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C-pop is an abbreviation for Chinese popular music (simplified Chinese: 中文流行音乐; traditional Chinese: 中文流行音樂; Mandarin Pinyin: zhōngwén liúxíng yīnyuè), a loosely defined musical genre by artists originating from mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. Others come from countries where the Chinese language is used by a large number of the population, such as Singapore and Malaysia. C-pop is sometimes used as an umbrella term covering not only Chinese pop but also R&B, ballads, Chinese rock, Chinese hip hop and Chinese ambient music, although Chinese rock branched off as a separate genre during the early 1990s.
Chinese R&B was pioneered by Alex To in the 90s, but has since been used as the major composition style for artists such as Jay Chou, David Tao, Khalil Fong and Leehom Wang.
There are currently three main subgenres within C-pop: Cantopop, Mandopop and Hokkien pop. The gap between cantopop and mandopop has been narrowing in the new millennium. Tai-pop (Hokkien pop), though having its roots in Japanese enka, has been re-integrating into C-pop and narrowing its trend of development towards Mandopop, esp. after new millennium with some Mandopop artists such as Jay Chou, S.H.E, Jolin Tsai singing in Tai-pop (Hokkien) music.
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