P-pop, or Pinoy pop, also as Pilipino pop and Philippine pop, is Pinoy Popular music which started in the 1960s. It is an umbrella terminology for music composed or performed by a Filipino. Modern P-pop began in 1990 while the idol generation in 2009.

The music genre in P-pop are Pinoy ballad, Pinoy folk, Pinoy hip hop or Pinoy rap, Pinoy jazz, Pinoy pop, Pinoy R&B or Pinoy soul, Pinoy reggae, and Pinoy rock. In addition to these, kundiman is a pre-colonial music genre still popular in the Philippines.

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

Do you love attending conventions? Do you collect merchandise of products you like? Are you into music? Of course, right? There is a new convention in town for Pinoy Pop music fans … PPOPCON!

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

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.

Were you born in the 70s and 80s in the Philippines and grew up watching Japanese tokusatsu in your television set? Do you remember the Tagalog version of the theme songs for Bioman, Maskman, and Shaider?