megapop

megapop

English

Etymology

mega- +‎ pop

Noun

megapop (uncountable)

1. (informal) Highly successful mainstream pop music.
   • 2007, SPIN (volume 23, number 6, page 90)

     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.

   • 2015 July 20, Jon Caramanica, “Pitchfork Music Festival in Chicago Welcomes a Polyglot of Styles”, in New York Times‎:

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