Cadapop

Cadapop is pop music sung in Cadasan. It can also referred to as pop music played in Cadasa, which includes Kurabata pop or Nan Tung pop.

History
It was created in the 1930s due to Western influences. Due to the martial law, pop was set back, and artists were mostly solo and sung love ballads. This changed in the 1990s and 2000s, when Cadapop experienced a golden age. The three major record labels Bintang Kulih, RAN, and the Cadasan branch of Universal competed for supremacy, which ended in 2011 when Universal acquired RAN, and Bintang Kulih had a new owner who was friends with the chairman of Universal Cadasa, ending the rivalry.

Since the 1980s, Cadapop is often influenced and mixed with other genres. In the golden age it was mixed with rock or hip-hop (after late 1990s/early 2000s).

Artists

 * List of Cadapop artists

Some famous ones include


 * Yew Yau Boon: Considered to be one of the greatest Cadapop singers. Yew's 1994 album Biar kan apai di sini untukmu is the best-selling album in Cadasa of all time.
 * Valeria Roslan: Winner of 8 Cadasan National Music Awards for Best Female Singer, a record. Her 1997 and 2000 albums TBA and TBA, respectively, sold over 3 million records each.
 * Josh Teng: One of the most popular Chinese-Cadasan singers, he sings in Mandarin, Hokkien, Malay, and Cadasan. He has won 2 Cadasan National Music Awards for Best Male Singer.
 * Suthanthira Maran: An Indian-Cadasan, she is considered one of the biggest stars in Cadapop since the mid-2000s. She has won 3 Cadasan National Music Awards for Best Female Singer, and her 2011 album TBA is the most recent to break the one-million sales mark.
 * Ang Geok Hou: Ang Geok Hou was a popular singer in the 1950s to 1980s. Although he has never won a major award and is relatively unknown outside of the Malay Archipelago, his songs are commonly covered by many artists including Yew Yau Boon and Valeria Roslan.
 * Amir Arifin: Although he is most famous for his rock and R&B career and also a musical icon for the Cadasan democracy movement, Arifin has infused Cadapop into his albums.