C-pop (AKA: Chinese Pop, Chinese Popular Music, 中文流行音乐, 中文流行音樂, Zhōngwén liúxíng yīnyuè) refers to the broad range of popular music originating from Chinese countries and communities, transitioning from the Shidaiqu music popular in the 1930s-60s that was mainly produced in the Hong Kong area since then. Composers and artists from both Mandarin and Cantonese speaking regions began exchanging shidaiqu's vintage elements with Western structures, scales, chord progressions and styles of music. It took into the mainstream since the 1970s as artists 鄧麗君 (Teresa Teng) and 許冠傑 (Samuel Hui) took part of this development, both considered today among the most important Chinese musicians.

Today C-pop collects various popular music from China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore and Macau, as well as countries with Chinese minority such as Malaysia, the United States and the Philippines. Ballads are very common, but recent songs have also been influenced by Pop Rock, Dance-Pop, Hip Hop and Contemporary R&B. Other songs tend to mix contemporary arrangements with Chinese Folk Music instruments such as the erhu, dizi and gusheng: this trend of C-pop has been connected to the term Zhongguo feng.

Since the late 2000s, a number of Chinese and Taiwanese idols and idol groups rose into stardom to parallel with K-Pop's popularity and diverse contemporary stylings, including crossover groups managed by South Korea such as Super Junior-M, EXO and 威神V (WayV).

C-pop is divided into two main branches: Mandopop, sung in Mandarin and covering most of the Chinese speaking region (Mainland China, Taiwan), and Cantopop, which is mainly performed in the Cantonese-speaking areas of Hong Kong, Guangdong and Macau. C-pop also encompasses music performed in other local dialects; most specifically the Hokkien pop scene mainly active in Taiwan, as well as other acts performing songs in the lesser-spoken Hakka and Teochew dialects.