popular music genre

Questions about popular music genre

What does popular music genre mean?

popular music genre means "any genre of music having wide appeal (but usually only for a short time)".

What is another word for popular music genre?

Close synonyms include popular music. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is popular music genre a common word?

popular music genre is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.