Pop or POP may refer to:

Arts, entertainment, and media

Pop music Pop music is a genre of popular music that originated in its modern form during the mid-1950s in the United States and the United Kingdom.S. Frith, W. Straw, and J. Street, eds, ''iarchive:cambridgecompani00frit, The Cambridge Companion to Pop ...

, a musical genre

Artists

* POP, a Japanese idol group now known as

Gang Parade , stylized as GANG PARADE (formerly known as Pla2me (プラニメ) and POP (ピオピ)) is a Japanese alternative idol girl group formed in 2014. In 2020, Gang Parade split into two groups: Go to the Beds and Paradises. They resumed activities i ...

Pop! (British group) Pop! were a British pop group consisting of Glen Ball, Hannah Lewis, Jamie Tinkler, and Jade McGuire. The group was formed in the summer of 2003 when they were signed by Pete Waterman. They released three Single (music), singles on the Sony B ...

, a UK pop group *

Pop! featuring Angie Hart 'Pop!'' is an Australian studio band formed in the 1990s. It was formed as a side project of Amy Flower (formerly known as Tony Stott) of now defunct Melbourne band About Six Feet. Together with Frente's Angie Hart they recorded the song " Ting ...

, an Australian band

Albums

* ''Pop'' (Gas album) * ''Pop'' (Joachim Witt album) * ''Pop'' (Mao Abe album) * ''Pop'' (Same Difference album) * ''Pop'' (Tones on Tail album) * ''Pop'' (U2 album) * ''Pop'', an album by Topi Sorsakoski and Agents * '' P.O.P'', The Mad Capsule Markets album * ''

Pop! The First 20 Hits ''Pop! The First 20 Hits'' is a greatest hits collection from Erasure, released on 16 November 1992 in Germany and the UK and 24 November 1992 in the United States. The album utilises a straightforward format: all of Erasure's singles up to th ...

'', an album by English duo Erasure

EPs

* ''P.O.P.'' (EP), a 2024 EP by Marina Satti

Songs

* "Pop" (NSYNC song), a 2001 song * "Pop!" (Nayeon song), a song from the album ''Im Nayeon'' * "Pop", a song by A.R. Kane * "Pop", a song by Ari Lennox from ''

Shea Butter Baby ''Shea Butter Baby'' is the debut studio album by American singer Ari Lennox. It was released on May 7, 2019, by Dreamville and Interscope Records. The album was executive produced by Dreamville producer Elite. In addition, the majority of the al ...

'' * "Pop", a song by La Oreja de Van Gogh from ''

El viaje de Copperpot ''El viaje de Copperpot'' (''Copperpot's Voyage'') is Spanish pop rock band La Oreja de Van Gogh's second studio album, issued by Epic Records on 11 September 2000. It was the band's first album to feature a bonus track. ''El viaje de Copperpot'' ...

'' * "Pop", a song by Death Grips from ''

No Love Deep Web ''No Love Deep Web'' is the second studio album by American experimental hip hop group Death Grips, originally released via their website on October 1, 2012. Recorded from May to August 2012, it exhibited what the group described as a darker, more ...

'' * "Pop!", a song from ''

The Wedding Singer ''The Wedding Singer'' is a 1998 American romantic comedy film directed by Frank Coraci, written by Tim Herlihy, and produced by Robert Simonds and Jack Giarraputo. The film stars Adam Sandler, Drew Barrymore, and Christine Taylor, and tells th ...

'' musical

Periodicals

* ''Pop'' (fashion magazine), a British publication * ''

Pop Magazine ''Pop Magazine'' was a quarterly, free press, action sports magazine, published in Australia from 2005 to 2015. Similar to the American magazine, ''Blisss'', it covered skateboarding, snowboarding and surfing news along with interviews and a li ...

'', a sports magazine

Television

Pop (American TV channel) Pop, commonly referred to as Pop TV (formerly known as Electronic Program Guide, Prevue Guide, Prevue Channel, TV Guide Channel, and TV Guide Network), is an American pay television channel owned by Paramount Global under its networks division ...

, formerly TVGN *

Pop (British and Irish TV channel) Pop (stylized as PoP or POP) is a British free-to-air children's television channel owned by Narrative Entertainment UK Limited, targeting audiences aged 6 to 10. Launched on 29 May 2003 as ''Toons&Tunes'' by Chart Show Channels (CSC) Media ...

