Is Popular Music A Mass Produced Commodity Or A Genuine Art Form?

To consider popular music as an art form is very debatable and subjective to individual understanding, as different people have different interpretations of what they think and believe is art. Adorno said that “the whole structure of popular music is standardized,” that it was symptomatic of the politically and aesthetically destructive nature of the capitalist mode of production.
What can be considered, as creative skill of art by the artist is only their performances and their ability on stage to deliver the lyrics. Their songs have been created for them and are merely part of the product of the song.
Bernard Gedron says that music is 'universal' and that the C.D or vinly is 'particular'. This basically means that the format the music is on is the mass produced commodity whilst the music is the art form. However the songs can't be mass produced, but the format the music on can be.