Pop · GenresWhat is pop?
Pop music is a broad-term for many different types of music: The term is flexible, and the music labeled "pop" changes frequently. It usually refers to popular, appealing and mostly mainstream music with emphasis on catchy melodies and an accessible style, with songs that tend to have a short to medium length.
About pop
Some subgenres may include synthpop, electropop, bubblegum, sophisti-pop, hyperpop and many others.
From Last.fm, where 234,248 listeners have tagged music as pop.
Artists to start with
Albums to hear first
Sweetener
Fever
Mind of Mine (Deluxe Edition)
The Dutchess
The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess
Born This Way
Spice
Be Not NobodyPop songs
- The One That Got Away by Katy Perry
- Locked Out of Heaven by Bruno Mars
- thank u, next by Ariana Grande
- no tears left to cry by Ariana Grande
- Love You Like a Love Song by Selena Gomez & the Scene
- Toxic by Britney Spears
- Paparazzi by Lady Gaga
- Blank Space by Taylor Swift
- deja vu by Olivia Rodrigo
- Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.) by Katy Perry
Pop on Risocast
StarboyThe Weeknd · 2016
Good Girl Gone Bad: ReloadedRihanna · 2008
Good Girl Gone BadRihanna · 2007
Beauty Behind The MadnessThe WeekndSOSSZA · 2022
Rumours (Super Deluxe)Fleetwood Mac · 1977
The Best of SadeSade · 1994
Future NostalgiaDua Lipa · 2020
Hot N ColdKaty PerryLosing My ReligionR.E.M. · 1991
Neighbouring genres
In the pop family. All genres
art popbedroom popbritpopalt-popbubblegum popjangle poppop punkconfessional popeuropophypnagogic popindie poppop rockQuestions
- What is pop?
- Pop music is a broad-term for many different types of music: The term is flexible, and the music labeled "pop" changes frequently. It usually refers to popular, appealing and mostly mainstream music with emphasis on catchy melodies and an accessible style, with songs that tend to have a short to medium length. Some subgenres may include synthpop, electropop, bubblegum, sophisti-pop, hyperpop and many others.
- Who are the best-known pop artists?
- By Last.fm listening: Ariana Grande, Sabrina Carpenter, Olivia Rodrigo, ADÉLA, Lady Gaga and Michael Jackson.
- What genres are similar to pop?
- On Risocast it sits with art pop, bedroom pop, britpop, alt-pop, bubblegum pop and jangle pop.
Risocast is free. Install it once and it logs everything you play.
Updated 6 October 2026
Risocast HelpA music log that fills itself in. It records the songs you play on your computer and your phone, turns them into your top songs, stats and a public profile, and finds people whose taste overlaps with yours.
Yes. The app and the website are free.
A song counts once half of it has played, or four minutes — whichever comes first. Songs of 30 seconds or less, and videos or podcasts over 20 minutes, never count.
On Windows, anything that shows up in Windows' media controls: Spotify, YouTube Music, Apple Music, Deezer, browsers, foobar2000, Windows Media Player and more (VLC, iTunes and MusicBee through their free media-controls plugin). On Android, any music app — it reads the same now-playing info your lock screen shows. You can also connect Spotify or import from Last.fm.
Yes. Plays are counted on your device and sent when you're back online, and the phone app opens without a connection.
It does the same core job — scrobbling, automatically — without plugins per player, and adds taste matching: see who listens like you and how much your taste overlaps.
Your profile and listening are public so people with similar taste can find you, unless you make your profile private (then only your buddies see it); your email never is. Nothing is sold and there are no ads; anonymous usage analytics (Microsoft Clarity, Google Analytics) show what to improve. See the privacy policy for the details.
More in Help, the guides and the privacy policy.
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On Windows, Risocast reads the system media controls, so any player counts: Spotify, YouTube Music, Apple Music, Deezer, browsers, foobar2000. No plugins.
On Android the app reads what any music app is playing (it's coming to Google Play). Anywhere else, connect Spotify or a Last.fm username.
Taste twins
See how much your taste overlaps with anyone's, and find the people who listen most like you. The match comes from what you both actually play, not a list of favourites.
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Risocast is free for Windows 10 and 11. Android is coming to Google Play; on any other device, use the web app with Spotify or Last.fm.
- Version 4.0.9 · Windows 10 and 11 (64-bit) · about 100 MB
- Updates itself: new versions download in the background and install on restart.
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