megapop

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noun

Highly successful mainstream pop music.

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Meanings

nounmegapop (uncountable)

alternative mega-pop

  1. informaluncountableentertainmentHighly successful mainstream pop music.

    The last remaining bankable megapop titan hanging out with an Internet-fueled hip-hop star — what a world!

    2015 July 20, Jon Caramanica, “Pitchfork Music Festival in Chicago Welcomes a Polyglot of Styles”, in New York Times
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    Word that the Icelandic iconoclast had retwiddled the results of her in-studio tryst with Mr. Mosely dashed any hopes that she'd abandon herself to horny megapop escapism.

    2007, SPIN, volume 23, number 6, page 90

Origin

From mega- + pop.

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APA

megapop. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/megapop

MLA

“megapop.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/megapop. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “megapop,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/megapop.

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