Popularity In sociology, popularity is how much a person, idea, place, item or other concept is either liked or accorded status by other people. Liking can be due to reciprocal liking, interpersonal attraction, and similar factors. Social status can be d ...

or social status is the quality of being well liked, admired or well known to a particular group. Popular may also refer to:

In sociology

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 artor mass art, sometimes contraste ...

* Popular fiction *

Popular music Popular music is music with wide appeal that is typically distributed to large audiences through the music industry. These forms and styles can be enjoyed and performed by people with little or no musical training.Popular Music. (2015). ''Fun ...

* Popular science * Populace, the total population of a certain place ** Populism, a political philosophy, based on the idea that the common people are being exploited. * Informal usage or custom, as in popular names, as opposed to formal or scientific nomenclature

Companies

* Popular, Inc., also known as ''Banco Popular'', a financial services company * Popular Holdings, a Singapore-based educational book company * The Popular (department store), a chain of department stores in El Paso, Texas, from 1902 to 1995

Media

Music

* "Popular" (Darren Hayes song) (2004), on the album ''The Tension and the Spark'' * "Popular" (Eric Saade song) (2011), on the album ''Saade Vol. 1'' * "Popular" (M.I.A. song) (2022), from the album ''Mata'' * "Popular" (Nada Surf song) (1996), on the album ''High/Low'' * "Popular" (The Veronicas song) (2008), on the album ''Hook Me Up'' * "Popular" (Wicked song), in the musical ''Wicked'' * "Popular" (The Weeknd, Playboi Carti and Madonna song), 2023 *''Popular'', an unreleased album by Van Hunt *"Popular", a song by The Anchoress on the 2015 album '' Confessions of a Romance Novelist'' *"Popular", a song by Lil Wayne on the 2010 album '' I Am Not a Human Being''

Printed media

* '' The Popular Magazine'', an American literary magazine that ran for 612 issues from November 1903 to October 1931 * ''Popular'', an Indonesian men's lifestyle magazine * ''Popular: Finding Happiness and Success in a World That Cares Too Much About the Wrong Kinds of Relationships'', a book by psychology professor Mitch Prinstein

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