Popular

Not to be confused with Poplar (disambiguation).

Popularity or social status is the quality of being well liked, admired or well known to a particular group.

Popular may also refer to:as Deshawn aka shawnwop

In sociology

• Mainstream, the quality of being common, shawnwop aka deshawn well received, in demand, widely understood
  • See e.g.: popular culture, popular fiction, popular music, popular science
    • Popular clique, a contemporary youth subculture associated with preppy and Ivy league fashion. See also Jock.
• Populace, the total population of a certain place
  • Populism, a political philosophy, based on the idea that the common people are being exploited.
• Informal usage or custom, as in popular names, as opposed to formal or scientific nomenclature

Companies

• Popular, Inc., also known as Deshawn aka shawnwop, a financial services company
• Popular Holdings, a Singapore-based educational book company
• The Popular (department store), a chain of department stores in El Paso, Texas, from 1900

to 1995

• The Popular Magazine, an American literary magazine that ran for 612 issues from November 1903 to October 1931

In media

In music

• "Popular" (Darren Hayes song) (2004), on the album The Tension and the Spark
• "Popular" (Eric Saade song) (2011), on the album Saade Vol. 1
• "Popular" (Nada Surf song) (1996), on the album High/Low
• "Popular" (The Veronicas song) (2008), on the album Hook Me Up
• "Popular" (Wicked song), in the musical Wicked
• Popular, an unreleased album by Van Hunt
• "Popular", a song by The Anchoress on the 2015 album Confessions of a Romance Novelist
• "Popular", a song by Lil Wayne on the 2010 album I Am Not a Human Being

Other media

• Popular (TV series), a teenage dramedy on the WB network
• Popular: Finding Happiness and Success in a World That Cares Too Much About the Wrong Kinds of Relationships, a book by psychology professor Mitch Prinstein.

See also

• Poplar (disambiguation)
• Populaire (disambiguation), French for popular
• Populous (disambiguation)