Music magazine: Four genres defined

Pop: 
Pop music is a genre of popular music which originated in its modern form in the 1950s, deriving from rock and roll. The terms popular music and pop music are often used interchangeably, even though the former is a description of music which is popular (and can include any style), whilst the latter is a specific genre containing qualities of mass appeal. Pop music usually contains electronic, urban, dance, latin and country.
For example of a pop artist one would be: Katy Perry.

What kind of target audience is pop music aimed at?
Pop music is aimed at a younger target audience. Usually teenagers ranging from the age of seven to twenty five. Although, a lot of radio stations play pop music on repeat and radio listeners range from all ages.

Rock: 
Rock music is a genre of popular music that originated as rock and roll.The sound of rock is traditionally centred around the electric guitar. An example of a rock band would be the Foo Fighters.

What kind of target audience is rock music aimed at?
Rock music is aimed at a target audience of males ageing from 20 to 40, although sometimes women of these ages listen to rock as well. Teenagers also listen to rock as well.

R and B:
Rhythm and blues, often abbreviated to R&B and RnB, is a genre of popular African-American music that originated in the 1940s.

What kind of target audience is R and B music aimed at?
R & B (i.e. popular music) of today, is aimed at 16-25 year olds. It's aimed at black and white audiences of both genders, because the corporates want to maximise revenue so they need to appeal as large an audience as possible.

Hip Hop:
Hip hop music, also called hip-hop, rap music or hip-hop music, is a music genre consisting of a stylized rhythmic music that commonly accompanies rapping, a rhythmic and rhyming speech that is chanted.

What kind of target audience is Hip Hop music aimed at?
Hip hop is aimed at a target audience of young adults ageing from 15-25, because it usually has a swear words and foul language in it. It isn't something that an older audience would listen to as they would probably find it outrageously bad.