Popular

Not to be confused with Poplar.

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

Popular may also refer to:

In sociology

• Popular culture
• Popular fiction
• Popular music
• Popular science
• 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 Banco Popular, 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 1902 to 1995
• The Popular Magazine, an American literary magazine that ran for 612 issues from November 1903 to October 1931

Media

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" (M.I.A. song) (2022), from the upcoming album Mata
• "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)