Originally Posted by Eric_Blob:
“That doesn't make any sense? RnB is RnB, and dance is dance, they're not a sub-genres of pop. Sub-genres of pop are things like urban-pop, dance pop, electropop, synth-pop, hip pop, etc.”
No pop generally stands for popular music and therefore ALL other categories fall underneath its umbrella. Pop these days is generally held to mean what appears in the top 40 charts in the UK and in the Billboard charts in the US though rather than on specialist charts.
It's a toughie. My favourite pop song of all time would probably be Eloise by The Damned just because it was so utterly different to their usual stuff and there was something quite surreal about watching them performing it in Top of the Pops.