For more than ten years now, the label P-pop has become a terminology used to refer to a new genre of music. Often than not, it is used to mean the rising Philippine idol groups and also compared to OPM or Original Pilipino Music.

P-pop is commonly used to refer to Pilipino idols, or P-idols, but did you know these are not interchangeable?

The trillion-peso questions are: when was the beginning of the P-pop idol industry, and who was the first P-pop idol?