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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 21, 2026
Entity authorityQ1570925 ↗
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Pop or POP may refer to:

Arts, entertainment, and media

Music

Albums and EPs

Pop (Fanatic Crisis album), 2021

Pop (Gas album)

Pop (Joachim Witt album)

Pop (Mao Abe album)

Pop (Same Difference album)

Pop (Tones on Tail album)

Pop (U2 album)

Pop, an album by Topi Sorsakoski and Agents

P.O.P, The Mad Capsule Markets album

Pop! The First 20 Hits, an album by English duo Erasure

P.O.P. (EP), by Marina Satti

Music groups

Project Pop, an Indonesian pop group

POP, a Japanese idol group now known as Gang Parade

Pop! (British group)

Pop! featuring Angie Hart, an Australian band

Songs

"Pop" (NSYNC song), 2001

"Pop!" (Nayeon song), 2022

"Pop", by A.R. Kane

"Pop", by Ari Lennox from Shea Butter Baby

"Pop", by La Oreja de Van Gogh from El viaje de Copperpot

"Pop", by Death Grips from No Love Deep Web

"Pop!", from The Wedding Singer musical

"Pop", by Harry Styles from Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally

"P.O.P", by Denzel Curry from King of the Mischievous South Vol. 2

Other uses in music

Pop music, a musical genre

Periodicals

Pop (fashion magazine), a British publication

Pop Magazine, a sports magazine

Television

Pop (American TV channel), formerly TVGN

Pop (British and Irish TV channel), for children

Pop (Slovenian TV channel), Slovenia

Pop (Pakistani TV channel), for children

Pop (Italy), for children

"Pop" (The Bear), a 2023 episode of The Bear TV series

Toys

POP! vinyl figurines from Funko

Princess of Power, Mattel toys

Video games

Prince of Persia, franchise

Pop (video game)

Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media

PoP!, the fictional band in Music and Lyrics

Pokémon Organized Play, trading cards

Pop Harukaze, a.k.a. Caitlyn Goodwyn, a fictional character from the anime/manga series Ojamajo Doremi

Pacific Ocean Park, an amusement park

Commerce

Pop, slang for pawning goods with a pawnbroker

Pay on production

Point of purchase, used often in retail

Proof of principle

Proof-of-payment, a fare collection approach

Organizations

Eton Society, nickname

Pencils of Promise, a charity

Pop, a US company owned by Advance Publications Inc.

POP Bank Group, a banking group in Finland

Places

Gregorio Luperón International Airport (IATA code POP), Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic

Pop, a tributary of the river Jijia in eastern Romania

Pop, Uzbekistan, a town in Namangan Region, Uzbekistan

Poppleton railway station (station code), York, England

People

Pop (nickname)

Pop (surname), a Romanian surname

Pop Chalee (1906–1993), American painter, muralist, performer and singer born Merina Lujan

Iggy Pop (born 1947), American musician

Jimmy Pop (born 1972), American musician

Lizi Pop (born 2004), Musical Georgian singer, actress, model, dancer and television presenter

Pop Smoke (1999–2020), American rapper

Science and technology

Biology and medicine

Paroxypropione, P.O.P.

Progestogen-only pill, a contraceptive

Pelvic organ prolapse, a gynecological condition

Computing

Operation removing element from a stack (abstract data type)

Package on package, IC packaging

Point of presence, a demarcation point between communicating entities

POP and POP3, Internet e-mail Post Office Protocols

POP-1 POP-2 POP-11, programming languages

Pop! OS, a Linux distribution

Earth science

Parallel Ocean Program, an ocean circulation model

Persistent organic pollutant

Probability of precipitation, in weather forecasting

Other uses in science and technology

Pop (physics), sixth derivative of position

Blind rivet

Plaster of Paris, plaster made from dehydrated gypsum

Pop, a recording noise from plosives; see pop filter

Sport

Pop (professional wrestling), a crowd cheer

POP Championship (Princess of Pro-Wrestling), Japan

Other uses

POP (Point of Purchase typeface), in Japanese Kanji

Pop (ghost), in Thai folklore

Pop (train)

The first month of the Haabʼ in the Mayan calendar

Problem-oriented policing

Pop, a truncation of the word popular, e.g., popular culture → pop culture

Soft drink

Father, or occasionally grandfather

Population (disambiguation), often abbreviated pop.

Editorial summary

“Pop” enters the record as wikimedia disambiguation page. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Wikimedia, disambiguation and page can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2021, 2001, 2022, 2023—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Wikimedia, disambiguation and page.
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