, for children *

Pop (Slovenian TV channel) Pop TV is a Slovenian Generalist channel, generalist television channel operated by Pro Plus d.o.o., a subsidiary of Central European Media Enterprises (CME), which is in turn owned by Czech Republic, Czech investment company PPF (company), PPF. ...

, Slovenia *

Pop (Pakistani TV channel) Pop (stylized as PoP or POP) is a British free-to-air children's television channel owned by Narrative Entertainment UK Limited, targeting audiences aged 6 to 10. Launched on 29 May 2003 as ''Toons&Tunes'' by Chart Show Channels (CSC) Media ...

, for children *

Pop (Italy) Pop (stylized as PoP or POP) is a British free-to-air children's television, children's television channel owned by Narrative Entertainment UK Limited, targeting audiences aged 6 to 10. Launched on 29 May 2003 as ''Toons&Tunes'' by Chart Show C ...

, for children

Toys

* POP! vinyl figurines from

Funko Funko Inc. is an American company that manufactures Brand licensing, licensed and limited popular culture, pop culture collectibles, known for its licensed Polyvinyl chloride, vinyl figurines and bobbleheads. In addition, the company produces li ...

Princess of Power Princess of Power (sometimes abbreviated as POP and informally referred to as ''She-Ra'', after the lead heroine) is a toyline created by Mattel. Among others, it features the characters of She-Ra and Catra on planet Etheria. With its launch ...

, Mattel toys

Video games

* ''

Prince of Persia ''Prince of Persia'' is a video game franchise created by Jordan Mechner. It is centered around a series of action-adventure games focused on various incarnations of the eponymous Prince, set in ancient and medieval Persia. The first two ga ...

'', video game franchise * ''Pop'' (video game)

Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media

* PoP!, the fictional band in ''

Music and Lyrics ''Music and Lyrics'' is a 2007 American Musical film, musical romantic comedy, romantic comedy-drama film written and directed by Marc Lawrence (filmmaker), Marc Lawrence. It focuses on the relationship that evolves between a former pop music ido ...

'' *

Pokémon Organized Play is a Japanese media franchise consisting of List of Pokémon video games, video games, Pokémon (TV series), animated series and List of Pokémon films, films, Pokémon Trading Card Game, a trading card game, and other related media. The fran ...

, trading cards

Commerce

* Pop, slang for pawning goods with a

pawnbroker A pawnbroker is an individual that offers secured loans to people, with items of personal property used as Collateral (finance), collateral. A pawnbrokering business is called a pawnshop, and while many items can be pawned, pawnshops typic ...

Pay on production Pay on production (PoP) is a special build-operate-transfer (BOT) model, where payment is made to a supplier by the original equipment manufacturer (OEM) per piece produced on the supplier's own equipment by the OEM's employees. Description Mo ...

Point of purchase The point of sale (POS) or point of purchase (POP) is the time and place at which a retail transaction is completed. At the point of sale, the merchant calculates the amount owed by the customer, indicates that amount, may prepare an invoice ...

, used often in retail * Proof of principle *

Proof-of-payment Proof-of-payment (POP) or proof-of-fare (POF) is an honor-based fare collection system used on many public transportation systems. Instead of checking each passenger as they enter a fare control zone, passengers are required to carry a paper ...

, a fare collection approach

Organizations

Eton Society Eton College ( ) is a public school providing boarding education for boys aged 13–18, in the small town of Eton, in Berkshire, in the United Kingdom. It has educated prime ministers, world leaders, Nobel laureates, Academy Award and BAFTA ...

, nickname *

Pencils of Promise Pencils of Promise (PoP) is a US non-profit organization that builds schools and increases educational opportunities in the developing world. Pencils of Promise was founded by Adam Braun. Since its founding in October 2008, the 501(c)(3) organ ...

, a charity * Pop, a US company owned by Advance Publications Inc.

Places

* Gregorio Luperón International Airport (IATA code POP), Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic * Pop, a tributary of the river

Jijia The Jijia () () is a river in Ukraine and the Moldavia region of Romania, a right tributary of the Prut. It rises in Ukraine at an altitude of 410 metres, flows south in Botoșani County through the town of Dorohoi and meets the Prut in Gorban, ...

in eastern Romania * Pop, Uzbekistan, a town in Namangan Region, Uzbekistan * Poppleton railway station (station code), York, England

People

Pop (nickname) Pop is a nickname of: Arts and entertainment * Tihomir Pop Asanović (born 1948), Croatian jazz-rock and fusion keyboardist, Hammond organ player and composer * Pop Hart (1868–1933), American painter and watercolorist * Pop Laval (1882–1966), ...

