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

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 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) (2003), in the musical Wicked
  • "Popular" (The Weeknd, Playboi Carti and Madonna song) (2023), from the album The Highlights (Deluxe)
  • "Popular Song" (Mika song) (2012), from the album The Origin of Love and Yours Truly
  • 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

Printed media

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

Other media

  • Popular (TV series), a teenage dramedy on the WB network

See also

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