Is popular music a mass produced commodity or a genuine art form?

It can be said that popular music is a mass produced commodity, e.g. when you listen to a song that is considered to be popular music, we have the urge to listen to a related style therefore we decide to buy something that sounds similar, it can be said the reason for popular music sounding similar is due to the fact the music industry is made up of people that want to make money and therefore if a certain sound is working well and generating money, major labels will influence their artists to follow a trend, this is more enough what Adorno talks about on the topic of standardised (artists may seem to be different by actually sound nearly the same), however It could also argued that all music is creative and the music which becomes popular is considered to be less creative and ‘sell-out’ music due to its success.