles. Pop artists frequently rose to fame at a young age and produced albums featuring danceable songs that sometimes had "cheesy" or soppy lyrics. Major pop albums from 1970 to the present spanned artists from Michael Jackson and Madonna to Justin Bieber, Lady Gaga, and Rihanna.

1. Genre Research
Pop

2. Introduction
Pop music is usually understood to be
commercially recorded music, often oriented
towards a youth market, usually consisting of
relatively short, simple songs utilizing
technological innovations to produce new
variations on existing themes. Pop music has
absorbed influences from most other forms of
popular music, such as Pop Rock.

3. Origins
The term "pop song," is first recorded as being used in 1926
in the sense of a piece of music "having popular appeal".
Pop Music began roughly 50 years ago. Its date of birth, is
difficult to define. What is indisputable is that Elvis Presley,
was the first, and perhaps the most dynamic, expression of a
music that was raw and primal, charged with a sexual
tension that was best measured by the shrill din of the adult
voices attempting to shout it down.
At that moment the notion of youth, both as a culture and a
demographic, was born; it defines our culture now to a
degree that we no longer question.

4. Pop Facts
Michael Jackson was often referred to as the King of Pop.
The Beatles were said to be the biggest pop band of all time.
Pop artists often started in the music business from a very
young age. Eg. Michael Jackson, Britney Spears, Justin
Bieber.
Sometimes people refer to pop music as cheesy pop when it
involves dance moves and soppy lyrics.
If pop music stands for popular music then technically all
the music in the charts could be classed as pop music.

5. Albums
Key Pop Albums:
1970 - 1980
Michael Jackson - Thriller ABBA – Super Trouper Duran Duran - Rio Madonna – True Blue
The Osmonds – The Very
Wham! – Make It Big Kylie Minogue - Kylie Nsync – No Strings Attached
Best Of The Osmonds

6. Albums
Key Pop Albums:
1990 - 2005
Britney Spears – Oops…I
Spice Girls - Spice S Club 7 - S Club Boyzone – Where We
did it again
Belong
Nsync – No Strings Attached Steps Take That – Everything Changes Christina Aguilera

7. Albums
Key Pop Albums:
2005 - Present
Justin Bieber – My World 2.0 Lady Gaga – Born This Way The Wanted Selena Gomez – Kiss & Tell
Miley Cyrus - Breakout Jessie J – Who You Are Katy Perry – Teenage Dream Rihanna - LOUD