Music and the Media

Most music that is in the mainstream media is considered to be the most popular music mainly due to the fact that record companies have made it so by paying dj's and radio stations enough to keep their artist's song on a current rotation several times a day. Now that doesn't mean that pop music is good music, most of the time it's the same thing, another strung out 16 year old disney actor turned singer who's got a number one hit on the radio because her label is pumping enough money that no one bothers to actually listen to it. Radio isn't made up of specific genres, but lumped together with the "top hits" so that within a 20 minute listening period atlas one of the songs you will know and maybe like.