Overview For this paper, I have chosen Sky FM’s Top Hits Music and have listened to the likes of artists and tracks: Kelly Clarkson’s “Because Of You”, Goo Goo Dolls’ “Better Days” (Album Version), Lifehouse’ “Whatever It Takes”, Taylor Swift’s “Teardrops On My Guitar”, Killers’ “When You Were Young”, Alicia Keys’ “If I Ain’t Got You”, Bowling For Soup’s “Ohio (Come Back To Texas)” (Radio Version), Linkin Park’s “Breaking The Habit” and Christina Aguilera’s “Hurt” (Album Version). As may be readily surmised, the list is a mixture of a lot of music genres with the understanding that rock and pop have other divisions that include punk, hardcore, alternative, ballad, soul, reggae, hip-hop and everything else beyond and in-between. Likewise, it is very notable that the list contains currently promoted singles from albums of the said artists, basically, their latest albums. This paper shall proceed to analyse how the radio programming of popular music defines the music. It will have a premise in how it uses the popular music that it selects with “This is our definition of popular music.” Issues for consideration in this paper shall include inquiry and the argument on details, commentary and conclusions about the nature of the music programmed; a statement of methods and purpose in the listening; connections made in relation of music selection to perception/ creations of intended audience; presentation of commercials and other extra musical broadcast elements; manipulation techniques; among others focussing on the activity concerned with insights into the station’s definition of popular music, as illustrated by your critical consideration of its play list. The method I have chosen was to log in to the online version of Sky FM choosing Top Hits Music program. I have chosen this program since “top” would always mean current or contemporary hits that are recommended by music companies through their artist and repertoire coordinators, picked by deejays and requested by listeners. Nevertheless, the case may not always mean in that order or the presence of each factor. This paper shall assume that top or current hits are always influenced by several other factors which shall be discovered or presented in this paper. Discussion Pop Music It is generally understood that popular or pop music changes and evolves with traditions reflecting sub-cultural influences at the same time registering the creativity of artists and social movements. According to Hill (1986) pop music is concerned with two things: audience enjoyment and commercial success, and not so much with category, so that it is quite difficult to dissociate pop with top contemporary music. I have included pop music in this discussion so as to clarify how the play list of Top Hits Music program such as Sky FM has come up with the mentioned above. Nevertheless, as a category, there are a lot of pop music genre that failed when it comes to audience acceptance and commercial success. Pop and Radio Hendy (2000) in his close analysis of UK Radio 1 of BBC was able to conclude that there are ways in which the music selection and scheduling processes of a radio station may be used to lead as compared to follow public preferen