Pop (surname) Pop is a Romanian language, Romanian surname. List of people with the surname *Adrian Pop (born 1968), Romanian fencer *Adriana Pop (born 1965), Romanian gymnastics choreographer and rhythmic gymnast *Alexandru Pop (disambiguation), multiple peop ...

, a Romanian surname * Pop Chalee (1906–1993), American painter, muralist, performer and singer born Merina Lujan * Pop Harukaze, a.k.a. Caitlyn Goodwyn, a fictional character from the anime/manga series ''

Ojamajo Doremi , alternatively titled ''Magical DoReMi'' in English, is a Japanese fantasy magical girl anime television series produced by Toei Animation. It focuses on a group of elementary school girls, led by Doremi Harukaze, who become wit ...

'' *

Iggy Pop James Newell Osterberg Jr. (born April 21, 1947), known professionally as Iggy Pop, is an American singer, musician, songwriter, actor and radio broadcaster. He was the vocalist and lyricist of proto-punk band the Stooges, who were formed in 1 ...

(born 1947), American musician * Jimmy Pop (born 1972), American musician *

Pop Smoke Bashar Barakah Jackson (July 20, 1999 – February 19, 2020), known professionally as Pop Smoke, was an American rapper. Born and raised in Brooklyn, New York City, he rose to fame with the release of his 2019 singles "Welcome to the Party (P ...

(1999–2020), American rapper

Science and technology

Computing

* Operation removing element from a

stack (abstract data type) In computer science, a stack is an abstract data type that serves as a collection (abstract data type), collection of elements with two main operations: * Push, which adds an element to the collection, and * Pop, which removes the most recent ...

Package on package Package on a package (PoP) is an integrated circuit packaging method to vertically combine ball grid array (BGA) packages for discrete logic and Semiconductor memory, memory. Two or more packages are installed atop each other, i.e. stacked, with a ...

, IC packaging *

Point of presence A point of presence (PoP) is an artificial demarcation point or network interface point between communicating entities. A common example is an ISP point of presence, the local access point that allows users to connect to the Internet with their ...

, a demarcation point between communicating entities * POP and POP3, Internet e-mail

Post Office Protocol In computing, the Post Office Protocol (POP) is an application-layer Internet standard protocol used by e-mail clients to retrieve e-mail from a mail server. Today, POP version 3 (POP3) is the most commonly used version. Together with IMAP, ...

s * POP-1 POP-2

POP-11 POP-11 is a Reflective programming, reflective, Dynamic compilation, incrementally compiled programming language with many of the features of an interpreted language. It is the core language of the Poplog Computer programming, programming system ...

, programming languages *

Pop! OS Pop OS (stylized as Pop!_OS) is a free and open-source Linux distribution, based on Ubuntu, and featuring a customized GNOME desktop environment known as COSMIC. The distribution is developed by American Linux computer manufacturer System76. ...

, a Linux distribution

Other uses in science and technology

* Pop (physics), sixth derivative of position *

Parallel Ocean Program The Parallel Ocean Program (POP) is a three-dimensional ocean circulation model designed primarily for studying the ocean climate Climate is the long-term weather pattern in a region, typically averaged over 30 years. More rigorously, it is ...

, an ocean circulation model *

Paroxypropione Paroxypropione, also known as paraoxypropiophenone, is a synthetic nonsteroidal estrogen which has been used medically as an antigonadotropin in Spain and Italy but appears to no longer be marketed. It was first synthesized in 1902. The antigona ...

, P.O.P. *

Persistent organic pollutant Persistent organic pollutants (POPs) are organic compounds that are resistant to degradation through chemical, biological, and photolytic processes. They are toxic and adversely affect human health and the environment around the world. Because ...

Probability of precipitation Probability of precipitation (PoP) is a commonly used term referring to the likelihood of precipitation falling in a particular area over a defined period of time, which is commonly a day, half day, or hour. The PoP measure is meaningless unless ...

, in weather forecasting *

Progestogen-only pill Progestogen-only pills (POPs), colloquially known as "mini pills", are a type of oral contraceptive that contain synthetic progestogens (progestins) and do not contain estrogens. They are primarily used for the prevention of undesired pregnan ...

