Popular

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Popularity or social status is the quality of being well-liked or well-known.

Popular may also refer to:

In sociology

• Mainstream, the quality of being common, well-received, in demand, widely understood
  • See e.g.: popular culture, popular fiction, popular music, popular science
• Populace, the total population of a certain place
  • Populism, a political philosophy seeking to use the instruments of the state to benefit the people as a whole
• Informal usage or custom, as in popular names, as opposed to formal or scientific nomenclature

Companies

• Popular, Inc., also known as Banco Popula, 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

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

Other media

• Populous (series), a computer game series
  • Populous, a 1989 computer game and first in the series of the same name
• Popular (TV series), a teenage dramedy on the WB network

See also

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