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I suppose....
Most pop songs, you can tap your foot and count "one, two, three, four" along to the beat over and over, and it feels natural. The time signature in those cases is usually 4/4, or four beats to a measure. You can usually tell the start of a measure because the first beat is louder, or more accentuated. (sometimes it's the last one).
Alot of times for ballads it can also be "one, two, three, one, two, three" that you can count. In those cases the time signature is 3/4, or three beats to a measure. If you listen to classical music, Waltzes follow this time.
Time signatures like 7/4 (in this case, you'd probably count "One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, One, two, three, four, five, six, seven...") are very RARELY used because they're hard for the casual music fan to follow. 4/4 and 3/4 are very simple. 7/4 I've heard used by underground artists like Tori Amos and classic rock bands like Led Zeppelin.
The definition of music is really just "Organized sound". How it's organized can vary alot, but most techniques that could be used very rarely are.
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