• Philippine Pop Music

Pop music is an ample imprecise category of modern music not defined by artistic considerations but by its potential audience mor prospective market. Pop is music composed with deliberate intent to appeal to the majority of its contemporaries. the term was an abbrevation and synonymous to popular music. the characteristics of pop music is in the song, this song lasts for about five minutes and with instrumentation that can range from an orchestra to a lone singer. this song are generally marked by a heavy rhythmic element, a mainstream style and traditional structure.

1970s is the time when our music riegn, Filipino music was growing more nationalistic and socio-political in nature, as well as using tagalog more often. Popular or Pop music still dominates the airwaves with artists such as the Apo Hiking Society and Hotdog. The songs like "Ang Miss Universe ng Buhay Ko" (The Miss Universe of My Life) of Hotdog combined Filipino and English words within the same song. This helped innovate the so-called "Manila Sound". OPM (Original Pilipino music) also became popular.