, a contraceptive *

Pelvic organ prolapse Pelvic organ prolapse (POP) is characterized by descent of pelvic organs from their normal positions into the vagina. In women, the condition usually occurs when the pelvic floor collapses after gynecological cancer treatment, childbirth or hea ...

, a gynecological condition * Blind rivet *

Plaster of Paris Plaster is a building material used for the protective or decorative coating of walls and ceilings and for moulding and casting decorative elements. In English, "plaster" usually means a material used for the interiors of buildings, while "re ...

, plaster made from dehydrated gypsum * Pop, a recording noise from plosives, see

pop filter A pop filter, pop shield or pop screen is a noise protection filter for microphones, typically used in a recording studio A recording studio is a specialized facility for Sound recording and reproduction, recording and Audio mixing, mix ...

Sport

Pop (professional wrestling) Professional wrestling has accrued a considerable amount of jargon throughout its existence. Much of it stems from the industry's origins in the days of Traveling carnival, carnivals and circuses. In the past, professional wrestlers used such term ...

, a crowd cheer *

POP Championship The Princess of Pro-Wrestling (POP) Championship is a Japanese women's professional wrestling championship owned by the Pure-J promotion. The title was created in the JDStar promotion on June 24, 2006, when Fuka defeated Natsuki☆Head in the ...

(Princess of Pro-Wrestling), Japan

Other uses

* POP (Point of Purchase typeface), in Japanese Kanji *

Pop (ghost) Pop or Pob (, ) is a Human cannibalism, cannibalistic spirit of Thai folklore. It manifests itself as a creature that likes to devour human viscera. Pop is related to the Phi Fa spirit. Legends A traditional legend says that a long time ago, a fl ...

, in Thai folklore *

Pop (train) The ETR 103 and ETR 104 are electric multiple units built by Alstom in Savigliano, belonging to the Coradia Stream family, intended for the regional railway services of various Italian companies. It is used by many Italian railway companies; Treni ...

* The first month of the

Haabʼ The Haabʼ () is part of the Maya calendar, Maya calendric system. It was a 365-day calendar used by many of the pre-Columbian cultures of Mesoamerica. Description The Haabʼ comprises eighteen months of twenty days each, plus an additional per ...

in the Mayan calendar *

Pacific Ocean Park Pacific Ocean Park was a nautical-themed amusement park built on a pier at Pier Avenue in the Ocean Park section of Santa Monica, California in 1958. Intended to compete with Disneyland, it replaced Ocean Park Pier (1926–1956). After it close ...

, an amusement park *

Problem-oriented policing Problem-oriented policing (POP), coined by University of Wisconsin–Madison professor Herman Goldstein, is a policing strategy that involves the identification and analysis of specific crime and disorder problems, in order to develop effective r ...

* Pop, a truncation of the word ''popular'', e.g.,

popular culture Popular culture (also called pop culture or mass culture) is generally recognized by members of a society as a set of cultural practice, practices, beliefs, artistic output (also known as popular art

f. pop art F is the sixth letter of the Latin alphabet. F may also refer to: Science and technology Mathematics * F or f, the number 15 (number), 15 in hexadecimal and higher positional systems * ''p'F'q'', the hypergeometric function * F-distributi ...

or mass art, sometimes contraste ...

→ pop culture * Pop, dialect for

soft drink A soft drink (see #Terminology, § Terminology for other names) is a class of non-alcoholic drink, usually (but not necessarily) Carbonated water, carbonated, and typically including added Sweetness, sweetener. Flavors used to be Natural flav ...

* Pop, an informal term for a

father A father is the male parent of a child. Besides the paternal bonds of a father to his children, the father may have a parental, legal, and social relationship with the child that carries with it certain rights and obligations. A biological fat ...

or occasionally a grandfather * Pop., an abbreviation for

population Population is a set of humans or other organisms in a given region or area. Governments conduct a census to quantify the resident population size within a given jurisdiction. The term is also applied to non-human animals, microorganisms, and pl ...

Pop Mie Indomie is an instant noodle brand produced by the Indonesian company Indofood. Indomie has been mentioned as the largest instant noodle manufacturer in the world with 17 factories. Over 19 billion packs of Indomie are produced annually, and ...

, an instant cup noodle brand which is a sub-brand of Indomie, first introduced in Indonesia in 1991